Remove Duplicates Using Dup Detector

Duplicates are redundancy and they take extra hard disk storage space. Finding and deleting them manually is tedious and requires absolute patient, which obviously none of us have. Imagine all the searching, compare and delete. Dup Detector is a Windows software developed by William L. Hunt that can detect and delete the duplicate images intelligently.

Dup Detector creates a data file by opening and reading image pixel data for each image in your collection. It then finds duplicates by percentage match and displays matching pairs from a log file.

Dup Detector supports following image file formats - jpg, bmp, png, tif, pcx, tga, wmf, emf, psp. It’s free, so you don’t have to pay a penny to clear some extra space for your hard disk.

Download Dup Detector.

WebForum Reader

Web Forum Reader is uniquely designed for reading Internet forums and conferences. You can easily add your favorite forums to Web Forum Reader to stay informed about updates and changes on those forums without loading them in your browser. Web Forum Reader saves your time by showing the new and updated topics while hiding topics you have already read. Web Forum Reader will also reduce the amount of data you download, compared to regular reading using a browser.

Homepage: Click here to view the homepage
Download: WebForumReader.zip

Hide Files And Folders Using Hide-Files

Hide Files allows you to select any folders (and sub folders with files) of your choice to protect as hidden files and folders. You can select any folders on your computer or drag-and-drop the desired folders from Windows Explorer into the Hide Files window. In one mouse click the folders selected become invisible. Once files or folders are hidden, it is impossible to find them, or access and remove any file.

Unhiding files or folders is as easy as hiding them - just one mouse click and they are visible and accessible to you again. If program folder or whole disks are hidden, itself program or Windows will continue to work normally.

Features:-

1. Any number of files and folders may be hidden at the same time.
   
2. No one but you can access your hidden files or folders.
   
3. Program does not modify file system structure.
   
4. Hotkey and password protection for program start.
   
5. Stealth Mode - program itself can be hidden.
   
6. Locking of hidden files to prevent access to them via list of most recently used files.
   
7. Intuitive and easy-to-use user interface.
   
8. Full Windows platforms compatibility.
   
9. NTFS, FAT32 and FAT file systems are supported.
   

Homepage: http://www.hide-files.biz/
Download: hide-files.zip

Open Command Prompt From Any Folder

Yes, You heard it right.It is possible to launch a command prompt from any folder on your computer. This way when the command prompt opens, it is already in the directory you wish to be in.
(Note: This tutorial involves modifying the Windows Registry and if you do not feel comfortable doing this, please do not continue as we can not be held responsible for any mistakes that are made)

• Goto Run and type "regedit".
  
• Next goto HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/Software/Classes/Folder/Shell.
  
• Here, we can see our source location for this guide which is "shell".
  
• Right-click on “shell” and highlight “New” and select “Key”.
  
• It will create the key and allow you to name it. Call it “Command Prompt”.
  
• On the right pane you will see a REG_SZ called default. Double-click on it.
  
• A box will popup where you type the name what you want to appear on the menu when you right-click on the folder in which you want to open the command prompt.
  
• Next, create a new key within our “Command Prompt” Key that we made earlier. To do this right-click in the right pane and hover over new and select “key”.
  
• Name this key “command”.
  
• Once you select “command” you will see the “Default” key on the right. Double click on it to enter in the default data.
• Enter this as the default data (withour the quotes) "Cme.exe /k pushd %L".

Now close everything and right-click on any folder. You will be able to see the option of command prompt which will open the prompt with the address of the current directory.

Some Cool Image Search Engines (Search By Colors))

Image search is evolving quickly. Today you don’t even need to use words to search images. Now you can use colors!. That’s right you can search images by color.

PicItUp

PicItUp is a visual image search engine that combines word-based with color based search.
Test it: search for [autumn] and choose any color from the left column (I chose yellow). Now let’s look at the results.


Multicolr

Unlike the above one, with the Flickr-based Multicolr service you can combine as many colors as you want.
Test it: choose several colors and watch how the image list changes with each color added (I combined purple and light purple)

Etsy

Etsy, an online shop of handmade products, has developed color search for their own product database.
Test it: It’s real fun to play with. Just browse your mouse across the screen and watch various colors and same-palette products pop up.

Arent this search engines really cool and useful.

They definitely have a nice look, interesting features and cool display.

Everything - Fastest Serach Engine For Windows Desktop

Everything is tiny free Windows utility that let you instantaneously search on your desktop. Just download and install the file and within moments you’ll be able to find just about anything stored on your system. No need to wait a few hours or days for Everything to build an index of your files first.

Download

How To Copy Image From Excel

It is common that you would like to copy and paste the data from excel into other MS office softwares like Word or Power Point.   You can usually do direct copy &  paste without any problem.  Until, you realize that the table in Excel is big enough that when you paste it in Word or Power Point, the table excess the margin available.This could be a stressful process trying to reduce the size of table until it fits to the margin in your word or power point. There are several ways to copy your table as a picture and paste it. Some of them are mentioned below:

1. Do the print screen and paste it first in MS paint.  Then select the table that you want to copy and press Ctrl+C (copy).  After that you can paste it.


2. Copy the table in Excel, then go to Word or Power Point, select Paste Special.  After that you can choose paste as image.


3. Select the table in Excel, then while holding the SHIFT key, click on EDIT menu.  It will show an additional sub-menu “Copy Picture”.  This “Copy Picture” sub-menu only available when you hold the SHIFT key while clicking on EDIT menu. Try it.  After copy the image, then you can paste it wherever you want.

Unlock PDF files

PDF unlocker - unlock your PDF files
PDF unlocker is a free tool to unlock your PDF files. The convenience is that it is an offline/desktop software, which requires no internet access. Often, PDF files are published online with passwords to prevent unauthorized access to them. PDF Unlocker can be used to bypass this protection and open password protected PDF files.

Download PDF unlocker

PDF Crack
PDF Crack is an online PDF unlocking service. You can upload a PDF file, and get back an unlocked and non-restricted version of the same PDF document in a new window. The advantage of PDF Crack is that you do not need to install any software (hence, it can be used on computers where you are not allowed to install software, for example at office).

