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DQ links for May 7, 2008
2008-05-07 05:31:00
Walletproof.com ? A quick and easy to use tool that enables you to track your spending, and set monthly budgets for yourself. luminotes.com ? Luminotes is a WYSIWYG personal wiki notebook for organizing your notes and ideas. You don’t have to use any special markup codes or install any software. You simply start typing. kidmondo.com ? Kidmondo ...
More About: Internet , Links , 2008

FreeTellaFriend.com - Add Tell-a-Friend button on your website
2008-05-07 05:01:00
FreeTellaFriend .com is a free service that lets you add a ?Tell a Friend? button to your blog posts or website articles. FreeTellaFriend is actually three different functionalities rolled into one ? Sharing your post through email, Sharing it on a bookmarking site and Bookmarking the post in their browser. It has some really nice and useful features. ...
More About: Website , Button

Physics made easy with simple Flash animations
2008-05-05 04:36:00
If you like Physics then you need to check this out. The site belongs to the Dept. of Physics, University of Toronto and is called Upscale, acronym for Undergraduate Physics Students? Computing and Learning Environment. Just go to the above link and you will find lots of animations illustrating the basic laws and concepts in Physics. ...
More About: Internet , Flash , Made , Simple

OneLook Reverse Dictionary - A very versatile tool
2008-05-04 04:39:00
Onelook.com is a site that helps you find definitions, translations and stuff like that. It also has this tool called Reverse Dictionary , which I find really interesting. The Reverse dictionary lets you describe a concept and get back a list of words and phrases related to that concept. Your description can be a few words, a ...
More About: Internet , Tool

Customizing ?Send To? context menu in Windows Vista
2008-05-03 17:33:00
Adding your own destinations to the ?Send To? context menu in Windows XP is quite easy. While it isn?t too difficult to do the same in Windows Vista , it is a little different. Here is how to do it in Vista. Open the Control Panel, then Folder Options, then move to the View tab and select ...
More About: Tips

GreenPrint - Eliminate wasteful pages in any printout automatically
2008-05-03 13:47:00
People who frequently take print out of web pages would have noticed this very often. You take a print out of a web page and you are expecting 5 pages to print out. Once the 5th page is printed, the printer keeps rolling and throws out a sixth page which contains nothing more than the ...
More About: Softwares , Pages , Wasteful

Vista - Copying file/folder paths made easy
2008-04-29 06:54:00
In the pre-Vista days, copying a file or folder path to the clip-board involved 5 steps. You had to right-click on the file or folder, select Properties, highlight the path, right-click again, and select Copy. That?s way too many steps for a task as simple as copying a path. In Vista you have a much ...
More About: Windows , Tips , Tricks , File

How we put Zoho Sheet to good use at Gconnect.in
2008-04-28 14:39:00
Recently my friend and I launched a website called Gconnect.in. It is basically meant to be a community website for the officers of Government of India. Incidentally, the Sixth Pay Commission recommendations were announced within a day or two of the launch of GConnect . As soon as it was announced, another friend of ours had prepared ...
More About: Internet , Sheet , Excel , Good

Hide any file inside any other file
2008-04-24 17:49:00
If your computer has an NTFS partition, then there is a neat little trick to hide any file inside any other file. Unfortunately, this trick does not work on FAT32 formatted drive. As an example let’s see how you can hide the solitaire file (sol.exe) inside a text file. Let’s start by assuming that you are ...
More About: Windows X , Tricks , File , Inside , Hide

Create your own Restore Points on the fly
2008-04-24 03:51:00
System Restore is one of the best features introduced in Windows XP. Sometimes your computer may behave strangely after you install a new application. Even uninstalling the application may not bring your computer back to normal. However, if you know how to use System Restore, you can bring your computer back to the original state ...
More About: Windows X , Point , Points

How to Unprotect a Protected Excel Worksheet
2008-04-23 03:50:00
Ever come across an Excel file that you can open and view but if you wanted to edit it, you can’t, since it is has been protected? And when you try to unprotect, it asks for a password. Here are a couple of ways to overcome the situation. While, you may not be able to make ...
More About: Office , Tricks , Google Docs

Google Online Spreadsheets Get New Gadgets
2008-03-22 02:36:00
Google seems to be never resting. On Wednesday, the powerful company launched a set of brand new tools that will help users to build gadgets, that is small Web applications that can display data from the company?s online spreadsheet application. Google offers its new Gadgets -in-Docs and Visualization API as a platform in which any interested person ...
More About: Google , Gmail , Online , Spreadsheets

