Showing posts from March, 2010

AMD Fusion Media Explorer for AMD users

Mar 31, 2010 3 comments

I never knew microprocessor manufacturer AMD makes software too until I read about AMD Fusion Media Explorer at Chris Pirillo . The AMD Fusi...

Watch Large Hadron Collider collisions live today

Mar 30, 2010 0 comments

The Large Hadron Collider is preparing it’s first ever proton collision at 7 TeV and the event will take place live via a webcast direct fro...

View NSFW contents safely with Variably Safe For Work

Mar 30, 2010 1 comments

If your friend is sensible enough he wouldn't send you links with questionable content with a NSFW warning. But what if he didn’t and yo...

Ping multiple blog directories and search engines with BlogBuzzer

Mar 29, 2010 0 comments

Pinging a blog is one way to get your blog picked up by search engines and aggregators whenever you post a new entry. Although services like...

Free download TuneUp Utilities 2009

Mar 29, 2010 6 comments

The earlier version of TuneUp Utilities 2009 is up for grabs through a German promotion page. Those who aren’t aware, TuneUp Utilities is a ...

Photoshop’s magical content-aware fill comes to GIMP

Mar 27, 2010 1 comments

Remember that demo video of the amazing new content-aware fill in the upcoming version of Photoshop? Sure, it left everyone’s jaw dropping....

How to complete a burning job using fewest number of optical disks

Mar 27, 2010 1 comments

Here is the situation: say you need to burn a gigantic amount of data that could require several DVDs. You don’t know how many disks you wil...

5 short links for today #33

Mar 27, 2010 0 comments

1. Where is Jesus? : Who would have thought finding God could be so easy? Just go to this site and try to find Jesus in the picture. Once ...

New simulation shows what would have happened if Apollo 13 failed to return home

Mar 26, 2010 0 comments

In honor of the 40th anniversary of Apollo 13 moon mission, Analytical Graphics, Inc. (AGI) and noted space author Andrew Chaikin teamed up ...

This man has all the latest tech

Mar 26, 2010 1 comments

If you take a picture of yourself holding your iPhone, Nexus One, Droid and iPad, this how you will look like 20 years from now.

Newspaper Club – Start your own printed newspaper

Mar 26, 2010 0 comments

The Newspaper Club is one of those wackiest ideas that’s so wacky that it actually works. This new London-based start-up allows anyone to pr...

GMapCatcher – View maps online, offline or download

Mar 26, 2010 0 comments

GMapCatcher is a program that lets you view maps from a variety of different sources from the desktop. The program can also download maps to...

PicasaExt – Access Picasa albums from Windows Explorer

Mar 26, 2010 6 comments

PicasaExt is a free addon for Windows Explorer that provides better integration with Google's image editor and manager Picasa. To make ...

The Periodic Table of Periodic Tables

Mar 25, 2010 0 comments

Apparently, there are hundreds of periodic tables floating around the web. No, not the usual Periodic Table of elements you studied in high ...

Twitter clone Blogger template

Mar 25, 2010 0 comments

A Blogger template inspired by Twitter is available for download .

Insert chemical symbols in Word documents with Chem4Word

Mar 25, 2010 0 comments

Chem4Word is a chemistry addon for Microsoft Word developed by Microsoft Research in collaboration with the University of Cambridge, that ma...

Gmail now alerts users if somebody else is using their account

Mar 25, 2010 2 comments

Google announced a new security feature for Gmail that should help users ward off hackers and scammers from accessing their email accounts....

Photoshop CS5’s new Content-Aware Fill is magic!

Mar 25, 2010 0 comments

Adobe recently demonstrated an eye-poping feature called Content-Aware Fill in their upcoming Adobe Photoshop CS5 which is so mind blowing t...

Spiceworks IT Desktop – Toolbox for network administrators

Mar 24, 2010 1 comments

Spiceworks IT Desktop is a network monitoring, management, inventory, and helpdesk software application designed for network administrators ...

Showzey – View photos on Flickr, Facebook, Picasa, Yahoo and Gmail at one place

Mar 24, 2010 0 comments

There are more than a handful of places to store photos online - Flickr, Picasa, Facebook, to name just a few. Many people use Facebook to k...

The perfect wallpaper for a desktop

Mar 23, 2010 2 comments

How do you like this desktop?

Do you live in the UK? Get a free .co.uk domain

Mar 23, 2010 0 comments

Google and several other partners including Enterprise UK, BT, e-skills and PayPal have got together in a joint initiative called "Gett...

Google Account Switcher – Manage multiple accounts on Chrome

Mar 23, 2010 0 comments

Google Account Switcher is an extension for the Chrome browser that makes managing multiple Google accounts easier. If you have more than on...

