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Google Earth now shows real time weather

Jul 31, 2010 0 comments

Google Earth has always been a great tool to explore the world. But now you can use it to explore weather patterns around the globe too. A ...

Microsoft Office

Microsoft’s interactive menu to ribbon guide for Excel, PowerPoint, Publisher and OneNote 2010

Jul 31, 2010 0 comments

Shortly after releasing The Word 2010: Interactive menu to ribbon guide , Microsoft has made available similar guides for the remaining soft...

Software

Comodo Programs Manager – Software uninstaller and Windows tweaker

Jul 31, 2010 0 comments

Comodo Programs Manager is the latest free software to join the ever growing Comodo’s product family. Comodo Programs Manager is designed to...

Software

FluentNotepad - Notepad with the Ribbon interface

Jul 31, 2010 0 comments

FluentNotepad is a simple, stylish Notepad application for Windows with the famous Microsoft Office Ribbon interface. Not the first Notepad ...

Software

Automatically remove ads from recorded TV programs with Lifextender

Jul 30, 2010 0 comments

Lifextender is a free, open source application that can remove advertisements from recorded TV shows that were recorded either through Windo...

Browsers

Leaked IE9 build reveals new download manager and start page

Jul 30, 2010 0 comments

Images of what appears to be an early build of Internet Explorer 9 has been leaked by a Chinese website . The screenshots reveal a new downl...

Software

Run Windows XP/2000 application on Win98/Me with KernelEx

Jul 29, 2010 4 comments

KernelEx is a fascinating open source project that aims to resurrect a dead operating system. KernelEx enables machines running Windows 98 a...

Software

Run Mac widgets on Windows with Kludgets Engine

Jul 29, 2010 0 comments

Kludget Engine is a widget engine for the Windows platform that enables Windows users to run MacOS’s Dashboard widgets. Although Kludgets En...

Microsoft Office

Microsoft’s interactive guide to Office 2010’s Ribbon interface

Jul 29, 2010 0 comments

Still struggling your way around the Office Ribbon interface that was introduced in Office 2007 and continued to Office 2010? Microsoft is h...

Software

Animated Weather Forecast desktop application

Jul 29, 2010 0 comments

Animated Weather Forecast is a software application for Windows that brings weather information to the desktop in the form of self explainin...

Software

System Silencer performs multiple actions when your computer idles

Jul 29, 2010 0 comments

System Silencer is a helpful little utility that can perform a multitude of different actions after your computer goes idle. On a typical mo...

Software

Google Reader Play on Windows 7 Media Center

Jul 28, 2010 0 comments

Sometime ago Google introduced a new way to read Google Reader – Google Reader Play. On Google Reader Play you can browse the news in slides...

Giveaway

Free iSkysoft DVD to iPhone Converter for Windows and Mac

Jul 28, 2010 0 comments

Looks like iSkysoft is really celebrating about something. This is their third giveaway ( earlier giveaways ) in less than 2 months. The iS...

Software

CleverPrint – Print multiple pages on one sheet, remove graphics, add watermarks and more

Jul 28, 2010 0 comments

CleverPrint is a printing application that enables users to control how and what they want to print. It’s smarter than your average printer ...

Internet

Wolfram Alpha launches embeddable widgets

Jul 28, 2010 0 comments

Analytical search engine Wolfram Alpha today started offering web users widgets that they can put on their sites and provide visitors with c...

Software

Automatically answer incoming Skype calls from selected contacts with Skype Auto Answer

Jul 27, 2010 2 comments

Skype has an auto answer feature that automatically picks up the call whenever an incoming call to your computer is detected. While it does ...

Internet

Record and edit Skype Video Calls with VodBurner

Jul 27, 2010 0 comments

Vodburner is a free software that enables Skype users to record video calls for free. The software also comes with a set of video post-produ...

Software

Clementine – Attractive cross platform music player based on Amarok 1.4

Jul 27, 2010 0 comments

Amarok 1.4 was arguably one of the best music players produced during recent years. Then sometime around 2008, the Amarok team decided to mi...

Articles

Add images to web pages without hosting them on servers [data URI]

Jul 26, 2010 0 comments

Did you know you can embed images in HTML pages or blogs, right there within the page, without linking them to an external server? That mean...

News

Embed YouTube videos using IFRAMES

Jul 24, 2010 2 comments

YouTube just introduced a new video encoding method by which users will now be able to embed videos in blog post and HTML pages using IFRAM...

Giveaway

Free download Auslogics BoostSpeed 5 SE [Full Product]

Jul 24, 2010 1 comments

DownloadCrew.co.uk is giving away fee copies of Auslogics BoostSpeed 5 SE which normally retails at $49.95. The offer is valid till July 31,...

