The Ease of Access Center is a feature in Windows Vista and Windows 7 that provides an option to set up accessibility settings for programs available. You can use your computer without a display, or use it without mouse or keyboard using this tool. To use these features you have to go to Ease of [...]
Himanshu Yadav
In past we have talked about extensions like Skipscreen Firefox addon and Auto Free Rapidshare For Chrome that let you bypass waiting time for downloading files on sites like Rapidshare, Megauploader etc. Rapidshare Autowait + Queue is a similar chrome extension except that it has one unique features – ability to download Rapidshare files in [...]
Stupeflix is a brilliant online video editing tool that helps you make videos by using images, soundtrack, flash and text. After creating the video, you can download or share it easily. It automatically adds amazing effects to your photographs which make it look unique and wonderful. To use this site, signup is required. After login, [...]
TitanPad is a nice, real time, online document editing and collaboration tool that helps you quickly collaborate on text documents with your team. You can import text file, HTML, Word, or RTF file formats. Also, you can download the document as HTML, Plain text, bookmark file, Microsoft Word and in more formats. To use this [...]
Virustotal is an online virus and malware scanner that analyzes your file with a number of antivirus and security services, and shows you the chances of your file being infected. It quickly detects viruses, worms, trojans, and all kinds of malware. There are three ways of scanning files for viruses and malware using this tool. [...]
We have already published the process of uploading photos to Flickr from Picasa using the Picasa2flickr plugin. Similarly, you can directly upload photos from Picasa to Facebook too. Picasa uploader is a nifty tool that adds a Facebook button to the Picasa desktop app so that you can directly upload all your Picasa pictures to [...]
The PDF format for documents was created by Adobe to facilitate easier sharing of rich text documents. If you want to read a webpage offline or want to share a nice article you came across with your friends or family, then converting it to PDF might be a good option. This article talks about 4 [...]
Did you know that SMS alerts is an option in Google Calendar to set up reminders? It would be nice if you can get an SMS notification few hours before your friend’s birthday, isn’t it? This guide will show you how to enable that option in Google calendar. How To Setup Your Mobile In Google [...]
Whether you are planning to buy a new gadget, or planning to go for a trip to an exotic destination, deciding on what to go for is not easy. There are so many options to choose from that you end up in a paradox of choice. Luckily, there are several review aggregators present on the [...]
Sometime ago, we wrote about CloseAll, a freeware app to close all the applications in a single click. The tool was good but the problem with it was, when you close all the apps, you can’t restore them back. You have to start them one by one. SmartClose is a nifty tool that closes all [...]
Like you need a tool or a software to extract text from images, you need one for extracting text from PDF files too. That’s because no PDF reader has an in-built option for that. Suppose for reference you need to copy the text from a PDF file, then, obviously, you can’t just copy paste. The [...]
Windows 7 explorer comes with a nice pane based view feature. You can view file details in details pane, preview files in the preview pane and navigate to other files or folders with the help of navigation pane. However, sometimes, you’ll find that you don’t need these panes and they are causing clutter, nothing else. [...]
If you want to extract text from image then OCROnline is probably the best tool for the purpose. It’s an advanced web app (works on optical character recognition technology) that can extract the text from scanned paper documents and digital photographs. This free-for-use tool detects more than 153 languages automatically. It also recognizes fonts of [...]
So here goes the first “Reader Tip Of The Day” post. As we mentioned earlier, we will try to feature a reader tip everyday. Here goes the first one! Sometime ago, we published how to subscribe to your favorite soccer team’s World Cup schedule in Google Calendar. One of our active readers, Roger, tipped us [...]
System restore is a nice tool in Windows computer to undo any system changes made during installation of a new application. This option can can be used to restore your computer back to the previous state, if you face a problem during installation of a new (and, may be, crappy) tool. Windows 7 provides an [...]
Labs were introduced in Google Maps sometime back. Currently there are 9 of them and more should be added in future. Features like drag ‘n’ zoom and Ariel imagery have been included, which can enhance the experience of browsing the map. You could also do other things like rotating maps, adding latitude and longitude etc. [...]
Flogs is a seriously useful digital calendar service using which you can add public events and occasions to your own personal calendars such as iCal, Blackberry, iPhone, Lotus notes, Google Calendar, Outlook and many more. Using this service is easy. First you have to sign up with them. After signing in, go to calendars tab [...]
There are many ways to add images to your collection. You could add it through an external device like a pen drive or a memory card, download them from the web etc. And many times, it leads to duplicate images being present at different locations on the computer that consumes unnecessary hard disk space. Searching [...]
We have already talked about sites to watch world cup matches live on internet and a Google Chrome extension to stay up-to-date with the world cup. If you prefer desktop apps and would like one to monitor the world cup then read on. South Africa 2010 is a multi-task desktop application for World Cup 2010. [...]
