In some occasions when you click on an email link while browsing some webpages, you will be prompted with email clients such as Microsoft Window Mail for Vista or Microsoft Outlook Express for XP. If your email client has yet to be configured, you need to set up and configure it before you can send out emails. It is quite troublesome and inconvenient if you haven’t done so. Anyway, if you are Gmail and Firefox users, the good news is the new Firefox 3 allows users to configure and set Gmail as a default email client. This latest Firefox 3 comes with support YahooMail as default email client. For Gmail users, some setting needs to be done to edit the “mailto” application handler.

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Many programs put an icon in the system tray or notification area for easy and quick access, besides providing some progress indication or notification when needed. But not everybody appreciate the importance of systray. If you feel that notification system tray area is of no use to use, and you want to recover the bottom right space to make more room for Windows Taskbar, it’s possible to turn off and disable system tray with a simple registry hack.

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Hotspot Shield is essentially a free private secure VPN tunnel service that routes through a US server with USA location IP address. And thus, it has been used not only for security unencrypted wireless connection connected to public WiFi access point, but also been used as a tool to access websites restricted only to visitors from United States, or as a ‘proxy’ to surf anonymously or download shared files from RapidShare, MegaUpload, etc.

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MAC address (Media Access Control address) is a quasi-unique identifier consists of a six byte number that attached to most network adapter card or network interface card (NIC). As such, all network cards, whether it’s of Ethernet NIC, Gigabit Ethernet NIC or wireless 802.11a/b/g/n WiFi or HiperLAN adapter, should have different MAC addresses, which also known as Ethernet Hardware Address (EHA) or adapter address.

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When web browser accessing the web server to download web page’s contents, it send an user agent to the web server to identify what kind or type of browser, platform and application is used to view the website. Useragent allows web server to respond separately to different system or apply different behavior and features to different browser.

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Most courier service providers offer web based tracking in order for users to track down the shipment from one place to another conveniently. This is sufficient for those users that can log into web in front of the PC to track them accordingly. But for those users that always travel on the road with limited access to web service, best think is to give them a call with the tracking number on hand for fast check out. If you are FedEx or UPS courier services’ users, you may want to try this even more simpler method – email the respective forwarder with the right tracking number and just wait for their auto reply on the details of shipments delivery.

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If you’re preparing for a speech or presentation and you need some warm-hearted or inspiring quotations to leave an impact on your listener, “The Quotable Evans” – a free e-book for fans of Richard Paul Evans – may provide a quick solution. The free e-book contains quotes, diary entries, and passages from all of Richard’s novels including The Christmas Box which became the number one New York bestseller for both paperback and hard cover simultaneously in 1995. The book was subsequently turned into a movie starring Richard Thomas and Maureen O’Hara.

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Hacking a computer, or at least the attempt to hack a computer comes across the mind of many people, but not many equip with the technical skill necessary to carry out the task to hack the computer. Different people looking to hack or crack into a computer for different reason. Some for fun, some for spying on spouse or lover, some for skill testing, some for forensic evidence gathering, some just because they truly need to access the PC as password has been forgotten, while others just want to proclaim that they has the hacking skill.

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