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Backup Important Data To USB Drive With Back4Sure

rpsingh — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 07:33:40 +0000

It is sometimes important to have duplicates of the data files that are important to you. Back4Sure is a freeware utility for Windows that can make the backing up of data really simple. It can backup the data to a portable drive that can be a thumb drive, flash drive or any other portable disk. It has a tree view in the preferences menu which allows you to select the files that you intend to backup.

It remembers the external drive that you have assigned for storing the backup data. All files are simply copied or alternatively stored in standardized Zip or 7Zip containers. It also has the option to clean up the target directory which has orphaned files that have no source.

Back4Sure logs everything it does in a plain text file, but users can opt for a second format optimized for automated analysis.

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21 Free Screen Capture Utilities for Your PC

rpsingh — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 13:30:22 +0000

Screenshots are required by all the bloggers for giving the pictorial demonstration of what they intend to say. Screen shots are also required by the students for their projects and by the computer tutors and many others in general. There are many paid and free screen capturing utilities available on the internet. Here are 21 free Screen capturing utilities for your PC that will make screen capturing really easy for you.

1. PicPick

PicPick is a user friendly utility for capturing the screen shots which is suitable for the most of the users. The screen shot can be saved to a file, copied to a clipboard or can be edited by sending it to the PicPick editor. The extra functionalities of Picpick include color picker, screen ruler, protractor, crosshair, whiteboard, etc. The image editor included with PicPick sports an Office 2007/2010 like ribbon interface and supports tabs so you can edit multiple screenshot images / photographs from the same window

2. ScreenSnapr

ScreenSnapr is a light wieight screen capturing utility that lets you capture the screen and also allows you to upload or share the screenshot. You can also specify a folder on your own server and images would automatically be uploaded to that folder. To share with others, it gives you the shortened URL that you can use to share the screenshot with you friends.

3. EasyCapture

Easy capture snaps full screen, active windows, control objects, fixed size or selected regions. It has a tabbed image viewer and editor, allowing for cropping, resizing, text annotations, arrows, stamps, highlights and other drawing tools, and saving images in various formats.

4. Windows 7 Snipping tool :

It is an inbuilt tool that is under the Accessories menu if you are using Windows7 operating system. It is nice little application that can capture full-screen, region, window or a free hand capture. After capturing the screenshot you can edit it with the editor that opens right after you have captured the screenshot.

5. ScreenPresso

Screenpresso is another freeware application that allows you to take screenshots of part of your screen, a specific window, or the whole screen with a shortcut key, then lets you edit, add effects, and even share with email or Twitter. Screenpresso can guess the region you are trying to capture based on the position of your mouse, allowing you to capture just the content area of an application with a single click.

6. BugShooting

Bugshooting is a freeware utility to take snapshots of the screen with ease. The application allows for taking full screen, rectangular region and multiple screens, but it has no detection of window objects. The inbuilt editor allows you to crop, resize, add text to the snapshot.

7. ZScreen

ZScreen helps you to capture screenshots, text, and files and share them across some of the most popular image, text, and file sharing services. After taking the screenshot you can either save it to your computer or upload it to over a two dozen file sharing services such as FlickR, ImageShack, Tinypic etc.

8. Screenshot Captor

Screenshot Captor can capture desktop, multi-monitor, region, windows and objects with delayed captures. It also has the option to capture the scrolling windows. After capturing the screenshot you can modify the image with the inbuilt editor that can resize, add text, border, frame, arrows etc.

9. Cropper

Cropper is another free and useful screen capture utility for Windows. It makes it fast and easy to grab any part of your screen. The outpur is available in JPEG, BMP & PNG formats. You can use it to easily crop out sections of vector graphic files such as Fireworks without having to flatten the files or open in a new editor.

10. Greenshot

Greenshot snaps a region, window and full screen from hotkeys and the tray icon. It comes with a simple but useful image editor. The screenshot can be saved in either JPEG, PNG, GIF or BMP using a customized naming scheme.

11 Snippy

Snippy allows you take a screen shot of only that area of the screen in which you are interested. Click on the Snippy icon – mouse cursor changes to a pen – mark an area of the screen – the marked area is automatically converted into an image and copied to your clipboard.

