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[15 Mar 2009 | 4 Comments | ]

As a Football fan, I prefer watching matches on my TV. Some of the times when the match is not being shown on the TV or when I want to work simultaneously while watching these matches, I prefer to watch them online. I don’t have to install any software and there are 3 websites which I prefer.

Software Reviews, Tutorials »

[14 Mar 2009 | 2 Comments | ]

A few days ago, we talked about how to convert PowerPoint Presentations to Video files. This time we will tell you how to convert PowerPoint presentations to Flash files easily. authorPOINT Lite is a free conversion tool that can be used to convert PowerPoint presentation to Flash. It is very easy to use and can produce high quality streaming media flash files that are small in size and can be sent over the mail or uploaded to a website.

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[4 Mar 2009 | 17 Comments | ]

NewFolder.exe is one of the most irritating virus that you will ever come across. It mainly infects through the Pen Drive and once it does, it will create exe files resembling the name of all your folders. If your folder has name “docs”, it will create the file ‘Docs.exe’ and similar files for all your folders. In the worst case, it can even disable your task manger, Folder Options, RegEdit etc.

Tutorials, Web Service »

[30 Dec 2008 | 4 Comments | ]

Earlier I told you about How to surf Websites in Office. This time i have another cool trick. Many a times when you use the Internet in Office or college, you will be behind a proxy and sometime you won’t be allowed to access some specific file extensions. Download At Work is a nice web service which will help you in downloading the file.

Firefox Extensions, Tutorials »

[11 Dec 2008 | 4 Comments | ]

Most of the files we download from the Internet are in Zip or Rar format. We wouldn’t like if we download an archive to find that the file we are looking for is not there. And it is also such a waste of Bandwidth and time to download a whole archive just for a single file. Archview is a Firefox addon that lets you preview the contents of an Archive before downloading. And using it you can even download a single file from the archive.

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[5 Nov 2008 | 3 Comments | ]

You have to be careful when you surf websites in office as there are a lot of snooping people around or even your boss might see what you are doing. Earlier I have written about how you can surf websites in Office using a Vanishd. This time, I will tell you about GhostZilla, a browser based on Firefox which can embed itself inside any program or window you are using.

Tutorials, Vista »

[23 Oct 2008 | 7 Comments | ]

Today when I tried creating a New Folder in Windows Vista, I saw that the option was missing from the right click “New” menu. I tried creating it through the explorer by going to “Organize – New Folder”. This option was there but it was doing nothing. I was able to successfully able to create a folder through DOS but that is not something you prefer.

Tutorials, Vista »

[21 Oct 2008 | No Comment | ]

One of the security features in Vista is the User Account Control (UAC) feature. When ever you try to install a program or any processes try to change the system setting, it displays a prompt through which you can accept or disable the action. This increases the security of the system but can sometime turn out to be annoying if you are trying to install some programs. Here is the simple process of disabling it

Software Reviews, Tutorials »

[22 Sep 2008 | 25 Comments | ]

UIF ( Universal Image Format ) is a powerful image compression file format for backing CD/DVD. One of the advantages it has over other formats such as ISO etc is that it also supports compression and the file size is reduced. It also supports password protection and encryption keep your data safe. This format is becoming quite popular these days and you can occasionally find such formats when you download a torrent. So how do you actually read the contents of an UIF file.

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[25 Aug 2008 | 8 Comments | ]

If you want to take the Screenshot of a Website, you certainly won’t want to use ‘Printscreen’ as most probably, it will will be able to capture half of your Website. Webshot is a nice little freeware which will make this job a lot easier for you. It will allow you to take Screenshots of web pages and save them as full sized images or thumbnails in various formats such as BMP, JPG, GIF and PNG.