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PDFTextOnline - Free online PDF to text converter
2008-03-02 10:54:00
PDFText Online is a free converter which provide PDF to text conversion. It can extract text from a PDF document and you can download the output as a zip file to your own computer. There are a lot of desktop applications that move into web applications. One of the example is Google Docs, which let users cerate ...
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How to create a list of all files and folders under a path
2008-02-29 14:54:00
Sometimes, you may want to create a list of files/folders under a certain path, but you need some DOS skills in order to do so. If you don’t want to type those commands, you can try a free tool JR Directory Printer, which will help you to create a text files that contains list of ...
More About: How To , List , Folders , Files , Application

LinkBlip - Inform you if someone visit your link
2008-02-28 11:21:00
LinkBlip is a service which let you monitor an URL. If someone visit the link, you will receive a notification email. Both LinkBlip and SpyPig work in similar way. SpyPig will send you a notification when people open your email while LinkBlip will notify you when people visit your link. Sometimes, you create a birthday E-card for ...
More About: Link , Inform , Visit

Read it Later - Save interest pages and read later
2008-02-27 11:32:00
Read it Later is a Firefox extension which can bookmark any URL so that you can read them later. We receive a lot of information everyday. Sometimes, we don’t have much time to really go through all of them. We may choose to save them into our bookmarks folder and read them while we free. But, ...
More About: Read , Interest , Save , Pages

PixelCryptor - Encrypt anything with an image
2008-02-26 16:32:00
PixelCryptor is a free application which can encrypt any files by using an image. You need the same image to decrypt the package. I had cover a tutorial before, which teach you how to hide a text file in an image. Now, this powerful application can encrypt anyting by using an image file, and export the ...
More About: Image , Application

Qassia - Get unlimited backlinks and traffic!
2008-02-24 13:59:00
Qassia ia a new web2.0 service which create a platform for getting backlinks and user-submitted information. You can earn Qassia dollar by different ways such as add intel (which means intelligence), or through refer others to join. Currently, you will get $500 Qassia dollars per user referred. The $500 dollars per user referred is only valid ...
More About: Internet , Traffic , Backlinks , Web 2 , Blogging

PassPub - Strong Password generator
2008-02-24 12:52:00
PassPub is an online password generator which will randomly give you strong and unique passwords each time you refresh the page. I had cover SafePasswd before, which is also an online password generator. Basically, both SafePasswd and PassPub randomly generate passwords for users. But, SafePasswd provides more options to choose while PassPub provides more type of ...
More About: How To , Generator , Password , Strong

LinkBunch - Turn multiple URLs into one
2008-02-23 15:05:00
With LinkBunch, you can save dozens of URLs under one shorter URL and then share with your friends. There are a lot of service which can cut a long URL into a shorter one, but none of them can condense multiple URLs into a single URL. But, LinkBunch provides this service and you can condense as ...
More About: Firefox , Tiny , Turn

Use Web based Stumbleupon toolbar to discover new sites
2008-02-22 15:35:00
Stumbleupon is a great service because it let users to discover new sites and rate/review them. Now, this trick will let user use the Stumbleupon toolbar without install it. Firefox and Internet Explorer users can enjoy the Stumble because they can easily install the extension/plugin toolbar. But, users of other browser such as Opera and Safari ...
More About: Tips , Sites , Toolbar , Discover

SafePasswd - Generate a random password online
2008-02-20 14:07:00
SafePasswd is an online service which can create a random and unique password for you. Password is the most important thing for us. We need password for our email, social account, Windows login, and even our forum account. So, we need a unique and strong password so that others can’t crack our account by using methods ...
More About: How To , Random , Online

2 online zip file services which you may need
2008-02-19 12:24:00
Mail My zip and zip online are 2 free service which can compress up to 5 files at once and then forward the result zip file to any email or download to your own computer. I had introduced Wobzip, an online service which can uncompress zip file and now i would like to introduce 2 services ...
More About: Services , File , Online , Application

Manage your Firefox tab pages with these plugins
2008-02-18 14:17:00
There are few plugins that will help users to manage their Firefox tab pages. If you like to open more than ten tab pages at the same time, i think you need these plugins. Tab Mix Plus is a Firefox plugin which include a lot of features such as undo closed tabs, tab clicking options, and ...
More About: Tips , Plugins , Pages , Manage

