Shankar and Rishi had tagged me to write 8 random facts about me. So here are the random facts about me.

I’m a Civil Engineer by education and a Software Engineer by Profession.
I hail from the beautiful city-Queen of …

Security the one of the most important things while browsing the net. Its always necessary to have the latest security updates for your browser. This is one of the reasons for updating your browser. Another reason is the the availability of new functionalities in the latest updates.

Firefox has its own update manager and its settings can be configured in easy steps.
Click on Tools-> Options. In the options dialog, select Advanced Tab.

For those who don’t know what Flock is, its a free web browser that makes it easy to connect with your friends and express yourself online. Its called the Social Web Browser. Flock has been there for quite some time now and they have released the latest version for Windows.

Flock is based on the Mozilla Firefox Technology and has all the features of Firefox. Flock also integrates with popular social sites like Technorati, Flickr, Del.icio.us, Photobucket etc. It also has features of blogging and uploading photos.

If you are bored seeing the default look of removable drives in Windows, here is a simple tutorial on how to change the default look. The Removable drive looks like this, without any customizations and its confusing if you have more than one drives connected to your PC.

The default look of Removable drives like USB pen drives, Memory cards for phones and cameras can be changes using these 3 simple steps.

1. First step is to find a good icon which will represent the removable drive. Make sure that the image has .ico extension.

If you are using Firefox for the first time and wanted to import all the browser setting from Internet Explorer or Opera, here is the simple step to do it.

Go to File-> Import.

The import wizard is opened and you can select the browser from where you would like to import all the settings.

With Gmail mail checkers, its always easy to check mails without keeping the Gmail inbox open throughout the day. Here is the list of top 10 Gmail mail notifiers for Windows and Mac OS X.

1. Gmail Notifier

The Gmail Notifier is an application that alerts you when you have new Gmail messages. It displays an icon in your system tray to let you know if you have unread Gmail messages, and shows you their subjects, senders and snippets, all without your having to open a web browser. Gmail Notifier offers stylish and useful new mail announcements for a Gmail account. It gives a great overview of new messages, but doesn’t allow you to highlight or ignore certain mail with filters.

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