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Manage your windows with Deskloops
2007-06-03 15:08:00 DeskLoops , a very cool software from Xilokit, helps you manage scuffled windows. Every so often, your screen gets messed up with a lot of Window s . Pain. A lot of tools are available that let you organize your windows, saving you time. One such tools is DeskLoops, and it’s a bit different from other conventional ones. Let me show ... More About: Indo , Mana
Weekend Links
2007-06-03 09:09:00 This week’s batch of links: 10 High Tech Clock Gadgets - Dj Flush A review of Sony Ericsson W580i - Nirmal Setting up FTP in Vista using the default Network Location Feature - Joel Tips on monetizing your blog - Rishi Personalize your blog with custom CSS Bullets - Manas Ten jobs you can do with IrfanView Image Viewer - ... More About: Links , Weekend
How to resize pictures online?
2007-06-02 08:21:00 Quite a number of software programs let you resize your pictures easily. But you may not need such programs always since you don’t resize pictures often. In case you don’t want to / can’t install a software to do the job, there are quite a number of tools available on the internet that may ... More About: Pictures , Online , Size , Line , Resize
How to pin folders to the Windows Start menu?
2007-06-01 14:28:00 Applications can easily be pinned to the start menu in Windows XP for easy access. You can do this by right clicking the Application’s .exe file, and selecting the Pin to Start Menu option. The program instantly appears in your Start menu, and can be quickly launched. This option is not available for folders - meaning that ... More About: Folders , Indo
Netvibes now has a Twitter module
2007-06-01 08:58:00 Netvibes, an AJAX based start page, now has a twitter module included. You can add it by using this link. Or else, you can select the Twitter module from the left panel on your Netvibes page. Related PostsNetvibes gets cool new featuresThe first ever start page that I used, Netvibes, has been given a facelift. For those of ... More About: Netvibes , Vibe , Module
Google Talk keyboard shortcuts
2007-05-31 18:05:00 … You don’t know them probably I guess. CTRL + R Right align text CTRL + E Center align text CTRL + L Left align text CTRL + Tab Cycle through open windows CTRL + 1 For single spaced lines CTRL + 2 For ... More About: Google , Google Talk , Talk , Shortcuts , Keyboard
How to change the title of Internet Explorer?
2007-05-30 17:12:00 Internet Explorer , by default, shows the title of a webpage followed by the string ‘Microsoft Internet Explorer’. Like this: How about customizing it? Here’s how: Open the Registry Editor by navigating to Start >> Run, typing regedit.exe and hitting Enter Go to HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareMicrosoftInterne t ExplorerMain Double click Window Title and change it to what you want Internet Explorer’s title to be. ... More About: Internet , Internet Explorer , Change
How to rename the Recycle Bin in Windows?
2007-05-30 08:08:00 Recycle Bin - I’ve always thought I can give a better name to it. And if you’ve wanted to do the same, why not you go ahead and rename it? Go to Start >> Run Type regedit.exe and hit enter to open the Registry Editor Navigate to HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareMicrosoftWindows ShellNoRoamMUIC You’ll find probably something like this: @C:WINDOWSsystem32SHELL32.dll,-8964 Change it’s value to what you ... More About: Recycle , Rename , Indo , Recycle Bin
Weekly links
2007-05-27 07:38:00 Another batch of links… How to add and change the default IE Search engine - LyteByte How to convert 3GP Videos to other formats - Nirmal How to get traffic from Image Search engines - News Blog Posting Frequency: Regular vs Sparse posting - Technical Blog How to get rid of the COM Surrogate error in Vista - Madhur How to ... More About: Links , Weekly
Convert .FLV to .MPEG, .AVI, .WMV and other formats
2007-05-26 09:14:00 Video clips that you watch over the internet on many sites like Youtube and others are encoded and delivered in a compressed .FLV format, which might be unplayable directly on your computer or on your movie players. There are many tools available on the internet that let you convert .FLV files in .MPEG and other such ... More About: Convert , Form , Mats , Format , Vert
MyBlogLog new feature: A tagging system
