There are guys who maintain hidden folders and try to access them directly using the windows explorer address bar and you know what when you are typing next time you will find that the address you have typed is stored in windows explorer history. You will hurry up to clearing the history of recent items and windows explorer but sadly the steps you have taken will not workout as it is under Auto Complete data which is not cleared using Clear History option. So in this post let us see both the easy and hardest way to clear the history data from internet explorer address bar history. Steps to Delete Windows Explorer Address bar history Whenever you type some address in your address bar of your windows explorer it creates a registry entry in the following path. So, Now we will delete the registry strings that are stored in the following path to delete any history entry alternatively you can Read more
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Pronouncing a name correctly is not so easy when you come across unfamiliar names. Probably you might join in a new client engagement and come across a situation where you need to talk to your foreign client and embarrassingly you don’t know how to pronounce his name. In such cases you probably should have to consider how to pronounce name of the client in advance. Some of the popular names had been entered in dictionary and you can learn how to pronounce them using google itself by just typing meaning after the name and clicking on the speaker icon in the search result. But they do not contain all the names that you are looking for. So, here comes the solution in the form of few websites which maintains huge list of database of names along with their pronunciation. Best Sources for How to Pronounce Names Pronounce names is an initiative by Pinky Thakkar who realized that pronouncing a name Read more
VLC is one of the most popular open source applications that have been installed in many of our personal computers. Many of us know VLC as a media player but it can also be used as a convert, transcode and rip media. If you wonder why you should use VLC to convert video formats then answer is simple, it is already installed in your personal computer and you don’t need to install any other video converter software’s. If you haven’t installed VLC yet in your PC then probably you might have to consider installing VLC as it is a very useful all in one media playback application. How to Convert Video using VLC Step 1 : Open VLC Media Player and select “Convert / Save” option from “Media” menu alternatively you can use “Ctrl + R” shortcut key to access the option. Step 2 : Select the media file that needs to be converted by selecting “Add” option under File Read more
Inspect Element in Firefox is one of the good feature for a web developer to understand the structural layout of any particular HTML page. Certainly it would be of some help when you are confused of the structure of a page. It will show you the structure of the elements in 3D to help you distinguish which particular elements are enclosed under which particular elements. However the order of HTML tags that are shown at the bottom of the page are enough to understand the structure of any particular element of a HTML page but in contrary 3D view will show you the structure of all the elements that are there in a webpage. How to use Firefox Inspect Element 3D View Feature ? To see the structural layout of any web page in 3D using Firefox Inspect Element follow the steps. 1. You need to select Inspect Element Option which you can see when you right click on the Read more
If you have installed windows 8, you probably might have noticed that there is no option for hibernate neither in the power menu nor in the traditional ALT + F4 way to shutdown the PC . This was the same case even in its previous version windows 7 where I covered a post on how to enable hibernate option in windows 7 and this time it is not windows 7 and it is not the traditional start menu in windows. Hybrid Shut Down : Windows has enabled new feature to Windows 8 where it hybrid shutdowns instead of proper shutdown to boot the OS faster during the start up. Hybrid Shutdown is a process in which the operating system loads its essential processes and services to start the operating system onto a disk. It is kind of partial hibernation where essential processes and services are only stored onto the disk. So, you are partially hibernating even when you are clicking Read more
What is Suspend option in Ubuntu and how is it useful ? If you have been using Ubuntu for some time you might be aware of the “Suspend” option. It is similar to the “Sleep” option in windows. Whenever you press this button system pushes the existing state of your machine to RAM and turns off power to all other hardware but it will continue to provide power to RAM as it is volatile memory whose data will be cleared when the power is unplugged to RAM. The advantage of RAM over Hard disk is that the system can access the memory in RAM faster than that in the Hard drive and whenever you try to restore the PC the data from RAM will be pulled and system restores the previous state of the machine. What is Hybrid Suspend and What are its advantages over Normal Suspend ? As discussed above whenever you suspend your machine, your machines state will Read more
Installing windows from USB drive is one of the possible ways of installing windows. There can be many reasons for you to install windows from a pendrive, It may be because the problem with your DVD drive or probably you don’t have the DVD copy of the windows you want to install. In such cases you can install the windows using USB stick provided that you have the copy of windows installation CD / DVD copy in the format of ISO or NRG . Installing from USB is faster and you need not waste a DVD disk just for the sake of installing. Note : your motherboard should support USB boot to install it from USB drive. How to create a bootable USB drive ? Application Way : There are many applications in internet which will help you to create a bootable USB drive. Some of the applications are 1. Windows 7 USB / DVD download tool 2. Win to Read more
If a picture is worth a thousand words then isn’t it be great if you can search using an image ?. There would be times when you wanted to search for an image but you don’t find keywords to describe the image. Gone are the days where you cannot search for an image itself to query for an image, Now you can use Reverse Image Search for this problem. What is Reverse Image Search ? Reverse Image Search is a technique through which you can retrieve an image using image itself as a query. It uses Content-based Image Retrieval ( CBIR ) also known as Query by Image Content ( QBIC ) to retrieve the image. Ways to Search for an Image ? There are two ways in which you can search for any Image. Either by using Meta Data of an Image or by the content of the Image. Meta data of an image refers to the keywords, alternatives, Read more