Are we trusting Google too much?

Are we trusting Google too much?

1. why should chrome warn us with a message when we clear browsing history?

Whenever we try to clear browsing history, chromes tells that there is incognito mode to use, is Google worried if you clear your entire browsing history from chrome?

What does Google do with your browsing history?
Here's a clear evidence, "YouTube", Google's YouTube shows video contents relevant to our browsing history stored in chrome. that's how your information is used to make you use their product(YouTube) more than what you do normally.
you can find the difference when you go to "YouTube" home page in both conditions
1. first without browsing history - everything cleared in chrome- visit YouTube home page
2. after doing couple of Google searches, let chrome shows some history and visit YouTube, you will feel the difference

2. why should chrome has separate log in session separating it from other google products.

when you logged in chrome, also when you logged in some of other google product like gmail, when you signout of gmail,chrome logged in session wont go.

chrome separate login session stores all your data ( you can control it by visiting settings, how many of us do that, what about people who doesn't have enough computer experience to change the settings ) user specific data stored in each of our google account right from browsing history to form input data's.

3. How does google map works - showing traffic information in the road we travel.

It does collect our location information including in which speed we are traveling, it collects every one who uses android mobile or signed in to google map atleast once and using some algorithm it gives back.

4. What will happen with Google Glass?

                    XX_____XX 

5. Not just above four items, there are lot more things.. like

     At first time when you open Google Chrome, it asks you to sign in with Google account. How many of you signed in without knowing that it is a log in for Google chrome to save your personal browsing data  in your account?

      Many would have no idea initially that it is a log-in specially for Google Chrome. and would have signed in directly thinking it is normal google product sign-in.

 Obviously, we are very much benefited and addicted to all those products, and there are ways we can control sharing our data to a certain level, but how many of us are really concerned about it, going to settings, searching where it is and switching it off?

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Google Restricts Labels in blogger (robot.txt)

Google Search restricts Labels (Categories) for all the blogs in Blogger (BlogSpot)

If you see something like this in your webmaster tools, be cool don’t worry for this.

This is because

Reason: Each Label entries are not sub pages, they are just a well framed search query
For example:
When you click the Label – Windows Trick in coolcomputricks.co.cc, the url pointing to that label is this

http://www.coolcomputricks.co.cc/search/label/Windows%20Trick

If you see this url carefully, you can see “/search/” in it, this means it is not actually a new page to be crawled by the Google search bot, it just a search query url, where all the pages yielded by this search query url is already indexed, so it just says it restricts the labels (search query url), but all the pages in your site is already indexed and included in search engine

The main idea behind having labels in the blogs or website, is to make the users comfortable in selecting categories they wished.

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Make Browsing safer when using Friends systems or using it in outsiders system like net cafe

What should you do to make safe browsing, when using your friends laptop or using it in any Internet center.?

What should you do to temporarily erase the trace of what you searched for?

Keep the history unchanged, but temporarily disallow saving of histories, cookies, url names and everything.

Here is what you need to do.

Almost All the browsers has a concept called Private Browsing, Private Browsing helps not to save any information like histories, form entries, username, password, cookies, and everything you browsed for, so all the browsing entries can be unsaved for that particular time of browsing
For Chrome Users
1.       Click Settings ( Tool Icon on the top right corner of chrome)
2.       From the drop down, select “New Incognito Window”

3.       You will now see a new window with a Detective Agent Logo on Top Left Corner, where you can make private browsing, credit card transactions, experiments, research, and anything that will not saved forever
4.       And when you close it, it goes normal, If you want to do Private browsing again, need to start from first

For Mozilla Firefox Users
1.       Click Firefox Button on the Left top corner
2.       Click “Start Private Browsing”
3.       You will receive a alert box, click “Start Private Browsing” once again

4.       There you go, you will now see a new window that has changed color in the Firefox Button on the Left top corner enjoy private browsing, where you can make private browsing, credit card transactions, experiments, research, and anything that will not saved forever

For Internet Explorer Users
1.       Click Safety Menu on the Top right side of the Internet explorer
2.       Select “InPrivate Browsing”

3.       There you go, you will now see a new window that has InPrivate icon on the address bar, enjoy private browsing, where you can make private browsing, credit card transactions, experiments, research, and anything that will not saved forever

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Make Desktop wallpaper screensaver unchangeable

Make Your Desktop Wallpaper , ScreenSaver to be unchanged by anyone.



This trick is for Windows 7, it will work with windows vista and previous versions as well.



Step1: Open Run Window..



To open Run Window press( WindowsKey+R) or Click StartMenu and type Run to get it





Step2: Enter gpedit.msc in Run Window and press enter.



Step3: Now the Local Group Policy Editor Window will be opened ( look the picture below )







Step4: In the Left Pane of Local Group Policy Editor window Click User Configuration--> Templates ( look the picture below )







Step5: In the Right Pane of Local Group Policy Editor window Double Click Control Panel ( look the picture below )





Step6: Now In the Right Pane of Local Group Policy Editor window Open Personalization--> Changing desktop background ( look the picture below )







Step8: Now you will get a Prevent changing desktop background window, click Enabled Option and press Ok. ( look the picture below )







Step9: Now you can’t change your Desktop background Image. ( look the picture below )







Step10: To Once again Make the Desktop background to changeable Make the Option as Not Configured in Prevent changing desktop background window.