Blogging

How to access your Google Analytics account from Excel

Jul 23, 2010 3 comments

Google allows you to download reports from your Analytics account as CSV sheets which you can open in any spreadsheet program like Microsoft...

Gadgets

India unveils $30 tablet PC

Jul 23, 2010 0 comments

The Indian government today unveiled a low cost tablet PC designed specifically for students. The device which is expected to ship by 2011, ...

Geeky Fun

GUI interface using VB to track a killer’s IP Address is available

Jul 23, 2010 1 comments

At last, somebody did it. Somebody finally did it. Yes, somebody actually wrote a GUI interface using VB to track an IP Address. If you have...

Browsers

Hide app updates, notification, news feeds from Facebook wall with Fluff Busting Purity

Jul 22, 2010 0 comments

Yesterday, I wrote about FFixer , a Greasemonkey script that greatly enhances Facebook (my favorite is full image pop-up on mouse hover; sav...

News

StackVM makes virtual machine sharable and accessible from web browsers

Jul 22, 2010 3 comments

Latvian programmer and geek Peteris Krumins along with his American partner James Halliday are working on an pretty neat project called Stac...

Browsers

Save bookmarks in Firefox by date with DSBMarks

Jul 22, 2010 0 comments

DSBMarks is an add-on for Firefox that lets you save your bookmarks in a different way. Rather than organizing them by folders, DSBMarks aut...

Ebooks

2 Free Microsoft Office 2010 ebooks from Microsoft

Jul 21, 2010 0 comments

Microsoft is offering users plenty of resources and guides for their latest Office product – Microsoft Office 2010. Most of them are online,...

Educational

SpeedCrunch is an open source power calculator for those who can’t remember formulas

Jul 21, 2010 1 comments

SpeedCrunch is an open source, cross platform calculator designed for power users who struggle with formulas like volume of sphere and surfa...

Browsers

FFixer – A Facebook enhancing Greasemonkey script

Jul 21, 2010 0 comments

FFixer, previously known as Facebook Fixer, is a userscript that enhances your Facebook experience by adding a ton of features to the site. ...

Browsers

Dell launches Firefox based free Secure Browser

Jul 21, 2010 0 comments

Dell in collaboration with the recently acquired KACE network just released a free browser for safer Internet browsing. Dell’s free browser,...

Astronomy

Launch your own satellite for $8000

Jul 21, 2010 0 comments

Forget personal cell phone towers . Forget even laser guns . If you have the moolah you can now launch your very own satellite. Price: $8000...

Linux

Damn Vulnerable Linux is the most vulnerable OS in the world

Jul 20, 2010 1 comments

Security experts and fanboys can argue as long as they want upon the question of the most vulnerable (or secure) operating system in the wor...

Software

Wondershare Time Freeze Free protects your system from changes

Jul 20, 2010 0 comments

Wondershare Time Freeze Free is a software that essentially freezes your computer in time by allowing you to install software, run applicati...

Games n Leisure

Free full game Alien Swarm released on Steam

Jul 20, 2010 0 comments

Alien Swarm, which started out as an Unreal Tournament mod, is today a full blown multi-player shooter game that just got released in its en...

News

Goodbye A-Squared. Welcome Emsisoft Anti-Malware and Free Emergency Kit

Jul 19, 2010 0 comments

Early this month Emisoft Software announced that they would phase out the popular antivirus product A-Squared and replace it with two new p...

Software

System Nucleus – All-in-one Windows diagnostic, backup and management tool

Jul 19, 2010 0 comments

System Nucleus is an all-in-one, all powerful Windows administration software that serves as the “nucleus” of your entire computer system. S...

Microsoft Office

How to embed a font in Word document or PowerPoint slide

Jul 19, 2010 0 comments

When you create a Word document or a PowerPoint presentation on a computer that uses a particular set of fonts, those fonts may not look the...

India

How to type the Indian Rupee symbol - Rupee Font, PSD and more

Jul 18, 2010 8 comments

The Indian Rupee Symbol was finalized a few days ago by the Union Cabinet. The country didn’t have an international symbol until now. Previo...

Astronomy

Microsoft creates Terapixel image of the night sky

Jul 18, 2010 0 comments

After treating amateur astronomers like us with high resolution images of Mars, the Microsoft Research team has come up with another project...

Giveaway

Norman Security Suite 8 [DnBNOR Edition] Free for 4 years

Jul 17, 2010 1 comments

Norman Security Suite 8 DnBNOR edition is a special edition of the latest version of Norman Security Suite that is being offered by the com...