12 Lightshot

Lightshot is another free tool for screen capture which features in three different modes- Firefox Add-on, IE Add-on and also as a desktop application. One of the best features of LightShot is that you can instantly share screenshots with your friends or to social networks as this tool uploads the screenshots and provides you with an URL of the uploaded image.

13. Screenhunter

Screenhunter is another tool for capturing screenshots and it also allows you to capture the screenshots from a movie, video, DOS program, DirectX and Screensaver. The screenshots can be taken in various shpaes such as rectangle, ellipse, polygonal etc. It has the options to delay the capture, recur the capture, auto-email and auto scale.

14. LightScreen

LightScreen is a simple tool to automate the tedious process of saving and cataloging screenshots, it operates as a hidden background process that is invoked with one (or multiple) hotkeys. It has the options to save the images in different formats such as JPEG, GIF, PNG etc and delayed captures.

15.Free Game Capture

Games Capture, as the name suggests, it is a tool for capturing the screenshots of the PC games. It records games of high-Def 3D, 2D direct draw or changes of the desktop to various video files in any FPS. It can also do desktop capture (Windows, rectangle and screen)

16. Jing

Jing is both a screen capturing and screen recording tool. It auto detects the objects and windows that need to be captured and after capturing, it allows you to share them with friends or simply save them on the computer. It currently offers to save the file in png format only.

17. Social Screen Capture

Social Screen Capture is a utility to capture screenshots and to upload them onto the image file sharing services such as Flickr and Picasa. It has a simple and easy to use interface that lets you capture the screen in few clicks.

18. Snapshot

Snapshot is light-weight yet powerful utility for capturing screenshots. It allows you to capture windows, regions and objects and the images can be saved in various formats such as JPEG, BMP, GIF,PCX, PNG, PSD, and TIFF.It also supports multiple monitors and Dualview screen captures.

19. 7Capture

7Capture is a fast and easy high quality screen capture software for Windows 7, Vista and XP.It allows you take screenshots and then save them in JPEG,BMP and PNG formats. 7capture automatically handles complicated transparency problems such as rounded corners and Aero semi-transparent windows backgrounds.

20. Speedshot

Speedshot is yet another screen capture utility to capture the screenshots. It provides features to select the file name of the screenshot and also to date to the file name. You can also set hot keys for screen capture. It can capture window contents, desktop or region.

21. Shutter

Shutter is a feature-rich screenshot program. You can take a screenshot of a specific area, window, your whole screen, or even of a website – apply different effects to it, draw on it to highlight points, and then upload to an image hosting site, all within one window.

I have listed here only 21 free screen capture tools, if you know more, and which is your favorite free tool for taking screenshots, you can share with us in the comments.

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Are Your Passwords Safe In Firefox?

rpsingh — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 14:02:37 +0000

Firefox is the second most popular web browser after internet explorer, and stats show that its popularity is increasing everyday. But there is a concern with the security that it provides to the user. To steal all your passwords, the intruder just needs to access your system for few minutes as the passwords can be stolen in just a few clicks.

Go to Tools->Options and then in the Security Tab. Click on Saved Passwords. In the window that opens select Show passwords. Thats it, now he can see all your passwords that firefox remembers and can steal them in no time.
If you don’t want such an easy access to your passwords, you can set a master password, which allows you to see passwords only after entering the master password. This will secure your passwords, but this can be annoying as it will ask for the master password everytime you come across a login page whose password it remembers. The other way around is to leave the habit of remembering password by the browser or use some addon such as roboform which will remember your passwords.

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God Mode Trick in Windows 7

rpsingh — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 14:29:25 +0000

God mode file/folder in Windows 7 is the one stop file/folder where you can access all the system and administrative settings in the form of categorized lists. The various lists of settings in the God mode include Action Center, Backup and Restore, administrative tools, desktop gadgets etc. The God mode folder can be created anywhere on Windows 7 and after it is created it will change its icon to that of Control Panel.

To create the God Mode, just make a new folder anywhere and rename it to the following string GodMode.{ED7BA470-8E54-465E-825C-99712043E01C}

Although you can always access any setting by just typing few letters in the search box, but it could prove handy to have all the controls at one place.