Step 11: Do the Same for Screen saver, Desktop icons, mouse pointers etc..

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Google Chrome gets a new Icon

Google Chrome icon changed

New Chrome ICON

Old Chrome ICON

The new Google Chrome Icon is very simple and looks like it's a 2 dimension of the old chrome icon.

The new Icon has been changed automatically for all the users of chrome browser. it seems like update is going on for the application without the users knowledge.

Simple things are always powerful - secret of Google.

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Interesting !!! Google Vs Bing , Unbelievable Trick try it yourself.

Interesting !!! Google Vs Bing , Unbelievable Trick try it yourself.

Have you ever tried Automattic currency Conversion in Google or Bing search, There lies this interesting fact.Just have a look at it.. perhaps wait! how about Exploring this interesting crazy fact on your own with the help of following steps.

Step 1: Open your favourite Web browser twice (two windows or two tabs) open www.google.com in one and www.bing.com In another.

Step 2: Type the following in both the search bar and hit Enter.

1 euros in usd

Step 3: Well I searched at this time December 5 2010 8.24 pm look what I get. Having two different answers for same question

Google said 1 Euro = 1.3382 US $

Bing said 1 Euro = 1.34246 US $

Step 4: Which one is correct??????????!!!!!!!?????????

Step 5: Well According to Yahoo (OMG!!! another search engine) Currency convertion at this page http://finance.yahoo.com/currency-converter/#from=USD;to=EUR;amt=1.3399 says both are wrong.

Step 6: Well Let’s try some other site to verify it http://www.xe.com/ucc/convert.cgi?Amount=1&From=EUR&To=USD&image.x=63&image.y=21&image=Submit which says Google Data is better than bing and yahoo but not Accurate though !!!!!!.

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Enable and Disable Thumbnail view (Most visited / Recently Closed) on the New tab of Google Chrome Browser

Enable and Disable Thumbnail view (Most visited / Recently Closed) on the New tab of Google Chrome Browser

Disable

By Default you have the thumbnail view enabled, closing or disabling this view is very simple

Step 1: just click X – close button on the right side of the Most Visited or Recently closed frame.

Step 2: After clicking it, the thumbnail view will disappear.

Step 3: Though the thumbnail view disappeared, u can access the most visited and Recently closed items through links on the left down of the page in a simple view.

Enable

And to get back thumbnail view of Most visited or Recently Closed items

Step 1: click the “Most Visited” link (text) in the left down corner

Step 2: You will have your recently visited links poped up, now click the “Most Visited” link in the poped up window.

Step 3: now the Most Visited view will be appearing in the top of the page, click the arrow on the left side of it.

Step 4: That’s it You have your thumbnail view of Most Visited items back.

Step 5: Do the same for Recently Closed items .

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Bug Exposed in Google Chrome Browser

Google Chrome Display Bug Exposed

Google browser Chrome - one of the newest widely used browser, has a funny display problem which is exposed, try this for yourself and have a look at it..

Step: 1 - Open Google Chrome Browser (well the latest version)

Step: 2 - Open Google mail ( www.gmail.com ) and log into your account

Step: 3 - Open any of your contacts chat window just like chatting ( but we not gonna chat here).

Step: 4 - with your middle mouse button - click hold and drag down on the down left corner of the chat box. see the below picture..

Step 5: Now you see the Nasty Trick of browser scrolling out the window itself. the chrome browser scrolls outside its level.. this makes browser lost its screen display area.

now go to address bar and browse other sites and have a funny display out of it..

http://www.coolcomputricks.co.cc/p/cool-computer-tricks.html

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Store your Gmail mails in Computer without using any Email Client

Gmail Offline

Gmail Offline is a Feature where you can Store your Mails, Chats, Attachments, labels in your personal Computer without having to use any Email clients like outlook.

Gmail Offline Let you to Synchronize all your Gmail contents to your PC when your connected to internet and makes u to work with your mails while not connected.


Enabling Gmail Offline Feature

1. Log into your Gmail
2. go to Settings->Offline
3. click "Enable offline mail for this Computer" and click "Save changes" button
4. Follow the instructions and Accept to install Google Gears which is less than 1 MB.
5. After this Few minutes Process, u'r Google mail gets synchronized to your PC
6. and you can access all your gmail contets offline by clicking the "Gmail Offline" icon on your Desktop


Advantage of Gmail Offline

1. Very Simple Feature and easy to use
2. No Additional Software to be Installed like outlook express etc..
3. And More Importantly its the Google's Product you can be sure of security of your personal file's

Disadvantage of Gmail Offline
1. You cannot specify selected mails to get saved in your Pc, instead all your mails within specified years are get stored.

