Showing posts from October, 2008

Create custom shell objects on Windows with Shell Object Editor

Oct 31, 2008 0 comments

Shell objects are special "hard links" or shortcuts to folders and applications on your Windows computer. An example of shell obje...

6 different ways to add Speech Bubbles to your photos

Oct 30, 2008 6 comments

A fun way to spice up your photos is to add a cartoon style speech bubble. In fact, some pictures are just incomplete without a speech bubbl...

Create beautiful charts online with ChartGizmo

Oct 29, 2008 1 comments

Need to create a quick bar chart or pie diagram to mail it to a friend? Why not do it online? Before this online-application craziness took ...

Launch programs and files by moving the mouse to the corner of the screen

Oct 29, 2008 0 comments

A simple, neat program called Hot Corners allows you to assign four different actions to the four different corners of the screen. When you...

3 Free open source alternatives to MATLAB

Oct 27, 2008 0 comments

Computer Science and Communication Engineering students must be familiar with a mathematical software called MATLAB. MATLAB is a numerical c...

Bug Shooting - The advanced screen capture tool

Oct 25, 2008 0 comments

Bug Shooting is a free screenshot capturing utility with many advanced features. Firstly, there are three different screen capturing modes ...

View your desktop without minimizing opened windows with DESKonTOP

Oct 25, 2008 1 comments

The original idea of placing shortcuts on the desktop was to allow the user quicker access to frequently used programs without having to nav...

How to move your HDD LED into a more visible position

Oct 23, 2008 2 comments

If you are using a typical computer desk, your cabinet is most likely placed underneath and sometimes completely hidden from view. In such a...

Reduce the size of portable applications with AppCompactor

Oct 23, 2008 0 comments

PortableApps.com, the biggest resource for portable applications, has come up with an amazing application - AppCompactor . AppCompactor allo...

Recover accidentally closed programs with GoneIn60s

Oct 22, 2008 0 comments

Sometimes you accidentally close a program and instantly realize that you didn't mean to close it. This usually happens when you have a ...

Gmail's new feature: Canned Responses

Oct 22, 2008 0 comments

There is an option is almost all cell phones to send pre-written text messages, often stored under a section "Templates". That...

Catalogue your DVDs for easier searching of files

Oct 21, 2008 0 comments

How do you keep track of what files and software are on each DVD? Do you have to shuffle through dozens of DVDs to find just one file? If yo...

Save pages by printing only what you need with GreenPrint

Oct 19, 2008 0 comments

Anybody who frequently uses a printer either at home or at office knows how much paper is wasted during printing. Useless paragraphs, unwant...

Avoid DLL hell. Find and remove unused DLL files

Oct 19, 2008 2 comments

Often when we uninstall a program we are presented with a dialog box that says "The following shared files are no longer used by any ot...

Incremental backup and file monitoring with FileHamster

Oct 18, 2008 0 comments

Sometimes when you are working on an important project it becomes necessary to create backups for every changes you make to your files. Othe...

How to import an Html table, list or feeds into a spreadsheet

Oct 16, 2008 1 comments

Google Spreadsheet has an extremely useful function that allows you to import various kinds of data into a spreadsheet file. Suppose you fin...

Unleash the interior designer in you with Sweet Home 3D

Oct 15, 2008 0 comments

Have you ever wanted to design your own home? Did you wish you had some way of visualizing how that couch would look against that wall or th...

3 cool image search engines to search images by content

Oct 14, 2008 0 comments

Searching for images online is trickier than searching textual content, simply because it's difficult to describe an image. To make it e...

Get thumbnail previews on Google search results in Opera and Firefox with Google Fx

Oct 13, 2008 2 comments

Do you know that you can run Greasemonkey scripts in Opera? Well, not all but most, and you don't need any additional plugins because Op...

Defragment individual files and free space with Defraggler

Oct 13, 2008 0 comments

Defraggler is a free defragmentation tool from the makers of CCleaner with one unique feature - the ability to defragment individual files....

5 Free tools to synchronize files between computers

Oct 11, 2008 10 comments

Those who work on multiple computers know how useful it is to keep your data synchronized between the computers. Imagine how frustrating it ...

Diplodocs - Read the Manual Before You Buy

Oct 10, 2008 0 comments

I have always advised people to research and read reviews before buying any stuff. Plenty of user reviews are available on the Internet, wri...

Get the word at the tip of your tongue with Reverse Dictionary

Oct 10, 2008 0 comments

If you hear or read a new word you can look up at a dictionary to learn what it means. It's easy. But often the opposite happens - you w...

Download 5 full commercial games for free, legally

Oct 7, 2008 3 comments

Rejoice gamers for Game Shadow, a game review and download website, has made available for download not one or two but five full commercial ...

How to sync subtitles to a video permanently

Oct 6, 2008 19 comments

When you load subtitles of a video in a media player, often you will find that the subtitles are out of sync. All media players that support...

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