Author Archives: Nakodari

How To Use Google DNS & OpenDNS On Symbian S60 Version 5

By Nakodari | Published: March 12, 2010

Ever wondered how to use the most renowned Google Public DNS and OpenDNS addresses on your Symbian smartphone? Here are a few simple steps which will show you how to get them working.

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Add Any Program Or File To Windows Startup

By Nakodari | Published: March 12, 2010

Many programs do not come with an option to start during Windows startup, forcing users to manually start the program every time they login, which can become quite difficult and annoying after some time. AutoEX not only solves this problem but does much more than that.

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Display Tuner – Change LCD Display Monitor Settings

By Nakodari | Published: March 12, 2010

Every monitor comes with some buttons to tweak the display settings, such as, brightness, contrast, colors, screen position & size, and so on. Controlling and adjusting these settings can be difficult sometimes. Try Display Tuner. It is a simple tool which reads the monitor’s DDC controls to check the current settings and then allow users to change it easily, all from within Windows.

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Create And Embed Skype Signature On Your Web Page

By Nakodari | Published: March 12, 2010

Developers, Authors, Webmasters, and everyone else who wants to connect with their clients and customers can now add a Skype Signature on their website or forum. Skype being a popular VoIP client is used by more than 300 million users worldwide, thus adding a signature makes sense.

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Cover Fetcher Downloads Album Art From Last.fm

By Nakodari | Published: March 12, 2010

Last.fm is a popular internet radio site for music and what better way than to download the album art from there for free? This is exactly what Cover Fetcher does. It is an opensource tool that grabs any album cover art provided you know the artist and album name.

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Share Keyboard & Mouse Between Multiple Systems With Synergy+

By Nakodari | Published: March 11, 2010

The only problem with Synergy, a popular opensource tool that lets you share one keyboard and mouse between multiple computers, is that the application hasn’t been updated since 2006 and users were left stranded with many bugs. Now a bunch of developers have taken the code, added Windows 7 support, and fixed the bugs themselves.

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SuggestRun – Windows Run Dialog Box With Suggestions

By Nakodari | Published: March 11, 2010

Before Windows 7, Run dialog box used to be a very important part of Windows operating system. Now half of the commands can be used in Start Search without having to visit the Run dialog box but still the importance remains. With suggestions becoming an increasingly important part of search, Microsoft have failed to implement this functionality in Run dialog box.

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Monitor And Take Action Based On Application Behavior [Windows]

By Nakodari | Published: March 11, 2010

We all want to perform actions based on application behavior, lets say you want to get alerted or want a program to close whenever an application exceeds a certain memory usage or CPU time. Kiwi is an awesome application monitoring tool which can perform such actions on both applications and processes.

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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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