PC Tips : Stop Internet Explorer opens by default

Your default browser is something like XXXX, but some web pages opens only in Internet Explorer. If you want to disable IE, here is the solution :

In Start Menu select Set program access and defaults (you can get this from
Control panel -> Add or Remove Programs also)

Select Custom

In Choose a default web browser :

Select your Browser and in right side Click on Enable Access to this Program check box
And Disable Access to Internet Explorer by unchecking the check box

Close all the windows and restart you default browser.

Now all your web pages will open in your default browser only.

PC Tips : Create a new secondary id under your exisintg Yahoo ID

Use the below mentioned step to create a new secondary yahoo id under the existing yahoo id :

Just copy and paste and below link to the address bar after opened your yahoo account page, after verifying your password yahoo will allow you to create a new secondary email id under existing id,

https://login.yahoo.com/config/login_verify2?.src=ym&.done=http%3A%2F%2Fedit.yahoo.com%2Fconfig%2Flist_alias%3F.src%3Dym%26.intl%3Dus

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PC Tips : Change your Yahoo Messenger's Title

Use the below steps to change your yahoo messenger's Title :

Close your Yahoo Messenger and Open C:\Program Files\Yahoo!\Messenger folder
Open the file ymsgr with Notepad, and goto end then type the following text :

[APP TITLE]
CAPTION=Enter your text here

Save and close "ymsgr" file

Run your Yahoo Messenger and check now

PC Tips : Escape from Key Loggers

Are you browsing in public computer and worrying about typing passwords ? There is a way to escape from that ;

Normally Key Loggers will record only key impressions, hence type your password with some additional letters and delete them using mouse.

This is a simple way to escape from key loggers temporarily.

PC Tips : Internet Programming Tips (HTML)

For internet programming help / tips, you can refer the below website :

Windows, Internet and programming tips / mini-tutorials

This site has good html help / tutorials, just check and give your feedback.

PC Tips : Download Videos from Youtube

Needs to download videos from Youtube? that is never difficult anymore. Just install Firefox with any of the extensions mentioned below. In just a few clicks you can able to save videos from Youtube or any other sites into your harddisk.

VideoDownloader

Very popular extension for firefox and it enables you to download any video files from any site like Google, Youtube, IFilm, Dailymotion & Metacafe.

FlashGot

This supports multiple downloads using external download manager for any Operating System like Windows, MAC, Linux, etc..

Flashget

This is also a popular extension for firefox and it acts as a download manager

PC Tips : How to Backup your browser Favorites / Bookmarks? : PC Tips

While surfing , we used to bookmark some useful sites for future reference. But if our system has a problem and need to be formatted, we will loose our favorites/bookmark links. It is better for us to backup our browser bookmarks. The process of backup bookmarks / favorites is really simple:

Internet Explorer

Open My Computer and goto to C:\Documents and Settings\yourusername\ and find the "Favorites" folder

Note: Before this just click on Tools > Folder Options > Show Hidden Files & Folders to view hidden files / folders.

Just copy this folder to your backup location.


Firefox

Goto Bookmarks then Organize Bookmarks from Firefox browser window then from the File menu select Export.

Choose the location to save the bookmarks.html file then click save.

PC Tips : Search in Rapidshare

As you know that Rapidshare.com has plenty of softwares, movies, ebooks, documents and etc.. but there is no direct facility to search their database.

To solve this problem we can use Mayoko, this utility has many features to search Rapidshare.com database. link is mentioned below :

http://www.mayoko.com

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PC Tips : Check your Internet Connection Speed

This speedometer will calculate the speed of your office / house internet connection instantly, check the below website :

http://www.abeltronica.com

Check and give your feedback...

Need Abbreviation? : PC Tips

In this computer world we cannot avoid Abbreviations, do you have any problem in getting abbreviations? Below mentioned website will solve this issue, you can get different options like abbreviations to word, word to abbreviations and word in definition.

http://www.abbreviations.com/

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Find Geographical Info from any Telephone Number

Do you want to find out Geographical information of any Telephone Number ?

Use this link to find it out :

http://www.tp2location.com/

This site will help you to resolve any telephone number to its geographical information.