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February 2015

How to disable tooltips in Windows Explorer (File Explorer)

Tooltips are small popups that display information about an item or element you are hovering over. You may have noticed that they barely reveal information of relevance (if you hover over the start button in Windows 7 the tooltip reads Start) but may be an annoyance at times as they may overshadow underlying items.

It is unfortunately not possible to disable tooltips in one central location and be done with them. While it is possible to disable tooltips in Windows Explorer on Windows, it seems impossible to disable all tooltips on the system.

Firefox 38 notifies you about add-ons that slow-down the browser

Mozilla plans to integrate notifications to Firefox that inform users if add-ons have been detected that may slow it down.

The feature, similar to what Microsoft integrated in its Internet Explorer browser years ago, monitors the performance of add-ons in the browser.

If an add-on crosses a certain threshold, the warning is displayed in the Firefox interface.

How to disable personalized predication data on Stackoverflow

Stackoverflow is one of the most popular sites on the Internet. It has a global rank of 57 and a rank in the United States of 39 which means that it is more popular than Netflix, Craigslist, BBC or CNN according to Alexa.

Anyway, Stackoverflow is a community powered site that is similar to a forum but focused on programming and coding.

If you are a visitor of the site you can browse questions and answers about programming but if you join the site, you get to ask questions as well.

Interesting information about Audio CD .cda files

Have you ever opened a music CD on your computer to play it using the computer's optical disc drive?

This may be an automatic process depending on how you have configured your PC.

If you have used a file manager to explore the contents of the CD you may have come across files with the cda file extension that correspond to the number of tracks on the disc.

These files start with track01.cda and end at the last track of the CD.

You can use the Foursquare apps without account now

I dislike services and apps that require that you create an account before you can try them out or use part of its functionality that you are interested in.

It is understandable that companies want user registrations as it may bind users to the service, provides them with information about the user and may look good on paper when investors demand growth or want to invest in the company.

Select like a Boss adds Opera’s Link Highlighting to Firefox, Chrome and Opera

Most computer users know that they can select text with the mouse by holding the mouse button down and moving the mouse to highlight text displayed on a page.

This works considerably well for plain text but once you try to do the same on link text you will notice that it won't .

Link text refers to the anchor used to describe the link on a page on the Internet or a local resource.

Problems playing YouTube videos? Try H264ify for Chrome

Video playback for most YouTube visitors is just fine. They may run into the occasional issue but most of the time videos play without delays, stutters, buffering issues or local issues such as draining battery life, using too much cpu or causing everything else on the system to slow down while a video is playing.

Some users of the site run into issues all the time on the other hand. This is not necessarily YouTube faults, not always anyway, as it may also be caused by bad routing and  computer that is not suited for playing videos of a certain quality.