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While buying a new computer is a nice experience, transferring data from your old PC to the new one may not be an easy thing to do. Thankfully, Windows provides an in-built tool called Windows Easy Transfer which streamlines the data transfer process and makes it simple enough. With Windows Easy Transfer, you can transfer [...]
Do you remember when your pressing Shift+Del habit caused you to accidently delete an important file/folder ? Happens with all of us. Luckily, there are ways to get it back because chances are that the file resides somewhere on your hard disk. WinUtilities Undelete is a free data recovery tool that can help you locate [...]
Internet is flooded with online image editing tools. Among them are tools which can apply some crazy effects to your pictures in one click. This article talks about 10 such tools which come in handy if you are looking to quickly generate fun photo effects. These tools offer sketch effect, magazine effect, burning photo effect, [...]
If you are planning to purchase a new handset then you would definitely want to try it first. Unfortunately, most of the shops offer nonfunctional handset dummies which aren’t good enough. Tryphone is a web based mobile phone simulator which has virtual handsets that you can test drive. It gives you an almost real experience [...]
To save important files from any accidental deletion, data corruption, PC malfunction, virus or worm threat, you should backup all your important data on an external disk or a network drive so that you can recover it anytime. Windows has an in-built backup & restore tool that helps you create partial or complete PC backups. [...]
This is a really simple tip which could fix your slow laptop provided the reason behind its slowness is the one I mention below. Most of the laptops go to the power saver mode by default when they are on battery. Some of them, like my Dell Latitude, have advanced options like changing the graphics, [...]
There are various sites which require auto-refresh but don’t have it yet. It could be a site that serves news updates or a social site that shows status updates of your friends (Twitter recently got auto-refresh). UPDATE: Looks like this service has shut down. Check out our latest post on How to Auto Refresh Pages [...]
Even if you are on a broadband connection with unlimited bandwidth, the speed can reduce drastically if you do things like downloading torrents and playing online games simultaneously. Now, you may not want the downloads to take half of the speed but it doesn’t work that way. Consequently, there is less bandwidth available for other [...]
Some PDF files come with restrictions that limit our work. We can’t print, copy or edit the content of an encrypted PDF file. And this could be the case even when you have the legal right to modify the document or copy from it (if you don’t have the legal right to do it then [...]
Task Manager is the default tool in Windows to check all the details of programs and services running on your computer. While the task manager does a fairly good job of quickly displaying the running processes, there are better tools available for the purpose. One such tool is a software known as What’s My Computer [...]
We discussed about Drop.io, a web app for sharing large files over the internet, few days ago. If you want this service as a desktop app to quickly upload files then there is a tool available and is known as Droplet. Droplet is an easy to use desktop app which runs on the Adobe AIR [...]
To send data from one computer to another, you either need wires to connect them, or you need to purchase a router so that you can transfer data wirelessly. However, if your laptop or desktop computer has a wireless network card then it could be connected to another PC in your house, provided the other [...]
Transmute is a desktop bookmarks transfer tool that provides a fast and simple way to transfer bookmarks from one browser to another. Its sleek interface makes it easy to use. You can use this software to import and export all the bookmarks without actually visiting the browser.
Sharing an YouTube video isn’t difficult. You can send the url of the video to your friends via email or just ask them to search YouTube to find that video. Simple, right ? But it isn’t fun. Imagine watching the video together with your friends and also interacting and commenting on it while watching it…..now [...]