SuperbarMonitor for Windows 7 taskbar

Mar 23, 2010 0 comments

SuperbarMonitor is a group of Windows resource utilization indicators that reside in the taskbar and indicates the resource usage of various...

How to politely ask people to stop forwarding junk emails

Mar 22, 2010 0 comments

Are you tired of receiving pictures of kittens and jokes you read a decade ago in the form of mails forwarded to you by your friends? We all...

How to change color of the wavy spell check lines in Word 2007

Mar 22, 2010 0 comments

Anybody who has used Microsoft Word is familiar with those wriggly colored lines that appear underneath whenever you make a spelling error. ...

Easy way to install Windows 7 and Vista themes

Mar 20, 2010 0 comments

Many users, usually the less tech savvy ones, have trouble installing custom themes on Windows. And why not? There are no setup files that y...

Videos from International Space Station by Soichi Noguchi

Mar 20, 2010 0 comments

Remember Soichi Noguchi , the Japanese astronaut who tweets wonderful pictures of the earth from the International Space Station? Now he has...

Benubird PDF document manager

Mar 20, 2010 0 comments

Benubird PDF is a comprehensive PDF document managing and archiving solution for Windows. It allows you to manage your PDF files from one ce...

Download KB977206 to run Windows XP Mode without hardware virtualization

Mar 20, 2010 0 comments

The other day, Microsoft announced that they had done away with the hardware virtualization requirement to run Windows XP Mode. This update...

Free download iCare Data Recovery Software

Mar 19, 2010 0 comments

iCare Data Recovery Software is dedicated in most frequently data loss like formatted hard drive, MBR (Mast Boot Record) corrupted, bad boot...

How to stop buffering a YouTube video

Mar 19, 2010 2 comments

Somehow Google felt that this wasn’t worth mentioning, perhaps because they have more pressing matters at hand such as the lawsuit against V...

Feedling embeds RSS feeds on the Windows desktop

Mar 19, 2010 0 comments

Feedling is an interesting RSS feed reader for Windows that lets you read feeds from your favorite sites on the desktop, quite literally. Fe...

Windows XP Mode will run without hardware virtualization

Mar 18, 2010 0 comments

Good news for users stuck with a processor without hardware-level virtualization. Microsoft just announced that a new update to Windows XP ...

PayPal to introduce cheaper micropayment service

Mar 18, 2010 0 comments

With the rising popularity of digital music, popularized by the 99 cents per song iTunes store, videos, ebooks and cheap iPhone apps the mic...

5 short links for today #32

Mar 18, 2010 1 comments

1. Seven alternatives to the Apple iPad : Wait! Stop. Before you hand over Apple your credit card and pre-order the iPad, you may want to ch...

GnuWin32 – GNU software for Windows

Mar 18, 2010 2 comments

GnuWin32 is a set of tools that were ported from Unix to Windows, ideal for those who can’t live without their favorite Linux applications. ...

Find eBay auctions in your neighborhood with Flippity

Mar 18, 2010 0 comments

Shipping fees has always been a big deterrent for me when shopping online, because often the shipping costs exceeds the cost of the product....

Remove unused file types in dialog boxes with Formats Customizer

Mar 18, 2010 0 comments

Some applications particularly Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, Microsoft Word and a few others display an overwhelming number of file types in...

Spanish company zero2infinity planning space trips for tourist on balloons

Mar 17, 2010 1 comments

Although hot air balloons today are used more as a sport than for transport, they are indeed, a viable alternative to shuttles, at least for...

Microsoft launches online TV service MSN Video Player

Mar 17, 2010 0 comments

Microsoft Corp today quietly launched a video-on-demand service called MSN Video Player that enables UK consumers to watch TV anytime at no ...

Yahoo Mail users can now disable on page ads

Mar 17, 2010 0 comments

The Yahoo Mail Blog announced a new change to their mail inbox. Users will now be able to temporarily hide advertisement shown along the si...

Map of Total Solar Eclipse Paths (2001 to 2025)

Mar 16, 2010 0 comments

Although partial solar eclipses are quite common and can occur four to seven times a year, total solar eclipses are rare. The number of view...

Check Adsense, Adwords and 500 other affiliate programs stats from the desktop

Mar 16, 2010 0 comments

If you are heavily into Internet marketing and use a ton of affiliate programs like Google Adwords, Commission Junction, ClickBank etc apart...

USB Go Link connects two computers via USB

Mar 16, 2010 3 comments

Do you need to connect one computer to another to transfer data but setting up a network is too complex for you? USB Go Link offers you the ...

Why progress bars are inaccurate

Mar 16, 2010 5 comments

The entire purpose of a progress bar is to let the user know how much longer he or she has to wait till the program finishes doing whatever ...