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Change the Default Behaviour of Power Button in Windows

rpsingh — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 14:14:50 +0000

Sometimes, you accidentally hit the power button in windows and all your unsaved data is lost. In that case you might want to change the default action that the windows takes when you hit the power button in windows. To do that follow these simple steps

Go to control panel and click Power Options.
Then in the left pane select Choose What The Power button does.
Now Click in Dropdown list and choose from Do Nothing, Shutdown or Sleep.
Save the Changes. Done

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Know Your System Better With Speccy

rpsingh — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 06:40:39 +0000

Speccy is a nice, little utility from the makers of CCleaner that can be used for gathering information about the hardware of your PC. It has a panel on the left side of the window, which contains different items such as Operating System, Hard Drive, CPU, RAM etc which you can click to know more.

Speccy also allows you take the snapshot of the details of the hardware that you can use to review at a later time. The installer is available as a Zip file and is ideal for carrying it in your USB drive for knowing the information of various systems. The information provided by this utility may not be detailed enough, but it surely provides the all the necessary information you want about your hardware.

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Download your Tagged Photos on Facebook With Photograbber

rpsingh — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 13:17:07 +0000

You might have been tagged in several photos in your friends photo albums on facebook and you might be interested in knowing how many photos have you been tagged and you might want to know which people have been tagged along with you. Photograbber is a tool for just that, it downloads photos from your friends albums in which you were tagged.

Photograbber allows you to select from your friends list, which friend’s album you want to look into to download your photos. However it doesn’t displays the thumbnails of the photos which are to be downloaded and also it doesn’t give you the option to select the photos for download. Still, this tool might come handy for those intersted in downloading their tagged photos. Photograbber is available for both windows and Mac.

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13 Best Sites For Downloading Free Legal MP3 music

rpsingh — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 03:30:42 +0000

Music resides in every heart of the world and every heart loves free music and if it is legal to download too, you can’t ask for more. Here are the 13 best sites on the internet to download free and legal music.

1. Jamendo

Jamendo allows users to download songs from various artists that are absolutely free and legal. The users can listen, share and download music in a easy way. You can also publish your own music and can earn money by building your fan base. There are about 700,000 active members with 28000 published albums.

2. MP3.COM

MP3.com is the most comprehensive archive for free music downloads. It is so popular that it also attracts some of the big performers. On MP3.com the users can find new talent and artists can promote their own music. Free MP3 downloads are available from thousands of artists.

3. SoundClick

SoundClick appears to be adding over 40,000 songs each month. This portal also claims to offer over 1 million free tracks. There’s certainly a goodly selection of free mp3 and WMA tracks available for download and streaming in a wide range of genres.

4. Amazon

Amazon is little known for providing free MP3 music but it does have some really nice songs in its store. You have to hunt around the site to grab the goodies on offer. You need to be US citizen and to have a US Amazon account in order to download the songs. This is the music resource for US citizens only.

5. FreeKidsMusic

FreeKidsMusic is a dedicated website for children’s music. This is a great place for finding free music for kids. The site offers no guarantee for the time that a particular song will be available. It also has a traditional music category in which the songs are sorted alphabetically.

6. Epitonic

Great selection of stuff from all sorts of predominantly modern genres. Be sure to check out all the similar artist selections and streams. The site can help you explore new genres with short audio guided tours.

7. Last.Fm

Last.fm offers some great free songs to download including songs from Jaydiohead, Peter Björn and John, The Thermals, White Lies, John Lennon & Yoko Ono. There are about 250 tracks to download on last.fm. Basides these free songs the site also gives you recommendations based on your music taste.

8. 7Digital

7Digital offers free MP3 songs from categories such as Rock, reggae, Hip-Hop, Various and Audiobooks. The Free songs are updated weekly so you get to hear all the latest music you want. It has a very clean looking interface as well.

9. GarageBand

At GarageBand you can listen and download tracks belonging to various genres such as Folk, hip hop, Alternative pop, punk, rock, rap etc. It features track of the week, top songs and sponsered songs.

10. FreeMusicArchive

FMA has a big library of some really nice songs. And as they say its not only free its good music. At FMA, you can browse the songs by curator, by genre, recently added highlights or most interesting highlights.

11. PureVolume

PureVolume is a website for the discovery and promotion of new music and emerging artists. Each artist has a profile that typically contains basic info, updates, photos, shows and music for streaming. Artists have the option of making each of their songs available for free download. Listeners and fans can also create profiles to interact with artists and each other, as well as track and share music they like.