PDF Crack

Free Software Everyday

It's true that there is a site that gives a software (LICENSED) absolutely free.It gives single software each day.Each program is available for 24 hours only, and you must install it the day you download it. If you are game lover, they also give away one Game every day!That means - not a trial, not a limited version - but a registered and legal version of the software.

The software product will be presented in its full functionality, without any limitations save for those mentioned in Terms and Conditions.

The download link will remain on their web-site for the agreed period of time, together with the review of the software product and the information about other products from the software publisher presenting the giveaway title.

Both reviews and the information on the product line will remain active even when the Giveaway period is over.

Here is the link to the site : Give Away of the day

Google Chrome Tips And Tricks

Some of the best tips and tricks of Google Chrome.

1.Checking History:In Chrome's interface the search history has been integrated into the back button – just hold down the mouse button when you're clicking on the back arrow. After a short delay, a menu pops up showing your recently visited pages. At the end of menu there is option for show history.

2.Perform simple calculations and unit conversions using Google Calculator : Simply type the expression in Google Chrome's address bar (or "omnibox"). To copy the answer, select the suggestion.

3. Increase Text Area: If you need 

more space in a textarea, resize it by dragging the lower right corner.

4. Detach a tab and open it in a new window - just drag the tab outside the active window. You can also add it back to the original window using drag and drop.

5. Download and Drag :After downloading a file, you can copy it to the desktop or to any other folder by using drag and drop directly from Google Chrome.

6. Adding any site to search engine list:If the search engine of a site supports OpenSearch, you can add it to Google Chrome's search box by simply visiting the site and performing a search. The domain name automatically becomes a keyword and you should only type the first letters from the URL until you see "press Tab to search example.com". Then press Tab and type your query.

You can also manually add search engines, by right-clicking on the address bar and selecting "Edit search engines". 

Name - Wikipedia
Keyword - wiki (that's what you need to type in the address bar)
URL - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Search?search=%s

Name - Google Translate (English)
Keyword - trans
URL - http://translate.google.com/translate?u=%s

7.Try entering these addresses into Chrome:

about:
about:cache
about:crash
about:dns
about:hang
about:histograms
about:internets
about:memory
about:network
about:plugins
about:shorthang (careful it emulates the crash)
about:stats
about:version

via:Google Operating System

Change Desktop Icons To ListView

Has it ever bothered you that you can't change the size of the icons on your XP desktop? Thankfully they added this ability into Windows Vista, but what are your options in the meantime?

There's a small utility called Deskview that lets you change the icons from regular mode into the smaller "list" mode with a double-click. It's as simple as that.

Download and extract the zipfile, and then double-click on deskview.exe, and your icons will turn from this:



To bring them back to regular mode, just double-click on deskview.exe again.
Download Deskview.exe from jimcofer.com

Ubuntu Transformation Pack

System Files:

1. imageres.dll (C:\WINDOWS\System32,contains almost every icon)
2. shell32.dll (C:\WINDOWS\System32)
3. wordpad.exe (C:\Program Files\Windows NT\Accesories)
4. mspaint.exe (C:\WINDOWS\System32)
5. notepad.exe (C:\WINDOWS\System32)
6. sidebar.exe (C:\Program Files\Windows Sidebar)
7. explorer.exe (C:\WINDOWS)
8. regedit.exe (C:\WINDOWS)
9. cmd.exe (C:\WINDOWS\System32)
10. SnippingTool.exe (C:\WINDOWS\System32)
11. wmplayer.exe (C:\Program Files\Windows Media Player)



Skins:

1. Human for Vista
2. Human Emblems By HYDRATTZ
3. SmartFlip
4. Yod’m 3D
5. Icon Resources for Iconpackager

Homepage: http://hydrattz.deviantart.com/
Download: Ubuntu_Transformation_Pack_by_HYDRATTZ.rar

PhotoOnWeb Album Creator 0.8.5

PhotoOnWeb is a software to create your own photo album with digital pictures and host it on the internet. The software offers quick and easy creation and customization of the album (more than 20 different templates to match the theme of your pics).

Sort your photos in multiple albums, pick a template and click on the Publish button. PhotoOnWeb does it all for you, resizes the photos, builds the website and publishes it on the Internet.

Homepage: http://www.photoonweb.com/

Download: vso_photoonweb_setup.exe

Super Finder 1.5.2.2

Powerful replacement for Windows(R) built-in search. Search files, folders and other data efficiently and easily.

Features:

• “True” search text in file (unicode also)


• Search for hexadecimal pattern in file


• Full wildcard support


• ´Smart Search´ mode: search for partial names or extensions without wildcards


• File exclusion list (by file extensions or full/partial name)


• NEW: Multiple instances capability (Polygamy)


• Selectable search also for folders


• Remember all last settings (selectable)


• Shell find integration: “Search… (with Super Finder)” on Drives or Folders


• Explorer Right-click contextual menu on found files list


• Program activation by pressing “Search” hotkey on keyboard


• Drag & Drop (Copy) from found files list


• One-click file operations: Open, Copy, Delete, Explore, Rename, Properties


• Check for program updates feature


• Tray icon management


• Multilanguage: English, Italian, Romanian, Dutch, French, Spanish, Galician, Croatian, German, Simplified Chinese, Russian, Slovak, Arabic, Traditional Chinese , Portuguese (Brazil), Serbian, Polish, Ukrainian, Valencian, Japanese and Hungarian with support for non latin languages translations.


• Free support forum for bugs report or requests

Download: setup_SuperFinder.exe

Related Post: Instant File Name Search

RoundPic - Add Rounded Corners To Your Pictures

RoundPic , an online rounded making tool for making anti-aliased rounded corners for avatars and images in web 2.0 style. With RoundPic, you can easily add rounded corners to your images via online.

It is very easy to use, simply browse for the image on your computer or enter the URL link of the image and hit the ‘RoundIt!’ button. RoundPic will generate a corner, with your custom colors, size and quality or the image. Check out the below images before and after getting rounded.

Notepad Tabs

View multiple text files in a single notepad. Easily switch from one file to another through tabs at the top of the frame.

