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Remove Visited Web URLs and Search Term from Browser Address Bar

The browser's evolved in such a way to facilitate access to the internet in an optimized way, so whenever a user visits a website, the browser remember's the website URL entered in the Omni box and saves the web page information as cookies. So the next time when the user tries to access the website, the browser will auto-complete the entry with the search history URL. Though it facilitates faster user access sometimes it may offend few user's, For example: Accidentally if you've visited a faulty website in a browser, then whenever you type a similar query on Omni box, it will also list the faulty website URL, therefore it will be annoying to clear the entry each time. Read Also:   3 ways to fix " internet explorer stop working " error message Note:  Deleting browser history doesn't clear the search entries from displaying on the Omni box, search entries are stored in browser as cookies. We advise you to delete the cookie information to permanentl...

How to Turn-Off Auto Correct in WhatsApp & Other Messengers

Dictionary is not only for the people who don't understand the meaning of a word but also used to know the spelling of a word because there are certain words that may phonetically sound the same but spell differently. Using short forms/abbreviated terms during chats is common among teens of this generation for an easy and fast way to communicate and convey information to anyone in contact. Though most of the short forms are auto-added in Messenger dictionary by default but short forms are extended day by day which interfere while typing to project a sentence but eventually auto-corrected to something else by the android keyboard bots. Also Read: How to Play iPhone(.mac) video format files in Android  How to Turn ON/Off Predictive Text While Typing in Messenger? Did you know! Text auto-correction is not a distinctive feature of Whatsapp, the WhatsApp or in any other social messenger's typewriter will be incorporated with either the Android default keyboard ...

Check If Installed Antivirus is Working and Guarding Computer or Not

Do you doubt your antivirus? If yes, then test your Antivirus whether its really guarding your computer against virus and malware, because having an Antivirus software installed doesn't mean you're really protected and free from security threats. You might have spent a huge amount of money on antivirus software's to protect your computer from virus, malware, Trojan, etc. but it's very much important to keep it up to date and enabled to block any suspicious threats because every day thousands of new virus definition's have been created and spread around the internet, so the existing preventive algorithm's of your antivirus may fail to detect and defend the new threats. Read Also: Internet Banking? Know these 10 Safety Tips for Secure Banking By default, only users running Windows 8 and later versions don't require any third-party tools separately to be installed, to stay protected from virus, spyware and other malicious software, because it comes wi...

How to Know Who View's and Spy on your Facebook Profile

Facebook, when launched it, claimed that it will interconnect friends and family online, then later suggest its user's to integrate people with the same taste, thereby it interconnects people from any part of the world, which increase the number of friends on Facebook, so if you're a Facebook member you can have a maximum of 5000 friends on Facebook, most probably 90% of people were anonymous in your friend list, who are allowed to view, like, comment and share your status and post, which becomes a major threat to maintain privacy. However, with the help of Facebook privacy policy, you can restrict (or) limit users and search engines from seeking your account, and also partition your friends into different categories and groups such as close friends, acquaintances, family, etc. Read Also:  How to post blank status and comments on Facebook Find who views your Facebook profile  What are "People you may know   On Facebook" ? - With the help of the informat...

Pen Drive Detected but Not Shown in My Computer Problem Fixed

Did you know! Around 60% of removable media devices such as USB flash drives and Pen drives were dumped for software errors, thinking it does not work any longer, which requires only a simple troubleshoot, in some rare cases even new devices were also kept idle (or) dumped else return back to retailer reporting as a faulty device. And one common issue to dump/destroy the removable media disk is "Drives detected but not listed on my computer", for accessing files and folders in it. This could occur due to the accidental removal of device drive letter from the system volume (or) failure of the Operating System to name and partition the drive volume at the time of installing the device driver files. The drive letter is the name of the drives (system volume) which is used as an address by the operating system to access the drive , so removing the identity of the driver will probably remove it from my computer list. Read Also: How to increase computer speed with pendrive b...

Block Specific Website Cookies From Storing On Web Browser

Enable Do Not Track Only On Particular Websites to Browse Privately Even in our private room's we are not the only one using our desktop and laptop computers, and cannot stop everyone from using our computer every time. No one of us would like to get tracked by the history that left unclear at the last use, which reveals our browsing habits, so we often delete history once we completed browsing, but if you are in an emergency or sometime you may forget to clear your history, a situation like this could make you embarrassed when someone looks at your searching history deliberately. By default web browser's retain's cookies on to the client computers, received from the webserver to identify users' information, location, etc. These cookies, when stored onto the computer, will remain active until the browser cookie information were deliberately cleared/removed by the user. some websites use cookie information to target ads on the client's computer. For example,...

7 Mistakes That Threatens Digital Life & Internet Security

Common Mistakes that Ruin the Security Of Internet and computer Are you safe? that sounds like a silly question immediately after its proposition, but wait and think seriously about it for a second, we never know what new threads way for us, from just around the internet. Now a day's virtual life (i.e.digital life) is something that should be cared much more than that of real-life because we spend most of the time in virtual reality. Read Also: 10 Safety Tips for Secure Banking Online 7 Common Mistakes That Breaks Computer Security You might have installed highly reputed Antivirus software's and firewall's to prevent your computer from hacking and virus attack, but it doesn't mean you're 100% safe, because all these software are defined to defend your computer from external threats but no software has been yet designed to protect your digital life from internal threats (i.e. Computer Habits/Mistakes). It doesn't require much time and technical hack...