Few days ago, while searching for some cool new tools for Windows, I stumbled upon an application called Listary. After working for few hours on Listary, if I had to describe as to what it is, in a nutshell, I would simply put it as a tool for Windows that enhances your file browsing experience [...]
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I don’t think I need to tell you anything about Grooveshark, however, if you have no idea what it is (which is highly unlikely), have a look at our previous post Find and Stream Your Favorite Music for Free with Grooveshark where we have talked about all the awesomeness of Grooveshark and how you can [...]
Setting up keyboard shortcuts for opening up your favorite websites is one way of speeding up your browsing. So, searching your favorite websites with keyboard shortcuts should be a turbo boost. So, for managing keywords, Shortmarks sounds like the right tool a power-user should have in his browsing toolkit. Shortmarks (Shortcuts + Bookmarks) gives your [...]
We are all familiar with shortcuts. But are you familiar with Symlinks or Symbolic links? Symlinks act like shortcuts but you can think of them as shortcuts on steroids. A symlink stands in for the original location of a file or folder anywhere on your computer. Some applications search for files in a default location [...]
Recently, we talked about using keywords to quickly visit sites in Firefox and Chrome (and then, further customizing Firefox to make the process of adding bookmark keywords simpler). It’s a real time-saving tip that can help you be more productive in your day-to-day browsing. Now, what if you wanted to launch your Windows programs using [...]
If there are a bunch of sites that you visit every day then setting up bookmark keywords for them would be an intelligent thing to do. Like, I have set the letter ‘g’ as the keyword for Guiding Tech. That means, I could just type the letter g in the address bar of Firefox or [...]
Danny, one of our readers, came up with some cool drag and drop keyboard shortcut combination for Windows 7 (and may be Vista and XP too). Here’s his comment on our killer keyboard shortcuts article: If the normal function of a drag & drop is to MOVE a file (e.g. between folders within the same [...]
Security experts often advice users to use the account with lower privilege in order to prevent system from malware attacks and other risks. The Administrator account with highest privileges, which can control over the entire system, should be used only when necessary. In Windows, you’ll find that by default most of the programs run in [...]
Our Windows 7 keyboard shortcuts article spread like wild fire after being published. It was clear from the sheer number of visitors and comments it received that people liked the shortcuts mentioned and found them useful. Hence we thought why not figure out ways to have similar shortcuts on Windows XP too. If you are [...]
One of my personal favorites among the new features that Windows 7 came with was the introduction of some awesome and long awaited keyboard shortcuts. I personally use them as much as I can to save time, and I recommend the practice of using keyboard shortcuts to others too. This article talks about 15 really [...]
Windows offers a smart way to launch any application via keyboard shortcuts. You can assign keyboard shortcuts to launch any application by changing the property of application shortcut. Let’s take the example of Google Chrome here. You could use the same steps for other applications too. Here are the steps you have to perform. 1. [...]
7plus is a nifty tool which can add some really cool tweaks to your Windows computer. They include various windows keyboard shortcuts to perform routine tasks and options like uploading selected file from explorer to FTP server with a keyboard shortcut. Download the zip file to your computer. Extract it and open the 7Plus.exe file. [...]
Creating desktop shortcuts for frequently visited sites is a smart move that saves time. Google Chrome provides an easy option to create desktop application shortcuts. It’s not the same as creating the shortcut of a webpage in other browsers. These shortcuts help you open the site/app in a chrome window dedicated to them. You can [...]