Features:

• Different from classic notepad, ´Notepad Tabs´ gives the freedom to view multiple text files in a single Notepad just like in IE7 and Firefox, which saves you from the mess in the taskbar.


• You can easily select and navigate through open tabs in a single Notepad programme.


• User friendly interface gives easy access to frequently used commands.


• Unlike classic notepad you can choose 5 different themes;
  -> Office 2007 Blue
  -> Office 2007 Silver
  -> Office 2007 Black
  -> Professional Office 2003
  -> Professional System

Download: http://www.notepadtabs.com/download.aspx

Instant File Name Search

Instant File Name Search (IFNS) is a fast and easy to use search tool. You can instantly search files by name or wildcards on your computer or local network

Main features:

• Instant search of files by name or wildcards


• Support of Boolean operators (AND, OR, NOT)


• Search in various directories or LAN resources


• Easy to use, Explorer like user interface


• Database management (you can create several databases)


• Taskbar icon and hot keys for quick access

IFNS requires Win95/98/ME or WinNT/2000/XP/Vista

Download: InstantSearch.zip

Disable Adobe Reader Popup For Updates

Most of us use adobe reader for reading pdf documents, the most annoying problem with adobe reader is the pop window which pops up every time you open adobe reader.
You may have pressed the cancel button so many times, but it again pops up when ever you load or start adobe reader.

The pop up window can be stopped by showing up, by disabling updates in adobe reader.

Uncheck the option highlighted in the image above which says: Display notification dialog at startup and click OK.
That’s it Done.

Add Programs To Your StartUp Easily

It occurs sometimes when you may like to add a program to your start up by dragging the program shortcut in All Programs >> Startup
But there is more better way to do it, which could save your time and make it simple. (as seen in the image below)


Yes, you can add a shortcut to your startup folder in the send to menu, and when you want to add any program to startup with windows startup, you can right click on the program shortcut and select Startup.
Let’s see how can you do this tweak.

1. Open Start >> All programs and locate Startup and right click on it to create desktop shortcut to its location.
2. Open the following path in windows XP
C:\Documents and Settings\username\SendTo
3. Copy the shortcut of Startup folder and paste it into Sendto folder you have opened.
4. That’s it, After following all the steps above you will see startup folder shortcut in Send To menu.

Retrieve Windows And Office Product Keys

The Magical Jelly Bean Keyfinder is a freeware utility that retrieves your Product Key (cd key) used to install windows from your registry. It is a single .exe file. Just download it and run it to instantly retrieve your Windows Product key. It retrieves the key of Office as well. It also lets you change the product key.



With the Keyfinder you can retrieve the Product keys of installations on a remote computer in the network.

Once retrieved you copy the key to clipboard, save it to a text file, or print it for safekeeping. It works on Windows 95, 98, ME, NT4, 2000, XP, Server 2003, Windows Vista, Office 97, Office XP, and Office 2003.

Download Keyfinder

Free Online Video Converter

Flvix is a free online video converter.
With Flvix you can convert videos in YouTube, Google video, flv files etc to the desired format in just 4 steps:

1.Copy the link of the page with the video on it and paste it in the textbox bellow.
2. Choose desired format : AVI, MOV, MP4, 3GP, MP3.
3. Click Convert button.
4. Download the converted file.
As simple as that.

You could easily convert your favorite online videos to either 3GP or MP4 and view the video in your mobile phone.

Visit Flvix.com

How To Disable XP Boot Up Screen

How many times do you find yourself staring mindlessly at the boot screen during Windows startup? I couldn’t even estimate the total amount of time I have wasted staring at the flowing blue bar. Here I will cover the steps to eliminate XP’s boot up screen. Not only will it save you the pain of staring at Microsoft’s logo, but it may actually shave a bit of time off the booting process.
In demonstrating this quick and simple tip, I am using XP Professional SP3. First click Start >> Run and type in ‘msconfig’ (without the quotes) and click OK.

The System Configuration Utility will open, now click on the BOOT.INI tab. From the list under Boot Options place a check mark next to “NOGUIBOOT” and click OK.


You will then be prompted to restart, and when you do the familiar XP boot up screen will be long gone! This will only work for Windows XP.

Convert JPEG, BMP and PNG Images to ICO Format

Imagicon is a free graphics utility designed to convert multiple image files from BMP, JPG or PNG image formats into any of the following image formats (24-bit)- Windows or OS/2 Bitmap (BMP), Independent JPEG Group (JPG), Portable Network Graphics (PNG) and Windows Icon (ICO). Imagicon is a small utility which is less than 1MB size and is supported on Windows 98/2000/ME/NT/XP/Vista. All you need is to drag and drop the files into the windows and its converted and saved to the default location.

Imagicon has options to set the default save format and also other settings. If you converting to .ico format, the dimension of the icons can be set.

While converting images, you can set the image quality for JPG images. Options are available to transform images and enable alpha transparency of icons. The interface window of Imagicon can be personalized with custom designs

Imagicon is a simple and free utility which can come handy for quick conversion of images.

Download Imagicon

Reduce Image Attachment size Using Shrink Pic

Many time when we want to sent large images as attachments, we first need to reduce the image size using image editor or else upload the image to free hosting sites and then sent the download link. Not anymore, here is a simple freeware, Shrink Pic, which can do the job of resizing images on the fly.

There are 3 levels of compression, High, Medium and low and also custom level compression. Once you install Shrink Pic, it automatically detects when you’re sending large photo files and compresses them in the background. It has a taskbar icon which tells you it’s waiting for photos to be sent. When it detects that you re sending a large photo, it automatically creates a temporary file and then compresses the copy and sends it instead of the original image. The original image is never altered.

Shrink Pic can be used when emailing images, it automatically detects images from Outlook Express and also with webmail, such as Hotmail, Gmail, Yahoo! mail and others.

It can also be used while uploading images to web galleries or blogs and also sending images through Skype and Windows Messenger. You can upload photos using Internet Explorer, Firefox or Opera. Shrink Pic will detect these uploads and automatically shrink and compresses those photos for you. You can check the complete list of supported platforms here.

