Showing posts from April, 2010

New Google Script Converter converts texts and pages phonetically

Apr 30, 2010 1 comments

Google India today launched a fascinating new tool called Script Converter that converts texts in one script to its phonetic equivalent in ...

Firefox’s new Addon Manager [screenshots]

Apr 30, 2010 1 comments

Along with theme redesign the Firefox team is also working on a new Addon Manager which just became available on nightly builds.

ProgressBar Clock

Apr 29, 2010 0 comments

ProgressBar Clock is a transparent, aero-style desktop clock for the geeks. It’s a normal clock that shows seconds, minutes, hours, years, m...

A timeline of Facebook's changing Privacy Policy

Apr 29, 2010 1 comments

During the past few months Facebook has re-written it’s privacy policy several times. Each new edit stirred new privacy concerns among users...

Backup and restore installed drivers with Double Driver

Apr 29, 2010 0 comments

Previously we wrote about a software called Driver Magician that can extract installed device drivers, backup them and restore whenever req...

Nokia loses phone prototype, asks nicely to return

Apr 28, 2010 0 comments

Close on the heels of the stolen iPhone 4G event, another major cell phone manufacturer seems to have misplaced their latest phone prototype...

MonkeyFly turns Twitter into dashboard-style web application

Apr 28, 2010 0 comments

If you find Twitter’s default interface insipid, here is a simple way to make your Twitter experience similar to most Twitter web applicatio...

Bccthis lets you send secret emails from Outlook, Gmail

Apr 28, 2010 0 comments

Bccthis is a free tool that allows a user to append a private note for a subset of recipients in a group email without having to compose a s...

AeroZoom turns Windows 7 Magnifier into a presentation tool

Apr 27, 2010 1 comments

AeroZoom is a simple AutoHotKey program that enhances upon the new Magnifier in Windows 7 to turn any mouse into a presentation tool where z...

How to remove watermark from an image or picture

Apr 27, 2010 210 comments

A watermark is any recognizable text, logo or pattern that appears over an image to identify the owner of the image and generally used to pr...

Add color, change Windows 7 folder icons with Folderico

Apr 27, 2010 1 comments

Previously we featured software such as iColorFolder and Rainbow Folders to add color to Windows folders . Folderico is another utility that...

Geocities-ize any website

Apr 27, 2010 0 comments

Geocities-izer is a tool that makes any web page look “like it was made by a 13 year-old in 1996” – awful colors, illegible text and animat...

Free iPad Video Converter

Apr 27, 2010 0 comments

Can’t get your videos working on the iPad? You have to convert them into a compatible format first. Although there are a large number of vid...

Find what people are sharing on Facebook

Apr 26, 2010 0 comments

Likebutton.me is a new website that shows what people are sharing or “Liking” on Facebook across several websites like YouTube, CNN, Huffing...

Relocate Windows Users profile directory

Apr 24, 2010 0 comments

A very bad practice among majority of Windows users is using the My Documents or Documents folder to store personal files and the biggest pe...

Hubble Telescope completes 20 years

Apr 24, 2010 0 comments

Today the Hubble Space Telescope completed a major milestone – 20 years of amazing service to science. On April 24, 1990, NASA launched the ...

5 short links for today #35

Apr 24, 2010 0 comments

1. How to Install Android On An iPhone 2G : I hope you have already heard the biggest story of the week, the hacking of iPhone to install An...

India introduces the first ever sensible Copyright Reform Bill

Apr 23, 2010 0 comments

The Union government of India introduced the Copyright Amendment Bill, 2010, in the parliament on Monday with some major amendments over the...

Lazy Click - Easy link clicking on touch screens [Firefox]

Apr 23, 2010 0 comments

You know, those smart phones with touch screen interface… and how difficult it is to click on links on a page especially if you have fat fin...

How to add Facebook Like button to Blogger, Wordpress and websites

Apr 23, 2010 7 comments

Recently Facebook launched the Like button for the web that enables users to share a page directly on Facebook. As a blogger or webmaster yo...

Android running on iPhone. Steve Jobs goes insane

Apr 22, 2010 4 comments

Okay, the second part of the title is just a prediction of what would happen when the news carried by the first hits him. It’s true, Android...

Buggy McAfee update screws Windows XP machines. Here is the fix

Apr 22, 2010 0 comments

If you are using McAfee anti-virus products on Windows XP and sincerely auto updating virus definition files every day, you might not be rea...

Google shows information takedown requests received from Governments

Apr 21, 2010 0 comments

Today, Google launched a fascinating new tool in the form of a map listing requests received from various government agencies for removal o...

DevVicky Word, a free word processor

Apr 21, 2010 4 comments

DevVicky Word is a new free word processor for Windows that supports a wide variety of document formats, most notably DOCX, and comes with a...

New UI concepts for Firefox 4 [Screenshots]

Apr 21, 2010 0 comments

Mozilla has been experimenting with new themes for Firefox 4 for some time . The new theme for Firefox is designed to modernize the web brow...

