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Get notified of new emails using ePrompter
2008-03-21 10:37:00 Email notification tools are small applications that run on your desktop, usually runs background, and alerts you whenever you receive a new email. Email notification tools are extremely handy for it doesn't matter which email client you are using or whether you are using any at all. Email notification tools run independent of your email client. And if you don't use any email client then you will find it even more useful. ePrompter is an email notification program that automatically and... ... More About: Software , Emails
Snippy - A unique screen capture tool
2008-03-20 07:50:00 Often we take screenshots in order to show a particular area on the screen. For bloggers like me who blog about computers and softwares, taking screenshots become second nature. In order to highlight the area where we want to draw the readers attention, we crop the image or add arrows, circles etc in an image editing tool. All these hassles can be avoided by using Snippy. Snippy allows you take a screen shot of only that area of the screen in which we are interested. Click on the Snippy icon ?... ... More About: Software , Screen Capture , Screen , Blogging , Tool
Transform your USB drive into a portable PC with MojoPac
2008-03-19 11:22:00 MojoPac is a free software virtualization product that transforms your iPod, USB Hard Drive , Flash drive, USB-enabled cell phones and USB-enabled digital cameras, into a portable computing environment. Just install MojoPac on any USB 2.0 compliant storage device, upload your applications and files, modify your user settings and environment preferences, and take it with you everywhere. Every time you plug your MojoPac-enabled device into any Windows XP PC , MojoPac automatically launches your... ... More About: Software , Portable
Add power boosters to Opera with Opera Handy Menu
2008-03-18 07:15:00 There is only one word to describe Opera Handy Menu - "Awesome". Opera Handy Menu adds a plethora of features to Opera which already has quite a handful of it. Once you install it you will find Opera's menus overflowing with options, settings and features. Let's take a look at some of the best features you get with Opera Handy Menu. - A powerful Page Options menu includes several handy functions: close/arrange tabs, a Encoding menu, a Style menu, a Site Navigation menu, Open Page's Archive,... ... More About: Software , Power
Vista Visual Master - The Windows Vista customization pack
2008-03-17 10:58:00 Vista Visual Master is a free application that will help you to customize your Windows Vista easily. With a clean and simple interface it brings you an All-in-One set of powerful and neatly classified tools, settings and tweaks. Now You can change the look of the windows and buttons, change the system icons and hundreds of file icons, reconfigure the boot and logon screen, patch and apply your new themes, and you can customize Windows Vista according to your wishes. What you can do with... ... More About: Vista
Create your own wiki with WetPaint
2008-03-17 06:34:00 If you have visited Wiki pedia (I'm sure you have), you must have noticed that it is different from the websites you usually come across on the Internet. Wikipedia is a community run website and it's contents are editable by the visitors, even you. Such type of sites are called "wikis". Quoting from Wikipedia itself: A wiki is software that allows users to easily create, edit, and link pages together. Wikis are often used to create collaborative websites and to power community websites. These... ... More About: Create , Wetpaint
360desktop - The 360-degree panoramic desktop
2008-03-16 10:30:00 360desktop is new concept that aims to revolutionize the computer desktop as we know it. The desktop provides a very limited space to work upon, despite the fact that today's computers are designed for extensive multitasking. The concept of multiple desktop is there but it is not very useful since we have to completely switch from one desktop to the other. 360desktop is different. It brings an entirely new concept which they call the Desktop 2.0. 360desktop converts your standard desktop... ... More About: Software , Degree , Panoramic
How to schedule emails to be sent later automatically
2008-03-15 06:26:00 LetterMeLater provides an exciting service. It allows you to schedule your emails to be sent out at a date and time in the future. This is that kind of feature no email service provider gives you, and you don't even feel the need for it until you start using it. Then all of a sudden it becomes indispensable and you wonder why it is missing from your email service. Indeed, scheduling email for future delivery is extremely useful. Registering an account for LetterMeLater won't force you to... ... More About: Internet , Schedule , Websites , Emails
Download Ashampoo Burning Studio 6.6 for Free
2008-03-14 07:00:00 Ashampoo Burning Studio 6 is a complete CD/DVD burning suite worth £20 that is now available for free download, as a special offer. The version 6 of Ashampoo Burning Studio keeps all the advantages of its predecessor and adds multi-disc file backup, an integrated audio CD ripper and further improved support for the exciting new Blu-ray format with capacities of up to 25 gigabytes per layer. Ashampoo Burning Studio focuses on what a user wants: To burn discs quickly, easily, with maximum... ... More About: Software , Free Stuff , Download , Free
5 free movie organizers for managing your personal collection
2008-03-14 06:20:00 Organizing your movie collection is much more than making a list of it. Apart from helping you to quickly browse through your personal collection, with a movie organizer you can tag movies, add notes, browse the Internet for reviews, information, links etc, and much more. A movie organizer not only helps you to organize your movie collection on hard disk but also DVDs, CDs and VHS tapes you own. Like any software, there are plenty of movie organizers to choose from. The aim of this post is... ... More About: Software , Personal , Movie , Free
How to add subtitles to any DVD or VCD