Download Shrink Pic

Turn Off Ribbon In Office 2007

Ribbon is one of the notable changes in Office 2007. Ribbon occupies lot of space on the top of all programs. Although the ribbon has lot of features built into it, sometimes it can be annoying to have too big header. For this the Ribbon can be turned off as well.

Ribbon in Office 2007

There are many ways to turn the Ribbon off.

1. Click the down arrow to the right of Quick access toolbar and then select minimize the Ribbon option.

2. Second option is much simpler than the first one, all you need is to double click the current active tab on the ribbon. The ribbon disappears and double click again to get it back.

3. Press Ctrl+ F1 and ribbon becomes invisible. Clicking Ctrl+F1 again will make it active.

Docx File Converters

Docx is the new file format of Word 2007 and this is the default format of Word 2007. This format cannot be opened in previous versions of Word unless you have the office compatibility pack installed. Incase you do not wish to install the compatibility pack, there are online converters to do the job of converting to .doc format. Here is the list of top 3 online converters.

1. Zamzar: Zamzar can convert variety of file formats and Docx is one of them. Select the file and format to be converted and enter your email id, the file will be converted and a link will be sent to your email ID for download.

2. Docx2Doc: As the name indicated, this service converts docx formats into doc files so that it can be viewed in Word 2003 or lower. The major disadvantage with this service its that there is a one hour delay in downloading the converted files to reduce website bandwidth.

3. Docx Converter: This is again a good service to convert Docx file and the output file is in html format so that it can be read in all systems. There is also a desktop widget for converting.

In case you just want to view a docx file, then there is a simpler way for this. Rename the extension of file from .docx to .zip and then extract the contents. Docx is basically a set of xml files. When you unzip the file, you get a folder named Word and inside that you can see a file named document.xml. To view the contents of the document, open document.xml.

If there are other services, please do mention it in comments.

Tips To Create Good Password

One of important problems with passwords is that because we have the tendency of forgetting them, we land up creating some easy password which are prone to be hacked. Its important that our password has enough security as well as its easy to remember.

Here are few simple tips for creating a good password:

Never use your personal information as password- Most of the people have the tendency of using the personal information like date of birth, name, telephone numbers, pet name etc as passwords. Its easy for hackers to get your personal information.

Do not use actual words- Never use actual or real words as passwords, because they are the ones prone to be hacked. In internet world there are lots of tools and softwares for hackers to get the passwords, so its always better to have a combination of words, unless the word itself is long.

Use combination of words and characters- Using a combination of words and characters is the best way to make a good password. Combination of words can be usage of lower case and upper case alphabets, numerics and special characters like ‘_’, ‘&’, ‘.’ etc.

Do not use same passwords for all- Most of us have the tendency of using the same passwords for all the sites for ease of remembering. This is again a wrong concept. Having different passwords gives more security as even if at all one of your password is hacked, other remain safe.

Change your password frequently- Developing the habit of changing your passwords once in a month or two is again a good way to secure passwords. Do not use the passwords again and again, make new passwords while changing old ones.

Use password managers- Password managers are handy tools for remembering and securing passwords. Shankar has reviewed few online password managers.

Use passphrases- Using passphrases, you can create a password which is hard to crack, but easy to remember. Eg: “My Password is not easy to crack”, you can make a password out of this sentence- mpine2c. You can replace ‘to’ with ‘2′ and also use a combination of lower case and upper case.

Use Active Desktop To Save Memory Used By Wallpapers

When you choose a wallpaper using the standard method (selecting a background on the desktop tab, in the properties window),
Windows converts this image to a huge .bmp file (even if you selected a .jpg).
Then instead of having a nice 220K wallpaper, you get a 3.15MB wallpaper. To get rid of this,
try using active desktop's web capabilities, like this:

1. Right click on your desktop and select "properties", then select the "desktop" tab.
2. Click on "Customize Desktop".
3. Select the "Web" tab and click on "New..."
4. Browse for your favorite image and click OK when you are done.
5. Make sure "Lock desktop items" is uncheck.
6. Click OK, and OK again.
7. Now your image is like another window. Drag it to where you want and then right click over it.
8. Select "arrange icons by" and the check "Lock Web Items on Desktop".
9. That's it. Now you have a "low memory usage wallpaper".

With this you can make interesting things, like using various small wallpapers,
or even animated ones!! (you can select an animated .gif too!!). Simply select various images,
and when you click OK, drag all them to its right location, and lock the content again.

PS: If you want to check the huge wallpaper windows makes, select a wallpaper the standard way,
then browse to "C:\Documents and Settings\USER PROFILE\Local Settings\Application Data\Microsoft" (where USER PROFILE, is the profile you're using, i.e. Administrator). There should be a file called Wallpaper.bmp, open it and you'll see your current wallpaper.

Shutdown XP Faster

When a user shuts down Windows XP, first the system has to kill all services
currently running. Every once in a while the service does not shut down
instantly and windows gives it a change to shut down on its own before it kills it.
This amount of time that windows waits is stored in the system registry.
If you modify this setting, then windows will kill the service earlier. To modify
the setting, follow the directions below:

Start Regedit.
Navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/SYSTEM/CurrentControlSet/Control.
Click on the "Control" Folder.
Select "WaitToKillServiceTimeout"
Right click on it and select Modify.
Set it a value lower than 2000 (Mine is set to 200).

Free Icon Search Engines

Icons are an important part of any user interface, whether it is desktop or web icons are everywhere and they are essential for visually appealing designs. Icons look tiny art pieces but designing them is not as easy as they look, but thankfully there are lot of people who have released their icons with a free license, these will save designers time. But finding a good icons for your projects may be a tedious task, to simplify these task there are specialized search engines for icons. We will take a look at some of the icon search engines in this post.

Iconfinder.net: This is one of the best Icon search engines available on the net currently. Its Ajax navigation makes it a breeze to find new icons. Each icon in the search results carries its tags, download link and License information. No need to scroll through pages to get download the icon, hit the download icon and the icon will be downloaded. Most of the icons are pretty and can be used in modern or web 2.0 designs.

Iconlet.com: This is another search engine for icons, it also works well. Here you will get lot more icons to download but the results are not very well categoriesd, you will find unrelated icons grouped for certain keywords. the icons look old fashioned and not pretty. Lists the license information on a different page.

