How To Effectively Rip DVDs to Your PC Using DVDSmith

January 21, 2010

If you have had any experience of ripping a commercial DVD to your PC then you would know it isn’t a straight-forward task of copying data from the DVD to PC. The DVDs are usually DRM-protected/encrypted and don’t allow you to rip stuff from them easily. And a lot of times it happens that you [...]

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A Guide To Using the Snipping Tool in Vista & Windows 7 to Take Screenshots

January 20, 2010

There are various tools available that help you capture screenshots. If you are using one of them, great. However, if your screen capture needs are quite simple and you don’t have a third-party tool installed for the purpose, then you could get started with Windows’ inbuilt Snipping tool (in Windows 7 and Vista). Though Windows [...]

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AcademicEarth: Watch Video Lectures From Top Universities Online

January 20, 2010

If you have missed a chance to be a part of the classes in a top university like Harvard, MIT or Stanford and really want to check out some of the lectures there, then AcademicEarth can help you. AcademicEarth is a free service which provides recorded videos of university lectures online. The service doesn’t need [...]

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ShowMeWhatsWrong Lets You Share Screen & Resolve Errors Easily

January 19, 2010

If you are the computer guy in your family and get approached by family members and friends frequently for solving their computer issues, then you’d know that it isn’t an easy task unless you can see what exactly the computer screen is showing. The usual solution to this is a screen sharing and remote access [...]

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YouSearch: Watch YouTube Videos In Chrome Without Leaving Current Page

January 19, 2010

YouSearch is a nifty add-on for Google Chrome that helps you search and watch YouTube videos without requiring you to open a new tab or browser window. The add-on isn’t complicated. Once installed, it shows up as a small icon in the Chrome extensions bar. If you click on it, it pops up a small [...]

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How To Use Revo Uninstaller To Completely Uninstall Programs

January 19, 2010

Sometimes uninstalling a program becomes a difficult process. Windows’ inbuilt Add/remove program tool isn’t always the perfect solution. It is slow and usually doesn’t remove all the traces of the application in your PC (like registry entries of the program). Revo Uninstaller is a great replacement for Add/Remove programs in Windows and offers lots of [...]

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How To Check If Your Computer Is Ready For Windows 7

January 19, 2010

If you are going to upgrade from Windows XP or Vista to Windows 7 then you should first check if your current PC hardware and software are compatible with Windows 7. If there are compatibility issues then it has to be taken care of before installing the new OS. To check the compatibility of hardware [...]

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Musicovery: Play Songs Online According to Your Mood

January 19, 2010

Musicovery is an online interactive radio player which plays songs according to your mood and genre. It offers a personalized way to play songs. One can easily select his artist and listen to his favorite songs. The tool displays search results in a visually attractive interface. There is an option on the left panel which [...]

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Wobzip: Online Tool To Extract Compressed Files

January 18, 2010

No doubt WinRAR is a useful desktop tool to extract compressed files which have extensions as .rar, .zip and other such formats. However, if you have a zipped file on the internet like drivers, zipped executables etc, then the only method to extract those files is to download them and then extract them using offline [...]

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Vloud Increases Loudness of MP3 Songs Easily

January 18, 2010

For music lovers who have a large collection of songs in their computer, usually not all the tracks are of the same quality. Some of them really sound good while some aren’t audible enough. Most of the time, when a song doesn’t seem to be loud enough, we waste our time searching for better versions [...]

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