By default, the start menu power button in Windows 7 is set to “Shut Down”. This may be preferred by some users while others may find it inconvenient. For instance, many users have complained about accidentally clicking on the power button and shutting down the computer while it is still in use. If the default setting creates inconvenience to you, reconfiguring the start menu power button action to other preferences, e.g. switch user, log off, lock, restart, sleep or hibernate might help.

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Nowadays, we can practically surf the internet from everywhere using the ever popular notebook or laptop. However, with the latest introduction of smaller and more convenient netbook and webbook, some of us may find it difficult to use its tiny keyboard when surfing the internet. Well, grumble no more. Here are some common yet very useful tips on using the mouse shortcuts in Mozilla Firefox.

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By default, Windows 7 users will notice the Recycle Bin icon appear automatically on the desktop. It allows users to have quick and easy access to the bin to clean/restore files. Having said that, some users might not like the idea and think it is an eyesore. Hence, if users prefer, they can easily hide the Recycle Bin icon from the desktop. With some simple setting, users will be able to remove the Recycle Bin icon from the desktop. However, this approach will not stop the Recycle Bin from functioning or prohibiting other people from access it via the Recycle Bin folder itself.

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You might get a bit annoyed when you notice the contacts in your Google account automatically set to “follow” status in the new Google Social network, Google Buzz, without your prior consent. You might not want your social circle to be widely exposed or you do not want certain people from your contact list to be included in your social networking. To overcome this problem with Google Buzz, initially users need to go to their Google Profile to make changes on the setting or disable and turn off Google Buzz manually. However, due to technical and security issues , Google’s engineers have made changes and now only allow users to do quick edit and disable Google Buzz through the “Settings” feature in their Gmail.

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On many occasions you might need to extract some articles from web pages, emails and other sources into the Word documents for reference or other purposes. When you copy and paste the articles or paragraphs into the word documents, you will notice that the hyperlinks attached to some words or sentences will be copied and pasted to the word documents as well. These hyperlinks are web links, internal links within the same document or email addresses. Some of these hyperlinks might not be valid or may direct you to irrelevant websites.

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The night sky is full of mystery and wonder. The stars in the night sky will change location every night. If you would like to know more about the secrets of the night sky, Pocket Universe could be the expert to accompany and guide you the whole night long. Pocket Universe is an iPhone app that is friendly to novice star gazers.

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Have you ever heard before that a table lamp can be lighted up by a telephone socket? Uxsight has introduced an eco-friendly LED table lamp that can be lighted up by your house’s telephone socket. This means that, you can still enjoy your reading if your house’s power supply has been cut off and the best thing is you do not need to pay a single cent while using this table lamp.

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While there are many ways of parental control over children’s Internet activities such as using software, application or even setting parental control within Windows itself to monitor kids’ Internet browsing, surfing, chatting or online gaming activities, no filtering mechanism is 100 percent accurate. Therefore, Google has developed SafeSearch, a feature that lets you filter sexually explicit web sites and images from your search results, eliminating the most inappropriate materials from popping up on your children’s computer.

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