Showing posts from June, 2012

Stop YouTube Videos at a Specified Time

Jun 30, 2012 3 comments

YouTube gives users the ability to easily start video playback at a specific time using the start parameter, a trick I’m sure you must be aw...

Windows XP to Windows 8 Upgrade Possible

Jun 29, 2012 0 comments

There is some good news for users who have been thinking about moving from their current Windows operating system to the soon-to-be-released...

VarieDrop: Convert, Resize Images into Multiple Outputs in One Operation

Jun 29, 2012 0 comments

VarieDrop is a multiple-size, multiple-format image resizer and converter from the developers of SendTo-Convert that allows you to resize ...

SendTo-Convert: Convert, Resize Images via Send-to Menu

Jun 29, 2012 0 comments

SendTo-Convert is an image file converter that enables you to quickly convert images from Windows Explorer via the Send to menu. All you ha...

Offline Google Maps Now Available For Android

Jun 28, 2012 1 comments

A new updated Google Maps app for Android has just been released on Google Play that brings support for downloading and saving of maps for ...

RetroShare: Anonymous, Decentralized and Encrypted File-Sharing Network

Jun 28, 2012 1 comments

The recent crackdown on the file sharing network MegaUpload and the subsequent voluntary closure of several cyber lockers have significantly...

TyperTask: Insert Frequently Used Phrases and Launch Programs with Keyboard Shortcuts

Jun 27, 2012 0 comments

Do you find yourself frequently typing the same phrases over and over again when drafting a letter, chatting on Facebook or leaving comments...

Enable/Disable Chrome Extensions on Specific Websites

Jun 27, 2012 0 comments

Google Chrome extensions can be very powerful, but they can also be a resource hog. They load into memory and wait until you use them. While...

Dialogues Too Quiet, Action Too Loud? Use VLC Media Player to Fix it

Jun 26, 2012 13 comments

An issue commonly faced when watching movies at home is the wildly fluctuating audio volume. Dialogues are often soft and barely audible, wh...

Automatically and Silently Copy Files From USB Drive to Hard Disk

Jun 25, 2012 12 comments

Back in 2010, I wrote about a nifty trick by which you can secretly copy files and folders from preconfigured locations on the target compu...

One Year Ago: 7Tokens Manager, Filler Image Generators, and VLC Player Tricks

Jun 23, 2012 0 comments

A hand-picked selection of articles published between June 10 and June 23 of previous years. 1 Year Ago Backup Windows 7 Retail, OEM and MAK...

Storing Passwords in Plaintext: Websites’ Hall of Shame

Jun 23, 2012 0 comments

Recently, at a security breach at LinkedIn, the hashed passwords of more than six million accounts were stolen and circulated on the web. Ev...

Vimium Adds Plenty of New Keyboard Shortcuts to Chrome

Jun 23, 2012 1 comments

Vimium is an extension for Google Chrome that provides around 40 new keyboard shortcuts that allows navigation around a web page from the c...

Easily Change Icons of EXE files With QIcon Changer

Jun 21, 2012 2 comments

QIcon Changer is perhaps the easiest way to change the icons of programs and EXE files. This tiny tool allow you to patch the icon of any W...

3 Free Exciting Sound Effects Generators

Jun 21, 2012 2 comments

Sound effects generators are software programs that lets you create old school electronic sounds and effects – plop, thud, splat and boom - ...

Custom Themes for Gmail: Add Your Own Images as Background

Jun 20, 2012 0 comments

Here is a heads up for those who love using themes on Gmail, particularly those HD themes with a high quality image behind the Gmail interfa...

Tunlr DNS: Watch Hulu, Pandora, Netflix and Others Without VPN

Jun 19, 2012 5 comments

Many services based on the entertainment industry, viz. the music and movies, are geographically restricted because of licensing issues. The...

Tab Stacking Comes to Firefox, Brings Better Tabs Overflow Handling

Jun 19, 2012 2 comments

Firefox has a peculiar way of handling tabs overflow that occurs when users open too many tabs for the tab bar to display properly. By defau...

Backup Profile of all Web Browsers With Hekasoft Backup & Restore

Jun 15, 2012 0 comments

With competition among web browser makers so fierce, you cannot afford to ignore a particular browser because if you do, you are definitely ...

How to Download RTMP Video Streams

Jun 15, 2012 4 comments

RTMP is a video streaming protocol used to stream audio and video over the Internet, between a Flash player running inside the browser on th...

iSpy Turns Your Webcam Into a Security Camera With Motion and Sound Detection

Jun 15, 2012 1 comments

iSpy is an open source webcam monitoring software that converts an ordinary webcam and microphone pair into an automatic surveillance syste...

