Workaround to Disable Skype Home from Appearing on Startup

After upgrading to Skype 5.5, and if a Skype users choose the Compact View option instead of Default View, a window titled Skype Home will automatically open and appear every time Skype program is starting or on computer reboot. The additional “Skype Home” window effectively defeat the purpose of Compact View, where users who supposed to get a smaller Skype main window now is getting two windows instead of one.



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How to Disable Facebook Face Recognition (Tag Suggestion) Feature

You may have observed the new feature in Facebook’s photo tagging if you have uploaded photos to Facebook recently. The new face recognition feature in Facebook can intelligently suggests the name of the friends for automatic picture tagging. The new feature is called Tag Suggestion where Facebook tries to automatically identify the faces in the uploaded photos based on the other photos where the people are tagged in. Therefore, you could be tagged by Facebook automatically when your friend uploads photos that contain your face in it. Well, it might be a helpful feature to reduce the chore of photo tagging but here are the steps for you to disable Facebook’s facial recognition for your profile if you are not comfortable with this feature:

Login to Facebook.Click at “Account” link from the top right corner and select “Account Settings” upon login.Click the “manage” link under the “Privacy” section.

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How to Disable In-App Purchase on iPhone, iPad and iPod touch

Most Apple iOS device users have credit card or PayPal billing information set up nicely in iTunes Store account to purchase music, apps, books, TV shows, movies, podcasts and etc. The billing information pre-defined inside the iTunes account also can be used directly when buying something from within the apps, in a feature called in-app purchase.

In-app purchase has been one of the increasingly popular revenue-generating avenue for app developers. More and more apps require in-app purchase to, for example, remove ads, get more functionality, reveal additional content, while games use in-app purchase to unlock levels, possess advanced weapons, upgrade characters, gain strength and etc.

Most in-app purchase can be done easily, as simple as a few taps away. And the “shortcut” allows iOS device such as iPhone, iPad and iPod touch owners especially minors to easily rack up the iTunes bill, knowingly or unknowingly. Kids may purchase in-app without consent of parents or guardians too.

Instead of removing the credit card, debit card or PayPal billing information from the account, Apple provides a way for disable the in-app purchase. Once the in-app purchase function is turned off, nobody who use the mobile iDevice will be able to purchase by using the billing information on your iTunes account from within the app. And the “lock” on in-app purchase is protected by a PIN code. In other words, you want to in-app purchase, you unlock and enable the function by entering the PIN code, otherwise it’s impossible to purchase in-app.

Here’s :

Tap the Settings app.Go to General.Go to Restrictions.

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Disable, Block Social media Widgets on Websites with Widget Block

Blog widgets such as Facebook fan page widget, digg widget, twitter widget and other widgets for commenting system such as disqus, gravatar and Google friend connect, analytics, social sharing widgets from addthis, sharethis will add some power to the blogs and makes user interaction more powerful, but if you’re a hater of all these, then you can simply block all these kind of social media widgets with one simple extension.

Widget Block for Google chrome allows you to block all the social media, web 2.0 widgets in one click. Third party widgets from sites like Facebook, twitter, Google Buzz, Disqus, etc. can slow down page load times when browsing on other sites that include them. WidgetBlock disables a number of widely installed 3rd party widgets so that your pages load faster. It includes options to choose the Widgets you’d like to disable.

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Disable, turn off notification ballon in Windows 7

Previously we had seen how to disable libraries in Windows 7, now one more irritation is these notification ballons on Windows machine, take it Win XP, Vista or Win7. You get these notification ballon often for different alerts, but there is an option to disable it specifically, but if you want to disable totally, then one simple registry hack can do the job. The guys at How to Geek had created a registry script that can disable all the notification ballons on Vista and Windows 7.

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How To Disable Protected Mode in Office 2010 ?

October 5, 2010

in Microsoft,Tips

By default, Office 2010 opens documents from the download only in protected mode, read-only mode to reduce the risk of exposure to potential security threat. You may be provided with the option to enable editing but sometimes it is irritating and users get annoyed when always opened in protected mode. Now let’s see how to permanently disable the protected mode in Office 2010.

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How to Enable or Disable SmartScreen Filter in Internet Explorer 9

September 20th, 2010. Filed under:IE. Tags: Security, smartscreen
By this time most of us must have downloaded the latest beta release of Internet Explorer 9 which was made public by Microsoft last week. So if you are using Internet Explorer and you want a better online experience with enhanced security while browsing the web pages then you might want to enable a filter called Microsoft SmartScreen.

For those who don’t know what is smartscreen, it is a feature in Internet Explorer that helps detect phishing websites, and can also help protect you from installing malicious software or malware. So whenever you encounter a suspicious site a warning will be displayed on the browser window to notify the user about the sites nature and whether user trusts the site owner/publisher to continue further on the URL provided.

Here are few simple steps to Enable the Smart Screen Filter:

Open Internet ExplorerGo to  Tools>Internet Options

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How To Disable Google Instant Search

Google has rolled out its new Google Instant, a new search enhancement that can display instant search results as users type. The ultimate aim of this search enhancement is to help users to get faster and better search results even as they type. Having said that, many users might not buy the idea and instead feel annoyed with this feature. For this reason, Google does allow users to turn off or disable the Google Instant Search feature.

The easiest way for users who do not want to have the instant result affect is to turn it off by clicking on to the link, Instant is on next to the search box on any search result page. Users can click on to the link which will thence prompt users with the option to either switch on/off the Google Instant feature. Alternately, users can visit Google’s Preference page via the link here, look for Google Instant, and thence click on

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How To Disable Balloon Tips in Windows XP?

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Here are two simple methods to get rid of annoying Windows XP balloon popup's :
# Registry Hack Method

1. Press Windows Key

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How to disable the Windows Error Report forever

One of the most usesless features that Microsoft implemented into their operating systems, is their error reporting. I still get the question almost daily, asking whether or not they should or should “send the error report”.

Supposedly Microsoft accumulates these errors into database and references them for future fixes and releases. How many of you think they actually do such?
If they did, the count would likely be in the billions. Most of us who work on computers on a daily basis, probably see this pop-up 5-10 times/day.

START>Search for and click “Problem Reports”>CHANGE SETTINGS>ADVANCED SETTINGS>Select OFF


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