February 15, 2011 By 1 Comment

How to Block Websites from Google’s Web Search Results?

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Personal Blocklist by Google

Sometimes when you do searching on Google, the results you get are not relevant with the keyword you typed. Most of the websites are just a low-quality website and spamming the search engines.

To block the websites from re-appearing in your Google search results, you can use Google Chrome extension, Personal Blocklist. This extension will block the domain and you won’t see it again when you do the searching in Google.

However, you can always revoke a blocked site at the bottom of the search results. You can also edit the blocked websites by clicking on the extension’s icon at the top right of the Google Chrome window.

But just want to let you know, when you block a website, the URL will be sent to Google for their further analysis. With that, they can provide a better algorithm and also use it as a potential ranking signal for their search results.

New Chrome extension: block sites from Google’s web search results [via Google Blog]

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January 10, 2011 By 5 Comments

How to print a list of directories and files in Windows?

Today I received a request from a customer asking me to provide him a list of directories and files from his Windows laptop. It is an easy task if there is only one folder and three files but unfortunately, there are hundreds of folders and thousands of files in a Windows operating system.

Luckily, I found a solution how to print out the list. To do that, I’m using Karen’s Directory Printer. It can prints the list of directories and files into a hardcopy or to a text file.

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January 5, 2010 By 7 Comments

How to automatically scan IDM downloaded files with Kaspersky?

I’m using Internet Download Manager (IDM) to take care all my downloads. Once it finished downloading a file, IDM will automatically call Kaspersky Internet Security (KIS) to start scanning the downloaded file for any viruses or malwares that can harm my computer system.

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By default, IDM will not pass the downloaded file to KIS. If you want to do so, you need to configure it from the IDM options menu. Here I’ll show you how:

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September 2, 2009 By 8 Comments

How to backup Mozilla Firefox bookmarks?

Whether in Windows or Ubuntu, I will use Mozilla Firefox as my primary web browser. I like using Mozilla Firefox because it is fast (fyi, Google Chrome is faster than Firefox), has thousands of useful addons, properly renders websites and also easy to familiarize even you are a new user.

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But two days back, my friend want to format his laptop. But before he proceeds, he asked me how to backup his Mozilla Firefox bookmark. He said, he has around 50 bookmarked websites and he don’t want to lose all his favourite links. So here is what I told him to do.

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April 6, 2009 By 192 Comments

Files Hidden by Virus. How to Unhide Them?

The Problem

My girlfriend was panicked when she found out her Final Year Project files were missing from her thumb drive. She thought the files were already gone by a virus attack or were accidentally deleted by her friends.

After I did some analysis, I found out the files are still there but a virus had modified the file properties to ‘Hidden’ and hide all files in the thumb drive.

Although she tried to “Show Hidden Files” but the virus does not allow her to view them. Luckily, she has a very intelligent and clever boyfriend who guides her on how to overcome this problem.

The Solution

1. Insert the thumb drive to an empty USB slot. Take note the drive letter. For an example, F:.

2. Press Windows + R, and type “cmd“. Ok.

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November 13, 2008 By 3 Comments

How to rename folders or tags in Google Reader?

Google Reader is my main RSS feed reader. It is online 24/7 and catches all my subscribed feeds everyday. Google Reader does not installed on my computer and so I don’t lose any hard disk space because all the feeds are stored in Google server. Google Reader is fast and convenient, but it lacks one feature that I think it is very useful, folders or tags renaming function.

Although Google Reader does not support that feature, but there is a way to rename or move your RSS feeds to another folder. Let say we want to rename Folder A to Folder B. Here is how to do it.

  1. Go to Settings and click on the Subscriptions tab.
  2. In “Filter by name, tag, or URL” field, enter the current folder name that you want to rename to filter out that folder. Eg: Folder A.
  3. In “Change folder…” dropdown list, choose New Folder… and enter the new folder name. Eg: Folder B.
  4. Now, click “All # subscriptions” to select all feeds under Folder A and choose Folder B in More actions… dropdown list to add that feeds into Folder B.
  5. Without deselect the selected feeds, choose Folder A from Remove tag under More actions… dropdown list.

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September 13, 2008 By 6 Comments

How to change Yahoo! Messenger Title Bar?

Do you want to change Yahoo! Messenger title bar to be like this?

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If the answer is YES, please continue reading…

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August 23, 2008 By 7 Comments

How to type faster?

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Type a lot! Yup, there is no way you can type faster if you not punching the keyboard everyday.

When I was young, I want to type faster like the person in a movie that I watched. It would be very cool when you can type faster and don’t have to see the keyboard while you typing. Then, I thought I need a typing software to practice but that software does not really help me. I make a lot of errors if I use the typing technique. But in case you want to try the software, here is the link.

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April 1, 2008 By 6 Comments

How to convert images into ASCII?

If you are looking on how to convert images into ASCII characters, you have came to the right place. I will show you where you can convert any image like this,

to become like this,

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Cool isn’t it? What I know is, the script will first scan the image and then it replaces the pixels in the image into ASCII characters. If you want to convert your image to ASCII characters like above, you can go make it yourself at Make ASCII . There are two methods that you can use, whether you upload the image from your computer or direct from URL.

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February 14, 2008 By 13 Comments

How to remove applications from the Right-click Menu?

I have installed many softwares lately and was shocked when found out that my right-click context menu has many applications. Most of them are not even use. Some softwares allow you to disable the context menu from its options settings. But some of them don’t have the options and not allow you to remove the applications from the context menu.

I thought to remove the applications from the context menu requires special software. Unfortunately, I was wrong. You can do that directly from registry.

When we are talking about registry, many of us are scared because registry is the core of our system. If we messing up the registry, we are actually messing up our operating system. Therefore, please make a backup of your registry before you continue. You don’t want to reformat your PC would you?

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