Archive for the ‘Softwares’ Category

Wipe off remaining crap from Win registry after an unsuccesful uninstall

Friday, August 15th, 2008

An unsuccessful uninstall of a software from your computer can hamper your registry’s fine working. Whenever a software is uninstalled it could happen many times that all its entries are not deleted from Windows registry. These entries behave as malicious entries and confuse the OS, thus degrading OS performance. Here is a windows utility that cleans the remaining clutter from your Win registry to ensure its proper working.

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Get Vista like Start Menu on your XP

Wednesday, August 13th, 2008

Some users find it very cool to experience Vista running on their XP systems. Some features like showing Vista like drive icons on XP make users feel very good. Another nifty Windows utility tweaks your XP Start Menu to look like Vista’s.

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Digsby test release promises minimal memory usage

Monday, August 11th, 2008

Digsby

Multi-network messaging client Digsby rolled out its latest test version promising minimal memory usage. Users around the globe used Digsby with a smiling face except one single complaint that Digsby consumed around 125-150 MB of RAM on their systems. This test release is centered around this main issue with many other improvements.

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Portable and Anonymous Opera: OperaTor

Sunday, August 10th, 2008

Operator-Portable-Opera

Since the launch of Opera 9.5, I was looking for its portable version just like the Portable Firefox 3 and here is the Portable version of Opera 9.51 - Operator 3.1. It is a mere 7 mb zipped download which you can extract to Pen drive and browse the web privately anywhere keeping your bookmarks and history always with you.

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Get compressed images for email attachments automatically

Sunday, August 10th, 2008

We all have uploaded, e-mailed hundreds of images in the form of attachments. In order to save bandwidth and avoid crossing maximum attachment size in emails, most of use image compression softwares. No doubt these softwares do well in compression process but the only problem with them is that we need to provide the path of image manually. Softwares that do this automatically can br real time savers.

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Quick Office 2007 tip: Add Random Data to Documents

Thursday, August 7th, 2008

MS Office 07To create a business document, you often need text to create the design and layout of documents. But sometimes, the data to be put into the document is not ready or you haven’t thought about it yet.  In these cases, to create a design you can use some inbuilt functionality of MS Office 07 to add random data to your document.

Here’s how to do that for MS Word 2007 and Excel 2007:

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Easiest way to extract images off a PDF document

Wednesday, August 6th, 2008

Usually users use screen capturing software in order to extract save images of a PDF document. When the requirement is just of a single or two images, that works fine but to extract all the images out of a PDF document can be painful. I was surfing the web when I found this small and smart software that helps users to extract all images off any PDF document.

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Time calls for a home server, why not try Free Windows Home Server?

Sunday, August 3rd, 2008

ms-home-server

With the growing needs of families, home server packages have expanded their market. As the number of computers in a family increase, a central backup for all computers’ data is always favoured. These days home servers have become the most nice way to make you smile. But from where to get a home server and how much it costs? I say, from Microsoft and absolutely free.

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Frustrated of your PC’s hanged response?

Wednesday, July 30th, 2008

It is very common bug in Windows that it hangs up sometimes while working. The same problem is encountered with Internet Explorer. Its really painful to restart the system every time the explorer hangs. This problem could be overcome with Explorestart.

Explorestart is a free utility from NirSoft that simply restart explorer and Internet explorer. When you run this tool, all the instances of explorer (explorer.exe) and Internet Explorer.

Download Explorestart.

This is how now my GMail looks….

Monday, July 21st, 2008

New look Gmail
After the release of redesigned skin ( version 2.0 ) for GMail by Globex Designs, it’ll now be very easy to provide GMail with cool new look. I had never tried this before on my Gmail account. But when I experienced Gmail’s exciting interface( after trying this new skin  ), I’ll suggest you to jump into the new avatar ( as its really cool !!). (more…)