May 7th, 2009 by
Satbir Singh
Internet Explorer 8 has a nifty feature that hasn’t been known to many. It has an option called New Session under File menu that lets you log into multiple accounts on a single website simultaneously. For example, if you have multiple Gmail accounts and want to operate them simultaneously, then this feature of IE8 [...]
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May 7th, 2009 by
Satbir Singh
Looking for some great professional quality fonts for free, then look no further because FontSquirrel is a great resource to download free fonts. It has a collection of over 300+ high quality professional fonts that you can use even in a commercial application.
The fonts are well organized into categories. And you can even add [...]
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May 7th, 2009 by
Satbir Singh
If you haven’t tried out Windows 7 RC or Beta yet and are wondering whether your hardware will be able to run Windows 7 with its eye-candy features, then use the Windows 7 Upgrade Advisor tool from Microsoft.
It’ll scan your computer hardware and will give you a report to let you know whether your [...]
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May 6th, 2009 by
Satbir Singh
AddToRun is a useful portable application for Windows that lets you create aliases to open your favorite programs which you can then type on Windows Run command and launch your favorite programs quickly.
Download and extract the AddTorun files somewhere on your hard disk and right click on AddToRun File and choose “Run as Administrator” [...]
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May 6th, 2009 by
Satbir Singh
You might be aware of Google’s site: operator that lets you restrict the search results to a specific website. Search Site is a Firefox add-on based on Google Search’s site: operator, that lets you search the opened website for selected text on a webpage.
Select some text on a webpage and right click on it [...]
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May 5th, 2009 by
Satbir Singh
Here’s a helpful video showing what’s new in Windows 7 Release Candidate, which was released yesterday. This video explains all of the new interface, menu and design tweaks made in Windows 7 RC since the launch of Windows 7 Beta.
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May 4th, 2009 by
Satbir Singh
While Microsoft earlier said that Windows 7 RC will be available from May 5, though it is still May 4 in US, Microsoft has made available Windows 7 RC for public download.
To download Windows 7 RC, follow these steps:
1. Head over to Windows 7 page, scroll down the page a bit, and select language [...]
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May 4th, 2009 by
Satbir Singh
If you’ve been thinking of cutting down the time you waste on addictive websites like YouTube, Facebook, then MinutesPlease is the answer.
This nifty and simple website lets you impose time limit for any website you want to open. After the set time limit, the open website window or tab will automatically close saving you [...]
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May 4th, 2009 by
Satbir Singh
Ever wished to export the tabular data in a PDF file to an Excel Worksheet, then look no further because PDF To Excel Online will convert any table within a PDF file to excel worksheet.
Just upload your file to PDF To Excel and provide your e-mail address. It’ll find out every table in your [...]
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May 4th, 2009 by
Satbir Singh
Though Windows 7 Release Candidate will be valid for 13 months, it’ll be more useful for first 10 months as from March 1, 2010, it’ll start having bihourly shutdowns alerting the user to buy Windows 7, as stated on this Microsoft’s partner page.
While it’ll work well up to June 1, 2010 but after March [...]
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