New Nokia Ovi Player 2.1 transfers songs, playlists from iTunes to Nokia phones

Mar 16, 2010 0 comments

Mobile phone manufacturer Nokia has just released an updated version of Nokia Ovi Player, a software solution for Nokia devices users. The n...

Boot your computer from ISO image with EasyBCD 2.0 beta

Mar 15, 2010 1 comments

EasyBCD is a free software that provides an easy to use graphical frontend to the Windows Vista and 7 bootloader. EasyBCD makes it easier to...

Worksheet Database – Powerful spreadsheet program to manage lists, projects etc

Mar 15, 2010 0 comments

Worksheet Database is a free program that lets you to use spreadsheets in ways you never thought possible. The program allows you to create ...

Hundred year old EULA on Edison’s Wax Cylinder

Mar 13, 2010 0 comments

If you thought EULA (End User License Agreement) is a 21st century invention by evil businessmen, meet Sir Thomas Alva Edison. This photogra...

How to solve high CPU usage when running Windows Virtual PC

Mar 13, 2010 2 comments

When you run a virtual machine in Windows Virtual PC, you may experience high CPU usage in the guest operating system on certain hardware pl...

Start Menu 7 - Alternative start menu for Windows 7

Mar 13, 2010 0 comments

Start Menu 7 is a new software that replaces the Start Menu on Windows 7 with a different one. The standard Windows 7 start menu is compact,...

Free full version of Zemana AntiLogger

Mar 13, 2010 0 comments

Zemana AntiLogger is a powerful way to protect your PC from malware attacks. The program doesn’t rely on virus signature updates and file sc...

How to use a fake webcam video on Chatroulette

Mar 12, 2010 53 comments

Lately a website called Chatroulette is creating a lot of buzz in the blogosphere, and unless you just emerged from under a rock you have pr...

Google rolls out new Blogger Template Designer

Mar 12, 2010 6 comments

For a long time the collection of templates that Blogger offers when creating a new blog has remained constant. I’m fairly certain no body u...

Desktopify converts web widgets into desktop widgets

Mar 12, 2010 0 comments

Desktopify is a web service that lets you convert web widgets into standalone desktop widgets to be used on the Windows or Mac desktop. Web...

MusicCubeOne - A simple music player

Mar 11, 2010 1 comments

MusicCubeOne is an utterly simple music player for Windows. The player’s overly simplified interface might not go down well on some users, b...

Create a customized, unattended Windows 7 installation disk or USB drive

Mar 11, 2010 7 comments

RT Se7en Lite is a Windows 7 configuration tool (similar to nLite and vLite for Windows XP and Vista respectively) that allows you to create...

3RVX - Stylish volume display and controller for Windows

Mar 10, 2010 0 comments

The name 3RVX on paper might look odd to read and spell, but on the desktop it looks fantastic, for it’s a stylish and skinnable volume disp...

How to know when your emails are delivered or read

Mar 10, 2010 2 comments

WhoReadMe is a free email tracking service that lets you track emails you have sent and inform you when they get opened. There are many emai...

Enhance your portable MP3 Player with Rockbox firmware

Mar 10, 2010 0 comments

Rockbox is a free, open source replacement firmware for various portable MP3 players that greatly enhances the capabilities of the player. R...

OrangeNote – Note taking program and manager

Mar 9, 2010 0 comments

OrangeNote is a free WPF-based text note manager for Windows (and Mac) with a dash of eye candy. The program allows you to store an unlimite...

Use Windows Live Writer to publish to your Posterous blog

Mar 9, 2010 0 comments

Posterous is a simple blogging platform that enables a user to post to their blog by simply emailing them whatever he or she wishes to publi...

69 alternatives to the default Facebook profile picture

Mar 8, 2010 332 comments

If you have changed the default Facebook profile picture and uploaded your own, it’s fine. But if not, then why not replace that boring pict...

5 short links for today #31

Mar 8, 2010 0 comments

1. Punch Cartoon is an archive of high quality scans of cartoons published on Punch, a popular British satirical weekly magazine that was i...

Do you need to send a Big Ass Message?

Mar 8, 2010 0 comments

Did you ever felt the need to send a big fat message to somebody? Big Ass Message has you covered.

Basket Buster: Get the best shopping deals on Firefox

Mar 8, 2010 0 comments

Basket Buster is a plug-in for Firefox that helps online shoppers save a few bucks by alerting them of deals and coupons. Many price and dea...

Create a bootable Live USB drive with LinuxLive USB Creator

Mar 8, 2010 0 comments

LinuxLive USB Creator or LiLi USB Creator is a software for Windows that allows you to create a bootable Live USB key of any Linux distribut...

