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GMail Drive shell extension

August 22, 2007

GMail Drive is a Shell Namespace Extension that creates a virtual filesystem around your Google GMail account, allowing you to use GMail as a storage medium. Requirement: 1. Gmail Account 2. Gmail Drive Software Process: 1) Download Gmail Drive from (takes seconds to download) http://www.softpedia.com/progDownload/GMail-Drive-shell-extension-Download-15944.html http://www.softpedia.com/get/Internet/E-mail/Mail-Utilities/GMail-Drive-shell-extension.shtml 2) Install the software. 3) After installing, a drive […]

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Reinstall Windows without losing important data

August 22, 2007

Once in a while, you might want to reinstall Windows, especially if your system starts to get bogged down, or if you’d had a catastrophic loss from a virus attack. The problem is that reinstalling Windows will delete personal files and data, so what do you do? Check out this article over at InformationWeek which […]

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GoogleTalk Gadget in Firefox Sidebar

August 22, 2007

The Google Talk Gadget is clearly more usable than the stand-alone GTalk desktop client or the floating AJAX version in GMail. Here, each chat session opens up as a tab (like Firefox browser tabs), it can show previews of images or video and the chat client can easily be embedded inside webpages. There’s however a […]

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Keyboard Shortcuts for Windows XP

July 27, 2007

To Press Set focus on a notification. Windows Key+B View properties for the selected item. ALT+ENTER Displays the properties of the selected object. ALT+Enter Cycle through items in the order they were opened. ALT+ESC “Close the active item, or quit the active program. ALT+F4 Opens the shortcut menu for the active window. ALT+SPACEBAR Display the […]

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