Change Default Drag and Drop Behavior in Windows Explorer

Jun 14, 2012 1 comments

Drag-and-drop functions in Windows are handled differently in different situations, and some people seems to have trouble predicting what wi...

Opera 12 Released

Jun 14, 2012 0 comments

After nearly a year in development, the final build of Opera 12 has just been released with numerous changes focusing mostly on performance...

Update Freezer: Manage Automatic Updates of the Most Annoying Software

Jun 14, 2012 0 comments

Let me be honest. Even though I wrote extensively about software updates monitoring utilities and how it’s convenient to have your applicat...

Skype Introduces Ads During Calls

Jun 13, 2012 2 comments

Skype for Windows has announced a new feature called Conversation Ads, which displays advertisement within the calling window during Skype-t...

Bing Adds Interactive Presentations to Search Results Called Qwiki

Jun 12, 2012 0 comments

Today search engine Bing started adding interactive multimedia presentations called Qwiki to their search results page. Qwikis combine image...

JogoBox: Download, Organize and Play Thousands of Free Games

Jun 12, 2012 0 comments

If you love playing casual, arcade-style games, you must be familiar with sites like Kongregate and Newgrounds. And if you love these gaming...

Artha: Best Open Source Offline Thesaurus and Dictionary

Jun 12, 2012 3 comments

Artha is a cross-platform and open source thesaurus and dictionary based on WordNet that works completely off-line. Artha can define not on...

Auto Hide Desktop Icons and Taskbar When Not in Use

Jun 12, 2012 0 comments

Is the clutter on your desktop ruining the aesthetic wallpaper you have on the background? Try AutoHideDesktopIcons, a free utility that let...

AutoUP: Another Software Updates Monitor and Downloader

Jun 12, 2012 0 comments

Last week I made a detailed comparison of several software updates monitoring tool . Here is another one. AutoUP is capable of detecting ...

UsenetStorm: Free Usenet Provider With in-Browser Downloading

Jun 11, 2012 0 comments

Usenet is a vast, globally distributed system of discussion and file sharing groups known as “newsgroups”. Users read and post messages call...

One Year Ago: PhotoMove, Evolution Player and Relocate Firefox Download Dialog

Jun 11, 2012 0 comments

A hand-picked selection of articles published between May 27 and June 9 of previous years. 1 Year Ago Automatically Move Photos to Fo...

Go Through Audiobooks, Podcasts Faster by Increasing Tempo While Preserving Pitch

Jun 9, 2012 1 comments

Sometime ago, NPR wrote a lovely article on how an average person was going to miss almost everything that was ever written, filmed, sung o...

HaoZip: Powerful File Compression Software You May Not Have Heard About

Jun 7, 2012 5 comments

HaoZip is a powerful archive manager from a Chinese developer with an impressive file format support. The program can create compressed arc...

ControlC: Securely Save Your Entire Clipboard History

Jun 5, 2012 0 comments

ControlC is a unique application that monitors your clipboard and automatically stores any copied text and images on your computer in an en...

Breeziee: Add a Paywall to Any Link. Sell Digital Goods Easily

Jun 5, 2012 0 comments

A new startup called Breeziee makes it possible for anybody to quickly setup a paywall to any link and use it for selling digital goods suc...

Watch The Transit of Venus 2012 Online

Jun 5, 2012 0 comments

One of the rarest celestial events of the century will occur tomorrow and will be viewable from select regions of the Earth. The planet Venu...

Get Now Playing Notifications for YouTube Videos on Desktop [Firefox and Chrome]

Jun 4, 2012 0 comments

Some media players show pop-up notification on the desktop whenever the track changes even if the media player is minimized or not in focus....

Make EULAs Easier to Read With EULAlyzer

Jun 4, 2012 0 comments

Do you read End User License Agreements (EULA)? I’m pretty sure you don’t. You have probably clicked through hundreds of EULA dialogs when i...

How the Night Sky Will Look Like 7 Billion Years From Now?

Jun 4, 2012 0 comments

NASA astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope have worked out when precisely our Milky Way Galaxy will crash into its neighbour, Androme...

8 Software Update Monitors That Keep Your Programs Updated Compared

Jun 4, 2012 5 comments

Keeping all your installed programs up-to-date is quite a challenge. While most programs are capable of automatically updating it does so wh...

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