Remove Unwanted Toolbars, Applications in Bulk with PC Decrapifier

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Suppose if you’ve bought a new computer, it normally comes with some crapware that does nothing but sits on your computer and annoy you. Also you might have noticed that toolbars in browser such as Internet explorer and Firefox are annoying by covering almost browser window and difficult to visit webpages. It also eats some space and makes your browser very slow.

How to remove those annoying crap toolbars and worthless softwares. For example, Dell Search Assistant, AOL toolbar, Google earth toolbar, Google Toolbar for Internet Explorer, trail version of softwares that comes up with the new PC, Yahoo! Toolbar for Internet Explorer, Yahoo! Music Jukebox and many more.

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Different Applications of Windows® 7 Phone

What are the features of Windows 7 Phone applications?

Microsoft has unveiled the next version of its Operating System called Windows Phone 7 Series for mobile phones. Microsoft is including customizable “live tiles” that can update automatically with information from the phone or the Internet so as to make the interface more personal. Some of the tiles will update automatically while others can be customized manually. The interface supports an on-screen QWERTY keyboard and can support multi-touch interfaces in the same way as Windows 7 for computers. Another feature included from PCs is the Web browser. It is based on the same code as the desktop version of Internet Explorer. The vendors such as Samsung, LG, Sony-Ericsson and HTC have committed to offer devices running Windows Phone 7 Series.

Following are some of the features of Windows 7 phone applications:

Professional and user-friendly InterfaceSupports social and productivity hubsBing Maps

Professional and user-friendly Interface
The menus and interface have the fluid animations and clean typeface. It provides shortcuts to your most-used or favorite applications or websites with large and colorful tiles. It also allows you to place live tiles on the screen with links to your Facebook profile or friends. These tiles are live, so that, when the application or site is updated, then the tile will also update on your screen. Using tap and drag, you can easily move them around in any order you like. If you want to shift one of your applications to your Quick Launch display, you could simply press down on the application and select ‘Add to quick launch’.

Supports social and productivity hubs
The People Hub helps in aggregating your friends from all of your social networks in three screens: ‘Recent’, ‘All’ and ‘What’s New’. The ‘Recent’ will display you the friends who have just updated their profiles or statuses while ‘All’ will show all of your friends. ‘What’s new’ quickly collects status update, all into a single feed. It is also able to quickly share your own status update. The Pictures Hub allows you to see all of the pictures on your hub, your most recent pictures and what’s new with all of your friends.

Bing Maps
Windows 7 phones also come with Bing Maps, which has some exceptional features that are comparable to Google Maps. Bing Maps dynamically get updated with street-view photos, 3D graphics and directions. It also shows you real-time traffic updates and reviews of local business. All Windows Series 7 phones are shipped with three hardware buttons: ‘Home’, ‘Search’, and ‘Back’. They also are touch-enabled with multi-touch.

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Smartphone Applications For Computer Technicians Pt2 – Android

Last week we listed some iPhone applications that are useful to Computer Technicans, this week we are listing some Techie applications for Android based smartphones.

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Five Best Virtual Machine Applications [Hive Five]

Most modern computers are powerful enough to run entire operating systems within your main operating systems, which means virtual machines are more commonplace today than ever. Here's a look at the five most popular virtual machine applications.

Virtual machines allow you to run one operating system emulated within another operating system. Your primary OS can be Windows 7 64-bit, for example, but with enough memory and processing power, you can run Ubuntu and OS X side-by-side within it. Earlier this week we asked you to share your favorite virtual machine application, and now we're back to highlight the five most popular picks.

VirtualBox (Windows/Mac/Linux, Free)

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Choose Which Applications Launch on Startup with AutoHotkey [Windows Tip]

With a simple AutoHotkey script, you can tell your computer to launch different programs on startup with different combinations of the Caps Lock, Num Lock, and Scroll Lock functions turned on.

If you like to start up a bunch of programs when you log in, it can be a pain to click them all manually. And, if you have a few different combinations of programs you want to launch depending on the situation (say, a set of programs for work and a set of programs for personal use), you can't just set them to launch at login, since your computer only allows you to specify one set of login items.

Using the open source scripting language AutoHotkey, reader Scott created a script that checks the status of the Caps Lock, Num Lock, and Scroll Lock keys, and launches programs based on the combination of locks that are turned on. Just copy and paste this script into a new text file:

; Auto-Execute:GoTo CheckKeyboardStatus; On startup, this script checks the status of Numlock, Capslock, and Scrolllock.; Depending on the unique combination of these 3 variables, 1 of 8 commands will be executed.; The status is then reset (Numlock on, Capslock off, Scrolllock off);; To use this script, place it in your startup folder.; Then, every time you power up your computer, toggle the keyboard status; to specify which apps you want to run at startup.NumOffCapsOffScrollOff: ; Looks like: . . . Run Notepad.exe Run firefox.exeReturnNumOnCapsOffScrollOff: ; Looks like: o . . (Default) Run firefox.exeReturnNumOffCapsOnScrollOff: ; Looks like: . o . Run iexplore.exeReturnNumOnCapsOnScrollOff: ; Looks like: o o .ReturnNumOffCapsOffScrollOn: ; Looks like: . . oReturnNumOnCapsOffScrollOn: ; Looks like: o . oReturnNumOffCapsOnScrollOn: ; Looks like: . o oReturnNumOnCapsOnScrollOn: ; Looks like: o o oReturnCheckKeyboardStatus:; Read the keyboard status:Status

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The Handy Start Menu Organizes Your Applications for You [Downloads]

Windows only: Freeware utility The Handy Start Menu organizes the applications in your Start Menu into categories automatically, so you don't have to deal with organizing everything yourself.

Once you've installed the application, it will replace the All Programs group in your Start Menu with a view that is organized by category automatically instead of by folder. Your regular Start Menu folders aren't changed, as the new view is just an overlay on the Start Menu, and you can revert back at any time by simply disabling the application. Handy Start Menu is a free download, works for both Windows 7 32-bit and 64-bit editions.

The Handy Start Menu

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From the Tips Box: OS X Applications, Organizing Music, and Apple Software Update [From The Tips Box]

From the Tips Box: OS X Applications, Organizing Music, and Apple Software Update

Readers offer their best tips for installing applications on OS X, organizing your music library, and installing QuickTime on Windows without Apple Software Update.

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About the Tips Box: Every day we receive boatloads of great reader tips in our inbox, but for various reasons—maybe they're a bit too niche, maybe we couldn't find a good way to present it, or maybe we just couldn't fit it in—the tip didn't make the front page. From the Tips Box is where we round up some of our favorites for your buffet-style consumption. Got a tip of your own to share? Add it in the comments, share it here, or email it to tips at lifehacker.com.

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