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Google launches Friend Connect - a social network for your site
2008-05-13 18:26:00 On yesterday, i.e. 12th May, Google rolled out yet another service called Friend Connect. Friend Connect is an application for website owners that allows any site owner to add social features to their website. Friend Connect offers site owners gadgets created by Google and OpenSocial developers using which any site can be turned into a social network, allowing visitors to interconnect with other users. This doesn't mean that visitors will have to sign up with yet another social network, because... ... More About: Network , Site , Websites
How to play audio and video files without any media player
2008-05-12 17:39:00 Is your office computer without Winamp? Has they disabled Windows Media Player too? Are you unable to play any media files because it doesn't have the necessary codecs installed? Alright then, let's make our music and movie files independent of any media application. So how are we going to make them independent? By converting them into self playing EXE files. Audio /Video To Exe is a free application that converts any audio and video file into self dependent and self playing EXE files. You... ... More About: Software
How to download torrents without a torrent client
2008-05-12 12:55:00 A unique online service called Torrent 2exe allows users to download torrents without having to install a torrent client by converting the torrent file into a standalone EXE file. Using Torrent2exe is very simple. Copy the URL of the torrent file or browse to the location of the torrent file in your hard disk to automatically upload it to their site. Once you they have got the URL of the torrent file, they will convert it into a self downloading EXE file. Here you get the option to select the... ... More About: Download , Websites , Client
Webhosting Geeks - The ultimate guide to web hosting
2008-05-10 15:26:00 If you are looking for web hosting and you haven't visited Webhosting Geeks then you aren't looking at the right places. Seriously, Webhosting Geeks is probably the best web hosting reviews website I have ever found. When you are looking for a web host, you should start by reading reviews and comparison of different web hosts. The ideal place to begin is of course, Google. If a web hosting provider has a support forum, then hang around it reading posts made by customers and gauging the type... ... More About: Hosting , Web Hosting , Blogging , Websites
How to keep your PC cool
2008-05-09 16:30:00 When buying a new PC, most people direct all their attention to the processor, motherboard and other components while ignoring an important part of the system, and that is the computer case. During working of the computer heat is generated by the processor, the graphics card, the hard disk and other components, and the temperature inside the case rises. It is necessary to keep this temperature down because excessive heat can decrease the life span of the components inside the PC. To prevent... ... More About: Software , Cool
3 useful tools to create and manage temporary bookmarks
2008-05-08 14:17:00 Did you ever come across an interesting article but you don't have the time to read? What we usually do in such circumstances is bookmark the page so that we can return to it later. But bookmarking a page which is merely a one time interest leads to cluttering of our bookmarks. I have tried to bring some sanity to this random bookmarking habit by creating a folder called "temporary" in my bookmark list. But over time even this burgeoning temporary list (the items within which rarely gets... ... More About: Tools , Websites , Browser , Manage , Create
Automatically remove splash screens with SplashKiller
2008-05-08 09:07:00 A splash screen is one that is displayed right in the middle of your monitor when some application is loading. These little "ads" are pointless since we are already using that software. This reminds me of an amusing ad I saw on why you should be a pirate. A very convincing logic actually. Fortunately, most applications have an option to disable the startup splash screen. But some of the software developers are as dumb and annoying as those anti-piracy enthusiast, that they provide no easy way... ... More About: Software , Splash
Free Launch Bar - The Quick Launch replacement
2008-05-07 14:19:00 The Quick Launch bar is one of the most helpful shortcut utility in Windows . It's rather strange that it is disabled by default. The quick launch menu is more easier to use and launch application than the standard start menu. I would pick the quick launch bar over dock bars and application launchers, anytime. If you are a quick launch lover like me, then you will love it's replacement even more. Free Launch Bar is a free replacement for the standard Quick Launch bar. All functions... ... More About: Software
Sharing made easier on Google Reader
2008-05-06 09:20:00 Google Reader has rolled out some new features that makes sharing contents with other users a lot more easier. To begin, there is a new bookmarklet "Notes in Reader" in the Notes pages. Just drag this bookmarklet to your browser's bookmark bar and then you can use it to share any content from any webpage, even sites that offer no RSS feeds, although that's a rarity nowadays. There is even more control over what gets shared. Select some text from the page before clicking the "Note in Reader"... ... More About: Google , Google Reader , Made , Sharing
Firefox extension ThumbStrips - Thumbnails of browsing history
2008-05-06 07:42:00 ThumbStrips is a Firefox add-on that records your browsing history in the form of filmstrip at the bottom of your screen. It takes a screenshot of every page you visit and arrange them in a timeline. Having a thumbnail of a page makes it easier for you to locate and return to any previous visited page, rather than having to go through the history list and making guesses. When you install ThumbStrips a small icon will appaer in your toolbar and your status bar. When you want to start using... ... More About: History , Browsing , Extension
