With Blu-Ray as the next gen high definition video format, playing Blu-Ray movies on your PC will surely require a fair amount of processing power and graphics acceleration to render the high definition content. Unless you are having an ages old computer, your computer should be able to play any DVD video, but what about Blu-Ray?

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Are you a digg enthusiast and a heavy twitter user too? Then now you can easily keep up with what’s hot on digg as digg has created Twitter feeds for several topics so that whenever a new article makes it to first page of the digg, you get a tweet from digg’s twitter feed.

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I hope you are enjoying the holidays. We’ll be resuming regular posting at Technotraits.com from 2nd Jan, 2009. Meanwhile, check out the top 10 posts at Technotraits in 2008.

23 Lesser Known But Incredibly Useful Windows Shortcuts

21 Amazing Facts about Beijing Olympics 2008

25 Useful Ubuntu Shortcuts to make your life easier

10 Essential Portable Applications for your USB Drive

How Many Keys Your Keyboard has? Mine got a million

17 Reasons for Why We Love Google

11 Most Useful Windows XP Tips and Tricks

27 Applications You Never Thought Could Start From Run Dialog

Do You Want to be Invisible?

10 Amazing Windows Command Line Tricks

If you are a regular Google Docs user, then it’ll be useful to know about multiple ways of accessing your documents, spreadsheets or presentations.

Here are various ways to access and upload documents to Google Docs.

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If you are a Greasemonkey fan, then you’ll love this Firefox Add-on. Greasefire will find out available Greasemonkey scripts for a website quickly so that you can tweak your favorite site easily.

To use it, you need to have greasemonkey installed on your Firefox. After installing Greasefire, go visit your favorite website and if there are greasemonkey scripts available at userscripts.org, it’ll Continue Reading »

Microsoft today released a security update fro Internet Explorer fixing the flaw detected in Internet Explorer that could allow a remote person to take control of your Windows system when you visit a website with malicious code.

The patch is also available in automatic updates now.

It is recommend that you install this update to fix any security risk. Here’s a direct link to download this security update.

Earlier, i have posted useful keyboard shortcuts for Windows and Ubuntu. Now this time it is the turn of  Wordpress to get more productive.

Whether you are on a Wordpress.com blog or a self-hosted blog, these shortcuts are equally applicable and will surely save you lots of time and you’ll feel more productive and satisfied using Wordpress.

Here, goes the shortcuts list some of which you might not know.

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Recently i installed Ubuntu within my Windows installation to set up a dual boot system.I had three profiles for Firefox in windows for various functions each having different add-ons and settings.

I wanted to restore those profile as it is in Firefox on Ubuntu. Here’s what i did to achieve this:

1. Fire up Terminal and start Firefox profile manager using command:

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Google flags sites that host badwares as not safe for browsing and when you visit such sites via Google Search, you get a warning message from Google about safety issues.

This functionality of Google can be used to check out safety status of almost any site. To do this simply go to url

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Do you always end up with cluttered desktop with random stuff filled like one below? If yes, then follow along as i discuss some tools to keep things organized on your hard disk automatically just with one time set up. Clean and Organized folders make things easier to find and save a lot of your time looking for some file or folder.

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