How To Turn Off Charms In Windows 8.1

Windows 8.1 charms
The charms bar  that is available from Windows 8 onward represent a set of controls that can be quickly accessed by pointing the mouse to top right of Windows screen. These charms are “Search”, “Share”, “Start”, “Devices” and “Settings”. They can however be disabled if desired. To do this in Windows 8.1: Right click on taskbar and select...

Scary Virus Scan Results : Funny

anti-virus scan results : funny
This is one message after virus scan that you should never want to see. 🙂

Quickly Lookup Words From Dictionaries When Using Firefox

Normally, when coming across a new word while surfing the internet using Firefox, we highlight that specific word and search for it using any of the search engines to find it’s meaning. There is a useful Firefox add-on that offers multiple dictionaries as reference for finding the meaning of any word so that any word or term can be looked up instantaneously. This is the Multi Dictionary Lookup...

Software Bugs V/s Software Features

Brilliantly explained! 🙂  

How To Enable Or Disable Autoplay In Windows 8.1

There is an easy way to enable or disable autoplay in Windows 8.1 whenever a media/device is inserted. To do this : Access the Windows charm bar and go to Settings  > Change PC settings. From “PC settings”, select “PC and devices” and go to “Autoplay”. Then simply turn on/off the slider next to “Use Autoplay for all media and devices”. All done.

When Unix Becomes Scary : Funny

when unix becomes scary:funny
This is why it is always good to learn Unix commands. 🙂 [ Image courtesy : xkcd ]