Iconlook.com: This is a new entrant in this space, lists many icons. Most of the icons are good can be used for modern web design. Icons search results show the icon size, but to get the license and download information you need to go to the icon page.

Searchicon.net: Searchicon has lot of inventory but again the search results contain unrelated items for certain keywords. It shows download, tags and license information but somehow these are not working.

icons-search.com: The search is a joke here, i searched for “link” icons here and it is showing me blinklist icons and some arrow icons.

What do you think? do you know any other search engine for icons.

URLOpener - Open Multiple URL's At Same Time

URLOpener is a nice app that makes it a easy to open multiple URLs at the same time. Sure this may not be useful for everyone out there, but it is definitely useful for some of us.

If you have received a list of URLs you received through an email or a spreadsheet or a text file, and you want to open them all at once instead of opening each, this is the exact reason Brad has developed this tool.

Check the tool if you open multiple urls at times, just copy paste all the urls in the text box and hit submit, it will show a message with all URls and a button which reads “Open All”, click that it will open all the URLs

One suggestion to Brad, why not make it open when i hit submit instead of showing Open All button again, beacause I know I want to open all the urls in the first place.

Notepad++ 5.0 beta

Notepad++ has been my Notepad replacement for the last years and I have never looked back since I installed it on my first computer. It combines the speed and low resource usage of Notepad with an advanced functionality that includes syntax highlighting, plugins and multi-views.

Today the first beta version of Notepad++ 5.0 was released to the public on Sourceforge, more than 18 months after the release of Notepad++ 4.0. It offers further performance improvements over previous versions, bookmarked lines, different colored tabs, plugin commands in the context menu and additional options to configure the application.

The announcement lists 18 fixed bugs and features that have been added in Notepad++ 5.0, they are:

1. Improve Notepad++ performance - on startup and on exit.
2. Add Calltip capacity.
3. All the menu commands can be added in context menu, including plugins’ commands, macros and user defined commands.
4. Add bookmarked lines operations : delete all marked lines, copy all marked lines into clipboard, cut all marked lines into clipboard, paste from clipboard to replace all marked lines content.
5. Fix crash bug : Open files with date pre-1970.
6. Fix clone mode bug : now the actions done in one view will be synchronized in the cloned view.
7. Add tooltips in document tab to display the full file name path.
8. Change hide lines behaviour : Hide lines now saved during switches.
9. Change file history list behaviour : Most recent closed file is on the top. Add number on list.
10. Caret width and blink rate are customizable.
11. Add asterisk in title bar if file is dirty.
12. The bookmarks’ look & feel are improved.
13. Add “Select all” and “copy” context menu items in Find in files results window.
14. Fix goto line with command line bug.
15. Improve smart highlight / mark all / incremental search highlight all visibility
16. Tabbar’s coulours is configurable via Stylers Configurator(Active tab Text, Inactive tab text, Inactive tab background, Active tab focused indicator and Active tab unfocused indicator).
17. Add the smart highlight file size limit - 1.5 MB in order to improve the performance.
18. Add exception handling (dumping filedata)

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Create Forms Online With pForm

Not good in creating HTML forms? no problem. As long as you’ve got your requirements, pForm can help you get through the tedious part in creating a form. pForm, a free web service from Appnitro helps generate forms in 3 simple steps:

Choose Color Scheme
pForm offers total of 25 different color scheme of forms to be choose from.

Design Form Fields
Design your own form by selecting the necessary fields (text fields, checkboxes, etc). Some of the more complicated form elements like File Upload, Calendar also comes ready made in pForm. You may also drag and drop to re-order the arrangement of form.

Download
Upon completion in designing the form, you can either Preview or download the form in single .zip format.

How to Quickly Select Multiple Mails in GMail

Your Web GMail displays 50 emails in rows, but you want to select #1 - #30 and perform a specific action to it. There’s no need to select the checkbox one by one for 30 times, or click the “Select all’ and uncheck each of the unwanted 20. Ashish of Technospot found a shortcut to mass select the emails All you need to do is select the first, hold Shift key and select the last and you’ll notice everything in the middle will be selected as well.

I’m not sure if the trick existed all this while but it’s definitely neat. It’ll make my mass mail labeling easier.

Create EXE package with built-in Windows tool

There’re many freeware/paid utility softwares available to zip/unzip/create self-extracting package for files & folders. Microsoft Windows comes with a handy tool for us to create self-extracting package.

Here’re the steps:
1. Go to start —> run —> type "iexpress".
2. This will open an IExpress wizard, choose “create new self extraction directive file” and press next.
3. Select “extract files only” and press next, and enter a package name.
4. After you name package, press next, until you asked to add files into your package.
5. Add files/folders, and press next to continue.
6. Press Next for the following dialog boxes. After that, provide target path and filename for your package, and you can choose to either create a Self Extraction Directive file or not.
7. That’s it. Next click the filename.exe to extract.

Send Message, The way you typed.

Fuzzmail is a kind of mailing service that records the act of typing a message and lets you send it as an email. So when the recipient sees the mail he can see the message in a kind of animated form, as if the message is being typed just now, Any typos, pauses and writeovers that you make are captured and communicated.

How do I use it?
Just go to http://www.fuzzmail.org/ and start typing a message and fuzzmail will record what you type. When you’re done, click “send” to stop recording and send your message. The recipient will get a private web link to read the message replayed in the way that you typed it. A copy of the Fuzzmail you wrote will be sent to you at your email address.

"We created fuzzmail because we wanted a more emotionally expressive alternative to email, so that an emailed love letter does not have to look the same as a business letter."

May be the only thing it cant do is making the mail emotionally expressive but it sure is fun and I must admit that there is an element of curiosity when you read the message. The message gets typed as you read it, and since we usually read faster than someone had originally typed, so the reader is kind of held in suspense as to what the sender is going to say next. Also the reader can control the speed at which the recording is played and a progress bar indicates how much of the recording has been played/left to play.

Go to fuzzmail. Here is a demo mail.

PowerPoint Tricks

Here are a few Powerpoint tricks that can either save your time or make your work easy.

