Showing posts from March, 2011

Testing Confirms Samsung Not Installing Keyloggers

Mar 31, 2011 0 comments

A hue and cry was raised this week when Mohamed Hassan, founder of security consultancy NetSec, accused Samsung of secretly installing keylo...

Download All Fonts on Google Font Directory

Mar 31, 2011 0 comments

Google Font Directory offers web designers a variety of stylish fonts that they can include on their websites and web applications without p...

Check Your Samsung Laptop For Secret Keyloggers

Mar 31, 2011 0 comments

Network World has reported that Samsung has been installing keyloggers in their laptops to monitor the performance of the machine and gathe...

Get Back Tools Menu And View Menu in Firefox 4

Mar 29, 2011 1 comments

Firefox 4 no longer displays the Menu Bar by default. Instead, there is an “App Menu Button” at the top with Firefox written across it, clic...

April Fools' Day Giveaway: Wondershare iMate, Amazon Gift Cards And Discount Coupons

Mar 29, 2011 0 comments

Wondershare, whose software we have written about and gave away a number of times in the past, has organized a giveaway on the occasion o...

Fake Your Location in Firefox With Geolocator

Mar 29, 2011 5 comments

The new breed of web browsers include a feature called Geolocation that enables websites to tap into the new geolocation API in HTML5 to det...

Amazon Launches Free Cloud Storage and Music Streaming

Mar 29, 2011 2 comments

Amazon has just launched a free cloud storage service called Cloud Drive along with Cloud Player that allows customers to use Amazon’s onl...

Different Ways to Read New York Times For Free

Mar 29, 2011 8 comments

If you haven’t already heard, the New York Times website has introduced a paywall that limits visitors to only 20 articles per month. After ...

WebReader: Google Reader Desktop Software

Mar 28, 2011 0 comments

WebReader is an Adobe Air based Google Reader client for the desktop designed to facilitate easy reading and management of Google Reader sub...

Facebook for Google Chrome Extension

Mar 28, 2011 0 comments

Facebook for Google Chrome extension is a wonderful way to stay connected to your Facebook account at all times, no matter which website yo...

Windows 7 Taskbar as CPU Temperature Indicator

Mar 28, 2011 0 comments

Previously I wrote about a freeware tool that shows RAM usage in use in Windows 7 taskbar . The creator of this tool has come up with a anot...

My Movie Library: The Best Movie Collection Organizer

Mar 28, 2011 4 comments

Several times I considered making a catalogue of movies I own, but each time I was put off by unintuitive software that makes me do all the ...

Get Notifications For Updated Chrome Extensions

Mar 26, 2011 0 comments

Google Chrome browser auto-updates whenever new versions become available, and so are the extensions that you may have installed. Unlike oth...

Windows 8 Gets “Restore to Original Factory Settings” Button

Mar 26, 2011 1 comments

A new leaked screenshot, purported to be from Windows 8 Milestone 2 (M2), shows the System Restore options in the upcoming version of Window...

DraftSight: Free CAD Software For Windows And Linux

Mar 26, 2011 0 comments

DraftSight is a professional-grade, free 2D CAD software from the creators of SolidWorks, for CAD professionals, students and educators that...

BabelMap: Complete Unicode 6.0 Character Map For Windows

Mar 26, 2011 0 comments

BabelMap is a comprehensive, free character map application for Windows that allows you to browse through the entire Unicode character reper...

Customize Firefox 4 Appearance With Stratiform

Mar 25, 2011 0 comments

Stratiform is an extension for Firefox 4 that allows you to customize the appearance of different elements of the browser such as toolbar, ...

qBittorrent: Open Source Alternative to uTorrent

Mar 25, 2011 1 comments

qBittorrent is an easy to use BitTorrent client that comes the closet to what uTorrent has to offer, both in terms of appearance and functi...

Fix Blurry Fonts in Firefox 4 With Anti-Aliasing Tuner

Mar 24, 2011 2 comments

Users who have upgraded to Firefox 4, particularly those who are on Windows, have noticed that fonts on webpages are blurred that makes read...

Update to Support Indian Rupee Symbol in Windows 7/Vista/Server 2008

Mar 24, 2011 3 comments

Microsoft has just issued an update for Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 and for Windows Server 2008 R2 that adds support for ...

