This Week’s Top Posts

February 14, 2010

Check out the top articles from this week at Guiding Tech. Use Panda Vaccine To Disable Autorun.inf on PC & USB Drives Panda Vaccine is a nifty tool for Windows users to stop autorun and prevent virus attacks. How To Securely Hide a Folder In Windows Using My Lockbox Learn how you can hide/protect a [...]

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How To Securely Hide a Folder In Windows Using My Lockbox

February 12, 2010

If you want to protect your folders from any other user of your computer then My Lockbox is a perfect tool for that purpose. This Windows-only tool can password-protect folders and only the one who knows the password will have access to it.

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Nokia Diagnostics: Solve Your Nokia Phone Problems Easily

February 12, 2010

Nokia recently released a troubleshooting tool to help millions of Nokia phone users. This tool is known as Nokia Diagnostics. It helps users diagnose, troubleshoot and configure Nokia cellphones without any external help. You could now troubleshoot most of your Nokia phone problems without the need to go to the Nokia Care Center.

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CarryoutText Quickly Converts Text To Mp3 Audio File

February 11, 2010

Carryout text is a simple and hassle-free web app which lets you convert text to downloadable mp3 audio files. You can listen to the audio on your computer or you can carry this file along with you on your mobile phone or mp3 player. Conversion of file is simple. Just copy paste the text you [...]

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How to Use Ccleaner To Cleanup Windows PC and Fix Errors

February 10, 2010

Ccleaner is a free system optimization tool which can be used to remove unused files and speed up your PC. It can clean internet history from browsers and remove temporary stuff from other applications. It has an inbuilt registry cleaner which finds and fixes all the registry errors. It is simple, easy-to-use and quite fast [...]

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Use Panda Vaccine To Disable Autorun.inf on PC & USB Drives

February 10, 2010

Whenever an external device, like a USB pen drive or CD/DVD is attached/inserted to a PC, Windows pops up auto-play options depending upon the kind of data the device holds. The main Windows file which is responsible for this auto-run feature is called autorun.inf. It is usually advised that one should disable autorun.inf in Windows [...]

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Get a Smooth Image Gallery For Amazon Products With PictureFox

February 9, 2010

Amazon, as you know, is the premier site for purchasing different kinds of products. Apart from purchasing, you can also preview images of products in the inbuilt image viewer. But this image viewer is little clumsy. Also, watching images by clicking through them one by one is a time consuming task. PictureFox addon for Firefox [...]

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This Week’s Top Posts

February 6, 2010

This week, we saw some interesting and unconventional tools, software and how-to articles being featured on this site. Here’s a wrap-up of the best among them. How To Remove Password Protection From PDF Files A comprehensive guide to removing password protection and encryption from PDF documents legally. 10 Superb Online Tools For Fun Photo Effects [...]

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InstantMask Removes Background Of An Image

February 6, 2010

The days are gone when Photoshop was the only option when it came to removing/changing the background of an image. The internet now has a huge number of specialized image modifying tools and InstantMask is one of them. It’s an easy-to-use image background remover. To get started, you need to download and install it, and [...]

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Online PDF Generator: Convert TXT, Word, JPG, PNG To PDF

February 5, 2010

If you want to convert any file into a PDF document, try Online PDF Generator. It’s a fast and hassle free web service that can generate the corresponding PDF document from a supported file within few seconds. All you have to do is browse for a file on your computer and hit the “Generate PDF” [...]

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How to Use Windows Easy Transfer to Transfer Files & Settings from One Computer to Another

February 5, 2010

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 [...]

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Retrieve Deleted File and Folders With WinUtilities

February 5, 2010

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 [...]

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10 Superb Online Tools For Fun Photo Effects

February 4, 2010

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, [...]

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TryPhone: Online Mobile Simulation Tool

February 4, 2010

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 [...]

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A Guide to Using Windows Backup & Restore Center to Backup Data

February 4, 2010

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. [...]

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[Quick Tip] Slow Laptop ? Check the Power Options First

February 3, 2010

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, [...]

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RefreshThis Automatically Refreshes a Website

February 3, 2010

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). RefreshThis is a web based service which, as the name indicates, refreshes websites automatically. If you are watching minute [...]

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Youtube HD Transfer: Download YouTube Videos In HD Format

February 2, 2010

Watching Youtube videos in high definition is always fun, be it watching movie trailers or full flicks through the recently introduced Youtube movies. You could experience them in HD 720p and full-HD 1080p format. YouTube HD Transfer is a free utility which helps you download high definition Youtube videos on your computer. You can download [...]

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Netbalancer: Monitor And Control Your Broadband Bandwidth

February 1, 2010

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 [...]

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