Did you know that you can use your browser’s address bar as a calculator? No, not using Google. This trick uses JavaScript and works even when you’re not online. Take a look at this article from Labnol on how to do it.

The How-To Geek takes a look at an app for Android that changes your phone’s wallpaper automatically every few minutes. This feature isn’t there by default, and this app is a pretty neat tool to accomplish it.

Addictive Tips reviews a tool for Windows that lets you copy the absolute URL of any file or folder from the Explorer right-click menu.

The Guiding Tech blog takes a look at ten super-awesome email productivity tools. They’re pretty darn useful, make sure you don’t miss this list.

And guess what? You can now copy paste images into Gmail, like the official Gmail blog explains.

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The PC Geek Blog shares a workaround to access US specific services like Pandora and Hulu – no it’s not about using Tor or similar tools – just install Opera, turn on the Turbo mode and voila! Those sites open without a glitch.

PC Tonic blog covers a Chrome addon that adds an option to the right click menu to let you reload broken images quickly. You can do that pretty easily in Firefox because you have an option by default but if you’re a Chrome user, do check out this addon.

The ToThePC blog has a nice write up on adding a startup password to Google Chrome – after installing an addon they’ve mentioned, you’ll  be asked to key in a password every time you start Google Chrome so you can be sure no one else is accessing your online accounts.

Techie Buzz has a neat how to on opening .DB files – these days a lot of apps use SQLite, so this could come in handy some day. And the Guiding Tech blog has a comprehensive list of video editing tools.

Nirmal takes a look at Metro UI like theme for Windows 7 that’ll blow you away. Also if you have a Nexus One, BlogsDNA shows you how you can manually update to Android 2.3.4.

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What is groovemonitor.exe? – Complete analysis of GrooveMonitor.exe Process

Add realtime search options permanently to Google Search or make the search options permanently visible.

Here’s how you can download and install Google Chrome extensions. Have you checked out the Pagerank addon, btw?

Other must-check downloads include Gmail Keeper that backs up your Gmail messages and FreeFixer that can remove potential spyware. You should also check out this ID3 remover app if you hate ID3 tags for any reason. Talking about MP3s, if you’ve got an iPod, use Touch Copy to transfer iPod music to your PC.

And then there’s the Dummy File Generator to check out if you’re bored. Install the Windows 7 Transformation Pack for KDE if you have some more time to kill.

Windows 7 How Tos that are gradually being sought after include articles on how to resize partitions in Windows 7 and enabling remote desktop in Windows 7. Did I mention disabling driver signing in Windows 7 or installing unsigned drivers after using the Group Policy editor? One other very useful thing about Windows 7 is that you can burn iso disc images using the inbuilt feature. You don’t need third party CD burning software. One of the first things I did after installing Windows 7 is that I made the taskbar smaller. I reverted it later, though.

Plus, here’s how you can delete your Plenty Of Fish account that you made in your teen years

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Here on Killer Tech Tips, a series of how-to guides were published on Windows 7. You might want to check them out in case you’ve missed them.

Make Windows 7 Taskbar Smaller like XP’s

Clear Explorer Search History in Windows 7

Disable Windows 7 Features like IE 8, Search Indexing, etc.

Resize Partitions in Windows 7 using inbuilt features

Show hidden menu bar in Windows Explorer in Windows 7

Disable Driver Signing in Windows 7 or install unsigned drivers after changing the group policy editor settings

Enable Remote Desktop in Windows 7

Burn .iso files to CDs natively in Windows 7

Change or edit OEM information in Windows 7

In Internet Explorer 8, you can login to multiple email accounts simultaneously

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Check Out Our Bag of Windows 7 How-Tos

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1. Disable Windows 7 Features: Internet Explorer 8, Windows Search, XPS Viewer and Others
2. Disable Digital Driver Signing in Windows 7
3. Disable Driver Signing in Windows 7 Using Group Policy Editor

Get free Nod32 username and password – Step-by-step guide on how you can get a free Nod32 username and password legally

Get the Windows 7 Taskbar in Windows XP – Brief review of Viglance, a tool that makes the XP taskbar look like that of Windows 7.

