IE10, A better browser or a pain in the ass!

After a huge huge break, I resumed blogging again. Sometimes I wanted to post pictures alongside my articles to attract the users. With Windows 8 on my machine, I tried the previous article about the volume controls and I wanted to post the image of function key. The all new, so called 'fastest internet browser on Windows 8 (See it for yourself!) would not let me do so. Every time I tried, a cute small dialog box popped up with the message from above! 

Not only that, as long as the IE10 browser was up and running in my machine, even when I tried uploading the image using Google Chrome, the IE10 had to crash and prevented the action to complete. I don't know if it is a access denial for the greater good, but it surely is affecting a blogger from writing what he wants. So, geeks at the Microsoft, please find some quality time and check this out!

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Faster Windows 8 volume controls

While windows 8 hails itself to 4 million plus users, there are way too many areas where Windows 8 lets you down. One of them I found out with the volume controls. I have Windows 8 on my laptop, CQ 40 Pressario. This one day, I was listening to music and I wanted to put the volume down so that my neighbors won't get 'disturbed'. I clicked the volume icon at my taskbar and the 'all new fast and better' Windows 8 cursor started rotating like hell. It took more than 5 seconds until the volume control dialogue finally appeared. Its slow! Damn slow!

Then I tried using my keyboard shortcut key using the "fn" button and bingo! The dialogue in the modern style instantly popped out on my screen. Ah! Things were not that bad after all!

Sign out of Skype in Windows 8

Windows 8 has been a new sensation to all windows users. 'Getting used to' with the whole new interface may be tiresome to some of us. It comes to me with no surprise when people around me keep complaining about the problems they had in signing out of applications, take Skype app for an example. There are already like a million articles telling them how to sign out and yet everyday a new brilliant head pops up with the same problem. So, here I am, the 'plus 1' in the crowd of millions, writing the stuff ALL OVER AGAIN.

Tap or click your profile icon in the top right corner of Skype Home.
The profile side bar appears.
Tap or click sign out.

To remind you, this works only for windows 8 local user account as they say it. Or you could alternatively go the Skype home page from your browser and manually sign out yourself. Ya, this is a bug, a loop hole, atrocity, negligence or whatever you might want to call it. But until the tide is settled, I guess this is our only way out!

Happy windowing!

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Customize Your Desktop, Make it Clean

How messed up is your PC's screen? I stumbled across this cool app that made everything so organized and clean in my PC. It is called the fences. I have been into this for quite a sometime. I am loving this.