2008-03-12 07:39:00 There are plenty of guides written by various people on this subject. Here is the easiest one that I have found. To add subtitles to a movie, you will require: ffdshow or vobsub. TMPGEnc First download the subtitle for the movie from any of the following sites: AllSubs.org Subscene Mysubtitles Opensubtitles Subtitle Database The downloaded subtitle should be in the .sub or .srt format. Rename the subtitle file to the same name as the video but with a .sub or .srt extension. For example, if... ... More About: Subtitles
Play music and get live lyrics with AlSong MP3 Player
2008-03-11 16:03:00 ALSong is an MP3 player that combines music and lyrics together into one handy application. ALSong fetches lyrics from a huge online database and plays back the song lyrics synchronized to the music, with the currently playing line highlighted for you. There are lots of lyrics already in the system, and often ALSong can automatically recognize your music and link it to the right song lyrics. But if ALSong doesn't automatically recognize your music, you can search the massive ALSong Song... ... More About: Software , Music , Lyrics , Play , Player
Customize Windows XP's common task folder panel with FindeXer
2008-03-10 07:01:00 The common task panel in Windows XP is the panel on the left hand side of Windows explorer. It displays some common tasks like Create New Folder, Share Folder, Print Picture, and shortcuts to My Computer, My Documents etc. The common task pane is considerably helpful. It would have been more if it was customizable. Unfortunately, Windows doesn't allow it. So what we will do is replace common task with a customizable and a better panel with FindeXer. FindeXer can hold shortcuts to just about... ... More About: Software , Panel , Common , Windows Xp
Fun Weekend: Heaven to Ocean, an addicting game
2008-03-09 07:47:00 Here is a game that will keep you hooked for hours. Heaven to Ocean is a 2D puzzle cum physics game where the user has to control the game world in order to move a drop of water from it's source, i.e. heaven to it's final destination, i.e. ocean. By tilting the "world" or the screen you have to maneuver a body of water through various levels filled with hazards and obstacles. To move the water drop requires skill, proper timing and fast reaction time. The game begins with a large drop of... ... More About: Weekend , Game
How to turn any application portable and run from a USB drive
2008-03-08 05:58:00 Portable applications are great because they don't need to be installed, they don't mess with the registry and you can carry it along with you in a pen drive. Portable applications aren't only for using in portable devices. They can be used on a PC too and the best thing about it is, as I've mentioned, you don't need to install it. Just copy it to your hard disk and run. Several applications are already available in a portable format, but not all. So I'm going to show you how to turn any... ... More About: Software , Portable , Drive , Application , Turn
How to view all unread mails in Gmail
2008-03-06 08:31:00 The best thing about Gmail is the availablity of plethora of tools and features for the users. Surprisingly, most of these settings and features are hidden in Gmail, and this applies to all Google services including search, Google Reader and others. One such feature in Gmail is the ability to view only the unread or the read mails in your inbox. As you know, the Gmail inbox displays all mails- read and unread, sometimes it becomes difficult when you want to go through only those mails that... ... More About: Internet , Websites , View
Joe's Goals - The online habit tracker
2008-03-06 07:24:00 Joe's Goals is a simple and funny, yet excellent tool to keep track of your goals and habit. The interface consist of a grid with the seven days of the week on one side and your goals on the other. The goals can be positive like exercise, read more, drink water etc. There are also negative goals that you may want to avoid like eating out, drinking etc. For every positive goal achieved you get a green checkmark, and for every negative goal you get a red checkmark. At the end of the day your... ... More About: Internet , Websites , Online , Tracker
KatMouse - The Mouse wheel enhancement for Windows
2008-03-05 07:25:00 KatMouse is a Windows freeware utility that enhances the functionality of the scroll wheel of mice by offering 'universal' scrolling: moving the mouse wheel will scroll the window directly beneath the mouse cursor (not the one with the keyboard focus, which is default on Windows OSes). This is a major increase in the usefullness of the mouse wheel. This is particularly useful when you are typing in some online text box, say for example in a forum. Here you will get two scroll bars - one... ... More About: Software , Wheel
Microsoft products for students at free of cost
2008-03-04 15:39:00 The Microsoft DreamSpark student program makes available, at no charge, a broad range of development and design software for download. The program is now available to 11 countries, namely United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, China, Germany, France, Finland, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and Belgium. Microsoft plans to add more countries to this program in the coming months. The following products are available on DreamSpark 1. Microsoft developer tools. Visual Studio is the Swiss Army... ... More About: Software , Products , Free Stuff , Students
Get 1 year subscription of McAfee free with AOL Mail
2008-03-04 06:44:00 AOL is giving away 1 year subscription of McAfee VirusScan Plus to all AOL Mail users. If you have an AOL mail account then you might already know this. If you do not have an AOL account, then get one. Every user will get this McAfee suite, worth $39.99, for free! McAfee VirusScan Plus comes with a lot of tools- a virus protection, an anti-spyware and a firewall. Main Features >McAfee SiteAdvisor adds ratings to websites to help you avoid online dangers. >Home License Subscription... ... More About: Software , Security , Free Stuff , Free
Rainlendar Lite - The best calendar software available
