Monthly Archives: October 2009

MahTweets – Customizable Twitter And Facebook Windows Desktop Client

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MahTweets is the first ever desktop windows client that I have found to be totally customizable. It supports updates from Twitter, Facebook, RSS Feeds, Identi.ca, and 12seconds. They are all offered as plugins, you can add them one by one from Options. There are also upload plugins which allows users to upload photos to Flickr, Twitgoo, TwitPic, and Yfrog.

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FolderSize – Check Windows Folder Size

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FolderSize is small portable tool developed to check the size of the folders and the space they take up in your hard disk. It presents the result in graphical format. With this tool you can determine which folders are present in a specific destination and how much space they are taking. Read More

12 Simple Ways To Boost Windows 7 Performance

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Windows 7 is a great new operating system from Microsoft and is being considered as a great addition in terms of features over Vista, but as you know that once the features are added to your system then they will definitely consume some resources too. You can optimize Windows 7 by allowing only those features which are needed and disabling all unwanted features. Here are some small tips which you can follow to get the best out of Windows 7. Read More

Slurm – Linux Utility For Resource Management

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Slurm is basically a network monitoring tool. It lets you monitor the traffic on your network interfaces, this traffic monitoring and analysis becomes very vital in many situations, particularly if you are performing analysis. It is a real-time, command line utility so it comes in handy for those who work on remote Linux servers and have to take care of such things often. Read More

EPDFViewer – Lightweight PDF Viewer For Ubuntu Linux

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Most  PDF Viewers consume a lot of time  to render PDF files especially if the file has high resolution images. If you want a faster lightweight version then you can try viewing your PDF documents quickly with the help of ePDFViewer.  It has a very simple user interface,  is extremely fast, and does not consume much resource of the system. Read More

Uninstall .NET Framework From Windows 7

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Before you proceed, you should know that we are reviewing this tool for advanced users only. We do not recommend that you should uninstall .NET Framework from your system. Most apps that run on Windows require .NET framework, without which they are rendered useless. Read More

Make Thunderbird Message Reader Header More Informative

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The message reader header is the most important part of the email client. Users guess the whole email only by reading it’s header. By default Thunderbird header shows excerpt of the subject, thus you can’t read the whole subject unless you don’t open the email. If you get lots of the emails and you scan them all by reading their subjects, then it is very easy to miss an important email whose subject is not properly shown.

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WriteSpace – Distraction Free Writing Plugin For Word 2010/2007

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When a person is writing a thoughtful article, he is easily distracted. Every now and then he would access some other file, there will be an urge to check the inbox or visit a social network site. This is why distraction-free writers such as Momentum Writer comes in. But these apps are standalone and do not integrate themselves into popular text editor Microsoft Office Word. Read More

Undo In Windows 7

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When we talk about Undo Change feature, what is the first thing comes to mind. Most people hit the Undo hotkey Ctrl + Z to restore back the changes. This feature can be use in text editors, video editors, photo editors, etc. But what most people don’t know is that they can also use Undo Change feature in Windows Explorer.

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Windows 7 Clipboard History

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Just like previous versions of Windows, Windows 7 doesn't provide a tool to log clipboard history. This is a serious setback, since clipboard history can be a integral part of many people’s productivity(including mine). There are many 3rd party clipboard programs which can monitor clipboard activity, among them is the much liked Clipdiary. The clipboard managers are designed to log all clipboard data, and provide an easy way to use the required clipboard item in any active application. If you are looking for an alternative clipboard tool for Windows 7, meet Clipboard History. This tool will keep a log of every word/text that you copy to the clipboard, and let you use selected clipboard item anywhere you want. Read More

Google Feature Search Add-On For Firefox

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Do you know that Google can be used much more than simply searching for a specific item? How many of you knew that Google can be used to search movie showtimes, airline travel tickets, stock quotes, package tracking, patent numbers, and people profiles? Read More