YouTube Video Editor Gets Video Stabilization and 3D Video Creator

Mar 23, 2011 0 comments

Google has taken their cloud based video editing solution, YouTube video editor , a step towards becoming a full blown video editing softwar...

Marine Debris Tour on Google Earth

Mar 23, 2011 0 comments

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has created a KML tour for Google Earth that lets you explore the hundreds and th...

BitDefender TrafficLight: Cross-browser Anti-Malware Tool

Mar 23, 2011 0 comments

Romanian security software company BitDefender has introduced a new malware fighting tool named TrafficLight that intends to block web threa...

View Facebook Photos in Windows Media Center With Photato

Mar 22, 2011 0 comments

Windows Media Center with its 10-foot interface is an awesome replacement for the living room TV. Not only can it play movies on your hard d...

Sumatra Releases PDF Plugin For Firefox, Chrome, Opera

Mar 22, 2011 4 comments

Sumatra PDF Reader’s sole developer Krzysztof Kowalczyk has announced the release of a new version of the light-weight PDF reader for Windo...

Recharge Prepaid Mobile Online For Free at Freecharge.in

Mar 21, 2011 5 comments

Almost all mobile service operators in India offer facilities to recharge their prepaid accounts online through credit card, bank transfer a...

How to Compare Two Excel Sheets Cell by Cell

Mar 21, 2011 9 comments

Sometimes you may need to compare two Excel sheets for difference in data. Manually doing this would be extremely tiring particularly if the...

BitNami: Automated Installers For Wordpress, Blogs, Forums And Other CMS

Mar 21, 2011 0 comments

BitNami is an open source project that provides free, automated multiplatform installers for popular open source web application such as blo...

TaskUnifier: To-Do Task Manager And Toodledo Desktop Client

Mar 19, 2011 4 comments

TaskUnifier is a free task management software for Windows based on the well known Getting-Thing-Done principle that also syncs to the cloud...

Nuclear Power Plant Simulator Game

Mar 19, 2011 0 comments

In the wake of the recent Japanese Nuclear Reactor crisis , I present you the Nuclear Power Plant Simulator – a hazard-free version of the ...

Add Subtitles to PowerPoint Embedded Video and Audio

Mar 18, 2011 0 comments

STAMP is a subtitling Add-In for Microsoft PowerPoint 2010 that allows users to add closed captions or subtitles to video and audio files i...

33mail: Free Personal Temporary Email Service

Mar 18, 2011 4 comments

Disposable email addresses is one good way to fight spam. A typical disposable or temporary email service allows you to generate random emai...

Lunascape to Donate to Japan For Every Free Download

Mar 18, 2011 2 comments

A number of organization is either donating to the Japan crisis or organizing donation camps. Microsoft donated $100K towards Japanese relie...

Speckie: Spell Checker For Internet Explorer 9

Mar 17, 2011 3 comments

Internet Explorer 9 may have come a long way from the dreaded version 6, but it still needs to work on some of the basics. How about a spell...

Home Pregnancy Test Kits Have More Processing Power Than Early Desktop Computers

Mar 17, 2011 2 comments

Ever since the invention of the integrated circuit by Jack Kilby in 1958, for which he was awarded the Noble Prize in Physics, these tiny si...

QTTabBar - Tabs in Explorer. Now Supports Windows 7

Mar 17, 2011 0 comments

We mentioned QTTabBar in a previous post about useful Windows Explorer plugins . That was three years ago and the plugin was for Windows XP....

Real-Time Map of Japanese Radiation Levels, Wind Patterns And Tokyo Blackouts

Mar 17, 2011 33 comments

The Fukushima Power Plant located in the Futuba District of Japan has sustained severe damage in the March 11 earthquake and radiation level...

Windows 8 'Aero Lite' Theme For Windows 7

Mar 17, 2011 0 comments

Recently, a couple of leaked images of a new Windows 8 build revealed a new visual style named ‘Aero Lite’. The theme features some flat Met...

