How to make/ revert back Google as the default search engine on Firefox | Address bar search

Here we are going to discuss the steps to be taken in order to make/ revert Google as the default Search Engine when we automatically search for a word or a search query on the address bar.

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Google is the most popular search engine all across the world. Most people prefer Google search over other search engine alternative there on the web. This is all because of Google’s capability to provide relevant and correct information within fraction of seconds. All modern browsers nowadays provide their users fast way to search for a search term query by inputting it directly into the address bar of their browser window.

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Delete Computer Viruses Manually from USB Drives.

A best trick to delete a virus from removable media or USB drive.

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The computer viruses are spreads mainly through the removable media such as pen drive, portable hard-disk,floppy etc, and most widely through the internet.One of the ways by which a virus can infect your PC is through removable media(USB/Pen drives). Common viruses such as ’Ravmon.exe’ ,‘New Folder.exe’ etc.. are spreading widely through the USB drives. Most anti virus programs are unable to detect them and even if they do, in most cases they are unable to delete the file, only quarantine it. Here are the trick by which you can remove such viruses from your USB Drive.By using this trick we can delete the viruses only from removable media and not those viruses which come through the internet.

This trick is good for those users who don’t have any antivirus in their system or don’t have an internet connection to update their antivirus.

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Install , Configure, Fine tune APC (Alternative PHP Cache) to Cut down CPU load on Server

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PHP has established itself well enough to be one of the most Popular Web programming language. PHP needs to be optimized sometimes in order to get better optimization and speed enhancements.

While getting accessed, every page in PHP needs to First get parsed by Interpreter, followed by a conversion to an intermediary format called opcode. At last, it finally gets converted into machine code which is executed by the server’s CPU.

This process is acceptable for Some cycles. But If the same script is accessed 100 times these steps are repeated a 100 times. To avoid this repetition and waste of server resources you can use the Alternative PHP Cache or APC.

The Alternative PHP Cache (APC) is a free and open opcode cache for PHP. Its goal is to provide a free, open, and robust framework for caching and optimizing PHP intermediate code.

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Installing APC

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A list of 10 ways /techniques to convert pdf files into flash SWF format using online and offline tools.

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Computer guys usually need to convert files from one format or the other. Here we are introducing you to some of the best PDF(Portable Document format) to (SWF) Flash Converter. Some of us are looking for online pdf to flash converters while the other lot is usually comfortable with software setups for converting PDF to Flash.

Here we have the list of 5 PDF to SWF conversion techniques. It includes some offline software setups as well as some online web services.

Web services(3):

Web services are usually websites which do the conversion task online on the web. They are easy to use and there is no need to install it locally on the user’s computer. Furthermore, Online web conversion services can be accessed from anywhere.

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15 Ways to capture screenshot of a web page

I found out a number of ways using which you can effectively get a screen shot of any desired webpage on the internet or on your computer.

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These techniques help you capture the complete screen shot  of  web page even if it has much content which needs to be scrolled.

1. Using Firefox Addons and Extensions (6).

These six Firefox addons will be very useful to you in order to take the screenshot of any webpage.

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