Opening the Slideshow in a separate window:
Sometimes when you’ve started a slide-show in full-screen and realise that it needs some tweaking, you have to stop the show, change the slide, start the show again, and then look for another slide that needs changing.

Instead, when you start a slide-show, hold down [Ctrl] and click the Slide Show button at the bottom left of the screen or View >Slide Show.

This opens the slide show in a separate, smaller window, so you can easily switch between the presentation and the show.

Take your PowerPoint with you:
Working on a colleague or friend’s PC? You don’t need to waste time tweaking PowerPoint preferences to get everything the way you want it - all your PowerPoint settings are in this file:

C:\Documents and Settings\[username]\Application Data\Microsoft\PowerPoint\PPT##.pcb (where ## is the PowerPoint version number you have installed.)

Simply carry this file around and place it in the same folder on the new machine, now PowerPoint is just the way you like it. Do remember to back up your friend’s settings file, though.

Changing between .PPS and .PPT:
You can save your presentation as a PowerPoint Show (.pps) if you want the slideshow to start as soon as you open the file. But if you want to edit some parts of the show in Powerpoint, all you need to do is rename the file with the .ppt extension. Windows will warn you that the file might become unusable-ignore this. It even works vice-versa - if you rename a .ppt to .pps, the presentation now starts the slideshow directly.

Include a Flash movie in your presentation:
You can include a Flash movie in your presentation. Right-click on the PowerPoint toolbar and select Control Toolbox. At the bottom-right corner of the toolbox, click on the More Controls button and scroll down to select ‘Shockwave Flash Object’ to insert your Flash movie.

Replacing Fonts:
If you want to quickly change the theme of your presentation, the first thing you should do is replace older fonts with new ones. Go to Format>Replace Fonts, and choose which font should replace which. Only the fonts will change, the formatting will remain intact.

Photo Albums in PowerPoint:
Want to make a slide show out of your photo collection? It’s quite simple: go to Insert>Picture>New Photo Album dialog box, to add a picture from a file or disk. Under 'Insert picture from', select File/Disk. Locate the folder or disk that contains the pictures, select the ones you want, and click Insert. If you want to format your photo album later, go to Format > Photo Album.

How to Delete Huge Windows Files and Folders in 2 Seconds

This is a super quick tip. If you ever delete a directory with huge number of subdirectories and files inside it, it can took a while before the whole deletion process finishes. To delete all of them quickly in 2 seconds, you can use a freeware called Mass Directory Eraser. It works by removing the deletion progress bar that it claims to slow up the deletion process.


Be warned that this process is irreversible, because all of the directories and files are deleted permanently, instead of moving them to the Recycle Bin.

Super tool for such a simple task. Cool indeed.

Download Mass Directory Eraser.

Download Free Templates For Office 2007

Microsoft Small Business is giving out six free designer templates for Office 2007 for Windows, and Office 2008 for Mac. The best is that they are absolutely free and comes in 9 colour schemes. The six templates contain a spreadsheet, presentation, invoice, letterhead, business card and newsletter blast templates.

Remember, these templates will only work if you have the latest Office (2007 for Windows and 2008 for Mac) because the templates are in the new formats (.docx, .xlsx etc.). These templates are zip files and you can download them directly. No verification required.

Download Office 2007 Designer Templates

Upload Files To Multiple File Hosts At Once

If you upload and share a lot of files using free file hosts, then you will find this service quite interesting and useful. TinyLoad allows you to upload files to multiple hosts at the same time. This gives your file downloaders a choice whether they want to download the file from RapidShare or from MegaUpload, SendSpace etc.
File hosts that are supported by TinyLoad are MegaUpload, RapidShare, FileFactory, DivShare, BestSharing, SendSpace, Uploading, FileSend, Easy Share, Bandongo, zShare and Amazon S3. The maximum file size that you can upload is 100MB. You get the links almost instantly, but sometimes due to server load, it might take a while to appear. No need to panic, patience pays off!

TinyLoad is absolutely free and requires no registration. They even have a bookmarklet, if you want to upload files quickly. This bookmarklet can also be used while writing an email in Gmail, Yahoo Mail or Hotmail to upload large attachments.

Send An Email and Recieve It In Future.

Time Machiner is a service which can send an email to be receive in future.

You can use this simple application to send yourself a reminder of friends’ birthday, any important meetings, important letters or any important things. This service looks similar with MailFreezr, which also let users to send a future email.

Simply go to website, choose your date, provide the recipient’s email address, email subject and contents. After that you can proceed to send the future email.Its as easy as you can get. Truely an amazing application and equally important for most of the professional internet users.

Time Machiner

Search And Backup Serial Number In Your Computer

System Information for Windows is a handy application which can retrieve information from your system. One of the example usage is to retrieve products’ serial number.

By using System Information for Windows (SIW), you can retrieve information for hardware, software, and also network from your PC. The most interesting feature is that you can retrieve all serial numbers in your computer.



After launch the application, choose License, and your computer’s serial numbers will appear. If you register your product, you can export all serial numbers to either CSV, HTML, XML, or TXT format. SIW is a portable application. You can copy the exe file and bring it along with your USB flash drive.

This application is very useful for people who like to backup the serial numbers before format their PC. You can try the other features if you like to.

download SIW

Compare Text Files, Folders And Archives.

Beyond Compare is a utility for comparing text files, folders, zip archives, and FTP sites. Use it to manage source code, keep folders in sync, compare program output, and validate CD copies. It can create a snapshot of a live directory structure, and compare it against the live copy at a later date.

Download

Gmail Hacks

Show Unread Mails at Top
At the search box, type in any of the queries mentioned to show unread mails from the inbox

label:unread in:inbox or
label:unread label:inbox

Date Search using Gmail
In Gmail, making use of correct keywords is important. Lets assume you wish to search for mails delivered to you within a date range ( for eg. mails received between 12th Feb 2007 to 10th March 2007). The search query required to be typed in the search box should in this case should be

after:07/02/12 before:07/03/10.

Finding mails with Attachments
Lets now assume that you wish to search for mails with attachments from a particular user ( lets say Hari), then, type in the following in searchbox

from:ABC has:attachment

You can even club a few more keywords. For example, if you wish to search for all the mails in Inbox from Hari which have an attachment and were received between 12th Feb 2007 to 10th March 2007, the following search query should help

in:inbox from:ABC has:attachment after:07/02/12 before:07/03/10.

