Archive for June, 2009

Block ads, flash and other annoyances with a few mouse clicks [Opera Trick]

Jun 12th

Posted by Ashutosh Mishra in Quick Tips

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We’ve previously covered ad-blocking tools for all the major browsers : IE7Pro for Internet Explorer AdBlock Plus for Firefox AdSweep for Chrome, Opera, and Safari All these tools work great, but if you’re an Opera user you can actually block ads using the browser’s built in features! Let’s see how :

WordPress 2.8 “Baker” is out

Jun 11th

Posted by Ashutosh Mishra in Pulse Update

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WordPress has released version 2.8 of it’s popular blogging software. The latest version, codenamed “Baker” in honor of noted trumpeter and vocalist Chet Baker, brings about a lot of under-the-hood improvements and impressive new features, like Much faster loading of admin pages via script compression and concatenation Browse and install themes from the dashboard Completely

We’ve fully migrated from Blogger

Jun 9th

Posted by Ashutosh Mishra in Announcement

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All the posts, comments, and tags of our blog at Blogger have been successfully migrated to pctonic.net! Visiting any page on our Blogger blog should automatically redirect you here. Here is some information you could do with – If you’re NOT using Internet Explorer, and you’ve got JavaScript enabled, you’ll be redirected to the corresponding

Windows 7 Superbar glows according to your icons’ colours

Jun 8th

Posted by Ashutosh Mishra in Windows

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The traditional taskbar in earlier versions of Windows has been completely overhauled in 7, the next Windows in line. Popularly as the “Superbar”, the new taskbar has drawn accolades from the tech community for better management of a large number of running windows and for improved productivity. And like every other part of 7, Microsoft

PC Tonic goes live on WordPress

Jun 7th

Posted by Ashutosh Mishra in Announcement

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Welcome to PC Tonic, a technology blog that brings you the latest news, tips and tricks from the world of Windows, Linux and the Internet. This is our first day on WordPress and quite a few things need to be ironed out. Meanwhile, you can check out the first generation PC Tonic, powered by Blogger,