Enable Chat & Mail Notifications for Gmail Gmail desktop notifications let you know when you have a new email or Chat message. When you enable these notifications, you’ll see a pop-up when new messages arrive so that even if you’re not looking at your Gmail, you’ll still know when someone wants to talk to you. For now, these notifications are available only if you use Google Chrome as your browser. Chat notifications are enabled by [...]

The Document Foundation has launched the free office productivity suite LibreOffice 3.3, now available for download. LibreOffice 3.3 is it’s first stable release for Windows, Macintosh and Linux. Document foundation is an independent self-governing meritocratic Foundation, created by leading members of the OpenOffice.org Community. You can download, install and distribute LibreOffice freely, with no fear of copyright infringement. What’s outstanding about LibreOffice? LibreOffice is a feature-packed and mature desktop productivity package with some really great [...]

Facebook, MySpace and several other social-networking sites have been sending data to advertising companies that could be used to find consumers’ names and other personal details, despite promises they don’t share such information without consent. Goto: Account ->Privacy Settings  http://www.facebook.com/settings/?tab=privacy The first section is Connecting on Facebook. There you can control basic information your friends will use to find you on Facebook. Click on View Settings. Your name, profile picture, gender and networks are visible [...]

At last, Apple has removed VLC media player from its application store. Thus the incompatibility between the GNU General Public License and the App Store terms of use is resolved – the hard way. Default video player in iPhone, iPad and iPod can play only mp4 format but the VLC for iOS devices allows us to play most of the video formats. But it has been removed from the App Store after Apple received the [...]

Steps Install the latest Snow Leopard update (10.6.6) and get Mac Appstore application Run MacStore App from the doc and sign in to your account Download and install Twitter, it’s free (link). Now Go to Applications folder and locate Twitter. Right click and select Show Package Contents, navigate to Contents folder and copy _CodeSignature, _MASReceipt and CodeResources Download the paid apps dmg file and install the application Then Right click on the application file, Show [...]

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