Weekend Fun: Animate your drawings with DrawSwf
2008-05-04 12:01:00 DrawSwf is a cross-platform Java-based drawing program that saves your drawings as flash animation. DrawSwf records the progress of your drawing as you work, and renders your drawing as an animation. The result is an amusing little animation of your drawing. The interface is pretty basic - a freehand pencil, a straight line creator, an elliptical drawing tool and a rectangle drawing tool. The width of the line is adjustable and there is also a fill tool, but it works with only filling... ... More About: Software , Graphics , Drawings , Weekend
O&O DiskImage 2 Special Edition for Free
2008-05-04 09:05:00 O&O Software , the publisher of the popular and most widely used disk defragmenting and data recovery softwares, is giving away one of their products the O&O DiskImage in a special promotional campaign. O&O DiskImage is a drive backup tool that can backup an entire drive either in one whole chunk or through incremental imaging, so you only need to backup data changed since your last backup. To save space and to protect your data, the backup image can then be encrypted and also... ... More About: Free Stuff , Free , Special , Special Edition
How to shoot a 24 mega pixel photo with a 6 mega pixel camera
2008-05-03 09:50:00 While a 6MP or 8MP digital camera has enough resolution for most purposes, it's not enough if you want to print poster sized images. A typical 3MP camera delivers a print size of about 5 x 7 inches. A 6MP camera will be able to provide a maximum of 6.5 x 10 inches print at 300 DPI and about 10 x 15 inches at 200 DPI. A standard photo printing job is done at 300 DPI (dots per inch) and small sized prints shouldn't be done at any lower. Large poster sized prints can however be done at a lower DPI... ... More About: Software , Photo , Camera , Pixel , Mega
Firefox extension CookieSwap - Login to multiple email accounts at the same
2008-05-02 07:14:00 This is an excellent extension for those who have multiple accounts on Gmail, Yahoo etc and want to remain logged in to all of them at the same time. You know that's not normally possible because web based email accounts use cookies to track your login information and there can be only one user logged in to only one account on one browser. CookieSwap solves this problem by seamlessly swapping all your cookies so that you can be logged in to multiple web e-mail accounts at the same time without... ... More About: Email , Firefox , Browser , Extension
Use your webcam with multiple programs simultaneously with ManyCam
2008-05-01 09:05:00 ManyCam is a free webcam software that allows you to use your webcam with multiple applications at the same time and add cool graphics and special effects to your webcam videos. It creates a "virtual" Webcam that replicates your currently installed camera. It then lets multiple applications access the video stream without conflict. ManyCam is compatible with Yahoo, MSN, CamFrog, PalTalk, ICQ, Skype, YouTube, and more. Once you've installed ManyCam, you need to set ManyCam as the primary input... ... More About: Programs
Vertical and Horizontal strip calendar for your monitor
2008-04-29 07:59:00 No, this isn't a calendar software for your desktop. This is a real paper calendar specially designed for sticking it to the sides of the monitor. It comes in two different formats - a horizontal one and a vertical one. These calendars also come in two different sizes - a regular size which is about 10.5 inches long and 1 inch wide and a legal size which is about 13 inches long and 1.30 inches wide. Download the PDF files and print it out. PDF for horizontal and vertical monitor... ... More About: Monitor , Calendar , Strip , Vertical
Search As You Type in the Office 2007 Ribbon
2008-04-29 07:42:00 The search feature seems to have invaded into every aspect of computing, from searching start menus to desktop. And now it comes to Office 2007. If you still have trouble getting to the functions you need in Office 2007 's Ribbon interface, give Microsoft's new experimental Search Commands add-in a try. Search Commands adds a tab and search box to the ribbon that finds buttons as you type into it. Search Commands helps you find commands, options, wizards, and galleries in Microsoft... ... More About: The Office , Type
winPenPack - The best portable applications for your pen drive
2008-04-27 08:15:00 Portable applications, as you know, requires no installation, does not mess with the registry and does not litter you hard disk with files. The best thing about portable applications is of course, their portability. You can copy these application to a pen drive and carry it along with you and then run them directly from the pen drive. The winPenPack is an all-in-one collection of some of the best freeware portable application for the pen drive. winPenPack comes in several editions like... ... More About: Software , Applications , Portable , Drive
Display system information on your desktop wallpaper with BGInfo
2008-04-26 07:30:00 BGInfo is small utility that automatically generates desktop backgrounds that include important information about the system including IP addresses, computer name, network adapters, and disk space and a lot more. BGInfo does not display your system's information in real time. It takes a snapshot of the system information and then embeds this data into the wallpaper by generating another wallpaper and placing it one the desktop. It always takes the same wallpaper you currently have on the... ... More About: Information , System , Desktop , Wallpaper , Display
Add "ScreenTabs" on your screen with Stick
2008-04-25 08:25:00 Stick is a cool little application that add tabs to the edge of your screen, which when clicked launches tools like notes, calendar, RSS feeds, explorer etc. Stick is highly customizable and can be placed on any edge of the screen - on the top, on the sides or at the bottom. Tabs can be added for 6 types of application: Tabs on the right edge of my screen - Explorer that shows the content of any particular drive or folder. These explorer windows provide true explorer context menus for... ... More About: Screen , Stick
