Aatif Khan

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Repair Task Manager, Registry, And More After Malware Attack [Windows]

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By now, you would be well aware of the plethora of problems that virus and malware attacks leave in their wake. Disabled Task Manager, Registry Editor vanishing, Command Prompt barred, Folder Options nowhere to be found, just to name a few. While many anti-malware applications are good enough when it comes to removing the infection, they cannot exactly repair the collateral damage that your system had suffered. Hence a utility like Quick Disaster Recovery comes into play. Read More

Use Different Speeds For External Mouse And Touchpad On Laptop [Windows]

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If while working on your laptop, you frequently need to switch between the touchpad and an external mouse, you’d have experienced the irritation that accompanies when the operating system applies the same cursor movement speed and settings to both of them. One speed may be fine for an external mouse, but it may prove to be extremely slow for the touchpad (I experience that on an almost daily basis). If only Windows could save mouse profiles just like power profiles! Read More

Adobe’s Project Rome Is A Powerful Content Editing Platform (Free For Now)

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Project Rome is one of the latest offerings from Adobe. It is an all-in-one content creation and editing platform devised with both novice and experienced users in mind, and offers an interface that lets one inject the dynamism of multimedia and animations in every day projects, be it a brochure, greeting card, or something as diverse as a website. Read More

LastPass Pocket Is Desktop Tool To View Your Passwords Offline

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There is hardly any other browser extension/add-on that can make internet browsing experience as convenient as Lastpass. As the developers of this utility say, the last password you’ll ever need to remember, and for months LastPass has been doing that for me. However, there is a tiny nuisance, LastPass has made it a habit in me to not remember any passwords, since I give them to trusty-old LastPass and move on. So if I am using some other computer, it really becomes frustrating trying to guess the password to my not-so-much-used accounts. For times like these, consider using LastPass Pocket. Read More

POP Peeper Brings Easy Desktop Notifications, Handling For Webmail And POP/IMAP

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Last week I reviewed an email notification tool, EmailTray, which has come a long way in its development, with now a sleek interface, well customization options and wide-ranged support for email providers. One of our readers, Ron, pointed to us another useful utility called POP Peeper, which is essentially an email notifier, running from the system tray, that keeps tabs on various IMAP and POP email and other services, including the likes of Yahoo!, AOL, Reddit etc. Let’s have a look at what this tool is all about. Read More

Sync User Ratings And Play Counts Between iTunes And Windows Media Player

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Windows Media Player and iTunes are both very capable, comprehensive and user-friendly music management solutions. Both support features like comprehensive libraries, smart playlists, etc, and they monitor your listening patterns to generate their own playlists. They also like to track your favorites, based on ratings you assign. If you’re using both WMP and iTunes at the same time, chances are you’ll run into the frustration of your playing preferences not being in sync. Orzeszek Ratings is a portable, free application that lets you sync track ratings and play counts between both these music management solutions. Read More

Send Large Files Without Worrying About Hosting And Broken Downloads

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Here’s a nice tool that you’ll find useful if file transfers over the internet are something you have to go through often. We all have at some point experienced how painfully slow file transfers can become even on good connections if an intermediary service (like an instant messaging client) is used. Uploading files to a free hosting service may not be a very good option either, since it causes privacy risks. With intermediary services, there is also the issue of failed transfers, and they are really a pain in the neck when dealing with large files. Read More

AVERT Scans Your Infected Windows PC With Popular Antivirus Tools

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Malware, be it a virus, spyware, rootkit, or anything from the lot, is a computer users’ nightmare. They can harm your data, damage your hardware, steal personal information, bring down whole networks, and in general can wreak havoc on any digital machine. They may even become the cause for financial loss once they hit on a massive scale. While Anti-malware programs work well mostly, they usually become useless once an infection has taken place. Considering how the sophistication of malware is also increasing, they are becoming smarter at disabling most anti-malware protection that you would have. Read More

Letterpress – Advanced Windows Notepad Replacement Text Editor With Declarative Customization

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Text editors come in more than packs of dozens, such is their abundance. Along with the many commercial offerings, free software are also available in huge numbers. Letterpress is an open source offering that covers not only basic text editing functions but also brings many advanced features like file comparison, HTML and PHP support, mathematical operators, and much more. Read More

Read, Search, And Filter Text Files Instantly With MuseTips Text Filter

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With writers, bloggers, journalists, coders and others of the like, text is of primary importance, and so are any tools associated with text manipulation and handling. Usually with long pieces of coding and writing, the issue lies mostly with finding the right thing. Suppose, for example, you are a coder having written hundreds of lines of code, only to find something has gone wrong, perhaps one single line causing everything to go out of place. Or you have to look up a single catch-phrase from an ebook of over 300 pages! For all such cases, MuseTips Text Filter is an easy solution. Read More