How to restore previous Windows installation after Windows 7 upgrade

Mar 7, 2010 6 comments

If you upgraded your Windows Vista or Windows XP computer to Windows 7 using the upgrade option, you still have your old files on your disk ...

How to disable, block or remove browser ballot screen in Windows

Mar 7, 2010 0 comments

Microsoft has published a new article that details the steps required to disable or remove the Browser Ballot screen that began displaying o...

Send any sample and get it scanned by Electron Microscope for free

Mar 6, 2010 0 comments

Want to see how your hair looks under an Electron Microscope, or your skin, or paper, or anything around the house? Send it to ASPEX Corpora...

Matt Cutts says Google’s secret formula not so secret

Mar 5, 2010 0 comments

Microsoft isn’t the only one who is facing the wrath of the European Commission for supposedly “unfair practices”. Google is another organiz...

Find out which articles on your blog got the most tweets

Mar 5, 2010 0 comments

Sites like Tweetmeme and Retweet.com helps you find the hottest stories on Twitter at any moment, but they fail to show which stories from a...

Intel Solid-State Drive (SSD) Toolbox

Mar 5, 2010 0 comments

An SSD or Solid-State Drive is a replacement to the traditional hard disk drive with the advantage of better performance, lower power consum...

Tiny Core Linux – The 10 MB Linux distribution

Mar 5, 2010 0 comments

When it comes to extremely small Linux distribution, it’s hard to beat Tiny Core Linux. At an image size of 10 MB, it’s one of the smallest ...

Popular Science 137 year archive available for free browsing

Mar 5, 2010 0 comments

The popular Popular Science magazine is now available online for free browsing. Scanned copies of the entire archive spanning 137 years wer...

Upload photos to Orkut directly from Picasa

Mar 4, 2010 0 comments

With Facebook and Google Buzz hogging the limelight and drawing media attention people tend to forget there is another social networking sit...

Universal Print Driver - Single driver for all HP printers and MFDs

Mar 4, 2010 9 comments

Have you lost your HP printer’s driver disks? Did you get a new HP printer but don’t have the drivers? Well, don’t bother searching because ...

Opera downloads triple after EU Browser Ballot debut

Mar 4, 2010 0 comments

It seems like people have finally realized that they do have a choice against Internet Explorer. Just days after Microsoft’s browser ballot ...

Scientists want a new prefix for 10^27 - ‘Hella’

Mar 3, 2010 5 comments

1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000, is a helluva number. Any digit followed by a truckload of zeros deserves a name of it’s own. The Inte...

20 Fresh and Beautiful Windows 7 Themes

Mar 3, 2010 2 comments

Continuing from where I left three months ago , here is another fresh collection of beautiful Windows 7 themes, handpicked by me from among ...

Disk Space Fan – Coolest hard disk usage visualization

Mar 3, 2010 1 comments

Disk Space Fan is a free hard disk space and file analysis tool that provides you an  overview of the contents of your disk partitions, enab...

iClippy – Online clipboard for images with screen capture

Mar 2, 2010 0 comments

We have seen a fair deal of screen capture software, haven’t we? You must have tried a handful of ones we reviewed here as well others we di...

Google Webmaster Tools to notify site owners of hacking and abuse

Mar 2, 2010 0 comments

The guys behind the Google Webmaster Tools are making a commendable effort in helping site owners prevent their websites from getting hacked...

Schedule downloads on Firefox

Mar 2, 2010 2 comments

The integrated file downloader on Firefox is too bare bone. You can add some fancy buttons and tweak it’s file download behavior using the D...

Geosense for Windows: Location sensor for Windows 7

Mar 2, 2010 0 comments

The Windows 7 operating system provides built-in support for sensor devices, such as GPS devices, and offers an API that allow third-party d...

Change Windows Vista/7 Explorer navigation button color

Mar 1, 2010 0 comments

The navigation button of Windows Vista and 7’s explorer window is blue, and it always remains blue even if you tweak the Windows border colo...

Astronaut Soichi Noguchi tweets stunning pictures from aboard the space station

Mar 1, 2010 0 comments

Soichi Noguchi , a Japanese astronaut on the International Space Station, is rocking on Twitter. His 100,000+ Twitter followers are being tr...

Macrium Reflect Free – Disk imaging software

Mar 1, 2010 0 comments

Macrium Reflect Free Edition is a disk imaging software for Windows that can create disk images using Microsoft Volume Shadow Copy Service a...

CPU Usage Monitor and Logger

Mar 1, 2010 0 comments

CPU Usage Logger is a simple program that provides a means for developers and software testers to monitor and log CPU usage (utilization) fo...

FlowHeater - Import/Export data between different database formats

Mar 1, 2010 0 comments

FlowHeater is a powerful tool that makes it possible to import and export data to and from a widely differing data sources and targets using...

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