Disable Notifications in Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty Jackalope – How to turn off notify-osd alerts in the latest version of Ubuntu?

Update AVG manually without internet connection – Guide on how you can update AVG virus definitions offline

37 extremely useful Windows Utilities – Check out this huge list of programs that add functionalities to Windows

Trace a mobile number’s location in India – Three quick tools that can help you find a mobile phone’s location in India

How to check BSNL Broadband Bandwidth Usage? – Three ways to monitor your BSNL broadband bills

Convert XLSX to XLS - Guide to convert spreadsheets created by Office 2007 to XLS format

Remove ads in Yahoo mail – Three ways to remove ads in Yahoo mail

Download Office 2007 SP2 – Have you downloaded it yet?

Three tools to track and defeat content theft – Bloggers should check out these three web apps

Windows Live Writer Plugins – They could replace standalone programs

Firefox Addons to use if you browse from work – The title says it all

Even more from my guest posts on other blogs:

Five Google Talk tricks every user should know

Five apps that’ll wow the average PC user

Three things to do after installing Google Chrome

Seven Essential Applications for Bloggers

Five Firefox Addons for Download Management

What was your favourite tip? Got a suggestion? Tell us in the comments. Don’t forget to follow @killertechtips on Twitter!

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Recap of April’s Tech Tips

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Firefox Addons: Continuing our coverage of Firefox addons that are the best and latest, this month Killer Tech Tips also covered Firefox addons for People Browsing At Work. Here are some more Firefox addons that can optimize Firefox for the widescreen.

Freeware To Improve Desktop Productivity: You can save time and improve productivity with these tweaking apps for your Desktop

Right Click Tools for Windows XP: Check out these great apps that enhance the Windows Right Click menu

Block and remove Yahoo Mail Advertisements: Still on Yahoo! Mail? Here’s a guide on removing the flashy ads

How to trace a mobile number’s location in India?: Services that let you track the location of any mobile phone in India

BSNL Broadband Usage: Ways to check your bandwidth consumption if you’re using BSNL’s DataOne Broadband Service

Towards the end of March, Killer Tech Tips had written about how to fix iTunes and some must have utilities for Windows.

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What You Might Have Missed

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Another great news is that this blog is going to have 2,000 RSS readers very soon. At the time of writing, the count is hovering around 1,900. Thank you all for subscribing!

Best Of April

Here’s the month’s best posts:

Five Essential Software to install in Ubuntu

Download Muxtape Songs as MP3

How to Download Flickr Videos

Start Internet Explorer in Safe Mode

Guest Blogging

In April, I also wrote a few guest posts on other blogs, you might want to check them out:

5 Simple Things to do to impress your not-so Geeky friends on Daily Apps

Must Know sites for the Download Junkie on Technospot, follow up to Essential Software for Download Junkies

Here’s the best of what I wrote for Make Use Of:

7 Useful Windows Explorer Addons for Power Users

Five Things to do after installing Windows Live Writer

Evernote Review and Invites Giveaway

Control Firefox Caching Behaviour

You can follow my Make Use Of posts here.

Links Round Up

Here’s this month’s round up of very useful tech tips from the blogosphere. Hope you like them!

How to backup your Firefox Settings? – Jeet Blog

Pimp your Gmail – Shankrila

Adjust Windows Vista for best performance – Lyte Byte

20 Ways to use Twitter from your mobile phone – Simple Help

Tugzip – A Winzip alternative – Online Tech Tips

Disable Firefox Extension Installation Delay in Firefox – Daily Gyan

Convert PSD to CSS – Techie Buzz

StumbleUpon Toolbar for Safari – Ashwin

How to Login to Ubuntu as Root User – Sizlopedia

Create your own Youtube-like site – Teknobites

Screencasting Software for Macs – Review Saurus

Fix for Google Talk Hanging when using Winamp – Sankar Anand

Dexpot Review – Techzilo

Extract images from Videos – Madhur

Manage your Hard Disk Space with WinDirStat – Tech Spikes

6 ways to reduce Memory Consumption in Firefox 2 – Nirmal

Create Animated GIFs – Ashfame

Essential Windows Software – Venu

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Best of April, Killer Links #2 and some more news!

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