Download and backup Windows Live Space blog to your computer
Sep 30, 2010
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Microsoft has announced that they would shutdown their blogging platform Windows Live Spaces and migrate all users to Wordpress, which is no...
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Destroy entire websites by shooting rockets with a bookmarklet
Sep 29, 2010
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Here is a fun time waster: head over to http://erkie.github.com/ and drag the bookmarklet on the page to your browser’s bookmark toolbar. T...
Google Translate's Conversation Mode
Sep 29, 2010
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Google showed off a new application that translates conversations on Android mobiles at a recent conference in Germany. Instead of typing th...
OpenOffice leaves Oracle. Forks LibreOffice
Sep 29, 2010
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A group of developers from OpenOffice.org has decided to break free of Oracle, the company that owns OpenOffice.org, and released their own ...
‘Chromoting’ lands in Google Chrome. Your browser is now the operating system
Sep 28, 2010
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Over the last few years the browser has become the predominant application on your computer – it’s importance has started to eclipse the ope...
GWatchman: Get Gmail and Google Reader desktop notifications
Sep 27, 2010
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There are several Gmail desktop notification software (see end of article). Then there are programs to get Google Reader news alerts as we...
2 Ways to move installed applications to another drive
Sep 27, 2010
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If you ran out of space on your primary partition because you installed too many applications on it, there are two methods to relocate the a...
Words that Google Instant won’t auto-search
Sep 25, 2010
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Google’s latest search incarnation Google Instant is being extra careful on what it suggests to users. Although the regular Google search o...
Got a school email ID? Get 25+ Autodesk products for free
Sep 25, 2010
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The Autodesk Student Community was launched in 2006, with the idea of providing a place where students and faculty can download selected Aut...
DnsSpeeder speeds up DNS lookup through local DNS cache
Sep 25, 2010
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One sure-fire way to speed up DNS lookups from your computer is to setup a DNS proxy server or DNS cache locally on your computer. The local...
Adobe’s Plenoptic Lens system could refocus photos after you shoot them
Sep 25, 2010
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Traditional cameras use a single lens or rather a single lens system to produce an image of the subject on the camera’s sensor or film. A pl...
Jump Control adds shutdown, restart, sleep and logoff to Windows 7 taskbar
Sep 24, 2010
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Jump Control is a simple tool that lets you shutdown, restart, hibernate, sleep, lock, logoff or switch user on a Windows 7 machine from th...
Automatically categorize start menu programs with Handy Start Menu
Sep 24, 2010
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Even though on the Windows Vista and Windows 7 start menu it require far less effort to find a program, thanks to its search-as-you-type fea...
Yadis Backup: Free, automatic, real-time backup software
Sep 24, 2010
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Some data changes at such a fast rate that scheduled backups are just not enough. For example, files and documents you are currently working...
Backup any folder to Dropbox with Dropbox Folder Sync
Sep 24, 2010
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Dropbox might be the most popular online file synchronizing and backup tool, but it sure misses some very basic features. Multiple folders b...
Mark Zuckerberg edges past Steve Jobs in rich man list
Sep 23, 2010
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Forbes has just released their annual list of richest man in the United States. The list is topped by – no wonder – Bill Gates who retained ...
Force Internet Explorer to always use Google Chrome Frame to view webpages
Sep 23, 2010
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Google today released Google Chrome Frame to the beta channel allowing millions of Internet Explorer users who couldn’t or haven’t upgraded...
Google Chrome Frame brings Chrome’s rendering engine to Internet Explorer
Sep 23, 2010
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Internet Explorer users who are stuck with an older version of the browser and cannot upgrade or switch to another browser has a solution –...
SlimCleaner: Community supported PC cleaning and optimization
Sep 22, 2010
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SlimCleaner is a system cleaning and maintenance utility for Windows that makes use of user ratings to help you decide which items should be...
Canonical demonstrates context aware user interface
Sep 22, 2010
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Canonical recently demonstrated a system which detects user movements through a web cam and uses it to interact with programs running on the...
Google introduces two-step authentication for Google Apps
Sep 21, 2010
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Google on Monday announced the addition of new security layer to user logins -- a two-step authentication process that requires a combinati...
