Showing posts from October, 2009

Windows 7 Logon Screen Rotator

Oct 30, 2009 0 comments

Yesterday I wrote about Windows 7 Logon Screen Editor . Today I bring you Windows 7 Logon Screen Rotator. As the name implies, Logon Screen ...

Connectify turns your Windows 7 computer into a WiFi router

Oct 30, 2009 2 comments

Connectify.me is a new application that enables any Windows 7 computer or laptop with a wireless network interface card to be used as a Wifi...

Decreased Productivity – Stealth browsing in Firefox

Oct 30, 2009 0 comments

Looking for ways to bluff at work and secretly browse the web? You are lucky you came here. We have extensive guides to help employees goof...

Taskbar Meters: Cool CPU and Memory usage meter for Windows 7

Oct 29, 2009 0 comments

One application that resides permanently on my system tray is the Task Manager icon, that displays CPU utilization. I have been doing this e...

Change Logon Background with Windows 7 Logon Screen Editor

Oct 29, 2009 0 comments

A small but fantastic change in Windows 7 is that it officially supports changing of logon background screens. The only way to do it however...

Oxelon Media Converter – Convert media files from Explorer context menu

Oct 28, 2009 6 comments

Oxelon Media Converter is an audio/video file converter software that I fell in love with at first sight. It’s neat, spartan interface appea...

Windows 7 Transformation Pack for Ubuntu

Oct 27, 2009 2 comments

A year ago we saw how we could make Linux look like Windows XP . Now a new transformation pack is making rounds - the Windows 7 Transformati...

5 short links for today #19

Oct 26, 2009 0 comments

1. I'm up here, boys : “ Windows 7 launch is a lot like seeing an old girlfriend suddenly show up on your doorstep …”. Possibly the best...

Automatically move/copy files by extension with DropIt

Oct 26, 2009 0 comments

DropIt is a simple tool for Windows that let users automatically move or copy files to different folders based on their file extension, by d...

c2i GMailNotifier for Windows 7

Oct 26, 2009 0 comments

c2i GMailNotifier is yet another Gmail notifier that integrates with Windows 7.  Although we saw Gmail Notifier Plus integrate better with...

Building Generator scripts for Blender and 3DS Max

Oct 26, 2009 1 comments

Computer generated imagery (CGI) and 3D animation is not everybody’s playground. It’s true that 3D modeling software today are earlier to us...

Windows Double Explorer – Dual panel Windows Explorer

Oct 24, 2009 2 comments

Windows Double Explorer is a file explorer for Windows that lets you view two Windows Explorer windows side by side. Most third party file e...

Create a bootable Windows 7 installation USB with Windows 7 USB/DVD Download

Oct 24, 2009 1 comments

When you purchase Windows 7 from Microsoft Store, you have the option to download an ISO file or compressed files. You have to burn that ISO...

ATI Tray Tools for ATI Radeon video cards

Oct 23, 2009 0 comments

If you own an ATI Radeon graphics cards, you will like ATI Tray Tools. (NVidia user? nHancer is best for you.) ATI Tray Tools is an advan...

How to create and use a system repair disc in Windows 7

Oct 23, 2009 0 comments

Windows 7 has a utility that lets you create a system repair disc. The system repair disc allows you to recover your data in the event of a ...

Windows Access Panel – Simplified control panel for Windows Vista and 7

Oct 23, 2009 0 comments

The control panel for Windows Vista and 7 is so crowded that it’s hard to find the controls or settings you are looking for. Often it requir...

Volery, the single installer for popular application, is now Ninite and open to all

Oct 23, 2009 1 comments

Recently, an online service called Volery received quite a rave among tech websites (no, we didn’t cover it). Volery allowed users to downlo...

AnyToISO – CD/DVD image format converter

Oct 22, 2009 0 comments

Often optical disc image creating software defines and uses its own proprietary image format. This is especially true for commercial softwar...

Dead Man's Switch emails key persons if something bad happens to you

Oct 22, 2009 0 comments

Ever since computers and the Internet touched our lives, we have been living almost two lives in parallel. Our online lives revolve around s...

GB-PVR – Media Center and Personal Video Recorder

Oct 21, 2009 0 comments

GB-PVR, as the name says, is a PVR (personal video recorder) and media center application for Windows, whose main function is scheduling TV ...

Manage documents on desktop and online with Mendeley

Oct 21, 2009 1 comments

Mendeley is a free, cross platform software that organizes and manages your documents both on the desktop and online. Mendeley was originall...

How to bring back the shutdown confirmation box in Windows Vista and 7

Oct 20, 2009 2 comments

In Windows XP, when you click on “Turn Off” from the start menu you are shown a confirmation dialog box from which you are able to choose di...

Skylight application launcher

Oct 20, 2009 0 comments

Skylight is an application launcher for Windows that can be used to launch application, search files, look up meanings of words in online d...

SBar Taskbar Replacement - Windows 7 task bar features in XP and Vista

Oct 20, 2009 0 comments

One of the most noticeable improvement in Windows 7 is the task bar, rechristened as ‘Superbar’. The thick glassy task bar with features lik...

