Showing posts from July, 2011

Change File Program Association, Icons And Context Menu Actions With Types

Jul 30, 2011 0 comments

Windows has a utility called Default Programs that allows you to configure or change the default applications associated with specific file ...

OneLiner Moves Firefox Location Bar to Tabs Toolbar

Jul 30, 2011 2 comments

Remember what the most annoying feature was when Internet Explorer 9 was made public to the world the first time? It was the toolbar. On IE9...

View RAW Images in Windows 7 And Live Photo Gallery With Microsoft Camera Codec Pack

Jul 27, 2011 1 comments

Microsoft has released a Camera Codec Pack for Windows 7 and Windows Vista that enables Windows Live Photo Gallery and Windows Explorer to ...

Taskbar Shadow Adds Drop Shadows to Windows 7 Taskbar

Jul 26, 2011 0 comments

Taskbar Shadow is a simple free utility that adds a drop shadow effect to Windows 7 taskbar. What differentiates this tool from some other ...

G+me for Google Plus Collapses Stream While Keeping Live Updates

Jul 26, 2011 0 comments

Just like Twitter and Facebook, the Google+ stream suffers from the overwhelming problem of too many updates in too less time. I wrote about...

Air Playit Streams Video From PC to iPhone/iPad/iPod

Jul 25, 2011 0 comments

Have you ever imagined that you can access your video library stored on your home computer immediately wherever you go? Air Playit can help ...

10 New Windows 7 Themes [July 2011 Edition]

Jul 25, 2011 1 comments

Here is another round of Windows 7 themes. Please read the instructions provided by the theme author to learn how to use it. Often the autho...

Windows Firewall Notifier For Windows 7 and Vista

Jul 25, 2011 11 comments

Windows 7 and Vista’s built-in firewall lacks a proper interface due to which configuration of the firewall is beyond most casual users. Fre...

Cloud Turtle File Explorer For Amazon S3, Nirvanix and Timeline Cloud

Jul 25, 2011 0 comments

Cloud Turtle is a new free desktop utility to upload, download, explore and manage files on three different cloud storage services - Amazon...

Google Image Search Now Shows EXIF Data

Jul 24, 2011 1 comments

Google has been making a lot of new improvements to Google Image Search lately – date annotations, restoration of the image size filter and...

Move Selected or Any Facebook Photo Album to Picasa

Jul 24, 2011 2 comments

Shortly after Google+ was launched, a service called Move2Picasa came into being that automatically moved your Facebook photo albums to Goo...

How to Get Back The Old Facebook Chat or Hide Offline Friends in The New One

Jul 23, 2011 5 comments

A few weeks ago, Facebook rolled out video chat and during this roll out they changed the layout of Facebook as well. The chat window is no...

Process Explorer 15 Released. Adds GPU Monitoring

Jul 23, 2011 1 comments

Process Explorer – a Sysinternals tool - is an alternative to Windows task manager that offers a wide range of functions ideal for PC moni...

Identify Devices, Download or Update Drivers With DriverZone

Jul 22, 2011 1 comments

Losing your driver discs can be a frustrating, if you are not sure which hardware your computer came with. This is particularly a problem wi...

Photoshop Tip: How to Reduce Size of PSD Files

Jul 22, 2011 1 comments

PSD, Photoshop's native file format, is an impressive one because it stores an image while preserving practically every imaging options ...

Visualize Websites in 3D With Tilt Firefox Add-on

Jul 21, 2011 1 comments

Mozilla has released a cool, experimental Firefox extension named Tilt that lets you visualize any web page has if it’s a 3-dimensional ent...

Social Hangouts Brings Group Video Chat to Facebook

Jul 21, 2011 0 comments

A few weeks ago Facebook added video chat to the social networking site. But the move failed to create a splash because rival Google+ had l...

Clipboard Rules Triggers Actions Based on Copied Text

Jul 21, 2011 0 comments

Clipboard Rules is a unique program that can trigger different actions based on text strings copied to the clipboard. When the application ...

MultiMi: All-in One Desktop App For Email, Social Media and File Sharing

Jul 21, 2011 0 comments

We live in the cloud, but desktop applications are still a rage. Almost every other day a new desktop program for a web-based service is rel...

Cocoon: Web Proxy Firefox Privacy Add-on Goes Free

Jul 20, 2011 0 comments

Cocoon is a privacy add-on for Firefox that adds an extra layer of security to Internet browsing by securely routing all traffic through a...