QtADB Is ADB (Android Debug Bridge) For Beginners With A GUI

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A few months back we covered an article on what ADB is and how to install it. The Android Debug Bridge (ADB) is an excellent interface for communication between an Android device and a PC, but unfortunately it is command line, hence only usable for users with an above-average knowledge of Linux systems and commands. Android PC managers aren’t very abundant either, and hence a novice user is often left helpless when it comes to handling bridging between their Android handset (or device) and computers. Read More

Drag And Drop Conversion Of Videos With Handbrake Using DropFolders

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Video conversion is something that almost all of us have tried our hand at, one point or the other. Whether it is to make a video DVD Player-compatible, or to convert it so our portable media devices, aka smartphones and tablets, can handle the playback, almost everyone would've converted videos at least once. These days, choices among conversion software, especially the free ones, are numerous. One can arguably claim that Handbrake is one of the best free video encoding/decoding tools available out there. While the program itself has evolved quite a lot in terms of user friendliness and ease of understanding, wouldn’t it still be convenient if every single part of the process can be automated? Well, it seems developer Joseph Labrecque certainly thought so, so he created DropFolders. Read More

Increase Laptop Battery Performance With Aerofoil [Windows]

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As a laptop ages, its battery begins to weaken. No matter how well you take care of it, no matter what steps you take, the battery is bound to weaken because that’s how they are built. Hence the importance of power management on such a machine increases perhaps twice as much as it would on a new one. Windows 7 comes with default battery profiles, but they lack automation. This discrepancy is overcome by using a small program Aerofoil, which performs automatic power management functions for your laptop. Read More

Resize, Rename, Convert, And Modify Images With Easy Image Modifier

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Quite a while back we reviewed a very easy-to-use and simple image manipulation tool, Easy Image Modifier. The program has come quite a long way since then, and it has enough new features to boast to have caught our attention and get a review once again. The main purpose of this software is to let a user perform various every day image related tasks without going through the hassle of complicated interfaces, loads of unneeded features, multiple clicks etc. It lets you resize, rename, sort, realign, rotate/flip images, edit properties, change format, and so on. Additional functionality includes easy watermarking, changing format, metadata editing and even adding processed files to a destination of your own choosing. The portability of Easy Image Modifier is an added benefit. Read More

Sync iTunes Library Across Multiple Computers With MediaRover

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Ok, so you’re an avid iTunes user with a decent music library collected over years. A friend, family member or colleague of yours likes your music collection and wants it, but there’s no easy way to transfer all those files to them. Or, you want to have the same music collection available at your home and work computers, but cannot figure out an easy way to do so? MediaRover comes to the rescue! Read More

Quickly Hide Your Browsing Sessions With underBrowser

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Are you in an environment where you need to be constantly on the guard regarding your browsing activities? Perhaps an office or university where you want to be in control of who sees what you’re seeing over the internet, or maybe you’re browsing some private data that you want to keep away from prying eyes without losing your browsing session? Look no further then, because we bring you the underBrowser! Read More

Improve Collaboration With Your Co-workers To Increase Productivity

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With the advent of internet the world has indeed become a global village, and hence the importance of collaborative working tools has increased manifold. Development and implementation of technologies like cloud computing, instant file sharing, and tools like Google Docs are a clear example of how much importance is now being paid to tools that can allow users to work on the same tasks simultaneously. Similarly, advances in VoIP, free video conferencing, IM etc have also shown that communication channels need to kept open for being more productive. The SSuite Office applications have a plethora of useful applications, and their Communication Sidebar is no exception. This application basically adds a sidebar to your Windows desktop with two basic functions: video/audio conferencing and file sharing, both over internet and local area networks (LAN), although the tool is more optimized towards LAN operation. Read More

Android Manager WiFi Syncs And Transfer Files Wirelessly To Windows PC

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With Android phones, the most troublesome thing for users is the lack of decent PC-phone management solution. Most other mobile platforms have some official offering that makes this task really easy, for example, Nokia’s Ovi Suite, iPhone’s iTunes management system, and so on. Some vendors have their own in-house solutions which are not really up to the mark, the classic example of which is Samsung’s Kies. Hence users really appreciate any third-party solution that can ease their life when it comes to Android backup, restore and management through PC. Read More

Snippely Brings Notes And Code Organization Under One Window

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If you’re in the habit of storing its and bits of text, quick notes, memos etc all over your hard-disk in small text files, with weird filenames like asdf.txt, abc.txt, note1, note2 and so on, this tool can certainly be a lifesaver for you. Snippely is a very basic open source text and code organizational tool that stores all your quick notes and texts in one place, categorized in groups for better management. Read More