Stunning Saturn Fly-by Video Created Using Actual Photographs

Mar 16, 2011 0 comments

The following fly-by video of Saturn wasn’t created with 3D computer graphics, but by assembling thousands of high-resolution still photogra...

Create Beautiful Music by Slowing/Stretching Sound

Mar 16, 2011 1 comments

Remember video cassette players and how they produced funny, hurried-up versions of videos and music when the tape was sped up with the Play...

Quickly Access Facebook Chat Emoticons And Smileys

Mar 16, 2011 0 comments

Like many chat programs such as Yahoo messenger, Facebook Chat too supports a number of emoticons. These emoticons are automatically convert...

Free One Month Hulu Plus And Other Offers With Internet Explorer 9

Mar 16, 2011 0 comments

Microsoft has partnered with several websites and web services, among which is Hulu, to bring exciting offers in order to promote their late...

WeatherSpark: Weather History, Forecast And Visualization

Mar 15, 2011 0 comments

We have featured quite a number of weather applications in the past (see end of article), but WeatherSpark has to be the coolest weather we...

Rapportive Puts Contact Info of Sender in Gmail Sidebar

Mar 15, 2011 0 comments

Rapportive is a new browser plugin for Firefox, Chrome and Safari that replaces the ads in your Gmail inbox with a short biography of your ...

Get Windows XP’s Paint Interface in Windows 7

Mar 15, 2011 0 comments

The ribbon interface was introduced nearly four years ago with MS Office 2007, and since then found its way into several Microsoft programs ...

10 New and Free Windows 7 Themes

Mar 15, 2011 0 comments

Here is another collection of newly released Windows 7 themes . If you like them, be sure to checkout the previous collections: first , seco...

RIOT: Optimize Images While Keeping Under File Size

Mar 14, 2011 0 comments

Radical Image Optimization Tool (RIOT for short) is a free image optimization program that lets you visually adjust compression parameters ...

BitThief Downloads Torrents Without Uploading

Mar 14, 2011 3 comments

The BitTorrent protocol is based on peer-to-peer file sharing where a “swarm” of users download and upload files at the same time enabling d...

Free Netherlands Based VPN Service

Mar 12, 2011 5 comments

Prox Network is offering free VPN service for anonymous browsing with servers located in Netherlands. Prox Network, which runs a network of ...

Hotmail Alias Users, Beware Of Your Signature

Mar 11, 2011 4 comments

Microsoft recently introduced an email alias feature for Hotmail which let people create multiple Hotmail addresses tied to the same accoun...

Watch NASA TV in Windows Media Center

Mar 11, 2011 1 comments

NASA TV often provides real-time coverage of agency activities and missions, such as the recent landing of Space Shuttle Discovery and live ...

Google Allows Users to Block Sites in Search

Mar 11, 2011 1 comments

For the past few months, Google has been under fire for degrading quality of search results and proliferation of content farms and scrappers...

Microsoft Paint Interpreted As Music

Mar 10, 2011 1 comments

Many audio editing programs, such as Adobe Audition and the open source Audacity, allows you to import RAW, unprocessed audio data into the ...

Gmail Smart Labels Automatically Categorizes Emails

Mar 10, 2011 0 comments

Today Google launched a new Gmail Labs feature called Smart Labels which automatically classifies and organizes your email by putting appro...

URL Hunter: A Game Played Inside the Address Bar

Mar 9, 2011 1 comments

For Google, the address bar in a browser may be a vestige leftover from legacy user-interface design, but for most of the rest, the URL bar...

Half Gigabyte Picture of the Moon

Mar 9, 2011 0 comments

The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) has been orbiting the Moon since June 2009 on a orbit as low as 30km ~ 50km. The short height enables...

Use Windows 7 Taskbar as Memory Usage Meter

Mar 9, 2011 1 comments

We have seen a few resource utilization indicators in the past that can be pinned to Windows 7 taskbar ( SuperbarMonitor , Taskbar Meters ),...

Add or Remove Items From My Computer

Mar 9, 2011 0 comments

Computer Customizer is freeware Windows program written by a precocious 13 year old that allows you to customize the links that appear on My...