2008-03-03 07:10:00 Those who have used Rainlendar will understand what I'm talking about. Among all calendar softwares Rainlendar wins hands down. It's certainly the most easiest, the most customizable and the most feature rich calendar software that you could find without being a bloated and a resource hog. Rainlendar is easy to use and doesn't take much space on your desktop. The application is platform independent so you can run it both on Windows and on Linux. Rainlendar Lite comes with some powerful... ... More About: Software , Calendar
How to stream music from your home computer to your office
2008-03-02 07:08:00 The size of the music library you can carry with you on your portable music player to work is limited by the size of it's memory. What if you have a very large collection of music and you can't decide which song to put into your player and which to leave out? The solution to this is to discard your music player and instead, stream music from your home PC to your office with full access to your complete music collection. We will use a Winamp plugin called AjaxAMP to transform your computer into... ... More About: Software , Music , Office , Computer , Home
24 sites to look for free video tutorials
2008-03-01 08:30:00 It is said that a picture is worth a thousand words. In the same way we can say that a video is worth a thousand pictures. Indeed, we can learn a lot faster by seeing somebody doing a task then attempting to do the task by self by reading tutorials. Video tutorials are hence, quite popular these days. You can find quite a lot of these on YouTube and Google video but you could waste a lot of your time looking for them and in the end you might not even get what you were looking for. What you... ... More About: Internet , Tutorials , Free , Websites
Google launches the wiki tool Google Sites
2008-02-29 06:39:00 Google Sites is the new offering from the Google Apps team launched just two days ago on February 27th, 2008. Google Sites is their new wiki suite which is targeted at small and medium-sized businesses and students. Google sites makes it possible to create "team" sites in a matter of minutes where people can work together on a Site to add file attachments, information from other Google applications (like Google Docs, Google Calendar, YouTube and Picasa), and new free-form content. Creating a... ... More About: Google , Internet , Websites , Tool
How to run applications as non admin in Windows XP to avoid malwares
2008-02-27 12:08:00 The problem with Windows XP is it runs all programs with an elevated user privileged. The first user account that Windows XP creates after a fresh install is automatically given administrator status. All applications that are run inside an administrator account runs with admin privileged, which means that they are allowed to make changes to the registry and system files, creating, deleting and modifying files at will. If a virus or spyware happens to get into such a computer, the virus gets... ... More About: Software , Security , Applications , Admin
Access Google services on your mobile with Google2GO!
2008-02-27 11:03:00 Google2GO! is a mobile application for Google services, similar to Yahoo!Go. It gives access to all Google mobile services including: # Google Web/Image Search # Google Local Search # Gmail # Google Calendar # Google Reader # Google Docs # Picasa # Google News # Google Notes Apart from Google services, some other services are also accessible using this application like: # Amazon # eBay # Weather.com # Wikipedia # Dictionary/Thesaurus Requirements: Windows Mobile Professional 6 (touch screen... ... More About: Google , Services , Google Services , Access
How to show the desktop icons without showing the desktop
2008-02-26 07:30:00 You might have placed shortcuts of your frequently used application on your desktop for easier access. But then, to reach them you have to show your desktop. This might be a bit annoying if you have another application or window open. You will have to minimize all open windows to see your desktop and only then you can click on the shortcuts. Not a very "shortcut" method, isn't? So how to get around this? Enter Shock Desktop . Shock Desktop is a helpful little utility that performs two... ... More About: Software , Icons , Show
The myth of refreshing the desktop
2008-02-25 13:40:00 "Do you refresh your desktop?". Ask this to any Windows user and 99% of them will reply with a "yes". Of course, there are various needs for refreshing the desktop but the majority of people who does it doesn't even know why he is doing it. Refreshing the desktop is perhaps the biggest computer myth among all Windows users. Every single person I have met does this or at least used to do it. It's not known who first discovered this remarkably useless trick and what he achieved from it, but... ... More About: Desktop , Myth
Track all your browsing history at one place with hooeey
2008-02-24 07:03:00 hooeey is a web application that acts like a history manager, bookmarking and a search engine, all at one place. hooeey helps you to keep track of all previously browsed pages so that if you want to locate pages that you had previously visited but don't recall the address, you can do so quickly without wasting time. This is different from the local cache that every browser maintains on your hard disk. Since hooeey saves the browsing history online, it's independent of the PC from where you are... ... More About: Internet , History , Websites , Browsing , Place
How to customize Windows messages, tool tips and dialog boxes
More articles from this author:2008-02-22 16:23:00 Windows provides some very helpful tips and messages through tool tips (the messages that pop up when you hover the mouse pointer over an icon) and dialog boxes. Do you wish to replace those messages with your own peppy comments? That is what I'm going to show you today. Most of the Windows messages and dialog boxes that you see can be found inside two executable files - the explorer.exe and shell32.dll. By tweaking these files we can control how Windows looks and what messages it display. For... ... More About: Windows , Tips , Tool , Messages , Dialog 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 |
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