Archive for April 2010

Youtube Changed its Video Player Layout Again

Today youtube changed its video player layout again. Check the new video player

you see the difference in video scroller ? now it covers the whole width of video which means you can move the video to much finer length, this is very small difference (like 2% in width) but still a good change. What this has done is, now the strip which has audio controls (stop/next) and screen resize, is completely vacant. I won’t be surprised if youtube add more functions in that strip in coming days.

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Onlywire Bookmarking service Review - DO NOT use it

Onlywire.com social bookmarking service which is often promoted as one of the best social bookmaking service, it seems is not working anymore. I have given it a try few times as it only costs $3 per month to see how exactly they work but even though the service says that it has bookmark your pages to 33 sites, when you check the report, you will find there is no bookmarking done.

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Dell Laptop Reboot due to Heating

If you own a Dell laptop and if you like me work for continuous 14+ hours on laptop, I am sure you must have faced this problem of Dell laptops getting rebooted due to excessive heating. This a very serious problem, something which people often complain about dell laptops.

I have talked to Dell support about this to know what can be done as I am already in an AC room with room temperature of about 26 C. So on the basis of those conversations and from my knowledge of 7 years using computers, here are some tips to prevent your dell laptop getting rebooted

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How to Clear Desktop Screen when part of program remains on screen after closing it

This is a common problem with Windows, say when you right click on desktop, the menu appears and doesn’t get removed or when you open an excel file or any application and close it, a part of it shows on desktop and no matter what you do including refreshing the desktop screen multiple times, it don’t get removed!

Here is a very simple solution for it, Logout (ctrl+L) and log back in, this will clean the desktop screen from the remains of application.