Condom USB Protects PCs From Infected Flash Drives

Mar 8, 2011 0 comments

Condoms have protected men, and women alike, from infectious diseases by significantly reducing the chances of catching nasty viruses. But i...

eBay and PayPal Fees Calculator

Mar 8, 2011 1 comments

PayPal levies various charges at different rates, depending on where you live, when you send payments to or receive payments from others. He...

Play Rock-Paper-Scissors Against a Computer

Mar 8, 2011 0 comments

The New York Times website has a digital version of Rock-Paper-Scissors that allows you to play the classic game against the computer. The ...

Snow Standalone Gadgets Pack For Windows

Mar 8, 2011 1 comments

The Snow Standalone Gadgets Pack is a collection of 15 shiny white desktop gadgets for Windows XP, Vista and 7. This new gadget pack is a m...

Cloud Save Sends Files And Images From The Web to Any Online Storage

Mar 8, 2011 0 comments

Cloud Save is an extension for Google Chrome that allows you to send any files, images, documents, webpages – anything downloadable – to a n...

Guess The Movie From The Object [Game]

Mar 7, 2011 0 comments

Mondays are boring. That’s why we bring you a game today. It’s called Famous Objects from Classic Movies . The game shows an illustration ...

Incrementally Backup Gmail or Any IMAP Email Account

Mar 7, 2011 2 comments

Last week nearly 150,000 Gmail users logged into their account to find all their data – email, attachment, chat and contacts – gone, totally...

Uniqoda: Search Unicode Characters By Name

Mar 7, 2011 0 comments

Uniqoda is possibly the coolest and the most productive Unicode character map I have ever come across. Instead of scrolling through endles...

Convert Partial RSS Feed to Full Feed And Vice Versa

Mar 5, 2011 2 comments

Don’t you hate when websites offer only the headline and a supposedly tantalizing teaser, as a bait for you to click on the link to their we...

Group or Organize Windows 7 Taskbar Icons With Bins

Mar 4, 2011 0 comments

Remember Fences ? It was a program that allowed users to group icons on their desktop by putting a “fence” around them. It was unique and I ...

Customize Windows 7 File Copy Dialog Box Animation

Mar 4, 2011 1 comments

Whenever you copy, delete or move a file or folder in Windows 7, the progress dialog box shows an animation. It is possible to change the co...

Hassle-Free XP to 7 Upgrade with O&O Migration Kit for Windows 7

Mar 4, 2011 0 comments

If you’re planning to upgrade an Windows XP system to Windows 7 or a migrate from 32-bit Windows Vista to 64-bit Windows 7, then the standa...

Ursa Spell Checker for Skype

Mar 3, 2011 2 comments

Ursa Spell Checker is a small program that brings free spell checking to your favorite VoIP and chat application – Skype - for embarrassment...

Open, Edit, Convert Visio Files Without Microsoft Visio

Mar 2, 2011 11 comments

Microsoft Visio is a commercial diagramming program for Windows that uses vector graphics to create diagrams. Although Microsoft brands Visi...

Amazon Offers Free Shipping to India, Australia, South Africa, New Zealand

Mar 2, 2011 3 comments

Until March 15, 2011 extended to May 15, 2011, Amazon UK is offering free shipping to Australia, India, New Zealand and South Africa . If...

The Many Cavets of Using Google Cloud Connect

Mar 2, 2011 0 comments

The Cloud Connect Office plugin that Google released a while ago, might have received praise from certain section of users but it seems tha...

Classic Shell Restores Removed Windows 7 Features [Updated]

Mar 1, 2011 2 comments

Classic Shell is an open source project that enables users to recover a number of features and functions that were removed from Windows 7. ...

Change Windows 7 Explorer Navigation Buttons

Mar 1, 2011 4 comments

Teenage Windows customizer/developer Kishan Bagaria has written a small utility that allows you to customize Windows 7 Explorer’s navigatio...

Official Grooveshark Desktop Client

Mar 1, 2011 1 comments

There aren’t many true desktop clients for the music streaming service Grooveshark. Unfortunately, the official Grooveshark desktop program ...

Google Docs OCR Now Recognizes 34 Languages

Mar 1, 2011 1 comments

Optical Character Recognition in foreign languages is hard to come by ( Cuneiform OCR recognizes 23 languages, but that’s the only software...

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