Yearly Archives: 2009

Auto Download From MegaUpload Without Time Limit

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File Hosting providers such as MegaUpload and Rapidshare have time limits for non-premium users which is pretty much annoying. You have to wait for 30 seconds to 50 seconds sometimes before you can actually start downloading a file. MUBundle is a free add-on for Firefox that removes the time limit from MegaUpload by auto skipping it. Apart from skipping the time limit it also downloads the file automatically by clicking the Download button for you. Read More

How To Contact The Owner Of Any Website

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Suppose you visit any website and want to contact the webmaster, but cannot find any contact information on the website, what will you do? Instead of searching the who.is information and going further deep to track down the owner, you can simply use ContactThatOwner.

It is a free online service that lets you find the owner of any website and allows you to contact him/her instantly. This is how it works, you enter the website name, it will query the domain provider for a contact email. Once the email has been received, you will be shown a simple-to-use contact form from where you can send the message to the webmaster directly.

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Draw Interactive Network Diagrams With Network Notepad

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Network Notepad is a free utility for drawing interactive network diagrams and flowcharts. It includes user definable management features such as point and click telnet, FTP, HTTP and Ping which makes drawing more fun and easy.

It has a drop and drag interface which makes it further easy to draw. Just select the objects, drag them to the blank space and connect them together to create a diagram.

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How To Check For Signs Of Editing In An Image

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Someone sends you an image of an Alien and says it’s an original shot. How will you know whether the image is original or fake? Photo Editors such as Photoshop, Gimp, etc have become so advanced that you can hardly distinguish between a real and fake photo.

JPEGSnoop is a free portable tool that lets you know whether the image is fake or not. Apart from it, it also displays the complete details of an image such as which camera and settings were used.

Just load the image and it will display the result instantly in a text editor like interface. To check whether an image is fake or not, go all the way to the bottom and you will find it there.

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Mix And Synthesize Your Favorite Music To Create A New Song

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2710 DJ is a free application for Windows which allows you to mix and synthesize your favorite music. It is a complex application that contains advanced features for music junkies. It has far more options to create professional music when compared with Microsoft Songsmith, and is totally free.

You can record your own voice with the help of microphone and mix it with your favorite music. It has a build-in intelligent track suggesting feature. You can create up-to 10 small mini-players and unlimited number of music playlist. It can record to different file formats such as, MP3, WMA, OGG, or WAV format.

Below is an example of how to play music in a Sample Player.

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Find And Replace Text Inside Multiple Files Using TexFinderX

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TexFinderX is a free tool for Mac OS X and Windows that lets you search and replace any text inside entire folders. It can find and replace text inside JS(JavaScript), CSS, HTML, PHP, XML, TXT, etc. You can also use Replacement Tables to replace multiple strings of characters in one pass. It allows you to create your own Replacement Tables in order to fit your needs.
Editor’s Notes: To test this tool I created a simple txt file and tried to replace the word Nakodari with AddictiveTips.
To begin, you can either add an entire folder or a single file. By adding an entire folder, it will find and replace the text found inside multiple files, which is great for batch replacing text. Another advantage of adding the entire folder is when you have forgotten which file includes the text, in this way you can find both the text and the file. Once you have added the files, click Search & Replace button. Now enter the text under both Search For and Replace By and click Search. Read More

How To Download Email Attachments From Microsoft Outlook

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OutlookAttachView is a free portable tool for Windows that scans all attachments in your Outlook profile and displays them in a simple list view. This can be best used for searching a specific attachment or for deleting a huge attachment that is taking lot of space. Apart from the Search feature, you can also Download the attachments easily, just select the attachments you want to download and click Save.

Since it is portable tool, it needs no installation and has the ability to search multiple Outlook profiles at once. According to NirSoft,

If you have only one profile in your Outlook, and this profile doesn't require any password, you can run OutlookAttachView even without starting Outlook, and it'll automatically scan the mailbox of your current Outlook profile. Otherwise, it's recommended to open Outlook in the right profile before starting OutlookAttachView.

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Kumo Search Homepage Screenshot Leaked

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The first screenshot of Kumo’s homepage was accidentally leaked on Twitter, our friends at LiveSide got hold of it. For those who don’t know what Kumo is, it is a complete rebranding of Microsoft Live Search. Kumo is being internally tested by Microsoft employees before launching it to the public and according to some tweets it accidentally went live last night.

Update: According to some webmasters, they received 1-2 visits from Kumo. Perhaps it could be a bot.

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Save And Restore The Position Of Desktop Icons In Windows

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If you change the screen resolution a lot, you must have noticed that the icons get mixed up and you have to manually rearrange them all over again. While playing a game at lower resolution or connecting you laptop to an external display, the icons change their position according to the resolution.

Take my example for instance, most of the time my laptop is connected to an external display whose resolution is 1680 x 1050, whenever I disconnect the external display all my icons get mixed up which is very frustrating. I have found two tools that can help solve this problem DesktopOK and DeskSave.

