When it comes to my blog, i guess i am a little bit addicted to stats. I like checking them everyday to know how many people visited my site, where do they came from, what did they view etc etc. I use services such as Analytics, Awstats to check my stats but recently i stumbled across this great tool called VisitorVille. VisitorVille is a web analytics tool but the difference is, it makes your website come alive. You can view your visitors in an animated fashion. Overall i must say it is a fascinating piece of software. Now lets go into details (more…)

The worst thing about Computer Peripherals is that they get outdated very quickly. A few months agobought a new XFX Geforce 8600 GT graphics card thinking that it would keep me happy for atleast a year but then XFX came out with there XFX 8800 GT Alpha Dog edition. Now i could on ranting about my misery but it would be better to tell you about the features of this new devil. (more…)

Remember Sabeer Bhatia, the co founder of Hotmail, the first ever web based email service. Now he is back with another service called Live Documentswhich has all the features of Microsoft Office 2007 and is available for free online. (more…)

Flickr, the photo sharing service from Yahoo has launched a new feature called Flickr places that will enable users to view the thousands of photos which have been uploaded location-wise by photographers and camera phone users alike. (more…)

Recently i told you about 3 online image resizer tools. Now lets take a look at a free offline image resizer. High Quality Photo Resizer is a free tool which can be used for bulk resizing of digital photos. It supports several input formats such as BMP, JPG, JPEG, PNG, PSD, DIB, TIFF, VDA etc and 8 output formats which are JPG, PNG, GIF, BMP, TIF, TGA, WMF, EMF.

The software is simple to use. All you have to do is to add the photos you want to resize, select the output size and format and the quality you prefer. The images will then be resized quickly. You can also preview the image before converting. You can also add about 37 effects to your photos such as(Sharpen, Mosaic, Tweak RGB, Colorize, Spray, Emboss, Blur, Gray Scale etc). The software is about 720 Kb in size and can even work in Windows Vista. A good tool to add to your collection.

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A few months ago, while surfing the net and trying to open Orkut i got a strange message on my computer screen which said “Orkut is banned you fool, The administrators didnt write this program guess who did?? MUHAHAHA!!” and the browser closed. I didnt think it was a virus as i had AVG installed on my system and i had faith in it. I tried it on different machines which were part of the Local Area Network and each gave the same message while opening Orkut and Youtube. Each machine had AVG or Norton installed. I ran an Antivirus scan and it also didnt detect any virus or spyware. I decided to search on the net for this problem and thats when i discovered that my computer was infected with the W32.USBWorm virus which displayed such messages while opening Orkut and Youtube. Here are a few simple steps which you can follow to remove this virus if this has infected your system too. (more…)