Google’s re-designed search page is LIVE

Apr 20, 2010 0 comments

Just noticed that Google’s latest re-design of their search results page is now live. Nothing dramatic, just a few changes. A new Google l...

OSM – Customizable HTML5 media player for websites

Apr 20, 2010 0 comments

HTML5 provides option to embed video files in web pages without using Flash or any other streaming media technology. This allows visitors us...

Chemitorium – 3D visualization of molecules

Apr 20, 2010 0 comments

Chemitorium is a wonderful free organic chemistry analysis and visualization tool that lets you can draw chemical formulas and then generate...

View 65 years of RadioShack catalogs online

Apr 20, 2010 1 comments

RadioShack, the electronics retail store chain, has over a thousand outlets and over four thousand company-owned stores all over the United ...

Microsoft Fix It automatically troubleshoot Windows problems

Apr 19, 2010 3 comments

Microsoft is beta testing Fix-It Center, a tool which automatically detects and fixes several common computer problems that may affect your ...

YoWindow – Beautiful weather reports on desktop or screensaver

Apr 19, 2010 0 comments

YoWindow is a weather application that tells you the present weather, as well as the forecast of coming days, on any place around the globe....

Hide files within other files with Plain Sight

Apr 19, 2010 0 comments

There could be several reasons why you might want to hide files on your computer. It could be files containing sensitive information if you ...

Launch applications with the Numeric key pad using ControlPad

Apr 19, 2010 0 comments

ControlPad is a small light weight application written in AutoHotkey that turns the numeric keypad on your keyboard into a quick launcher fo...

FreeApp automatically downloads and installs multiple programs at once

Apr 16, 2010 3 comments

FreeApp is a free tool that automatically downloads some of the best freeware programs available and silently installs them on your computer...

MSN Video Player to start streaming full length movies

Apr 16, 2010 0 comments

Microsoft disclosed in an announcement that its MSN Video Player service would start showing full length movies from Paramount Pictures.

Kylo, the web browser for big screens

Apr 16, 2010 1 comments

Kylo is a free web browser based on Mozilla designed specifically for web surfing on a big screen, such as your wall mounted living room HDT...

Take screenshots and annotate on Google Chrome

Apr 16, 2010 0 comments

Explain and send screenshots is a dead simple and extremely useful screenshot taking extension for Google Chrome. With this extension you ca...

Download VLC Media Player 1.1.0 with GPU acceleration

Apr 16, 2010 0 comments

The first public release of VLC Media Player 1.1.0 Pre-build with support for GPU acceleration is available for download. With the ability ...

SpyBubble – Spy or eavesdrop on any mobile phone

Apr 15, 2010 5 comments

Note: The product has since been updated and doesn't have stealth capabilities. Please visit the product's website to learn more. Ja...

Guess the sample and win a Netbook

Apr 15, 2010 0 comments

Remember ASPEX Corporation, the guys who accepts any material from people, scans them with an Electron Scanning Microscope and publishes the...

5 short links for today #34

Apr 14, 2010 0 comments

1. Solar Beat is a project by White Vinyl Designs that tries to find that out by converting the planetary system into a type of music box. ...

Funny way to test how your site looks on the iPad

Apr 14, 2010 0 comments

Recently a bogus web application stated making rounds on the Internet, (thanks to many high profile tech blogs who wrote about the applicati...

Add new entries to Windows 7 desktop context menu

Apr 14, 2010 0 comments

The desktop context menu is the next best place to keep your programs and files shortcuts, because it keeps your desktop clean. Now there is...

Manage and edit form entries in Firefox with Form History Control

Apr 14, 2010 0 comments

Firefox like all browsers has the ability to remember form inputs by the user. Previously entered inputs are displayed in a drop down menu w...

How to make the footer stick to the bottom of a page

Apr 12, 2010 0 comments

The footer on a web page begins where the main page content ends. Unlike the page header which always sticks to the top of the page irrespec...

SyncDesk synchronizes files using an external disk

Apr 12, 2010 0 comments

Last week I showed how to synchronize files across multiple computers through a USB Flash drive using SyncSharp. SyncDesk is another open s...

Tabbles, a file tagging software inspired by WinFS

Apr 12, 2010 0 comments

Tabbles is a relational file management software for Windows that gives you a taste of what WinFS would have been if Microsoft hadn’t kicked...

Learn to play the piano with Synthesia

Apr 11, 2010 0 comments

Synthesia, formerly called Piano Hero, is a free program plus game that teaches you to play the piano using visual cues like falling notes. ...

Cuil launches Cpedia. Conforms to Cuil standards

Apr 11, 2010 2 comments

Remember Cuil, the search engine that was launched with much hype but never came even close to being a Google-killer? You would have thought...

Motorola’s SIM protection lets parents limit cell phone use by children

Apr 10, 2010 0 comments

Motorola is planning to release a new kind of product that will allow parents control who their children call on their phone and even interc...