News

Reddit proves Alexa, Compete and Quantcast wrong, once again

Jul 16, 2010 7 comments

I have never believed figures provided by web traffic estimators like Alexa, Compete and Quantcast. My personal opinion is that it’s impossi...

Internet

Email files to Dropbox using Send to Dropbox

Jul 16, 2010 1 comments

Send to Dropbox is a new service that allows you to upload files to your Dropbox account via email from any computer. A major advantage of u...

Announcement

Winners of Daniusoft Video Converter Ultimate Giveaway

Jul 16, 2010 0 comments

Early this week we teamed up with Daniusoft to giveaway 5 licenses of Daniusoft Video Converter Ultimate . We received 66 entries. Thanks t...

Geeky Fun

A Progress Bar for your Work Day

Jul 15, 2010 1 comments

Do you frequently keep checking your watch to see how many hours are left before you can finally call it a day, pack your things and go home...

Internet

Sunbelt Software launches CloudClear, a DNS server with malware protection

Jul 15, 2010 0 comments

Security software publisher Sunbelt Software unveiled a new DNS service called ClearCloud that provides an extra layer of security for web ...

Software

Windows Live Essentials Wave 4 offline installer

Jul 14, 2010 3 comments

Microsoft always offers the Live Essential suit in the form of web install. But some of us prefer to keep an offline installer – it’s faste...

Software

Paragon Go Virtual - Create virtual clone of a physical PC

Jul 14, 2010 0 comments

Paragon Go Virtual is a brand new software from the popular Paragon Software Group, that lets users migrate a physical computer into a virtu...

Links

10 short links for today #40

Jul 14, 2010 0 comments

Since I haven’t posted a link collection in a while, I will try to make up by publishing 10 links in place of the usual 5. 1. Apollo Image...

Software

BlackBox Security Monitor – Monitor user activity on a network

Jul 14, 2010 0 comments

BlackBox Security Monitor is a kind of spy application software that allows administrators to monitor and oversee user activities on other c...

Software

Standalone Photoshop-like Color Picker

Jul 13, 2010 3 comments

Often designers get so used to Adobe Photoshop’s interface that anything different feels totally alien. This is where you might find Photosh...

Giveaway

Free Amazon Prime account for US students

Jul 13, 2010 0 comments

Being a student is advantageous these days, at least in the United States. There are enticing student discounts from Microsoft for various p...

Giveaway

Free download iSkysoft iPhone Video Converter

Jul 13, 2010 1 comments

Shortly after starting the free iSkysoft FLV Converter giveaway , which is still active, iSkysoft has come up with yet another giveaway of a...

Giveaway

Free download Genie Backup Manager Home Edition 7

Jul 13, 2010 0 comments

Genie-Soft, the makers of backup solutions like Genie Backup Manager and Genie Timeline, is currently giving away free license keys of Genie...

Software

Create Ken-Burns style video slideshows from pictures with PhotoFilmStrip

Jul 12, 2010 5 comments

Creating video slideshows from your images is not a big deal. You can easily do that with even rudimentary tools like Windows Movie Maker or...

Internet

Sound Alert when Internet disconnects with NetSNSOR

Jul 12, 2010 8 comments

Ever set a movie to download, turned off your monitor and came back an hour later equipped with a bag of popcorns only to find the download ...

Giveaway

License Giveaway and Review: Daniusoft Video Converter Ultimate

Jul 12, 2010 1 comments

Daniusoft Video Converter Ultimate, formerly called Daniusoft Media Converter, is a software application that carries a spectacular set of t...

Browsers

Remove your ex-partner from the Internet with Ex-Blocker

Jul 10, 2010 0 comments

You can’t remove your ex from your past or erase them from your memory, but thanks to the wonders of technology, you can definitely delete t...

Internet

Google Maps get 45 degree angle imagery

Jul 10, 2010 0 comments

For years, Google Maps showed only rooftops of city houses. Starting today, you will be able to view the sides too and count the number of w...

Software

Free version of PowerArchiver 2010 released

Jul 10, 2010 0 comments

PowerArchiver 2010 Free is the latest version of the powerful file compression utility that comes free of cost for personal use. Many of the...

News

YouTube now plays 4096p videos

Jul 10, 2010 2 comments

Got tired of 1080p videos already? Listen to what Google did today – they added support for playing videos all the way to 4096p on YouTube. ...

Firefox

Watch Hulu from outside US without proxy or VPN

Jul 10, 2010 14 comments

Stop press! A Reddit user has discovered a way to watch streaming content on Hulu from outside US without resorting to any of the typical ...

