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Disable spatial mode in GNOME’s Nautilus file browser

Disable spatial mode in GNOME’s Nautilus file browser

I’m a big GNOME fan and have been using it ever since it was first released. Ofcourse, like all software, not all is good with the GNOME project also and some of the decisions made by the developers are just plain absurd to me. One such decision was making the Spatial mode on Nautilus as the default. Nautilus,...
Filed in: Linux
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Search Wikipedia and Google from the Start menu in Vista

Search Wikipedia and Google from the Start menu in Vista

The search function integrated in the Start menu is probably one of the best features in Windows Vista. I use it all the time to search for files on my computer and even as a launcher to launch applications. It also gives an option to search the Internet from the same search box, but the only problem...
Filed in: Windows
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Turn off deep linking in yahoo search results

Turn off deep linking in yahoo search results

According to wikipedia, deep linking is defined as: Deep linking, on the World Wide Web, is making a hyperlink that points to a specific page or image on another website, instead of that website’s main or home page. Such links are called deep links. Yahoo search recently turned on deep linking...
Filed in: Tips and tricks
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Disable user access control in Windows Vista

Disable user access control in Windows Vista

If you’ve used Windows Vista for any length of time, you’ve probably encountered the User access control (UAC) dialogue box. UAC is the annoying feature which pops up dialogue boxes every now and then whenever it thinks that the user is doing something that could probably harm the computer.  It...
Filed in: Windows
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