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Recover a Corrupted System File

Trick to Recover a Corrupted System File

If an essential Windows file gets whacked by a virus or otherwise corrupted, restore it from the Windows CD. Search the CD for the filename, replacing the last character with an underscore; for example, Notepad.ex_. If it's found, open a command prompt and enter the command EXPAND, followed by the full pathname of the file and of the desired destination: EXPAND D:\SETUP\NOTEPAD.EX_ C:\Windows\NOTEPAD.EXE. If either pathname contains any spaces, surround it with double quotes.

If the file isn't found, search on the unmodified filename. It will probably be inside a CAB file, which Win XP treats as a folder. Simply right-drag and copy the file to the desired location. In other Windows platforms, search for a file matching *.cab that contains the filename. When the search is done, open a command prompt and enter EXTRACT /L followed by the desired location, the full pathname of the CAB file, and the desired filename; for example: EXTRACT /L C:\Windows D:\I386\Driver.cab Notepad.exe. Again, if the destination or CAB file pathname contains spaces, surround it with double quotes.

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Backing up the Registry

Before you edit the registry, export the keys in the registry that you plan to edit, or back up the whole registry. If a problem occurs, you can then follow the steps how-to restore the registry to its previous state.

How to Export Registry Keys

Click Start, and then click Run.

In the Open box, type regedit, and then click OK.

On the File menu, click Export.

In the Save in box, select the boxs at the bottom the bottom according to weather you want to export all or only selected branches of the registry.

Next select a location in which to save the backup .reg file. In the File name box, type a file name, and then click Save.


How to Restore the Registry

To restore registry keys that you exported, double-click the .reg file that you saved.

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Change The Storage Location Of 'my Documents', to protect it from PC Crashes

Normally windows saves the "My Documents" folder on your C-drive. But when you right-click on it and go to properties, you can change the location where you want windows to save your Documents folder.
Change that location to other drive where windows is not installed, So that you can save your documents from PC crashes.

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10 Steps to Make Your Pc Faster

Windows Tips - 10 Steps to Make Your PC Faster
1. First, run a scandisk or checkdisk. Let Windows fix any errors.

2. Run a disk cleanup utility...this will flush your temporary internet folder, trash can, temp system files, etc.

3. Delete any garbage files or data...if possible, run a Duplicate File Finder program.

4. Run Defrag on all partitions (NOTE: run this after you have deleted all trash and excess files!)

5. Run a registry cleaner utility and delete or get rid of any orphaned entries in that registry.

6. Check your exisiting swap file for it's size and location (*will explain location later in the post). If you have alot of ram (i.e. 1 gig and over) set this swap file to something small, like 250 mb. The reason is that this will force Windows to load more into memory, resulting in faster performance (note: some games and applications actually require a certain sized swap file so check your applications performance after making a size adjustment for any error messages.)

7. Under XP, you can tell Windows to use Classic Style on your desktop, - this will remove the neat single click and internet-style desktop but for lower end systems this will improve performance in other areas, such as gaming and multi-tasking.

8. Run msconfig and under startup and only keep the programs that are essential to load in the tray icon (and hence stay resident in memory). Uncheck anything else non-essential, like an ATI or Nvidia control panel, Quicktime utility, Real Audio, etc.

9. Upgrade drivers! Check for the latest BIOS, video, motherboard, sound, etc drivers from the manufacturers. Alot of my friends had chipsets on their motherboard that had advanced disk management capabilities or AGP port settings but the drivers weren't loaded for them so they were never being used. A simple upgrade realized a noticeable difference. For instance, they didn't have the latest driver for their AGP port so it was set to 1x, instead of being used at 4x!

10. (OK, so this won't speed up your PC but it could save you alot of time and trouble later on!) After making all these improvements, make a working backup! can use Ghost, but for XP users you can also use System Restore...

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Speeding Up the PC

Windows Tricks - Speeding Up the PC



There is a list of services that can be turned off this will speed up your PC a bit

1. Right click my computer and Select “Manage”, the “Computer Management” window opens up.
2. Click on “Services and Applications” -> “Services”
3. Open up the below listed Services and choose the “Startup type” as “Disabled”.

alerter
application layer gateway service
application management
ati hotkey poller
automatic updates
background intelligent transfer service
clipbook
com+ event system
com+ system application
distributed transaction coordinator
error reporting service
fast user switching compatibility
help and support
human interface device access
imapi cd burning com service
indexing service
internet connection firewall(icf)/internet connecton sharing(ics)
ipsec services
logical disk manager
logical disk manager administrative service
messenger
ms software shadow copy provider
net logon
netmeeting remote desktop sharing
network dde
network dde dsdm
nt lm securtiy support provider
performance logs and alerts
portable media serial number service
qos rsvp
remote desktop help sesson manager
remote registry
removable storage
secondary logon
security accounts manager
server
smart card
smart card helper
ssdp discovery service
system restore service
task scheduler
tcp/ip netbios helper
telnet
terminal services
uninterruptible power supply
universal plug and play device host
upload manager
video proes
volume shadow copy
webclient
windows time
wireless zone configuration
wmi performance adapter
workstation


--After finishing Restart the computer—

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