DesktopOK

DesktopOK is a free portable tool for Windows that lets you restore different icon layouts for different resolutions. Since it supports different icon layouts for different resolutions, you can also set different desktop icon layouts for same resolution.

Arrange your desktop icons and run this tool. Click Save and it will save your current desktop icon layout for this resolution.

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Search Amazon Products That Come With Free Shipping

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Amazanian is a free search engine that searches Amazon.com for different products and only show those that are eligible for free shipping. In short, the whole search engine is based on searching Amazon products that ship for free. On the main page, apart from the search bar, you will find top 10 best selling Books and DVDs that ship for free.

On the left sidebar you can browse for top selling products by different categories. You have options to search for only Prime items or not. According to Amazon,

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Battery Bar – Get Detailed Information Of Your Laptop Battery

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Battery Bar is a free tool for Windows that sits on your taskbar and monitors your laptop battery in real time using a unique algorithm. Many battery monitoring tools are not accurate, but what makes Battery bar different is that it takes a whole new approach. It constantly monitors your laptop battery and keeps it’s historical data. Using this historical data, it can provide you with a very accurate estimate of how much time is remaining on your battery.

Once you have installed this tool, right-click your taskbar, select Toolbars and select Battery Bar from the list.

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Monitor Any Changes Made In Your Folder With Directory Monitor

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Directory Monitor is a free app for Windows that lets you monitor any folder or directory easily. It is like a surveillance tool that keeps check on your directories for any file changes, modifications, deletions and new files. You can also monitor hidden directories and folders.

Just add the directories you want to monitor and it will automatically begin tracking them. Apart from your local directory, you can also add directory over the network.

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Access Any Website Or Forum Without Registering

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Visit any forum or website to find something useful and they will ask you to register. Every time a forum asks me to register, I simply close the site. You would probably do the same. But this time, lets face it. Before I begin, you should know how things work. All websites and forums will block unregistered users, but they won’t block Google Bot. What we will do is to switch our User Agent to that of Google Bot and freely browse any website or forum without registering. First grab the add-on for Firefox called ‘user agent’ here and install it. Now go to Tools > User Agent Switcher > Options and then again to Options. Read More

Create Free Comic Strips Online

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Have you ever wondered, why not create a comic strip out of a funny situation that happens every now and then? StripGenerator is a free online service that lets you create unlimited number of unique comic strips. It provides you with some limited number of characters, shapes, etc and also includes an easy-to-use drag&drop strip editor. Just select the Characters, place the Objects, and choose the shape of bubbles. Now type any text of your choice and enjoy making comic strips.

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JMC Photo Gallery – Alternative To Windows Live Gallery And Picasa

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Picasa and Windows Live Gallery are two famous Photo Galleries where you can save and organize your photos. Most people you come across would either be using Picasa or Windows Live Gallery. There are tons of other small software that lets you organize your photos, but do not include complete functionalities. But this doesn’t mean that the innovation is over. JMC Photo Gallery is a free Photo Gallery for Windows that can organize both photos and videos easily. It is both portable and opensource. You can view your photos with build-in slideshow and screensaver. It supports various image and video formats, such as bmp, gif, jpg, jpe, jpeg, jfif, png, tif, tiff, avi, wmv, mpeg, mpg, mp4, mov. Just extract the zip file and click JMC Photo Gallery.exe to start When launching for the first time it will automatically add ‘My Pictures’ folder to your gallery, you can add more folders later by going to Preferences window. Read More

BackUp/Restore Windows Live Writer Settings, Posts, And Plugins

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All posts that are published on this blog are done with Windows Live Writer(WLW). It is one complete tool for bloggers who want to publish articles frequently. You can add plugins, save drafts, and customize any settings easily. But it lacks one important feature: ability to back up your data. Windows Live Writer Backup is a free tool to create a backup of all your WLW posts, settings and plugins with a click of a button. If you want to transfer complete WLW data(settings, posts, and plugins) to another computer, you can do it with this tool. Just make a backup on one computer and restore it on another. Backing Up To backup, just launch the program, select the Settings, Posts, and Plugins that you want to backup and click Backup button. Read More

How To Edit Your Windows 7/Vista Games Explorer

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In Windows Vista there is a build-in Games explorer where you can find all games currently installed on your computer. But sadly Microsoft has not included a feature where we can add/remove or edit/modify it’s content and improve the looks and overall functionality. Vista Game Explorer Editor is a free program that allows you to do just that. You will only find few games listed in the explorer, but with this tool you can add/remove any game of your choice(including Steam games). When you add a game, it will xdownload the box art from the Internet automatically. :) Note: This should also work with Windows 7. When you run this tool for the first time, there is a good chance that you will see the following message, the developer has written a solution for this problem here. Read More