2007-05-25 10:33:00 Earlier, Yahoo! announced that they will be bringing major changes to MyBlogLog, a social networking portal that was acquired by them earlier, to get rid of spammers and other offensive stuff. And they’ve begun with a little step… Did you login to your MyBlogLog page today? If so, you should have seen something new on your profile ... More About: System , Feature , Tagging , Feat , Stem
The Ubuntu guy now has a Dell Branded T Shirt
2007-05-24 08:54:00 If you know what’s Ubuntu , you must have probably seen this kind of a picture on most Ubuntu branded stuff: Today such a picture looked different on the Ubuntu Homepage, with a modification: The guy with the blue T-Shirt just got a Dell logo impression there. Cool. You might have known that Dell will ship PCs bundled with ... More About: T-Shirt , The U
CommentPower: Evaluate, rate and enhance comments
2007-05-24 07:29:00 CommentPower is a new Web 2.0 service that you can integrate with your blog and use it to enhance comments. Currently, the service is in Private Beta, but hopefully, it will be out soon for everyone to use. Upon installing and activating the plugin on your blog, you get options that’ll help you and your readers ... More About: Comments , Comment , Comm , Rate
Firefox extension: A progress bar inside your address bar
2007-05-22 09:56:00 Fission is a cool new funky Firefox addon that displays a progress bar inside your browser’s address bar. It basically combines Firefox’s address bar and Progress bar like this: (click the image for a bigger view) You could change the colour of the progress bar, and align it to the right/left using the options available. Plus, you could ... More About: Inside , Extension , Side
Two alternatives to Adobe PDF Reader
2007-05-21 15:34:00 Most of you use Adobe Reader for reading PDF documents on your PC. But it’s a PC slowmaker. Earlier my PC used to crash whenever I used to open a huge PDF document on Adobe reader. Why not you try some alternatives to Adobe Reader? Foxit Reader (Download Link) Foxit Reader is the best available alternative to ... More About: Alternatives , Alter , Native
Disable Firefox Password manager
2007-05-21 09:55:00 Every so often, you get to see this dialog in Firefox asking you whether you want it to remember your login password for a particular site or not: This may annoy you, and here’s how you can disable it: Navigate to Tools >> Options in the menu bar Under Security, uncheck the option Remember passwords for sites Click Ok ... More About: Manager , Password Manager , Password , Pass
Wordpress Tip: Modify Post Slugs for better SEO
2007-05-21 07:36:00 Post slug is a mostly underused option in WordPress. By default, if you write a blog post with the title “This is the heading”, your post permalink may be something like this domain.com/date/this-is-the-heading (if you still have something like domain/?p=55, you could change this in Options >> Permalinks) WordPress generates these post permalinks based on your ... More About: Wordpress , Post , Better , Bett , Modify
Digg Expose = Digg + Snap Shots: Another Digg API Mashup
2007-05-20 08:28:00 Well, another little mashup based on the Digg API has made it to the Digg front page. It’s known by the name Digg Expose and it also uses Snap Preview Shots . This mashup is accessible via the YourMinis site. Upcoming and popular stories can be sorted according to diggs, dates and comments. So, what’s new? Stories are ... More About: Another
How to delete your Yahoo email account
2007-05-20 07:59:00 If you’ve switched to another email service from Yahoo ! and there are no mails arriving there, you may want to close your Yahoo! Account . Here’s how: Go to this page Key in your password Confirm deletion by clicking the Terminate account button Please note that your you’ll also be not able to access all other Yahoo! Services like Yahoo ... More About: Email , Count , Delete
Three Twitter alternatives
2007-05-19 15:52:00 Twitter is getting more slow by the day, a lot of downtimes and slow responses, along with third party tools failing. Here are some Twitter alternatives to enjoy with than frown at it’s bad performance Jaiku Jaiku is a similar service like Twitter that lets you post what you’re doing on the internet. But it has some ... More About: Twitter , Alternatives , Three , Alter , Native
Favourite, but not so popular posts