Create collapsible/expandable sections in Word documents with More Addin
Sep 20, 2010
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More in an interesting add-in for Microsoft Word for creating collapsible/expandable sections within a Word document, the kind we frequently...
Wondershare Video Converter Ultimate is free for a week
Sep 20, 2010
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The guys over at Wondershare is organizing a giveaway for Wondershare Video Converter Ultimate, a total solution for DVD ripping, video/audi...
5 full version Ashampoo software available for download
Sep 20, 2010
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Software publisher Ashampoo is giving away the full version of 5 of their popular software products over at their website. The 5 products th...
Delete Files By Date
Sep 20, 2010
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Delete Files By Date is a free program that allows you to search files by date in one or multiple locations and delete the same. The program...
Get Google Calendar sound alerts on your desktop
Sep 18, 2010
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Google Calendar has three way of notifying you upcoming calendar events and appointments. One is the regular email alerts and the other is p...
Track flights in near real-time with Google Earth
Sep 18, 2010
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Google has announced the availability of a new data layer for Google Earth which shows all commercial flights currently above the US, with a...
Open large text files without application freezing
Sep 18, 2010
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Most text editors are incapable of handling text files that are hundreds of Megabytes in size. Attempting to open such files usually result ...
3 tools that let anybody upload files to your Dropbox account
Sep 17, 2010
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Dropbox is a great service for file backup and sharing but not everybody uses it. This becomes a problem when you need somebody to send file...
How to customize your website’s JumpList for IE9 site pinning
Sep 16, 2010
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One of the killer feature of Internet Explorer 9 is website pinning. You can drag the favicon of any site from IE9’s address bar and drop it...
Internet Explorer 9 keyboard shortcuts
Sep 16, 2010
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Microsoft released the first beta of Internet Explorer 9 just a few hours ago. The entire Internet is abuzz with it – reviews, demos and be...
Keyboard shortcut to copy text without the formatting in Chrome
Sep 16, 2010
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This has happened to all of us when writing an email or composing a blog article – you try to copy some text from a webpage but when you pas...
Splashtop Remote brings full Windows experience to the iPad
Sep 15, 2010
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Wouldn’t it be great if you could run Windows 7 on your iPad or even Linux? You will be able to watch Flash videos, play games and do all th...
HTC styled clock and weather gadget for Windows desktop
Sep 15, 2010
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HTC Home for Windows is a free desktop version of the distinctive HTC clock that comes with all HTC mobile devices. The stylish clock and we...
Graph Your Inbox is like Analytics for Gmail
Sep 15, 2010
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Graph Your Inbox is a Google Chrome extension that allows you to plot on a graph any activity on your Gmail account over time. Activities i...
How to completely remove background from an image in Photoshop
Sep 15, 2010
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Sometime you may want to remove the white content or background from an image and fill it with another color. The quickest solution is to lo...
Convert any web-hosted file into a Torrent with Burnbit
Sep 14, 2010
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What is the easiest way to share a file with several users without making the file server buckle under the load of everybody trying to downl...
BitMeter OS: Open source, remote bandwidth monitor
Sep 13, 2010
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BitMeter OS is a free, open-source, bandwidth monitoring application for Windows, Linux and Mac OSX. BitMeter OS keeps track of the bandwidt...
How to lock down Chrome from insecure plug-ins
Sep 13, 2010
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Malware writers often target vulnerabilities in browser plug-ins such as Adobe Flash and Java. Undisclosed vulnerabilities and zero-day expl...
Chrome extension brings ‘Instant’ search to Wikipedia, Amazon, Twitter, Facebook and more
Sep 13, 2010
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Google Instant has inspired many to create ‘instant’ search engines for popular websites like YouTube , Google Maps and Google Images . Yo...
LongoMatch: Free sports video analysis software
Sep 12, 2010
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In high-level sport, the use of new technologies to improve the performance of a team or an athlete is becoming increasingly common. In team...
How to replicate Windows SteadyState in Windows 7
Sep 12, 2010
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Last week, Microsoft announced that the company would stop offering Windows SteadyState come December 31, 2010. Windows SteadyState is a pro...