Use OCR softwares to copy-paste from printed books
2008-04-23 11:48:00 Copy-paste is the most used and misused function among all computer users. Thanks to Apple, who first brought this functionality to the computer, copying and pasting has saved us from hours of typing and editing. But the copy-paste we are familiar with works only with the digital medium. What if you want to copy a paragraph from a text book, or say you want to digitize an entire book so that you can read it in your cell phone or in your laptop? How do you copy from a printed text book? The... ... More About: Software , Books , Softwares , Copy , Paste
Pismo File Mount - Access contents of ZIP and ISO files without extracting
2008-04-22 16:11:00 Pismo File Mount Audit Package is a free Windows application that allows users to mount the contents of ZIP, ISO, and Private Folder files to the file system as virtual folders. Pismo File Mount integrates with the Windows shell and is thus available from the context menu and allows such inherent Windows behavior like drag and drop. using this application you can mount zip archive files as read-only folders and directly access it's contents without having to extract it first. It also has the... ... More About: Software , Contents , Access
How to get emails on your phone as SMS
2008-04-22 09:17:00 Even if your cell phone does not have internet connectivity, you can still get email messages delivered directly to your phone via SMS messages. Some email services provide this feature, for example Yahoo. You can setup Mail Alerts for your Yahoo account to receive mails on your phone as SMS messages. Currently, this facility is available for only 10 mobile providers. Checkout Yahoo! Mail Alerts to see whether your cell phone service provider is there in the list. If you are using a different... ... More About: Phone , Email , Emails
Windows Search 4 - Improved search for Windows XP and Vista
2008-04-21 09:31:00 Windows XP's search function is very primitive. It take ages to search for files on a large hard disk, and people do have large hard disk these days. There are alternatives such as Google Desktop Search and Copernic Desktop Search that gives quicker search results. Windows Vista includes a better search tool that allows you to search right from the start menu from program files to documents. Now Microsoft has released a new version of their search tool called Windows Search 4.0 for Windows... ... More About: Software , Windows , Windows Xp
The 5 most sexy fonts you have ever seen
2008-04-20 08:25:00 You have seen fonts that are professional and fonts that are stupid, but I bet you haven't seen fonts that are this sexy. Sure you can call it stupid and even useless. Actually, they don't serve the real purpose of a font because nobody can ready them. But you can still print them out in massive sizes and stick them in the wall and tell everybody that it spells your name. Your name must have never looked so sexy before. Or you can use them as cliparts. 1. Darrians Sexy Silouettes Font:... ... More About: Graphics , Fonts
How to bookmark a page in PDF
2008-04-18 08:56:00 Ebooks are usually in the PDF format, so it would be useful if you could bookmark a page on a PDF file you are reading, just like you bookmark a page in a real book. That can be done in Acrobat Reader with a small hack. Now Acrobat Reader is such a resource hog that you might not want to use it. Even I don't use it. Recently, I wrote about another PDF reader, the Adobe Reader Lite which is much faster and lighter than the original version. This hack works with the Lite version too. Download... ... More About: Bookmark , Page
Get email alerts at price drop. Buy cheap.
2008-04-18 06:53:00 You find a product that you like at a shopping site but the price is high. You want to buy it but at a lesser price. So what you do is bookmark the page and check on it every couple of days to see whether the prices has dropped. Now you can automate this entire process by using a free service called Price !pinx. Price!pinx is an easy and convenient solution that monitors any product on almost any website for you and then notify you through email when the price for that product drops. The... ... More About: Email , Cheap , Drop
5 more useful Opera tricks that you are probably unaware of
2008-04-17 11:10:00 Picking up from where I left in my earlier post 5 Opera tricks you did not know about, here is another 5 extremely useful tricks for better and faster browsing with Opera. 1. Open links in a new tab: The usual procedure to open links in a new tab is right clicking on a link and then selecting "Open in new tab" or "Open in background tab". Now here is the shortcut. Press SHIFT while clicking on a link to open in a new tab and SHIFT+CTRL to open in a background tab. This works for the context... ... More About: Tricks , Browser
Mac on a budget? Buy a used one.
2008-04-17 08:59:00 You want to own a Mac but you can't afford it, so what do you do? The most obvious answer is of course, buy a used one. There is nothing wrong in owning a second hand Mac. People buy second hand stuff all the time. Ebay is the biggest example. Today I'm going to visit a site that looks like a nice place to buy a used mac. DV Warehouse is a shopping website that specializes in used Apple products. Apart from Macs and Apple parts, DV Warehouse also has a large collection of products for digital... ... More About: Websites , Budget
HydraBrowser - The browser with Office 2007's look
More articles from this author:2008-04-15 17:39:00 Microsoft invented the ribbon with Office 2007, and another application borrowed it. That application is a browser called HydraBrowser . No matter what people say about Microsoft Office's ribbon, you have to admit, it does look sleek and sexy. And HydraBrowser has got that sleek and sexy look. HydraBrowser is powered by the IE engine but that's the only thing common it has with IE7. In terms of features it is way ahead of IE7. Let us see some of the features of this brand new browser: #... ... More About: Software 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 |
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