How to Create Your Own Customized Run Commands

Let me take up an example of how to create a customized run command for opening the Internet explorer. Once you create this command, you should be able to open the Internet explorer just by typing “ie” (without quotes) in the Run dialog box. Here is how you can do that. 1. Right click on your Desktop and select New -> Shortcut. 2. You will see a “Create Shortcut” Dialog box as shown below 3. Click on ...

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Hack BSNL Broadband for Speed

you are a BSNL broadband user, chances are that you are facing frequent DNS issues. Their DNS servers are just unresponsive. The look up takes a long duration and many times just time out. The solution? There is small hack on BSNL for this. Use third party DNS servers instead of BSNL DNS servers or run your own one like djbdns. The easiest options is to use OpenDNS. Just reconfigure your network to use the following DNS servers:208.67.222.222208.67.220.220Detailed instructions specific to operating system or your BSNL modem are available in the OpenDNS website itself. After ...

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Facebook File Sharing Easy tricks

Several portals allow us the ‘upload files of various formats, on their servers. These sites are file hosting portals : The user loads a file, you may decide to link it and share it with friends, for example. And if we wanted to load a file on Facebook ? In fact it would not be possible, in practice there is an application that allows us to do this in a few steps. Filefly is an application which allows us to share files easily  with our  Facebook contacts. Using FileFly,you can share files  quickly and shared on the recipients  Facebook Wall. How does it work? 1) First ...

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