Notepad 2008 - A text editor with the Ribbon UI
Sep 29, 2008
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Like the ribbon in MS Office 2007? Well, here is text editor for you with a lovely ribbon interface - Notepad 2008. Notepad 2008 is slightly...
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Tile opened tabs in Firefox with Split Browser
Sep 27, 2008
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One of the latest features of Opera version 9.5 is the ability to arrange tabs in cascade or in a grid. Open source developers were quick to...
Track and recover stolen laptop with open source Adeona
Sep 27, 2008
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A few months ago I wrote how you can prevent laptop theft , track and recover stolen laptops with four different tools and services. Here is...
An open source tool to split and merge PDF files
Sep 26, 2008
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PDF Split and Merge or pdsam is a free, Java based open source utility to split and merge PDF documents. The program's interface looks ...
Reorder buttons in Windows taskbar with Taskix
Sep 25, 2008
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Taskix is an extremely small Windows program that allows you to reorder the buttons on your taskbar by simply dragging and dropping. If ...
Run Linux live CDs within Windows without a restart
Sep 24, 2008
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Sometimes you might want to run a Linux live CD but don't want to reboot your computer because you are working on something else. One so...
How to add a start page to your Blogger blog
Sep 24, 2008
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In Wordpress there is an option where you can choose what to display on your homepage - your blog posts, like everybody else, or a static pa...
Read deleted Wikipedia articles on DeletionPedia
Sep 22, 2008
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Wikipedia articles get deleted all the time. It's no secret. Articles that do not meet the relevant criteria for content of the encyclop...
How to create your own fractal wallpapers
Sep 21, 2008
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You must have seen this kind of unique wallpapers with colorful abstract patterns and intricate, complex designs. These are fractals. Fracta...
How to use a background image on an image
Sep 20, 2008
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Sometime earlier I showed how you can use background images to create cool effects on your website. Recently, I read a nice trick of using...
AIMP- An excellent Winamp clone and alternative
Sep 19, 2008
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When I first launched this application, the first thing that I noticed was it's striking similarity to Winamp both in terms of look and ...
Delete locked files on Windows with Unlocker
Sep 18, 2008
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Sometimes when you try to delete a file in Windows, you get an error message like: "Cannot delete file: Access is denied. There has bee...
Use your keyboard's Function keys to open bookmarks on Firefox
Sep 17, 2008
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The computer keyboard has 12 Function keys at the top numbered from 1 through 12. The purpose of function keys is to provide users with shor...
Combine several RSS feeds into one with RSS Mixer
Sep 17, 2008
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A new startup called RSS Mixer allows you to combine several RSS feeds from different websites into one, so that you have just one fat feed...
Gmail Labs new feature - Forgotten Attachment Detector
Sep 16, 2008
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Many of us has experienced this. We say that we are attaching a file to the mail and then send it without attaching it. A new experimental G...
Enhance Firefox Live Bookmarks with Boox
Sep 15, 2008
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If you use Firefox's Live Bookmarks to read RSS feeds, then you should try Boox. No wait, ... you shouldn't try it. You must use it...
I ditched VLC media player for GOM Player
Sep 15, 2008
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People usually have their choice of media players. For me, it was Winamp for audio and VLC media player for video. Winamp is still my favori...
GeoGebra - Co-ordinate Geometry on your PC
Sep 13, 2008
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GeoGebra is an award winning open source "dynamic mathematics software for schools that joins geometry, algebra and calculus", in...
Pixel Pick picks color from anywhere on the screen
Sep 13, 2008
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If you have ever worked on a graphics program for anything like designing a banner or retouching a photo, or designed a website, you must kn...
Tweak Windows functionality with Pitaschio
Sep 12, 2008
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Pitaschio is a small tool for Windows that greatly enhances the functionality and behavior of Windows by introducing a great number of smal...
Minimize full screen games to system tray with GameMinimizer
Sep 12, 2008
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Often games that run on full screen, which all most all games does, cannot be minimized to the taskbar. If you want to view the desktop or o...
Make web pages more useful on Firefox with Hyperwords
Sep 11, 2008
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Opera users have a very useful feature on their browser. When you select a word and right-click, the context menu shows some actions that yo...
How the LHC works? Learn it through a game
Sep 11, 2008
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September 10, 2008, i.e. yesterday, will go down into the books of science as one of the biggest day since the big bang, quite literally. Fo...
Control USB drive letter assignment in Windows with USBDLM
Sep 8, 2008
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When a removable drive like a pen drive or external hard disk is attached to the computer, Windows assigns it to the first available 'lo...
How to enable List view on Windows desktop
Sep 7, 2008
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In Windows explorer, there is a setting called View which allows you to change the icon size from "large" to "list" and ...
How to control your favorite media player from the taskbar
Sep 7, 2008
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Generally, people listen to music when they are working on their computers. The media player is usually running in the background or minimiz...
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