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While I was using Google Chrome, I quickly noticed the private browsing mode. Also called incognito mode (incognito means to avoid being recognized).
For times when you want to browse in stealth mode, for example, to plan surprises like gifts or birthdays, Google Chrome offers the incognito browsing mode.

Web pages that you open and files downloaded [...]

Sending messages with images was a bit cumbersome with Gmail because it didn’t have default functionality to insert images. Sometimes, I even sent mail from my Yahoo! Mail account to Gmail and forwarded it for ease of doing it. There were other tweaks as well.

Now a new Labs feature will help you do it more [...]

Windows on Windows was bitten by memories of the monochrome days. So it introduced a handy tip to emulate a monochrome feel for your command prompt windows. Not good for anything practical, but hey, it’s still fun! Greg Shultz at TechRepublic tells us how:

Open a Command Prompt window.
Right the title bar and select the Properties [...]

If you are a lucky iPhone owner, by now you might have discoverd what a pain it is to use EyeTV for deleting commercials. You had to actually select each and every commercial break manually, then compact your recording, then export it n an appropriate format for the iPhone.
Today, I came [...]

Folding@Home, the Stanford University’s ambitious distributed computing project aimed at unlocking the mysteries of protein folding has hit another great milestone. It is the first to achieve a petaflop mark by a distributed computing initiative. The lion’s share of the processing power is contributed by Sony’s PlayStation 3 game consoles.
Known amongst [...]

It is estimated that 7% of Web surfers read Wikipedia articles in every browsing session. But do you know the following facts about Wikipedia?

About 8.2 million articles have been contributed to Wikipedia since 2001, a total of more than 1.4 billion words
The English-language version of Wikipedia has about two million entries — [...]

Here’s a series of well written IBM Linux tutorials to help you learn Linux fundamentals and prepare for system administrator certification. These are considered amongst the most popular online preparation methods cited by LPI exam candidates, as mentioned by the LPI.org website. Even if you don’t care to be certified, these [...]

Over time I have found many fully functioning games that are free to download in various places across the Web. Here are 100 of these great full games that are free to download online. They range from independent games, to games that were once commercial but are now free, free to play MMO games (some [...]

Sometimes I try to organize my folders. I like my HDD to be well organized so it will be easy to find the files I need, at the right time, instead of looking here and there.
Today, I was organizing my eBooks collection; it was full of chaos after I added many books from my [...]

nbsp;Portfolio.com has a nice slideshow on how Google works.No, it is not discussing how the page rank stuff works or anything like that. It is for the average joe.
[How Google works?]
[tags]Google, Search[/tags]