Pricepinx - Get alerted of price drop and save money
2008-03-18 15:31:00
Here is the situation. You are looking to buy something online at a particular website. But you feel the price is a little to high for you. Nevertheless, you expect the price to come down in the next few days or week. But then how would you know that the price has dropped. One way ...
More About: Money , Save Money , Price , Save , Drop

Open Office 2007 files with older Office versions
2008-03-18 03:20:00
Microsoft as changed its default file format in Office 2007. For example, .doc has become .docx and .xls has become .xlsx. The new formats now heavily depend on the XML file format. So, while you can open files of the older format using Office 2007 (in Compatibility mode), you won’t be able to open files ...
More About: Open , Open Office , Files

Getclippings - Create your own newspaper clippings
2008-03-17 16:40:00
I don’t have to tell you that the above news clippings are fakes, though I obviously wish that someday the news does come true. You too can make your own news clippings just like the above. Just head to getclippings.com, fill up the fields and click the ‘generate’ button. You can then download the clippings ...
More About: Fun , Internet , Newspaper , Create

3 interesting variations of Michael Jackson?s Thriller
2008-03-16 18:25:00
Here are three different variations of Michael Jackson ’s blockbuster ‘Thriller ’. 1. Performed by prisoners in a Philippines prison. YouTube video link © Suresh for Digital Quest, 2008. | Permalink | No comment Add to del.icio.us Search blogs linking this post with Technorati Want more on these topics ? Browse the archive of posts filed under Entertainment , Fun , ...
More About: Interesting

Keyfinder - Retrieve Windows and Office Product Keys
2008-03-16 12:11:00
The Magical Jelly Bean Keyfinder is a freeware utility that retrieves your Product Key (cd key) used to install windows from your registry. It is a single .exe file. Just download it and run it to instantly retrieve your Windows Product key. It retrieves the key of Office as well. It also lets you ...
More About: Utilities , Windows X

Bring back the Autosummarize tool in Word 2007
2008-03-15 16:10:00
Versions earlier to Word 2007 used to have an AutoSummarize option in the Tool menu. The idea of the tool was to basically summarize long documents so that you could get the gist of the content. But honestly, it was not a tool you could really rely on. While, the summaries produced by it were ...
More About: Back

IE Tab - Switch to Internet Explorer without leaving Firefox
2008-03-15 14:06:00
Even if you use Firefox as your primary browser, there might be occasions when you are forced to use Internet Explorer . Like for instance, downloading updates from Microsoft website or running an online virus scan which requires an ActiveX to be installed. There could also be the rare case of a page that does not ...
More About: Internet Explorer , Switch

DQ links for Mar 6, 2007
2008-03-06 07:40:00
Here are a few links to some interesting new sites. girlsaskguys.com: GirlsAskGuys is an interactive website dedicated to popular topics on the minds of men and women looking for advice about the opposite sex. It’s the virtually uncensored way to learn everything you always wanted to know about the opposite sex! radionomy.com: With Radionomy, everyone is finally going to ...
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Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1 - Sneak a peek into the new features
2008-03-06 07:15:00
Looks like you can expect version 8 of Microsoft’s web browser, Internet Explorer , in the near future. Check out some of the new features that you can find in the latest version. Activities: Activities are contextual services to quickly access a service from any webpage. Users typically copy and paste from one webpage to ...
More About: Internet Explorer , Features , Beta

SideSlide - Free tool to clear up your desktop clutter
2008-03-06 04:46:00
Recently I came across this little free tool called Sideslide that I find extremely useful in my daily computing. Sideslide is basically a desktop extension that helps you unclutter your desktop and is highly configurable. It has a great set of tools that any typical computer user would need in his everyday work. The main workspace ...
More About: Desktop , Free , Tool , Clear , Clutter

Access your favorite programs quickly from any folder
2008-03-02 12:57:00
Most people open an application in windows through the Start menu or by clicking on a shortcut on their desktop. Starting an application from Start menu takes a few clicks and as for the desktop, it could be hidden if you have an open folder. Windows X P has a way, that many people are not aware ...
More About: Programs , Access , Favorite , Folder

How to clean your monitor inside out
2008-03-01 16:38:00
Does the title of this post make you wonder what this is all about? Clean ing your monitor from the outside is nothing great, everybody does that once in a while. I do it as frequently as once a year . But how do you clean the inside, even without opening your monitor case? Very ...
More About: Fun , Monitor , Inside

Eraser - Don?t just delete your files, Erase them, forever.
2008-02-27 03:12:00
Most people have some data that they would rather not share with others - passwords, personal information, classified documents from work, financial records etc. Perhaps you have saved some of this information on your computer where it is conveniently at your reach, but when the time comes to remove the data from your hard disk, things ...
More About: Security , Forever , Erase , Files , Delete

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