FeedDemon 3.5 Pre Release is out with new features
Sep 10, 2010
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My beloved and the world’s best feed reader has just seen a new update after a long hiatus. The project’s sole developer, Nick Bradbury, an...
Make Google Instant work in Opera
Sep 9, 2010
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As you might have already heard, Google today introduced a new search enhancement feature called Google Instant that displayed search resul...
Download YouTube video captions as subtitles (SRT) file
Sep 9, 2010
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Last year, YouTube introduced automatic audio transcription for videos, called Closed Captions. Powered by Google's automatic speech rec...
Google Scribe brings text/phrase autocompletion anywhere on the web
Sep 9, 2010
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Do you wish your text editor offered more than just a spellchecker, suggestions maybe? Do you want to quickly type a word or a phrase withou...
Try out Google Instant Search now: Search as you type
Sep 9, 2010
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Google has been experimenting with real-time search results for a while now. This next generation update for search went officially live tod...
Does your computer randomly play classical music?
Sep 8, 2010
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Can a computer start playing classical music at random, out of the blue? If it does, it is surely a sign of malware infection, right? Althou...
Microsoft releases automated physical-to-virtual migration tool for Windows 7
Sep 8, 2010
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Last week, Microsoft released a new tool that could help users stuck on Windows XP or Windows Vista make the jump to the latest iteration of...
Get Google Voice missed calls email notifications
Sep 8, 2010
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Google recently integrated Google Voice into Gmail allowing users to make phone calls right from within Gmail’s interface. The new phone ca...
View Gmail’s Priority Inbox from mobile phones
Sep 8, 2010
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As you may be aware already, Google recently introduced a new feature called Priority Inbox on Gmail. The feature intelligently segregates ...
5 alternatives to Windows SteadyState for Windows 7
Sep 7, 2010
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Windows SteadyState , for those who are not informed, is a free utility from Microsoft that gives administrators enhanced options for config...
Winners of WinX DVD Ripper Platinum
Sep 6, 2010
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Here are the results of last week’s WinX DVD Ripper Platinum giveaway contest. The following 25 contestants have won a lifetime license of ...
Get alerted whenever Google collects data about you
Sep 6, 2010
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Given the ubiquitousness of Google’s services – search, maps, Gmail, Analytics - the company can collect huge amount of information about yo...
ToneCheck checks tone of your email. Stops you from being aggressive
Sep 6, 2010
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Ever sent a seemingly harmless email with good intentions but all it did was cause upset because you didn’t use the right phrases? Written c...
WinX DVD Author available for free for a limited time
Sep 5, 2010
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A quick heads up for our readers: Softpedia is giving away the full version of WinX DVD Author, no strings attached. The promotion is likely...
Backup and restore Windows MBR with MBRWizard
Sep 4, 2010
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Those who are unfamiliar, the MBR or master boot record is a 512-byte boot sector that resides in the first sector of a hard disk and which ...
FreshStart: The nicest session manager for Chrome
Sep 4, 2010
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There are a couple of Chrome extensions that let you save and restore browsing sessions. FreshStart is the best one that I could find. What ...
Create your own Face Movie with Picasa 3.8
Sep 3, 2010
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Last month Google released a new version of Picasa , the image organizer and viewer, with several new features like Picnik integration and b...
Get back the classic network activity system tray icon in Windows 7
Sep 3, 2010
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The blinking network activity icon that you used to have in Windows XP and earlier is missing in Windows 7. You can get that helpful indicat...
6 free music notation software or scorewriters for Windows (and Linux)
Sep 2, 2010
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A scorewriter or music notation software is an application used for creating sheet music. A scorewriter is to music notation what a word pro...
Google Chrome now tells you if a website is inaccessible
Sep 1, 2010
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When a website does not open, web browsers throw a general “website not found” or “server not responding” message. Such messages are vague a...
Customize appearance of any webpage in Chrome with Stylebot
Sep 1, 2010
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Stylebot is a Stylish like extension for Google Chrome browser that allows you to quickly customize the appearance of any website or webpa...
WinX DVD Ripper Platinum: Review and Giveaway
Sep 1, 2010
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WinX DVD Ripper Platinum is a commercial DVD ripping software for Windows that can rip the content of DVDs to all popular video formats suc...
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