Blocking Ads, malware and removing social media buttons!

Do you wonder while on facebook or other social media sites. you find ads on items you have probably searched elsewhere or looked at. They do this tracking through facebook and similar like buttons on those web sites which track your behaviour while browsing sites you have visited etc. If you really want get rid of these obnoxious behaviour of these sites, you can try this chrome extension adblockplus which is open source and also blocks malware and ads!

Adblock Plus - Surf the web without annoying ads!

Adblock Plus is the most popular adblocker available for Firefox, Chrome, Opera, Safari, Android and Internet Explorer. Block all annoying ads all over the web: remove video ads on YouTube, block Facebook ads, get rid of pop-ups and…

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Searching across multiple cloud accounts

If you usually save files in cloud storages like google drive, dropbox etc. and want to search for content in those or earlier mails, for content which you don't remember where; here's a chrome extension / web site which can be a life saver!!! This is not really an app, but an extension/ web page. On signing to Xendo, the index your files and content, which results in instantaneous search results.
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Xendo - Search across multiple online accounts

Search across multiple online applications, in one shot.

XEN.DO

Another of the phishing mails!!!

If you get a mail like this purportedly from gmail, be careful. It may not be from Google.

One way to test the genuinity may be to test with a false email and password. Such sites will just say "thank you for updating", as after all they can't confirm the account details. Always be sure to check web URL to see it is genuine and also the https part.

The phishing mail is as given below:

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Click this link now to Update you account 

WARNING!!! Account owner that fails to verify his/her account after 1 weeks (7 days) of receiving this warning will lose his or her account permanently.

Thank You.

Gmail Account

 

Windows Malware Remover

Many times when you instal freeware, a lot of malware gets installed inadvertently like adware, toolbars, browser hijackers and other potentially unwanted programs (pups), resulting in system slowdown and other breach in privacy.
Adwcleaner is a good freeware, for removing these unwanted programs and clean your system, which is very small and can work on downloading and double clicking without the necessity of installing it.

A Unique cloud storage - COPY

There are many popular cloud storage and syncing services like Dropbox, Skydrive etc. Now Barracuda Networks offers a new service called copy. It is unique and different from others mainly on these aspects.

1. In many other services like dropbox you can sync files kept in the main folder created by the service and sub folders therein. You necessarily have to change the file organization to suit this. However, in  copy you can make shortcut of any folder in your desktop/ laptop inside copy's main folder and they also get synced.

2. The folders you share with others gets its storage space shared equally by all the shared users, unlike in others where all users have the whole space taken from their storage.

3. Right now copy gives free 15 GB storage to those who sign in now. Also any referrals adds 5 GB to both the person who refers a friend as well as the person who is being referred.

 







https://copy.com?r=bhl40Y

Restore Chrome New Page

Recently Chrome has changed their new page in their updates, in a bid to simplify and to cater for the majority of users. However, if you want the old version with the apps, other devices and recently restored pages as in the earlier version, do as follows:

1. Go to chrome://flags
2. Find:
Enable Instant Extended API Mac, Windows, Chrome OS
3. Set it to 'Disabled'.

However in the updated new page apps go to Bookmarks bar at the extreme left position and recently closed and pages opened in other devices are available in Chrome Menu - Recent Tabs

The old fashioned file explorer for iPad

If you don't like the hassle of going through the Apple's infamous ways of handling files using iTunes, here is an easy way. For us who are more accustomed to the free access to files and folders through an explorer interface, iTunes gets a bit to accustomed to. iTunes also does not give full access to the file system.

But using ifunbox provides us the answer. After installing this on Windows, you can directly access the file system in iPad without jailbreaking. It has a companion app called iFileExpress.

Here's a better alternative: DiskAid, a PC or Mac program (with a fellow ios app, FileApp, which may be used if more features are needed).