2007-05-19 09:51:00 I was tagged by Nirmal recently to write about my favourite posts that were not so popular. So, here goes my list: Windows Dock applications Greasemonkey Scripts to enhance Google Reader’s Look and features Firefox: Opening multiple links with a single click The missing No to all in Windows Overwrite files dialog Greasemonkey scripts to enhance Twitter I would like to ... More About: Popular , Posts , Pula
Speed Links
2007-05-19 08:36:00 Posts I enjoyed reading this week: Yahoo! to rebrand MyBlogLog - Nirmal Keyboard Shortcuts for Google Search - Dj Flush LG’s A4 Size Paper thin Colour Display - Shashank BGInfo Windows system information tool - Gili Java Games for mobiles - Atul Protect your blog from Image hotlinks - Thilak Managing different Profiles in Firefox - Joel How to save DailyMotion Videos? - ... More About: Links , Speed
Rumour: Google may acquire Feedburner
2007-05-19 06:57:00 Google is reportedly in acquisition talks with Feedburner , a feed management service that has become a favourite of bloggers, and other content publishers. Feedburner, the so called Google Of Feeds, may be worth a $100 million. What will Google get out of this? It is rumoured that Google may try to expand their RSS Ads market with this ... More About: Google , Rumour , Burner , Acquire
Brainstorm with Bubbl
2007-05-18 14:11:00 Bubbl is a very impressive Web 2.0 tool that allows you to create mind maps online. It’s interface is based on Flash, and has developed a lot since it was launched. Lovely features it has: Each bubble unit can be created by pressing the Enter or Tab button Zoom in/out using your mouse wheel Click and drag empty ... More About: Brain , Brains , Brainstorm
Google searches Penguin friendly pages!
2007-05-17 14:19:00 This is funny. Googl e has topic specific search engines and there’s one for Linux available at http://www.google.com/linux. This one helps you to search Linux related pages easily. But here’s how Google calls it in its Advanced Preferences page, after the Universal search redesign: Google.com/linux searches Penguin friendly pages. Linux related pages are designed for Penguins? More About: Friendly , Pages
2 Free blogging platforms - Features list
2007-05-17 10:02:00 Wanna start a blog? Can’t afford domain & hosting? There are a lot of websites that allow you to create a blog for free, here are two with their features compared. Hope this serves as a reference for any one who wants to start a blog. Blogger.com Fast Sign Up: You can create a blog in just ... More About: Features , Blogging , Free , List , Forms
Spotback Rating Widget: Wordpress Plugin
2007-05-16 15:51:00 Spotback is a kind of a social bookmarking site that aggregates popular items in the web according to user ratings: Spotback gives you a rating widget which you can incorporate anywhere - on your blog posts, pages, pictures and others, and give visitors and readers an opportunity to rate them. Now, Spotback has gone ahead to release ... More About: Wordpress , Widget , Plugin , Plug
Google Reader Greasemonkey Scripts
2007-05-16 14:10:00 All of these need Firefox + Greasemonkey to work. Gmail Integration Google Reader + Gmail Integrator This greasemonkey script integrates Google Reader with Gmail, saving you one extra tab. One of the best greasemonkey scripts available for Google Reader. An improved version of the script is here. Google Reader Folders on Gmail This script adds a little box on your ... More About: Scripts
My sources of inspiration
2007-05-16 06:58:00 Vivien of Inspiration Bit is conducting a group project where you can participate by writing about your sources of inspiration. Here’s where I derive my energy from: People & Personalities When I hear the stories of great men, and women, I’m inspired. I respect and admire a lot of people and it’s really interesting to hear their real ... More About: Sources
Blender 3D 2.43 is out!
More articles from this author:2007-05-15 16:39:00 Blender is a completely free and open source, 3D animation program. Blender is cross-platform, and is available for Linux, Windows, Mac OS X, FreeBSD and others. Blender has a unique user interface, that may confuse a newbie. Mostly all functions can be accessed via Keyboard shortcuts, and it has many workspace themes. And also you ... More About: Blender , Blend , Ender , Lend 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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