How to Set a Circle or Google+ User as The Default Stream

Jul 20, 2011 3 comments

When you add friends to your Circles in Google+, you essentially ‘follow’ them, so that anything they write or share appear on your stream o...

BookmarkQ Creates Short URLs For Sharing Quotes on Webpages

Jul 20, 2011 0 comments

Sometimes when you share articles with friends on social networks or through email, and you want to draw their attention to specific quotes ...

CustomExplorerToolbar Adds Custom Buttons to Windows 7 Explorer

Jul 20, 2011 0 comments

Previously, I showed how you can add Copy, Paste, Cut, Delete and other buttons to the Windows 7 explorer toolbar . The process involved tak...

How to Use Shapes to Create Curves in PowerPoint And Word

Jul 18, 2011 0 comments

One of things Microsoft has added to Office 2010 products is Shapes, which gives users the ability to add custom shapes to their presentatio...

Facebook Releases App For Java Phones

Jul 18, 2011 0 comments

After conquering the smartphone market with its apps for both Android and iPhone, Facebook is finally looking to get into the lesser models,...

Sendtosendto: Add New Locations to ‘Send to’ Menu

Jul 18, 2011 0 comments

The entries in Windows ‘Send to’ menu are located in a directory on your system drive. To add new locations or folders to the ‘Send to’ menu...

Stunning Map of Twitter And Flickr Users Around The World

Jul 16, 2011 0 comments

At first glance, the image below looks like a satellite image of Europe at night. Actually, it is a map that reveals how active Europeans ar...

Search Your Favorite Sites From Windows 7 Explorer With Search Connectors

Jul 16, 2011 0 comments

Windows 7 has a feature called Search Connector that gives users the ability to search and view results on remote locations, such as website...

Automatically Share Google+ Post With Twitter And Facebook

Jul 16, 2011 3 comments

Start G+ is an extension for Google Chrome that does many things at once. One among this is it automatically cross posts whatever you share...

Find Out Who Removed You From Their Google Plus Circle

Jul 16, 2011 0 comments

Although Google Plus notifies you when someone adds you to their Circles, it doesn't inform you when you're being removed from them....

Google Adds Search For Recent Images Option

Jul 15, 2011 0 comments

Today, Google announced two important changes to the Google Image Search service. One is the ability to search for recent images, which was...

Hotmail Introduces “My friend’s been hacked” Security Feature

Jul 15, 2011 2 comments

When someone’s email account gets hacked, it’s usually the friends who find this out first, unless the hacker has completely booted the owne...

Find Who’s Connected to Your Wi-Fi Network With Wireless Network Watcher

Jul 14, 2011 2 comments

The first line of defense for your Wi-Fi network is encryption, which encodes the data transmitted between your PC and your wireless router....

Automatically Play YouTube Videos at Preferred Quality or Size

Jul 14, 2011 5 comments

Often videos on YouTube are available in multiple sizes. If the original uploaded video was high definition 1080p, you can also watch it in ...

The Ultimate Mobile Internet Device: What to Choose?

Jul 14, 2011 0 comments

Swimming in the soup of modern life means living online. How better to do it than with mobile broadband? What’s your device of choice and wh...

How to Give Your Picture a Polaroid-Stack Effect in Photoshop

Jul 14, 2011 5 comments

Today, I’m going to show you how to make your pictures attractive by applying a cool polaroid-stack effect. It looks very beautiful, and is ...

How to Get RSS Feeds of a Google+ User

Jul 13, 2011 2 comments

A lot of things are not supported by Google+ at the moment - take private messaging, for instance. Another one is RSS feed. It’s likely that...

How to Get RSS Feeds of a Twitter User

Jul 13, 2011 2 comments

Last May, Twitter unceremoniously killed off access to RSS feeds with the redesign of their website’s interface. Twitter has also been crack...

Indian Users Can Post to Google+ via SMS

Jul 13, 2011 1 comments

Often when a new service is launched by Internet giants such as Google, Amazon and Facebook, it is primarily targeted to the US audience, le...

How to Save Time Configuring Your PC After Windows Re-Installation

Jul 12, 2011 0 comments

Practically every Windows user loathes the entire exercise of formatting and reinstalling Windows. The actual installation of the operating ...

EyeNetra – $2 Eye Testing Tool For Smartphones

Jul 12, 2011 1 comments

Imagine if you could use your smartphone to get your eyes tested in less than a minute without visiting your ophthalmologist or without acce...

MAGIX Music Maker Silver 17 is Free Until July 31

Jul 12, 2011 0 comments

MAGIX Music Maker Silver 17 is a stripped down version of MAGIX’s commercial offering - Music Maker 17 Pro, which is a digital music mixing ...

