Today morning while browsing on Firefox, I found a new trick to quickly open new tabs. May be you would already be knowing about it, but for me it was new and I thought I would also share it with you in case you didn’t know about.

I accidently doubled clicked at the empty area in my tab bar (mostly its full), and suddenly a new tab opened. At first, I thought I must have used to key combination for that. But again when I double clicked in that area, another new tab opened. Till now I’ve using the Ctrl + T key combination to open new tabs, but I guess this new trick will help me open tabs more quickly!

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Ever experienced getting an error like “Cannot open file: it does not appear to be a valid archive” when trying to open a Zip-compressed file? If you regularly download compressed files off the Internet, then you must have seen this error many times.

This error comes when the compressed file is damaged or corrupted. I have tried repairing such archives with the built in WinZip repair tool, but that has never helped me. DiskInternals ZIP Repair helps repair zip structure and extract the contents of a damage or corrupted archive.

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Over the last few decades, Internet has grown massively and many new search engines have popped up aiming at the grand fathers, Google and Yahoo.

But as time passes, they all realize that it is impossible to beat Google and they do not even provide the relevancy of results. Cuil (pronounced as “Cool”) is a new search engine founded by ex-Google employees, Anna Patterson and Russell Power. They both have helped Google in making their search indexing better.

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We all know that USB flash or pen drives are one of the most useful portable storage devices, and they help carry data from one place to the other. But since they are attached to different computers, you never know if the other PC is virus-free. These USB drives have become the most common source of how a PC gets infected with virus. To get rid of this, you need a good antivirus for your USB drive that scans every file being transferred to it.

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Floola is a freeware application that lets you efficiently manage your iPod or your Motorola mobile phone (any model supporting iTunes).

It’s a standalone application that can be run directly from your iPod and needs no installation under Linux, Mac OS X and Windows.

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