For your help on these keywords, Google also has a detailed table listing all the keywords. This can be obtained by clicking here

How To Enable and Disable The USB Port

To disable the access to USB port, in windows XP and 2000

1. Click Start, and then click Run.
2. In the Open box, type regedit, and then click OK.
3. Locate, and then click the following registry key:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\UsbStor
4. In the right pane, double-click Start.
5. In the Value data box, type 4, click Hexadecimal (if it is not already selected), and then click OK.
6. Quit Registry Editor.

To re-enable a disabled port:

1. Click Start, and then click Run.
2. In the Open box, type regedit, and then click OK.
3. Locate, and then click the following registry key:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\UsbStor
4. In the right pane, double-click Start.
5. In the Value data box, type 3, click Hexadecimal (if it is not already selected), and then click OK.
6. Quit Registry Editor.

However, there can be other ways too to bypass this issue, one of the easiest is to invest in a PS2 to USB port convertor.

How To Get Default Registry Values

Playing with the Windows Registry is always a risk prone job. Often, the advisory from many professionals is to take a backup of your registry before changing the values. In this post, I will try to explain the process of getting the default values from Registry.

This post will be a good tool for those who often change the HKEY_CURRENT_USER branch of the registry. Sometimes, what happens is, that the user tends to forget the default value of the node while editing the registry. In such cases, it becomes tough to revert to the previous value. However, this trick comes handy.

You can easily find the default registry values for most of the settings in the HKEY_CURRENT_USER branching of the registry tree in the HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT node of the registry. This is the part of the registry which Windows XP edition uses while creating new user accounts.

Lets take up an example, Lets suppose you intend to customize Windows Explorer’s Menu color setting by altering the RGB value stored in the HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Colors\Menu. To do this, you edit the value, but something prompts you to restore the value back to the default. However, to your horror, you had not noted the value at a safe place and now it seems to have gone.

But the good news is that you can still track down the RGB values for the default color by navigating to the HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Control Panel\Colors\Menu. You can then copy the default value from this subkey and paste it into the key that you’ve altered.

Following this trick will return you back your default value for the intended key.

Folder Color Icon Set 1.0

Folder Color icon set is a must-have for any computer user who has lots of folders and would like to organize them for faster search and quick retrieval. The set of 36 color coded XP folder icons can be used to mark out file folders to make folders easier to spot.

With Microsoft Windows, you have a FREE way to change a folder color. You just need colored folder icons. This is what you get downloading this icon set. This set of 36 color coded folder icons includes any colors you may wish to color folder. Starting from Red and finishing by Black.

How to change folder colors in the standard Windows way:

1. First, you should select and right-click the folder

2. Secondly, select Properties from the drop-down menu

3. Thirdly, select Customize tab in the dialog

4. Then click on Change Icon? button

5. Select an icon from the suggested list

6. And change the icon by clicking on OK and then Apply button

Six steps to change a folder icon are too many!Hopefully, there is one small utility that can do the same in a very different manner than Windows, actually in ONE click, and users will have a better choice of options and icons. The utility is called Folder Marker and it can be downloaded at . With Folder Marker folder icons can be changed ON THE FLY from the right-click menu of a folder.Color code folders to make them easy to find!

Publisher: ArcticLine Software
License: Freeware
System Requirement: video card
OS Support: Win 3.1x Win95 Win98 WinME WinNT 3.x WinNT 4.x WinXP Windows2000 Windows2003 Windows CE Windows Mobile 2003 Unix Linux Linux Console Linux Gnome Linux GPL MS-DOS AS/400 OS/2 OS/2 Warp OS/2 Warp 4 MAC
Price: $ 0
Filesize: 446.20 KB
Download: download link #1

Tools & Sites To Create Tag Cloud

A compilation of tools, sites and code snippets to create tag cloud:

ZoomClouds: create a tag cloud using any RSS feed. Using a small snippet code embed the cloud on any web page (e.g. TechCrunch tag cloud). It has its API using which you can have better control over the cloud you create and also build powerful mashups.

Tagline Generator: a simple PHP codebase that lets you generate chronological tag clouds from simple text data sources (e.g: US Presidential Speeches Tag Cloud)

TagCrowd: web-based tag cloud generator. Manually enter text or upload a text file to create a tag cloud.

IBM Many Eyes: The Many Eyes tag cloud can show one of two kinds of data: free text, or a two-column table of tags and numbers.

ToCloud: It has a page to cloud tool which takes a URL and creates a tag cloud from it. I tried one for technacular which can be found here.

ZoomTags: you can put small (or large) tag clouds on your web page and earn revenue from your web site

Cloud Control for ASP.NET

Tag Cloud Builder: cut and paste the text to be clouded and create the cloud.

Ultimate Tag Warrior 3: for Wordpress

How To Make a Tag Cloud using CFML

Tagcloud Font Distributor: assign font sizes to tags based on their counts (PHP based)

How to Make a Tag Cloud for Movable Type Blogs

Tagadelic: Tag cloud for Drupal

CodeProfessor: Building A Tag Cloud in WordPress

Creating a Tag Cloud in ASP.NET

Designing With Code: How to Create a Tag Cloud

Building a tag cloud in Java

Tag Cloud with Database: PHP and MySQL

A Tag cloud solution in Django

HTML::TagCloud: Perl module to generate tag cloud

Top Search Engines For Finding / Downloading MP3 Files

Google is one of the best search engines today and you can find almost anything using it. That said it is better to search things on a dedicated search engine. In this post I will list out some of the best search engines you can use to find MP3 files.

Skreemr is one of the best dedicated MP3 search engine that will allow you to find and play mp3 files. Their search results allow you to directly play the mp3 from within the results itself, providing you with album info and ratings for the song.
Skreemr will display results from various sites which host MP3 files. If you are looking to find your favorite song this is one search engine which will definitely help you find it.
Skreemr also comes with it own Firefox Plugin making it easier for you find MP3 files without visiting the site. Download the plugin from here.