Pin Web Apps to Windows Taskbar With Pokki

Jul 11, 2011 0 comments

Pokki is a new application platform, starting out on Windows but could eventually move to the Mac and Linux, that brings smartphone-like app...

iMacsoft Free DVD Ripper For Windows is The Best You Can Get For Free

Jul 9, 2011 2 comments

iMacsoft Free DVD Ripper is a totally free DVD ripping program for Windows with features usually seen only in commercial products. I have...

Start Menu XP Adds Fly-out Menus, Groups to Windows 7 Start Menu

Jul 8, 2011 0 comments

Miss Windows XP’s start menu - the one where menus fly out from the All Programs group, instead of scrolling inside a tiny space as in Windo...

Access Google+ From Anywhere With Surplus Chrome Extension

Jul 8, 2011 0 comments

Surplus is an extension for Google Chrome that allows you to access Google+ notification, share, read and post comments, all from the brows...

Use Facebook From Within Google+

Jul 8, 2011 0 comments

Google’s new social networking site Google+ has taken over the internet like a storm. The initial impressions have been very positive and ma...

Gmail Gets New Inbox Styles

Jul 8, 2011 0 comments

Last year, Gmail introduced Priority Inbox – a different inbox layout where emails are separated by importance, read or unread, or messages...

Customize Items on Windows 7 Explorer Navigation Pane

Jul 8, 2011 0 comments

Kishen Bagaria has come up with yet another useful utility. Named Windows 7 Navigation Pane Customizer , this free tool allows you to show, ...

Windows Live Essential 2011 Build 15.4.3538.0513 Released

Jul 8, 2011 0 comments

The Windows Live Team has released an update to the Windows Live Essential 2011 pack of applications that contain popular utilities such as...

Automatically Restart Firefox When Memory Usage Become Too High

Jul 7, 2011 2 comments

Firefox has a known history of being a memory hog – leave it open for long enough with multiple tabs open, and it will slowly drain away you...

How to Video Chat in Facebook

Jul 7, 2011 1 comments

Facebook has just announced video calling and group chat, along with other improvements, that allows you to talk to your friends face to fac...

How to Save Money on Your Mobile Phone Bill

Jul 6, 2011 1 comments

Mobile phones are important devices that a number of people use every day. While these handy tools are great for staying connected, they can...

Winners of Binverse Accounts Giveaway

Jul 6, 2011 0 comments

Last week we had a great giveaway contest sponsored by the popular Usenet service provider Binverse . It generated quite a bit of interest ...

Move2Picasa Automatically Moves Facebook Photos to Picasa

Jul 6, 2011 2 comments

Move2Picasa is a new web service that lets users automatically transfer all their Facebook photos and albums to Google Picasa with little u...

HardlyWork.in Disguises Facebook Into An Excel Spreadsheet

Jul 5, 2011 0 comments

HardlyWork.in is a new addition to the crop of application that are the bane of every office and nightmare for every employer. Like the rece...

Add Weather Forecast to Your Google Calendar

Jul 5, 2011 0 comments

If you use Google Calendar to plan your appointments and events, it will be nice if you can obtain weather forecast in your calendar. That w...

Cannot Boot Into Windows Safe Mode? Try SMFixer

Jul 5, 2011 2 comments

In Windows, Safe Mode is diagnostic mode where the operating system loads as few executable modules as possible and usually disables devices...

Unplug DVR, Set-Top Boxes When Not in Use to Save on Power Bills

Jul 4, 2011 0 comments

The Natural Resources Defense Council has found that the most energy draining piece of equipment in most homes are the digital video recorde...

Hollywood Director Releases Movie ‘A Lonely Place for Dying’ to BitTorrent

Jul 4, 2011 0 comments

Justin Eugene Evans, the writer and director of ‘A Lonely Place for Dying’ released the first part of the movie to BitTorrent via the VODO s...

Enable Group Policy Editor on Windows 7 Home

Jul 4, 2011 0 comments

Group Policy is a set of rules which control the working environment of user accounts and computer accounts. Group Policy provides the centr...

Free Game ‘Food Force’ Teaches Kid Challenges of Food Relief Operation

Jul 1, 2011 0 comments

Food Force is an educational game published by the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) in 2005, intended to generate awareness among ...

Winners of FBVPN Giveaway

Jul 1, 2011 2 comments

Last week, we had a giveaway organized for FBVPN . As promised we are giving away 30 accounts of the said VPN service which are valid for 3 ...

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