Avast is one of the better anti-malware apps available for Windows, but it’s not without its flaws. Thankfully you can rid the program of its annoyances with some easy steps. Enable automatic program...

If you’re a regular CCleaner user, the UAC prompts which are triggered while launching the app must get to your nerves at times. Well, there’s good news for you; the latest version of CCleaner...

Chrome handles most browsing tasks like a champ, but the browser itself can slow down for various reasons. If you’re a Chrome “power user”, you might have noticed that its startup time...

Online images often fail to load when you’re on a slow or flaky connection. Whenever this happens, most browsers (except Firefox, which shows the image title) replace the actual image with a broken image...

The status bar of a browser is a quick way to view the destination URL of any hyperlink, but it has little use beyond that. Hence, having it turned on all the time and occupy some vertical screen space...

TIPP10 is a cross-platform, open source app that aims to be your touch typing tutor. Like the previously mentioned TypingWeb, TIPP10 throws a series of typing ‘lessons’ at you, with gradually increasing...

Direct Connect (DC++) hubs are quite popular for sharing data among logged in users, especially so in residential college networks. A DC++ client is obviously required to tap into such hubs, with the most...

UPDATE #2: Good news, it’s working again. Thanks, Lifehacker. UPDATE: In a recent move to streamline itself, Google has shuttered the entireLabs unit, which includes this particular bot. If you’re...

Text Only, Please! is a no-frills Chrome extension that strips out junk from most web pages, and lets you focus on the actual article content. Once you have installed the extension, you will find a new...

There is something about oil paintings that makes me a big fan of them. Sometimes I come across an image, and I am instantly like, that should have been oil painted! If you are like me, there’s some...