P3Realm is another dedicated mp3 search engine, but in addition to the other search engines MP3Realm allows you to create your personal account to store playlists and search results. You can directly add the song to your playlist from the search results and access the playlists from anywhere.
In addition to MP3 files you can also use it to search for lyrics and perform advanced searches.

BeeMp3 is a dedicated MP3 search engine to search for songs. You can use BeeMP3 to search for artists, songs or albums. In addition to that they also have a listing of World Top 10, US Top 10 and Euro Top 10 music charts on their home page allowing you to easily find the best music.

eSpew is another search engine dedicated for finding MP3 files. eSpew also allows you to create playlists and view lyrics for a song, along with alphabetical listing of their archive files. The also have a toolbar which you can use to directly search for files from the browser.

Hushie is another search engine dedicated to find MP3 files, just key in the artist, album or song you are looking for and search. The search results for hushie are displayed in detailed format making it more simplistic than the other MP3 search engines.

Other Notable MP3 Search Engines
Music Search Plus - An Ajax based MP3 search engine.
MP3 Search Lizard - A search engine with better classification of songs.
Cool Toad - A search engine to find latest Bollywood songs, Bollywood remixes, Indian Classical and Indian Regional songs.
MP3 Babu - Indian, Bollywood and Pakistani music search engine.
Find Mp3s - A search engine with listing of authors alphabetically.

Websites Where You Can Find Interesting Orkut Hacks

InsideOrkut
As the name conveys, this blog covers every thing from orkut world and keeps you updated towards orkut trends.

OrkutPlus
One of my favorite websites for getting orkut hacks.They provide you with the best compilation of Orkut Hacks, Tips-Tricks and Cheat Scripts.

Orkutrix
Another very kool orkuttish looking website for orkut hacks.I think this the first website among all to provide awesome orkut hacks.

This Is Orkut (T.I.O)
was created to provide more info and help tracks to Orkut users for their convenience. The website looks quite kewl and it looks next gen website for orkut hacks.. :D

TrickFriend
This is mainly for orkut related software's developed by little genius called Meetul. They provide with many software's which can do few cool things which will be very time consuming otherwise.

DevilsWorkshop
Great blog for orkut related hacks run by Rahul Bansal. I like the cloud tag feature of this blog.

Orkut Underworld
Another cool blog for orkut hacks but most of the hacks are pure copy from the blog listed above but they post some new ones also.. So it worth getting mention here ;)

Digital Me
Last but not the least Orkut Hacks by Vijay Bhaskar. His software called Flood Machine Tutorial really rocks.Well there are many other websites out there which provides orkut hacks but those are pure copy from these websites, so it worth not mentioning. These websites takes your orkutting experience to next level.Happy Orkutting ;)

FLV Player

Feature summary:

• Play FLV files on any Windows PC.
• Double-click files in File Explorer to play them automatically.
• Zoom 50% - 100% - 200% and full screen.
• Double click video view-port to toggle full screen.
• Drag-and-drop multiple files.
• Play URL’s, Streams and Local Files.
• Remember position on screen at next launch.
• Remember audio settings at next launch
• Optional video smoothing for fast CPU’s.
• Small download. Just 2.12 Mb.
• No viruses, spyware or adware.
• 100% FREE.

Download: FLV Player Download 2.0

CCleaner 2.04.543

CCleaner (Crap Cleaner) is a freeware system optimisation tool. That removes unused and temporary files from your system - allowing it to run faster, more efficiently and giving you more hard disk space. The best part is that it’s fast! (normally taking less that a second to run) and Free.

CCleaner cleans the following:
- Internet Explorer Cache, History, Cookies, Index.dat.

- Recycle Bin, Temporary files and Log files.

- Recently opened URLs and files.

- Third-party application temp files and recent file lists (MRUs).

- Including: Firefox, Opera, Media Player, eMule, Google Toolbar, Netscape, Office XP, Nero, Adobe Acrobat, WinRAR, WinAce, WinZip and more…

- Advanced Registry scanner and cleaner to remove unused and old entries.

- Including File Extensions, ActiveX Controls, ClassIDs, ProgIDs, Uninstallers, Shared DLLs, Fonts, Help Files, Application Paths, Icons, Invalid Shortcuts and more… Backup for registry clean.

- Windows Startup tool

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Notepad Replacements

Notepad++

Notepad++ is a free source code editor and an effective Notepad replacement. Notepad++ supports several programming languages. The features include syntax highlighting, code folding, auto-completion, multi-document, drag and drop, full regular search support etc., It also has include advanced macro recording and playback feature. Moreover Notepad++ has most of my readers vote and it is the well-know replacement for Notepad.

Programmer’s Notepad

Programmer’s Notepad is free, open source, text editor with special enhancements for Programmers. Programmer’s Notepad is a project featured in Source Forge, which comes in as one of the best notepad replacement for programmers. The main features include book marking, code highlighting / folding, no limit to file size, tabbed document support, project management feature and much more. Programmer’s notepad is my favorite choice for Notepad replacement.

PSPad

PSPad is freeware code editor and wonderful notepad replacement. PSPad offers main features like rich text formatting, mighty code editing features, project management, syntax highlighting, auto-correction, HEX editor, text difference, spell checker, macro recorder and many more. PSPad also has inbuilt FTP functionality which is a plus for Web developers and Bloggers. PSPad is more advanced of all editors mentioned here. If you are looking for full functional and feature rich editor then PSPad should be your choice.

Notepad2

Notepad2 is a lightweight, free and open source text editor. Notepad2 is a full functional Notepad like editor with syntax highlighting. It is also based on Scintilla source code editing component similar to Notepad++. The features also include drag and drop feature, regular expression search, syntax highlighting for most of the languages. Notepad2 is best suited for persons who need simplicity like Notepad and Code highlighting feature for fun programming.

MetaPad

MetaPad is a small, fast and completely free text editor. It was designed to completely replace Notepad since it includes all of Notepad’s features and few extra features. The features include tool bar functionality, WYSIWYG printing, auto indenting etc., It is also been said it consumes less amount of memory than Notepad. So even if you like to stick with the simplicity of Notepad; you can very well try MetaPad.