Play around with middle mouse button in Firefox
2008-02-17 14:01:00
The middle mouse button has some special features that we may not know, or being disabled by default. Now, i would like to introduce some cool tips to use your middle mouse button in Firefox . There are few settings that you can make through about:config (type about:config in the address bar and hit enter): middlemouse.contentLoadURL - If ...
More About: Tutorial , Play , Button , Middle

How to create a random post bookmarklet button for your user?
2008-02-16 15:04:00
This tutorial show you how to create a StumbleUpon-like bookmarklet button for your blog, which will randomly choose an article from your blog when pressed. Do you use StumbleUpon? If you install StumbleUpon toolbar for your browser, you can press the Stumble! button to randomly jump to some websites. Now, i would like to create an ...
More About: Tips , Blogging , Post , Random , User

[Firefox3] How to set the limit of suggestions for address bar
2008-02-15 15:04:00
This tutorial will discuss on how to set the limit of suggestions for the address bar. It is very annoying if the suggestion list is too long. So, we try to limit the number of suggestion URL. Steps to follow Open your Firefox 3 and type about:config in the address bar and hit enter. Unlike Firefox 2, there ...
More About: Internet , Tips , Address

Hide image behind text using CSS
2008-02-14 15:04:00
Erik Kastner had create an interesting tool which can hide any image behind some text. You provide the URL of the image and the website will generate the code for you. When people open the website that contains the generated code, all they see is just few lines of plain text. They can only view the ...
More About: Internet , Text , Image , Hide

Issuu - Turn your PDF files to online books
2008-02-13 14:18:00
Issuu is a Web 2 .0 service which can convert any PDF files to online books. The interesting feature is it enable user who doesn’t install PDF plugin to view the book. When you upload your PDF document, Issuu will then convert it to a web based document, which require flash player to open. The converted document ...
More About: Internet , Design , Books , Online

Enhance your Firefox address bar with Autocomplete Manager
2008-02-12 11:29:00
Autocomplete Manager is a Firefox plugin which provide advance features for your Firefox address bar. The original Firefox address bar will try search from the history when we type. For example, when i type ‘tech’, it may shows me a list of URL which start from ‘tech’. But, it can’t provide me the URL that ...
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I install dofollow plugin as a reward for my commentators
2008-02-11 16:38:00
Hi, i just want to make an announcement that i had install dofollow plugin as a reward for my commentators. For readers who not really know what is dofollow, you may visit Big Bucks Blogger, it has a very details on how this plugin works and how to configure it. Besides this, i also activate my ...
More About: Wordpress , Plugin , Commentators , Reward

Firefly - Turn your firefox into Windows file manager
2008-02-11 11:57:00
Firefly is a Firefox extension that can turn Firefox into Windows file manager. There are many features which Windows file manager can’t provide. For example, Firefly allow user to split/add the view for more comfortable work. You can use Firefly to copy, paste, and cut your files from one folder to another folder. Rename/create new folders ...
More About: File , Manager , Firefly

How to add your own folder to ?Send To? menu?
2008-02-10 14:09:00
In this tutorial, i will teach you how to add customized folder to the “Send To” context menu. Step 1 First, you need to create a shortcut for the folder that you want to add in. Step 2 Go to Start -> Run, type sendto and hit enter. This will bring you the sendto folder. Step 3 Now, copy the shortcut ...SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "How to add your own folder to “Send To” menu?", url: "http://www.techsnack.net/how-to-add-your -own-folder-to-send-to-menu" });
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FireShot - Best Firefox plugin to capture website snapshot
2008-02-09 18:00:00
FireShot is a Firefox plugin which let you capture any website shapshot and you are able to perform simple editing to it. I had go through SuperScreenshot, which is a screenshot generator for website. But, if i want to add some text or comments on the image, i have to download the image and use any ...SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "FireShot - Best Firefox plugin to capture website snapshot", url: "http://www.techsnack.net/fireshot-best-f irefox-plugin-to-capture-website-snapshot " });
More About: Design , Website , Plugin , Capture

