Yearly Archives: 2009

Snap In Windows With Gridy

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Gridy is a useful little utility for Windows that can snap in any window into an invisible grid. When you run this tool, it will sit silently in the system tray and add the invisible grid to the desktop. Now when you resize or move the window across the screen, it will snap into the grid. Read More

How To Edit Nvidia BIOS Quickly

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If you are looking to modify your Nvidia Bios and change settings like sign-on information, GPU and memory clocks, etc then look no further. NVIDIA Bios Editor is a free standalone tool for Windows that lets user modify the Nvidia Bios the way he/she wants. Also check out RivaTuner which has a pretty awesome GUI.

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Buy Amazon Products Later When Price Drops Or When Stocks Are Back

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Did you ever visit Amazon to buy a product but found the price to be too high or the stocks were out of any product? Wouldn’t it be great if there were a utility that can notify you when the price drops or when stocks are back? Buy It Later is an extension for Firefox browser that notifies you by email when a product’s price that you add to “Item Watch” drops or when simply the products are back in stock. Read More

AllTray Docks Any Application To System Tray In Ubuntu Linux

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AllTray is a very light-weight and useful tool for Ubuntu which lets you dock any applications to the system tray that do not have a native tray icon. There are so many such applications which don't have native tray icon like Mozilla Thunderbird, Evolution, etc, now you can easily dock such applications to the system tray. It works on almost all types of desktops like KDE, Gnome, Xfce etc. Lets explore how we can install and use it in Ubuntu. Read More

Tweak Your Windows 7 with EnhanceMySe7en

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Windows 7 is overall quite satisfying but still if you need to tweak your system for better performance and stability there is always 3rd party tweaking tools. EnhanceMySe7en is a free tool which takes care of the Windows registry, disk clean up, disk defragmentation, start up management , and all other such sort of things related to system’s health. Lets explore how we can install and use it in Windows 7. Read More

Measure Performance Of Your Hardware With Windows Experience Index In Windows 7

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It is very important that you must have good analysis of your system and that you should run only those applications which suit your hardware specifications. Windows Experience Index is one the most popular tool which lets you measure performance of the key hardware components like processor, memory, graphics chip, primary hard disk, etc. It rates your computer's hardware on a numbered scale and thus, on the basis of this information, you need to pair your system with the software that will run best on your machine. It was originally introduced in Windows Vista but has been enhanced to a lot of extent in Windows 7. The range of the score has been increased from 1.0-7.9 because of the the improvements made in various hardware components. Read More

Add Restrictions To Your Ubuntu System With Lockdown Editor(Pessulus)

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Linux is considered to be one of the most secure operating systems, but what if you are setting your system for public use? Then it becomes necessary that you should set some rules on the usage of computer so that the users are restricted to some particular areas of the system and they should not play with sensitive options. In Ubuntu, you can use Lockdown Editor (Pessulus) to lock down your settings specially Gnome Desktop and Panels. Read More

Exploring Windows 7 Font Manager

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Almost all releases of Microsoft's Windows don't have any remarkable utility to manage fonts and people have to rely mostly on third party utilities to work with fonts. Microsoft's upcoming windows 7 has introduced a very cool font management interface. The new Windows 7 Font manager will include the ability to group, install, uninstall, preview and hide fonts. Now you can easily play with fonts and installing/uninstalling new fonts is the piece-of-cake. Lets explore this feature in more details. Read More

An Introduction To Office Backstage In Microsoft Office 2010

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There are a lots of enhanced features that have been added to Microsoft's Office 2010 which make its interface more user-friendly. Office Button is a nice addition and provides features that you will definitely need to use while editing your documents. It not only provides a very fancy menu, but also helps you manage your open documents, presentations, or spreadsheets at a much greater level. Read More

Diagnose/Repair Your Seagate Or Maxtor Drive With SeaTools

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Seagate and Maxtor, both are popular brands for Internal and External drives. If you are one of those users who own a drive that is made by any of the above two companies and is not working properly, then you can diagnose the drives with SeaTools. It supports non-Seagate drives as well, but in my testing it worked better with Seagate and Maxtor drives largely because it has been developed by Seagate itself. Read More

How To Configure GMail Account With Microsoft Outlook 2010

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Microsoft Outlook is the most powerful and intuitive e-mail client software. Microsoft's Outlook 2010 provides  a very rich set of e-mail management tools to help you better manage your emails with a cool user interface. If you have a GMail account, then configuring the account with Microsoft Outlook 2010 is a piece-of-cake. Read More

How To Backup And Restore Important Files/Folder In Windows 7

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In the world of computers, always prepare for the worst. Almost all versions of Microsoft Windows provide some data backup utility but these are limited to some basic features only. Now, Windows 7 provides you with an enhanced utility to backup and restore your important data in a very easy way. Windows 7's Backup & Restore utility can back up files on the basis of the schedule you set. It can back up files to another drive, over network, to a DVD, etc. Read More

Tweak Your Ubuntu System With Ubuntu Tweak

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It is never easy to tweak your Ubuntu system unless you use some graphical tool like Ubuntu Tweak. It lets you tweak your system in an easy and safe way, otherwise you will have to play with configuration files and it could lead to system crash. It is currently supported in Gnome desktop environment only and provides you many useful desktop and system tweak options. You can easily tweak the hidden settings, cleanup the unneeded packages, install up-to-date versions of applications, and do much more with it. Lets explore how we can install and use it in Ubuntu. Read More

Download Any Flash Video With Orbit Downloader

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There are so many flash video downloaders out there that downloading videos from the internet is not a problem any more. What all developers miss out is that there are thousands if not millions of video portals out there, so we need a tool that can work for most or all of them, rather than merely the popular ones. Read More

Enlarge Lower Resolution Photos While Keeping Quality Intact

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You must be wondering why enlarge a photo when you can already take high resolution photos with latest digital cameras? Recently I came across bunch of old family photos that were scanned to the computer, but some photos were small so I wanted to enlarge them without losing the overall quality of the image, this is the situation where you must need a software to enlarge a photo. Read More

Exploring Windows 7 Parental Controls

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What Is Parental Controls

Parental Controls let parents restrict which games their children can play, which programs they can use, and which websites they can visit ,etc. This feature was originally introduced in Microsoft Windows Vista but was limited to website-filtering capabilities and some other basic features, but the upcoming Windows 7 has added many enhanced features to it. Now, you can easily control and monitor applications, games, emails and instant messaging,  etc. Lets explore how we can use it in Windows 7. Read More

What Is Windows 7 Libraries And How To Use It

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What Is Windows 7 Libraries

The upcoming windows 7 has introduced the concept of Libraries which lets you organize your data in a more professional way. Libraries are actually the collection of folders on the computer system. As you know that many users do not save their documents, images and other files in one place and mostly you will find them scattered all over the hard disk, so the Windows 7 Libraries concept has provided an easy way to access all the files in one place. In other words, a library organizes all your files together in one place regardless of where it is stored. Read More