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  Maxtor One Touch is a product from Seagate in the external storage system category. The capacity of the device ranges from 160 GB to 750 GB. This can store around 240,000 photos or 750 hours of DV Video or 12495 hours of music. And provides a better drive performance and one of the best external storage device currently available in the market. Using Maxtor DriveLock feature, the content can be protected by setting password thus enabling extra security for the backup content. This supports USB 2.0 interface and provides easy way of setting up the device. Some of the other key features include, automatic scheduling of backup, supports creation of backup routine, automatic synchronization of the files between the PC and the storage system and system rollback function.

Some of the key posts in Techno Masala for the month of March 2008 are listed below.

ASUS P750 PDA Camera Phone with Tri-Band and GPS

EditPlus Text Editor - Disable the creation of Backup files.

How to find out maximum open cursors and no of cursors open in Oracle

How to find/kill the locked objects in an oracle database

Nokia N78 Video Preview - Camera, Integrated GPS, Wi-Fi enabled Mobile Phone

Smarter Agent - Real Estate searches on GPS enabled Mobile Phones

Harry Winston Z4 limited series Watches

How to display Quick Launch bar in Windows Vista and Windows XP

How to view hidden files and files extension in Windows Vista

Internet Explorer (IE7) provides functionality to open new tabs with in the browser. On opening a new tab if you want the IE to display your home page instead of about:tabs page, then the following needs to be done.

Click on Tools -> Internet Options and in the general tab click on the settings button under the Tabs section.

This should open the Tabbed Browsing Settings dialog box. Under this, check Open home page for new tabs instead of a blank page.

After doing these change, and if the new tab still shows about:tabs page, then make sure to check the Don’t show this page again option provided at the end of the displayed page.

Keyboard shortcuts

Open links in a new tab in the background  CTRL+click

Open links in a new tab in the foreground   CTRL+SHIFT+click

Open a new tab in the foreground  CTRL+T

Open a new tab from the Address bar ALT+ENTER

Open a new tab from the search box ALT+ENTER

Open Quick Tabs (thumbnail view) CTRL+Q

Switch between tabs CTRL+TAB/CTRL+SHIFT+TAB

Switch to a specific tab number CTRL+n (n can be 1-8)

Switch to the last tab CTRL+9

Close current tab CTRL+W

Close all tabs ALT+F4

Close other tabs CTRL+ALT+F4

Mouse shortcuts

Open a link in a background tab Click the middle mouse button on a link

Open a new tab Double-click the empty space to the right of the last tab

Close a tab Click the middle mouse button on the tab