Author Archives: Nakodari

Find And Replace Text In Txt, Htm, & HTML File

By Nakodari | Published: March 9, 2010

Most applications work by asking users to select a text file where they want to replace a text, this can be particularly annoying. We reviewed a powerful utility TexFinder X which could easily find and replace text inside multiple files (provided you have selected a directory where the they are residing) of different formats, but if you are looking for an opensource alternative, check out Magic Search & Replace.

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Change Mp3 Audio Bitrate To Reduce Size

By Nakodari | Published: March 9, 2010

If you are looking to reduce the size of a large mp3 file, lets say an audio podcast, Mp3 Bitrate Changer will come useful. It does not magically reduce the file size, rather it compresses to a user-defined bitrate. Let me warn you that lower bitrate would mean small decrease in audio quality, so unless it is not necessary, you should not change the bitrate.

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Publish To Posterous From Windows Live Writer

By Nakodari | Published: March 9, 2010

Posterous is a popular micro blogging platform, users who are looking to publish a blog post to Posterous from desktop using Windows Live Writer will be disappointed due to lack of native support. Writerous is a neat little opensource plugin which allows users to publish directly to Posterous from Windows Live Writer.

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Moderate Wordpress Blog Comments From Desktop

By Nakodari | Published: March 8, 2010

Webmasters who use Wordpress on the backend to run their blog often have to face a daunting task: Moderating Comments. With millions of self-hosted Wordpress blogs and billions of spam messages that are posted as comments, a need arises to make it easier to moderate the comments without having to refresh the dashboard every few minutes.

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Open & View Outlook OST Files (Offline Folders)

By Nakodari | Published: March 8, 2010

OST files, unlike PST, are the duplicate copy of user’s Exchange Mailbox which is linked to a particular Exchange mailbox and cannot be used with any other mailbox. Administrators however tend to keep the these Exchange mailbox of users at remote location but there is no way to determine which mailbox possesses the offline data in which OST files and which do not?

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Clean Temp & Cluttered System Files With PureRa

By Nakodari | Published: March 8, 2010

PureRa is a one-click cleaning program that removes all files in Windows that most mainstream cleaners tend to overlook. Files such as, Config.msi, Thumbs.db, Iconcache.db, .sqm-files, and Desktop.ini are all cleaned with this nifty little program.

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Easy Way To Uninstall Adobe Air Applications In Ubuntu Linux

By Nakodari | Published: March 8, 2010

Adobe Air apps are cross-platform which means they work on all three OS, Windows, Mac, and Linux(Ubuntu being the popular one from the Linux OS). After installing these apps in Windows, you can easily uninstall them from the Add/Remove Programs making it quicker. But how exactly would you uninstall the apps from Linux?

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Discover All Devices Including Those Behind Firewalls With Fing

By Nakodari | Published: March 5, 2010

Remember Look@Lan? Users criticized it as a bloated monitoring software that wouldn’t work. For some it was a life-saver, as it happens to monitor everything happening over the network. The app is long dead and born from it’s ashes comes a whole new network discovery tool called Fing.

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Comical – A Desktop Application For Web Comics

By Nakodari | Published: March 5, 2010

Web Comics are gaining quite some popularity these days with hundreds of new comic publishers starting up every year. Among these comics are few that stand out but what better way than to read them on the desktop? As an avid comic fan, subscribing to multiple comic feeds and following them can be both hectic and tiresome.

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How To Fix Broken Text With CleanHaven Text Cleaner

By Nakodari | Published: March 4, 2010

Every once in a while we come across a broken text file that needs to be repaired. Having a corrupt document is another case which we have already covered before.

For instance, lets say, you have a large text from where you need to remove the excessive spaces between words, need to make sure all words after full-stop are starts with a capital letter, remove duplicate words, make some sentences uppercase and lowercase, add punctuations, and much more.

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Monitor And Control Mustek UPS With WinMust [Windows]

By Nakodari | Published: March 4, 2010

Mustek is the company behind many popular UPS (Uninterruptible Power Supply) devices, but these UPS devices do not come with a software to monitor and control the UPS device. One frustrated developer sat down to code a software that will monitor and control Mustek UPS device and named it WinMust. It is an opensource tool that supports Mustek PowerMust 800 or other compatible Mustek UPS devices.

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StartupPanel: Manage Windows Startup Folder, Registry, Services

By Nakodari | Published: March 4, 2010

Some applications that start with Windows Startup reside in the Startup Folder, while most of them reside in the registry. To access the startup folder you need to first find it from the All Programs menu inside the Start menu. To access the Startup Registry keys you need to head over to the Startup tab inside the System Configuration Window. Accessing Windows Services is another story of it’s own.

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YouTube Video Subtitles [Captions]

By Nakodari | Published: March 4, 2010

YouTube announced the rollout of video captions but I rarely encountered them while watching videos. Today it was surprising to find this feature in more videos than ever. The features include Transcribe Audio and Translate Captions, both of which are in beta.

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On Screen Volume Control Indicator For Windows

By Nakodari | Published: March 3, 2010

Depending on the manufacturer, some sound cards and laptops come with a eye candy on-screen volume control indicator software. Even though it can be useful, many users have no choice but to use the default Windows Volume Control options. After all, what’s the point of having an eye candy interface without any functionality?

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