Moonk - Enhance your social profiles or blogs with flash contents
2008-02-09 07:59:00
Moonk is a web service which create flash contents for your social profiles or websites. You can use Moonk to create slideshow, videoshow, or jukebox. This Web 2 .0 service create slideshow from your favorite pictures, videoshow from your best videos, and jukebox from your greatest music hits. There are few ways that you can import ...SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Moonk - Enhance your social profiles or blogs with flash contents", url: "http://www.techsnack.net/moonk-enhance-y our-social-profiles-or-blogs-with-flash-c ontents" });
More About: Social , Internet , Flash , Blogs

ControlC - Save your clipboard text online automatically
2008-02-08 06:35:00
ControlC is an application which will monitor your clipboard and automatically uploaded any copied text and links to the server. The copied text and link can then be retrieved when you login to your account. With ControlC, you can actually store your copied text or links in the server and you can access them from any computers. By default, windows will only save the last copied item. So, you need to paste them to some text file before copy new item. It is very troublesome especially when we found something interesting in an article and we want to save some text from it. Let’s try ControlC and see how it works? Before you start using it, you need to create an account which is free (Use ‘beta4040′ as your invitation code). After you create your account, you can proceed to download the desktop client, which is available for Windows, Mac, and Linux. After you install the desktop client, you can then log-in with your email and password. When you copy any text or links, the des...
More About: Online , Text , Save , Clipboard

InstaPaper - Bookmark unread stories for later
2008-02-07 02:34:00
InstaPaper is a service where you can cerate a list of stories which you will read it later. Use the bookmarklet button to send any articles to your account and read them later. Still remember my article about how to forward good website to your email account? Basically, both of them let you save article for ...SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "InstaPaper - Bookmark unread stories for later", url: "http://www.techsnack.net/instapaper-book mark-unread-sotries-for-later" });
More About: Internet , Stories , Web 2

How to hide important information in an image file?
2008-02-06 03:44:00
This tutorial will discuss about how to hide a text file in a jpeg/bitmap image file. It can be done without any other application. Sometimes, we save our email-account and password inside a text file, but we scare other people get the file and then access our email. So, we always thinking method to protect our ...SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "How to hide important information in an image file?", url: "http://www.techsnack.net/how-to-hide-imp ortant-information-in-an-image-file" });
More About: Information , Tips , File , Image , Hide

Capture.net - An application which make live easier
2008-02-05 13:54:00
Capture.net is an application which contains a lot of useful utilities, such as advanced desktop calender which include alarm, screen capture, post-it notes, and much more. This small application contains a lot of desktop utilities which we may need everyday. As you can see, the three most obvious features is clock, calender, and ruler. ...SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Capture.net - An application which make live easier", url: "http://www.techsnack.net/capturenet-an-a pplication-which-make-live-easier" });
More About: Live , Capture , Make , Application

gDocsBar - Firefox sidebar to manage Google Documents
2008-02-04 11:57:00
gDocsBar is a Firefox extension which add a sidebar so that user can access their Google Documents instantly when needed. gDocsBar add functionality to your Firefox browser so that you can always access your Google Docs instantly. You can search through all your documents and filter them by type. You can also browse your documents ...SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "gDocsBar - Firefox sidebar to manage Google Documents", url: "http://www.techsnack.net/gdocsbar-firefo x-sidebar-to-manage-google-documents" });
More About: Gmail , Sidebar , Application

Increase your PC files copy speed with Fastcopy
2008-02-03 17:22:00
Fastcopy is an application which can copy or move files rapidly from one location to another location. It is a free application which you can bring it along with your USB flash drive. There are lots of application which claims that they can increase the files copy speed, such as Killcopy, Teracopy, and Fastcopy. I haven’t ...SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Increase your PC files copy speed with Fastcopy", url: "http://www.techsnack.net/increase-your-p c-files-copy-speed-with-fastcopy" });
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FileBox eXtender - Add favorites and recently accessed buttons to explorer
2008-02-03 02:17:00
This is a powerful application which add buttons to your standard window dialog boxes so that you can access your favorites and recently accessed folders quickly. If you always navigate through different folders to manage your files, you may need this powerful application. After you install the application, you can see 4 new buttons appear on ...
More About: Explorer , Application , Favorites , Extender , Recently