Showing posts from January, 2009

Calculate the best distance to watch a TV from

Jan 31, 2009 1 comments

How far away should you sit when you watch TV? Does it hurt to sit too close to the TV? While studies indicate that watching TV does have de...

Tools that remind you to take computer breaks

Jan 30, 2009 1 comments

Working on a computer for long hours can cause several health problems – eye strain, headache, backache, burning eyes and so on. The only wa...

Attribute Changer – Change file and folder attributes

Jan 30, 2009 5 comments

Attribute Changer is small freeware application for Windows that allows users to easily change attributes of files and folder via the conte...

FileMenu Tools – A toolbox of utilities for the context menu

Jan 28, 2009 3 comments

Do you use Windows Explorer’s context menu? I do and very often, because it’s so much easier to manipulate files and perform operations. I h...

Breadcrumb navigation for Firefox

Jan 28, 2009 0 comments

The breadcrumb navigation technique is a very useful interface design that allows users to keep track of the current location when they have...

TaggedFrog – Tag any files by keyword

Jan 26, 2009 0 comments

You have tagged music files with library managers, you have tagged images with image managers, now tag any kind of files with TaggedFrog . T...

Ground Zero – Visualization of a nuclear catastrophe on Google Maps

Jan 26, 2009 2 comments

Have you ever wondered what would happen if a nuclear bomb goes off in your city? Not many people brings such pernicious thoughts to their m...

SuperCopier - Pause, save and resume file copy operations

Jan 26, 2009 2 comments

A large number of people use a certain application called TeraCopy for copying files faster. You must have heard about it and probably usin...

21 places to swap used books and DVDs

Jan 24, 2009 3 comments

A famous English writer, poet and artist by the name of John Ruskin once said, “ If a book is worth reading, it’s worth buying ”. While that...

Virtual Drive Creator – GUI for SUBST command

Jan 23, 2009 0 comments

The SUBST command for DOS, IBM OS/2 and Microsoft Windows operating systems is a very useful command that allows the creation of virtual dri...

5 free portable application suites

Jan 22, 2009 2 comments

If a flash drive is one of those accessories that stays with you at all times, why not use it to carry your favorite applications around, so...

Find and remove broken links from your website with Xenu's Link Sleuth

Jan 17, 2009 1 comments

Have you ever experienced this: you arrive at a page from the search engine (or from another website) and find links pointing to other sites...

Loudtalks – The Internet walkie-talkie

Jan 17, 2009 3 comments

Loudtalks is a simple, free, walkie-talkie style communication tool that allows you to talk with your buddies without having to go through ...

How to take screenshots of an entire webpage

Jan 17, 2009 3 comments

Sometimes, the desktop screenshot utilities are not enough when you want to take screenshot of a webpage, because these tools can capture ...

Microsoft Songsmith composes music as you sing

Jan 15, 2009 0 comments

The latest software to come out from Microsoft is not an operating system or an office suite but an amusing musical software that CNET aptl...

TrayPodder adds Vista like checkboxes and full row selection in Windows XP Explorer

Jan 15, 2009 2 comments

Windows Vista’s Explorer has a very useful checkbox feature that allows you to select multiple files without having to hold down the Ctrl ke...

SpeakLike – Automatic email translation

Jan 15, 2009 0 comments

While machine translation services like Google Translate and Babylon are very handy to quickly translate and read foreign language websites,...

How good are your geometric intuition?

Jan 13, 2009 0 comments

Have you ever hung a photo frame on a wall? Can you hang it straight or is it always askew no matter how hard you try? Can you point the cen...

Automatically restart crashed applications with Application Monitor

Jan 13, 2009 0 comments

What do you do when an application you are using crashes? You restart it, of course. Wouldn’t it be nice if the application could restart it...

WikiPad – The wiki type note taking application

Jan 12, 2009 0 comments

Using note-taking applications, or outliners, is always a better way of organizing your thoughts, ideas, todo-list etc. Instead of creating ...

Enounce MySpeed – Change playback speed of online videos

Jan 10, 2009 4 comments

One of the features that video sites like YouTube, DailyMotion, Google Video and such lack is the ability to control the playback speed of t...

How to change Windows Photo Viewer slideshow interval

Jan 10, 2009 4 comments

Even though there are tons of image viewers available for Windows, I like the one that is bundled along with it – the Windows Picture and Fa...

ExtractNow unzips multiple archives at once

Jan 8, 2009 1 comments

Some time ago, I downloaded a pack of web templates consisting of more than a few dozen templates and found that each of these templates was...

Diagram Designer – Flowchart and schematic diagram creator

Jan 8, 2009 1 comments

Diagram Designer is a simple vector based graphics tool that can create all kinds of diagrams and charts like flowcharts, schematic designs...

Free Studio Manager – 20 audio/video utilities in one

Jan 7, 2009 1 comments

Free Studio Manager is collection of 20 free audio and video tools combined into a single package. With Free Studio Manager you can convert...

Add speech bubbles to any YouTube videos with Tube Popper

Jan 6, 2009 1 comments

Tube Popper is an online service that gives you an opportunity to cartoonize YouTube videos by adding comic book style speech bubbles or su...

Appetizer – An application launcher for Windows

Jan 5, 2009 0 comments

I have brought to you a number of application launchers in the past (look at ‘Related’ at the end of the article). Here is another one to ad...

NoteLens – A wonderful note taking application

Jan 2, 2009 1 comments

If you frequently use text files to take notes or use sticky application to keep notes on your desktop, you will appreciate NoteLens. NoteLe...

FreePOPs brings any web resources to the inbox

Jan 2, 2009 0 comments

Many email providers still do not provide POP access to its free users. Yahoo Mail is one example. FreePOPs is an extensible mail proxy tha...

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