A demo of Internet Explorer 9 hardware acceleration

Apr 10, 2010 0 comments

We all have to agree that the Internet Explorer team is doing a great job, this once, with IE9. Those who are not aware, IE9, which Microsof...

How to add images to sitemaps

Apr 9, 2010 1 comments

Sitemaps are an invaluable resource for search engines, and an important part of a website. They allow search engines to discover contents o...

Forward ports easily with Simple Port Forwarding

Apr 9, 2010 0 comments

Many people struggle with forwarding ports even though there are hundreds of guides and tutorials on the Internet. If you are using a router...

Gmail adds Nested Labels and Message Sneak Peek

Apr 9, 2010 2 comments

Gmail today added two extremely useful and functional features to Labs. You know Labs, right? The first one is Nested Labels. Yup, that’s ...

Make Firefox remember zoom levels, colors for a site

Apr 8, 2010 0 comments

Some websites have awful designs – weird color schemes and ridiculously small fonts that’s impossible to read without bringing tears to your...

Mighty Box, an application launcher

Apr 8, 2010 0 comments

Mighty Box is an open source application launching utility for Windows, that is touted as the Windows version of the QuickSilver software fo...

First Anti Virus for iPad available

Apr 8, 2010 0 comments

With 300,000 iPads sold within the first few days and the device jailbroken within 24 hours, it’s never too early to start taking preventive...

Hardware accelerated Adobe Flash Player 10.1 RC available for download

Apr 7, 2010 0 comments

Adobe has unveiled the next release of Flash Player 10.1, a major improvement over previous versions, as a release candidate. The new Flash...

Picasa Web Albums limit increased to 10,000 albums

Apr 7, 2010 0 comments

Those who use Picasa web album extensively to store pictures online must be pissed by the arbitrary limit of 1000 Google has placed on the n...

How to synchronize multiple computers that are not connected to a network

Apr 7, 2010 0 comments

Most file synchronizing application assumes you have your computers networked with each other either through the Internet or through a loca...

Subscribe and download Podcasts with Juice Receiver

Apr 6, 2010 7 comments

Juice is a cross-platform, open source aggregator for discovering and downloading online podcast media files. Essentially Juice Receiver is ...

ZeuAPP – A collection of 80+ freeware programs

Apr 6, 2010 1 comments

Previously we wrote about a program called FreewareUpdater that helps you find and install some of the most popular freeware applications. ...

Tweak Alt+Tab settings with Alt+Tab Tuner

Apr 6, 2010 0 comments

Alt + Tab Tuner is a small tool that allows you to access several hidden settings related to the Alt+Tab program switching shortcut of Windo...

Add Picasa images to your blog from Windows Live Writer

Apr 5, 2010 0 comments

Although all pictures on your Blogger blog are stored on Picasa web album, there was no direct way of embedding existing pictures on Picasa ...

PenyuUSB disables USB ports, protects with password

Apr 5, 2010 3 comments

Disabling USB ports on a computer by the administrator is easy and well documented on Microsoft’s support site . But protecting USB ports wi...

What’s inside the iPad?

Apr 4, 2010 0 comments

Most people would never dream of taking apart a $500 toy the very first day of buying. But Do-it-yourself website iFixit, which publishes se...

DScaler is a must have for TV tuner cards

Apr 3, 2010 0 comments

Most lower end TV tuner cards in the range of $10 to $20 give poor performance, but their quality is not because of bad hardware but terribl...

The only iPad review you need to read

Apr 3, 2010 0 comments

Okay, so you have read some 303,628 iPad reviews so far. The iPad has been covered by everyone from Stephen Colbert to Cory Doctorow to Mike...

Opera after Microsoft again. Says browser-ballot is hidden by IE wizard

Apr 3, 2010 0 comments

Microsoft's troubles over the browser ballot screen is not over yet. According to a report published in The Register , Opera Software in...

SplitBrowser brings multitasking to iPad

Apr 3, 2010 0 comments

As you know, Apple’s latest gizmo the iPad doesn’t support application multitasking throwing users back into the primitive age. But a Portug...

7plus – Extra features for Windows Explorer

Apr 2, 2010 0 comments

7plus is small program written in Autohotkey that adds a number of features to Windows Explorer and modifies Window file handling behavior. ...

Quake2 running in browser using HTML5 and GWT

Apr 2, 2010 2 comments

The Google Web Toolkit (GWT) team has developed something that truly shows off what this engine is capable of doing. They have ported Quake2...

BBox Audio Player

Apr 1, 2010 0 comments

BBox is a free music player for Windows that looks more like MS Office than a music player, thanks to it’s ribbon based interface. In fact, ...

Free download MAGIX Movie Edit Pro 15 Silver

Apr 1, 2010 0 comments

MAGIX Movie Edit Pro 15 is a professional video editing software that lets you easily edit videos, movies, photos, and audio from a wide ran...

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