Software

Widestream – Open source download manager and FTP explorer

Jul 9, 2010 0 comments

WideStream is an open source download manager, FTP manager, FTP explorer, Host manager and URL crawler all bundled into one, and it manages ...

News

Microsoft hands over Windows 7 source code to Russia

Jul 9, 2010 0 comments

Russian publication Vedomosti reported on Wednesday that Microsoft had agreed to open up the source code of Windows 7, Windows Server 2008,...

Software

Open source hardware sensor monitor

Jul 9, 2010 0 comments

Some of you like open source software and many of you prefer open source over anything. So here you are, an open source hard sensor monitor ...

News

Rich text signatures comes to Gmail

Jul 9, 2010 2 comments

Those who were waiting to get nice, formatted and colorful signatures on your outgoing Gmail emails, wait no more because Google just enable...

Software

Make Windows remember window position, size and more with Winsize2

Jul 8, 2010 4 comments

When you open a program, resize the window and move it to one corner of the screen you expect the program to remember that position when you...

Software

Quickly switch between different public DNS servers

Jul 8, 2010 2 comments

Lately a number of free public DNS servers have emerged offering you a range of features from simple speed up of DNS look up to adding prot...

Windows 7

New update to improve Windows 7 backward compatibility

Jul 8, 2010 0 comments

A new update was made available by Microsoft for Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 operating system that is designed to advance the back...

Software

Shotwell is a simple, open source image manager and viewer

Jul 7, 2010 0 comments

Shotwell is a photo organizer and viewer that runs on both Windows and Linux operating system. It comes with a photo manager that allows you...

News

Antivirus included in Lavasoft Ad-Aware Free

Jul 7, 2010 0 comments

Lavasoft has released Ad-Aware Free Internet Security 8.3 that includes two major updates – antivirus support and a scheduler. The antivirus...

Software

Microsoft launches free web development tool WebMatrix [Screenshots]

Jul 7, 2010 0 comments

Microsoft has just launched a totally awesome free web development suite called WebMatrix that provides an all-in-one solution for building ...

Games n Leisure

NASA releases free game Moonbase Alpha

Jul 7, 2010 0 comments

NASA has debuted its first game Moonbase Alpha that allows players to assume the role of an astronaut and part of an exploration team in a f...

News

Windows 7 Professional at $29.99 for US students

Jul 6, 2010 0 comments

Microsoft always has the sweetest deals for schools and college students. In a new initiative called College Ready – Career Ready , Microsof...

Software

Startup MessageBox Maker displays custom messages at Windows logon

Jul 6, 2010 1 comments

If your computer has multiple users, like those on family PCs, you can display messages or what is known as “legal notices” to each user whe...

Software

Style Jukebox - The next generation media player

Jul 5, 2010 0 comments

Style Jukebox is a new media player for Windows, the beta version of which became available just the other day. The application is designed ...

Software

Buzz Folders – File Open/Save Dialog Box Extender

Jul 5, 2010 1 comments

The Libraries feature on Windows 7 is useful but not enough, because it doesn’t give me access to the most recently used folders. When I w...

Gadgets

7 alternative firmware for wireless routers

Jul 4, 2010 20 comments

There are several open source and actively developed, wireless router firmware projects created by people not affiliated with the manufactur...

Internet

5 best wardrobe management software for managing clothes and accessories

Jul 4, 2010 7 comments

Do you have a hard time deciding what to wear when you go out? Which shirt to wear and which trousers, tie and shoes will go along with it? ...

Software

Access recently modified, created files with Piles

Jul 2, 2010 0 comments

Usually when you are working on your computer, you like to keep your work-in-progress files close at hand. I have come across people who dum...

News

Blogger introduces real time web analytics

Jul 2, 2010 3 comments

Google Analytics is an excellent visitor tracking and web analytics software that many of us use. But the drawback of this otherwise power t...

News

SleepServer keeps PCs working while they sleep

Jul 1, 2010 0 comments

A new software called SleepServer developed by Yuvraj Agarwal, a research scientist at the University of California, San Diego, allows perso...

Browsers

Combine several bookmarklets into one. Save toolbar space

Jul 1, 2010 1 comments

There are all sorts of bookmarklets that add all sorts of functionality to the browser. Thanks to the versatility of JavaScript, the functio...

Microsoft Office

How to use AutoCorrect to draw tables in Word 2007

Jul 1, 2010 0 comments

There are several different ways to create a table in Word 2007 and 2010. Apart from the traditional method of inputting the number of rows ...

Software

Troubleshoot and unlock locked domain accounts with Lock out fixer

Jul 1, 2010 1 comments

Windows 2000 introduced a new security feature called ‘account lockout’ that disables a user account when a certain number of failed logons ...

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