The index in Windows keeps tracks of your files. The Windows Vista/7 search engine is completely integrated with the operating system, and most files are indexed by default. However, not all the file types are indexed. Consequentl...
The Windows desktop has an Alt + Tab shortcut which, when pressed, switches between open windows. You can also add a similar tab switcher to the Firefox browser with TabNavigator. That’s a Firefox add-on which adds desktop-s...
When you right-click a Windows file icon shortcut and select Properties, there is no Change Icon option with which you can switch to an alternative icon. Thus, Windows don’t have any native options to change file type icons in the...
Watermarks are faded background text or images that display behind the text in a document. Unlike MS Word OpenOffice’s word processor doesn’t have a specific watermark option. However, with the software’s page fo...
There are a variety of third-party software packages with which you can add password to folders in Windows. However, you can also add a password to a folder without any additional software. You can instead set up a batch file that...
Whilst you can search your Google Chrome bookmarks from the Bookmark Manager, you can also open your bookmarked pages from its address bar. With the addition of a new search engine, you can search, and open, your Chrome bookmarks ...
Transparent windows were one of the great new additions to Windows Vista/7. You turn the transparency on or off by right-clicking the desktop, selecting Personalize and then Window Color and Appearance. There you click the Enable ...
Windows Vista has a gadget sidebar on the desktop which Microsoft removed from Windows 7. The sidebar effectively organized the gadgets along the side of the Vista desktop, and you can also add it to Windows 7 as well. No third-pa...
Windows thumbnail previews show what’s open within each of your software windows. As of yet thumbnail tab previews have not been incorporated into browser software. However, Firefox does have an add-on with which you can add...
MyBookmarks is a great add-on for the Firefox browser. It adds an alternative to Firefox’s bookmarks toolbar to the browser. When you’ve added MyBookmarks to Firefox, you can open your bookmarked sites from a bookmark ...
Firefox has various tab options, but you cannot add permanent tabs that always remain open on the browser. Well, actually you can! All that’s required is the PermaTabs Mod add-on for the Firefox browser which turns tabs of c...
Many of Google Chrome extensions add buttons to the top right of the browser. When selected, the buttons open the browser extensions. You can also add keyboard shortcuts to those extension buttons. Open the Google Chrome browser, ...
Today and many times in the past, I was brutally attacked by Windows Update. A client of mine was having an issue with a VB macro and, an hour into fixing the problem, the computer decided to automatically restart to apply a Windo...
Like the new Gmail feature that allows you to add email attachments to your Google Drive account? Wish you could automate it? Well, it turns out that you can! There’s a very simple script that you can connect to your Google ...
