Bad news for US, Canadian users who spent most of their time on Facebook playing Scrabulous!! They no longer be able to play this game on Facebook :((. Early from this year Hasbro had been asking Facebook to dump Scrabulous, and finally it is successful in in delivering a massive counter blow to Facebook.

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Cuil can prove to be one of the biggest rivals of Google in coming days, especially after it’s big-bang launch. Cuil is an old Irish word for knowledge. Cuil is pronounced as “cool”. It is launched by a team of four members who were all once employees of Google. Cuil has indexed 120 billion web pages, which according to them is 3 times more than any other search engine. It is also interesting to know that Google has never disclosed the size of their index. The ranking method adopted by cuil is also different as it ranks by content rather than popularity which is used by Google. So lets explore cuil. (more…)

Seems like Google is the only player in the game of web tools development. Just in few couple of days, Google has improved its functionality in many areas including Google News, GMail, Google’s rate-n-review facility and the list goes on. This time Google has come up with an improvement in Google Calendar.

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This is the thiteenth post of our series of 15 posts about Tips and Tricks to make your Windows experience more satisfactory and comfortable. You can subscribe to our RSS Feed or daily e-mail updates for latest content. Keep checking back this space to know about useful Windows Tips and Tricks.

Here’s the today’s tweak.

Hide Programs From Frequently Used Programs List in Start Menu

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This is the twelfth post of our series of 15 posts about Tips and Tricks to make your Windows experience more satisfactory and comfortable. You can subscribe to our RSS Feed or daily e-mail updates for latest content. Keep checking back this space to know about useful Windows Tips and Tricks.

Here’s the today’s tweak.

Hide Common Tasks Pane in Explorer.

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PDF download 2.0 is a firefox extension that helps you to deal with PDF files more efficiently. This extension gives you many options like conversion of pdf’s to HTML for easier viewing, you can also decide how and when to view a PDF file. But the best feature of the extension is that now you can convert a web page into a PDF document at a single click while retaining the page layouts and active hyperlinks. When you click on a link that opens a pdf file, it doesn’t (more…)

Search engines like google, yahoo are making a lot money but only for themselves. Here’s a fantastic new search engine called Scour which shares its revenues with people who use it. First you will have to sign up there to gain its advantages. It gives you one point for your each search, (more…)

This is the eleventh post of our series of 15 posts about Tips and Tricks to make your Windows experience more satisfactory and comfortable. You can subscribe to our RSS Feed or daily e-mail updates for latest content. Keep checking back this space to know about useful Windows Tips and Tricks.

Here’s the today’s tweak.

Make All Programs list Single Paned Scrolling List

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Here’s a good news for all of you who use gmail to store sensitive data, important communications that need not be read by any third party.

Gmail now offers you the option to use Secured HTTP(https) protocol throughout your Gmail session, which won’t allow any third party to read your data over an unencrypted connection.

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This is the tenth post of our series of 15 posts (one post everyday) about Tips and Tricks to make your Windows experience more satisfactory and comfortable. You can subscribe to our RSS Feed or daily e-mail updates for latest content. Keep checking back this space to know about useful Windows Tips and Tricks.

Here’s the today’s tweak.

How to Hide Notification Area and Clock from Taskbar?

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