HOW TO: Remove Smart HDD Virus (SOLVED)

Smart HDD is a PC virus that will display fake alerts, saying that several hard drive errors were detected on your computer. It is only used to scare you into buying Smart HDD and stealing your personal financial informations.

> How to Remove Smart HDD Virus:
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Source: Malware Tips / Precise Security

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HOW TO: Find recipes online

With FOODILY, you can search recipes across the world wide web by just keying in the ingredient in the search bar. It will search through recipes from different websites and allows you to choose them interactively by scrolling through the results. Connect it with Facebook and you will be able to share recipes with your friends.Try it now by logging on to http://www.foodily.com

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HOW TO: Disable Facebook's Lightbox effect/ Facebook's Photo Viewer

At first, I thought it was awesome to have the lightbox effect in Facebook, then after a while, it became really annoying I think, for most of us. fortunately, WE HAVE AN ESCAPE ROUTE FOR THAT!!

Just get the extension for Google Chrome or addon for your Mozilla Firefox!

You may think why it does not work after you have installed the extension/addon. Just close your Facebook tab and reopen a new tab for Facebook, it should work.

 Facebook Lightbox Killer For Google Chrome

 Facebook Lightbox Killer For Mozilla Firefox

To manage your Google extensions, click -> Tools -> Extensions.

Spread this news to your friends using the Facebook share button below! 


UPDATE: 1/4/2011

You can also manually delete the "&theater" at the end of the URL to disable the lightbox effect manually.

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TIPS: Chrome Extensions & Firefox Addons - Download Youtube as MP3 with one click. Download Youtube within the Google Chrome.

*UPDATED as of 23th of April 2011*

Ever wonder how you can download a Youtube video right at the Youtube page?

You can download up to 1080p with this button. Just select the video quality that you wish to download and it will ask you for the download location. Downloading videos will be a breeze with this button. 

Get this "Download" button for:

Google Chrome (http://www.chromeextensions.org/other/easy-youtube-video-downloader/)

Mozilla Firefox (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/easy-youtube-video-downl-10137/)

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You can also download the video as MP3 in normal quality and high quality. I would recommend high quality. With the shortcut, it will link you to the Video2mp3's website where the video will be converted and allowed to be download after the conversion is done. 

You can get the Video2mp3 shortcut for:

Firefox (http://www.video2mp3.net/firefox/youtube2mp3.xpi)

Google Chrome (http://www.video2mp3.net/chrome/youtubetomp3.crx)

Safari (http://www.video2mp3.net/firefox_addon.php)

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Tips- Gmail: Desktop Notifications.

Now you can have desktop notifications when you receive new emails in your Gmail.

Just sign in your Gmail --> Click "Settings" on the top right corner of your Gmail --> At the "General" tab, scroll down until you see "Desktop Notifications" (Refer to the image below) --> Select "New mail notifications on"

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Tips: Rename your thumbdrive

Rename your thumbdrive by putting in your handphone number so your missing thumbdrive can find it's way back to you.

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Have you missed the Google Dictionary function on all Google products?

As a reminder, Google's Gmail, Blogger and Docs have word spell checker and correction in its services.


Try it now if you have not known about it!


Follow techknew by clicking "Follow" on the sidebar or through @techknew on Twitter now!

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Self-help: Bad sound quality in iTunes?

If your music sounds fine in Windows Media Player but sounds bad in iTunes, here's how you can tweak the settings.


Steps:
1) Open up Apple QuickTime (NOT iTunes).------------------------------------------------------>
2) Click "Edit" --> "Preferences" --> "QuickTime Preferences" 
3) Then select the "Audio" tab above. 
4) Then look out for "Safe mode (waveOut only)". Select that setting.
5) Click "Apply". (The sound quality should improve by now.)

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Khan get enough of Wikipedia? Now there's Khan Academy.

The Khan Academy.org  is a not-for-profit educational organization created and sustained by Salman Khan. With the stated mission "of providing a high quality education to anyone, anywhere", the Academy supplies a free online collection of more than 2,000 videos on mathematics, science, history, and economics.


As of September 2010, Google announced they would be providing the Khan Academy with $2 million to support the creation of more courses and to enable the Khan Academy to translate their core library into the world’s most widely spoken languages, as part of their Project 10^100.


Congratulations for winning Google's Project 10^100 !

Khan Academy's official website 

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[SOLVED] Solve IE 9 Crash. IE9 Crash Solved.

I tried Internet Explorer 9 (IE 9) and it crashed. The error was " Internet Explorer has stopped working ".

To solve this,  Launch the new IE9 in "Extensions off" mode, Click Start > Type in "iexplore.exe -extoff" {enter}

IE9 will launch in "Extensions Off" mode > Click "Manage add-ons".

