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How to Make Utorrent Faster
Utorrent is pretty much the number 1 bittorrent client (feel free to argue below), being standalone and under 300KB, yet sophisticated and…well in other words, if all software were like uTorrent the world would be a much happier place, unfortu...
Windows Live Messenger Not Remembering Your Email?
Windows Live Messenger keeps getting fancier, the latest version has visual customization incorporated at every possible location in your messenger window almost as if it’s target audience is for pre-teens, personally I prefer the previous vers...
How to Customize Your Comment Icon
Ever left a comment on a blog? If you haven’t and you are reading this you are one undeserving freeloader, get off my blog! But seriously, leave comments on blogs, it shows appreciation to the blogger. Well, you might have noticed comments lef...
Give Your Blog a Voice
Text can get boring, online, offline, anywhere you see, the main form of information representation is via text. While it’s one of those things that cannot be replaced and never runs out of style it can be hard to read an entire article without...
StumbleUpon Shows Me the Finger
I am a big fan of StumbleUpon, it pretty much gives you a view of the web that Google or any other search engine or service never could, keeping it short, the web’s a lot more interesting with StumbleUpon, I haven’t really talked much abo...
Have a Gmail Account? Turn it into a Hard Drive
Gmail is arguably the best mail service, with its simplicity and speed of execution of its features. The other striking factor is the massive 7GB+ storage space (and counting) which only a few would ever really utilize completely (I am currently usin...
How to Take Care of Duplicate Bookmarks
Are you a bookmark junkie? Do you haphazardly bookmark pages for ‘later use’. Whether you actually would refer it later or never look at it again. Nevertheless, at some point of realization you might find your bookmarks completely clutter...
How to Backup Your Firefox Profile
If you are a frequent surfer, your browser handles a lot of aspects of your surfing, if you happen to lose this data for some reason, restoring all your personal data to its previous state manually can be a real hassle. The data you need consists of ...
Poll:What is the Best Web Browser?
To honor the example used in the introductory post to polls, I thought I’ll start it off with one of the most heated topics in this niche and the blogosphere itself. There’s no doubt the war has begun once again! The browser wars that is,...
Looking to Keep Things Mutual on Twitter?
You can’t talk about Twitter enough, Twitter is a classic example of viral marketing, based on how Twitter became popular and how stories can spread on Twitter. The growth of Twitter and ‘tweeting’ or ‘twittering’ has al...
Need to Pick a Color On Your Screen?
If you are into any form of creating or editing with your computer that involves color you might probably need to know the exact hex value of that really cool shade you noticed on a website or in a random application, whether you want it to be a pa...
How to Find Out Your Computer’s IP
Your IP is a unique set of numbers that identifies your computer on the Internet or any network, you might need to know what your IP is for different reasons. Maybe to forward a port to an application to establish uninterrupted connectivity, or if yo...
How to Download Videos on Youtube
This is a question many are seeking the answer for that has had several solutions already available in the form of web based scripts, browser addons and standalone applications. To clear the doubt once and for all (and hoping that this should appear ...
Opera Looking to Turn Your Local Computer into a Web Server
The Internet has been set ablaze once again with news from Google, like the release of Chrome, the recent announcement of the Google Chrome OS has become a trending topic in technology blogs and websites. Looking at their past web applications as wel...
Advantages Of Using A Linux Platform For Web Hosting
There are a lot of micro and medium finance businesses that have their own websites. They put in a lot of effort to make sure that the web host they choose is the best and they get the best deal at a very cheap price. It is indeed a very good idea to...
Knowing The Main Differences Between LAN and WAN
We recently gave you an overview of what a LAN (Local Area Network) is, this in combination with WAN (Wide Area Network) would virtually give you the definition of what networks are in the field of computing. Image Credit While LAN and WAN are both ...
Want to Know Your Connection’s Real Speed?
With Google and several other services looking to take virtually all your computer usage online, your internet connection speed is going to be one of the most important factors to consider, in recent times, with the introduction of several new commun...
The Internet is Great, but It Can Be a Bummer Too
The induction of the internet in our life has been like a boon. They have opened up in front of us an altogether new era of knowledge and learning. Moreover, the internet is a very special avenue which has helped a lot of people to get help in a vari...
Take Your Bookmarks (and passwords) Wherever You Go
Google’s long term goal of taking all your computer tasks online is currently in progress. Of course, the successful completion of this would make things a lot more convenient, location, hard disks, backups, etc. would no longer matter. You...
Give your Firefox An Extra Coat of Color
Firefox has been a hot topic on Computer Realm lately and why not! With its addons, reputation and popularity we could go on about Firefox all day. Well, this post might contradict my post sometime back on sticking with the Firefox default theme beca...
Top 10 Signs, You Have Viruses or Spyware
Viruses and Spyware are pretty much the worst hassles to deal with when it comes to computers. A small price, for revolutionizing every aspect of our lives, businesses and day to day tasks making things a lot more efficient and productive. However, t...
The Best Twitter Client for Firefox
Over the past few days, this blog has gone Firefox crazy with several posts on the popular web browser, today I help you make another decision with your browser. Twitter has exploded over the past year and mainly over the past few months, as mainstre...
Have a Completely Personalized Firefox on a Shared Computer
Surfing on a shared computer? Whether it’s at home or in a net cafe it’s still a hassle to use a ‘new born’ browser or a browser with sites in the bookmark toolbar which has nothing to do with you or the browser with the most ...
Create a Fully Customized Toolbar For Your Website
Blogs are created everyday. Technorati estimates around 120000 new blogs created each day! That’s a lot of bloggers to compete with. A good percentage of them are just as good as you, pumping great, unique content to their blogs and marketing i...
Firefox 3.5 – First Impressions
The last major release Firefox 3, was launched with much hype attempting to set a Guinness World Record and successfully getting there, Firefox 3 brought around many new features, the highlights being the complete, built in Addon Manager, the improve...
Chrome vs Firefox
The browser market has been virtually set ablaze with Google diving in. Boasting a text link on the Google home page during the launch I am sure none of us could have missed that Google has launched a browser of their very own, Chrome. The main hype ...
Make Your Wordpress Blog Recognize Your Visitors
Ever spoken to one of those chat bots? Impressive don’t you think? Well somehow it always makes us raise an eyebrow when we see something virtual respond correctly (at least to a certain extent) with an apparent mind of its own. It’s alwa...
3 Hyped Products We Missed
I’ve been away from blogging for quite a while until recently when i kicked things off again. In that time the blogosphere and the whole of the Internet pretty much has been buzzing with 3 products from two adored (or maybe not) tech giants. W...
Use Wordpress? Use This To Keep Track of Things
Lets face it, our lives are a lot more ‘faster’ than they were, this is mainly because of the continual developments in technology letting you multitask and make your time more productive, however things can get a little overwhelming some...
Internet Explorer Sucks. Period.
Internet Explorer continues to disappoint. Currently I am trying to figure the reason behind Internet Explorer rendering Computer Realm like this occasionally: However all the other popular browsers Firefox, Chrome, Opera, Safari (in no particular ...