12 Archive.org – Live Music

Archive.org has a huge collection of downloadable concerts. It has some massive sized file downloads (SHN), although some streaming/downloadable mp3 too. The concerts have been categorized alphabetically in the form of a Etree live concert download service with explicit permission from the bands involved.

13. Spinner MP3

Spinner.com has a MP3 of the Day category under which you can find free MP3 songs to download. The songs are updated frequently so you get to listen all the latest stuff. It has currently around 850 tracks to download, certainly not a huge collection but the songs are really cool.

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12 Free Web Services to Download Any Video on The Web

rpsingh — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 08:03:31 +0000

It can be quite useful sometimes to download the videos that matter to you the most. Although you can always watch them on the internet but sometimes due to connection problems or other reason it might be useful to download the videos to your computer. Here is a list of free web services that will make downlading the videos really easy for you :

1. Zamzar

Zamzar is a dynamic web service that lets you download the videos easily and also gives you the option to convert the video to the format you want. Zamzar is not only the place where you can download the videos but you can also download and convert any kind of file like audio, doc, pdf etc.

2.Vixy.net

Vixy.net is another service that let you download and convert the videos in the popular formats.When you submit a URL, it will download and convert to the video format, and then you can download the converted file. This service allows you convert a Flash Video / FLV file (YouTube’s videos,etc) to MPEG4 (AVI/MOV/MP4/MP3/3GP) file online.

3.KeepVid

KeepVid.com is a website where you can download the video files quickly and easily. It also features the Top video section where you can select the most watched videos around the web to download.

4.DVDVideoSoft

DVDVideoSoft allows downloads from youtube and Google video. It also offers free softwares to download and convert videos from the web. It also offers free tools to burn, rip and edit video and audio files.

5. Clipnabber

Clipnabber is the quickiest and easiest way to download videos from around 100 video sharing sites including the popular sites like youtube,dailymotion, Veoh, Megavideo etc. It also features the video category section that you can use to download or watch the video from a particular section like gaming, enterntainment, automobile etc.

6.Media Converter

Media Converter is an online service to download and convert videos, audios from a URL but you can only do it five times and also you cannot download video greater than 100 MB. If you want to download more you need to make an account. The free account supports the following sites :blip.tv, break.com, dailymotion.com, facebook.com, livevideo.com, metacafe.com, myvideo.ch, myvideo.de, veoh.com, youtube.com.

7.KcoolOnline

Kcoolonline currently works for over 269 streaming video sites, and more are being added every week. Supported sites include many popular stream sites including MySpace, CollegeHumor, iFilm, etc.

8.DownThisVideo

DownThisVideo.com is another simple to use web service to download the videos from a URL. The main feature is the tag cloud from where you can select a popular topic for videos. It also has wordpress plugin(WPvideo) which you can use to insert videos into your posts in a easy way.

9. HeyWatch

HeyWatch comes bundled with a lot of services to encode the videos in various formats including HD,Flash Video, H264, MP4, WMV, Divx, mobile, iPhone / iPod, PSP. You can also encode and transfer a video to a FTP server or to online storage. The only annoying thing is that it is not fully free.

10.VideoDownloader

VideoDownloader is a firefox extension plus a web service to download the videos from the internet. It supports download from all the major sites plus a lot of other cool but less popular sites on the internet. It also features a best video section which has the most popular videos from a number of sites and you can download the videos in just a single click.

11. YouconvertIt

Youconverit supports downloading videos from youtube,google video and metacafe.com. You can also convert the video files to a number of formats like 3GP, AVI, MOV, MP4, ASF. After converting the files it will send the files your email address. It also offers sending files from you PC to any e-mail address.

12. VidMetro

Vidmetro supports downlading video files from youtube, google video, metacafe, dailymotion, break.com. It also has top video category which has popular videos from around the web.

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Easily Manage Your Tasks With Google

rpsingh — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 02:59:58 +0000

Most people use a lot of tools for getting things done such as to-do lists, notes in Google Calendar, a couple different iGoogle gadgets and so on. Today Google has added a full screen version of the task manager gadget on igoogle. Click on the icon in the top-right corner and you’ll be able to see and organize all your tasks at once.

Last year, Google had added a gmail labs task managing feature which helped you manage your tasks from your gmail account. Now you can manage tasks not only in Gmail, but also in Google Calendar, iGoogle and from your mobile phone. Here is the video demonstration :

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