Select all the Add-ons (Select one and Press CTRL+A) > Then Select "Disable All".

Now launch IE9 and it should launch correctly.

Now, you can slowly enable all the add-ons one by one, to find out which one was causing the problem.

As a Google Chrome fan, I would say that IE 9 is AWESOME. 
You can get it now from http://www.beautyoftheweb.com/

Like this post if this helps. Thank you!

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Google Chrome Extensions - Wikipedia Companion - Mini Wiki Browser and Google Dictionary (by Google)

Remember my post two days ago on Google Search Tips? 

Now, with Google Chrome, you can search things on Wikipedia and find definitions on Google Dictionary more easily with Wikipedia Companion - Mini Wiki Browser and Google Dictionary (by Google).

Click: 

Click: 

Not using Google Chrome yet? Download it from Google.

 

Google Dictionary (by Google) is easy to use as you can search the meaning of words by double clicking on the word.

It appears beside the address bar.

Not using Google Chrome yet? Download it from Google.

Previously on TechKnew :

Google Chrome and Gmail - Drag and Drop

TechKNEW has a new layout & Google News has been updated

Google Chrome - Tips on Omnibox

Google Chrome - Open a New Tab

New Google Labs Feature in Gmail - Message Sneak Peak

Life on LINE

Google Chrome - How to Solve the Aw, Snap Problem! 

Try the Google Chrome (BETA)

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Google Search Tips

Today, I am going to share something that I love on Google Search. Here's some tips on using it.

1. To search the definition of a word, type "define: (the word that you want to search)" (without the inverted commas and brackets).

2. To find something within a website. Type "(things that you want to search) site: facebook.com" (without the inverted commas and brackets).

3. To maintain a phrase or to make a word compulsory during a search.

4. To convert measurements. 

5.  To convert currency.

6. Time. Type "time" then the name of city.

7. Weather. Type ""weather" then the name of city.

8. Calculations.

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100th Post - How to add Facebook's "Like" button at the end of your blog post

This is TechKnew's 100th blog post!!

How would you like this button below to appear at the end of your EVERY blog post?

All you need to do is:
1. Go to Design > Edit HTML in Blogger.

2. Tick the Extract Widget Templates.

3. Search for 

4. Copy and paste the code below right after the code: 

<iframe allowTransparency='true' expr:src='&quot;http://www.facebook.com/plugins/like.php?href=&quot; + data:post.url + &quot;&amp;layout=standard&amp;show_faces=false&amp;width=100&amp;action=like&amp;font=arial&amp;colorscheme=light&quot;' frameborder='0' scrolling='no' style='border:none; overflow:hidden; width:450px; height:40px;'/>

Titbits:

Google has a new product: Google Music Search (available in the US only, but you can have a look at it at the moment).

Previously on TechKnew :

Google Chrome and Gmail - Drag and Drop

TechKNEW has a new layout & Google News has been updated

Google Chrome - Tips on Omnibox

Google Chrome - Open a New Tab

New Google Labs Feature in Gmail - Message Sneak Peak

Life on LINE

Google Chrome - How to Solve the Aw, Snap Problem! 

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Tips on Google Docs

I bet you've heard of Google Docs. This allows you to do your work wherever you are as the document can be accessed anywhere as long as you have internet connection and a Google account. Recently, Google Docs has been updated with several new features.

• Several users can edit and read the documents AT THE SAME TIME through Collaboration (by editting the Sharing settings in the picture below).
• Documents can be shared and published on blogs and websites (Publish to the Web).

• Google Docs support ODT (OpenOffice), CSV, RTF (RichText), PDF, DOCX(which will be converted to DOC for editing) and so on.

• In Google Docs' Spreadsheet (a Microsoft Excel look-alike), similar formulae can be used in Docs. This allows flexibility for Microsoft users.

• There is a ruler now for the margin. Indents can be added on the ruler by clicking on the ruler.

• Equation can be inserted easily.

• You can now draw in Google Docs

• There is a Word Count tool in Google Docs.

So what are you waiting for? Sign up now at Google Docs.

Titbits (You will like it): 

Google's new stable release of Chrome comes with built-in Adobe Flash (Joyce, you should try this.) so now, you don't have to manually download Adobae Flash on your own. With this,
Google created a YouTube Video Game to highlight its new HTML5 feature. To complete the game, you have to answer several questions, which also boasts Google's dominance in internet search.

Previously on TechKnew :

Google Chrome and Gmail - Drag and Drop

TechKNEW has a new layout & Google News has been updated

Google Chrome - Tips on Omnibox

Google Chrome - Open a New Tab

New Google Labs Feature in Gmail - Message Sneak Peak

Life on LINE

Google Chrome - How to Solve the Aw, Snap Problem! 

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