Windows System Control Center, control panel for Sysinternals and Nirsoft utilities

Oct 16, 2009 0 comments

Windows System Control Center is a wickedly useful control panel for Windows. No, this is not another system tweaking, registry tampering ap...

Copy changed files

Oct 15, 2009 0 comments

Copy changed files is a free Windows utility that does what it says. It monitors a directory and whenever it detects any files being changed...

MiniMap plugin for Visual Studio, jEdit and Emacs

Oct 15, 2009 0 comments

MiniMap is a plug-in available for Visual Studio and text editors jEdit and Emacs, inspired by the MiniMap feature of another text editor - ...

Remove nag screens or automate mouse clicks with ClickOff

Oct 15, 2009 0 comments

Shareware programs are usually as good as freeware except their nag screens that splashes right in the center, disrupting your work and forc...

K-Sketch – Sketchy animation tool for novices

Oct 15, 2009 0 comments

Animation is a powerful communication and visualization medium but accessible only to a few because most animation tools are extremely compl...

AVI ReComp makes unplayable AVI files playable in DVD players

Oct 14, 2009 0 comments

Let me clear this before you get all excited. No, you cannot play AVI files if your DVD player does not support MPEG4. There is no workaroun...

Move or backup emails from one account to another with MailCarbon

Oct 14, 2009 0 comments

Migrating from one email account to another is tough. It’s like moving to a new house, only harder. The thing is, no email service provider ...

5 short links for today #18

Oct 13, 2009 0 comments

1. Wikirage is a site that tracks the pages in Wikipedia which are receiving the most edits over various periods of time. Popular people in...

Animated [b2] Gmail Notifier

Oct 13, 2009 2 comments

[b2] Gmail Notifier is a funny way to check new emails. It’s a free Adobe AIR based Gmail notifier for Windows, Linux and Mac that alerts yo...

WinExt – Gnome like horizontal top bar for Windows

Oct 13, 2009 1 comments

WinExt is a free software for Windows that docks a horizontal launch bar to the top (or bottom) of the screen, much like the horizontal menu...

Sublime Text - text editor for Windows

Oct 12, 2009 3 comments

Sublime Text is a text editor for Windows intended to be used by programmers, developers, and in fact anybody who need to work with text. In...

7 stacks – Icons stack for Windows

Oct 12, 2009 0 comments

Remember Standalone Stack , the Mac OS X like stack for Windows? Here is another one – 7 stacks. 7stacks is a free application that lets W...

Open source DVD authoring software AVStoDVD

Oct 10, 2009 2 comments

The DVD authoring software market is so sparse that you can count all of them on your finger tips. Most of these are commercial programs and...

Brief – What Firefox’s feed reader should have been

Oct 9, 2009 1 comments

One of the features that has undergone virtually no improvement is the Live Bookmarks - the RSS feed reader of Firefox. Live Bookmarks is un...

Disk2vhd converts physical disk into virtual disk for use in virtual machines

Oct 9, 2009 0 comments

In a virtual machine setup, sharing files and programs between the host machine and the virtual machine is bit of a bother. You can share fo...

DVD43 decrypts encrypted DVDs on the fly

Oct 9, 2009 0 comments

DVD43 is a fantastic little tool that integrates into Windows XP, 2000 and Vista and overrides DVD Video copy-protection and DVD Region limi...

Decrypt HTTP traffic with web debugger Fiddler

Oct 7, 2009 3 comments

Most people just couldn’t fathom how complicated the web is. From the time a user types the URL into the browser’s address bar and hits Ente...

Send letters from Google Docs, email and more via PostalMethods

Oct 7, 2009 1 comments

Traditional postal mails, the ones made from dead trees, is one of those few pre-Industrial Revolution technologies which has survived the d...

Matt's System Helper-Outer

Oct 6, 2009 0 comments

Matt's System Helper-Outer is a useful program that makes launching common Windows system tools and executing Windows console command a ...

4 advanced command prompt alternatives for Windows

Oct 3, 2009 10 comments

I know you are used to the mouse and clicking of buttons to run programs and tasks. So these tools aren’t for you. But if you are an IT admi...

5 short links for today #17

Oct 3, 2009 1 comments

1. Google Holiday Logos : An archive of all special occasion Google logos celebrating holidays, birthdays and other events. The archive dat...

Create abstract digital sketches with Alchemy

Oct 2, 2009 0 comments

Are you a digital artist running out of ideas? Do you want to create some abstract designs but don’t know from where to start? Try Alchemy. ...

How to play games and surf at work yet look busy

Oct 1, 2009 3 comments

Every office has an evil creature called the boss. He makes rounds in the office spying on what people are doing, and oh! here he comes. Dra...

Scan Tailor - Post-processing tool for scanned pages

Oct 1, 2009 0 comments

When you scan a page, the scanned output usually includes regions you would like to omit - the edges of the page, for instance. Also the sca...

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