Abdul Salam Khan

A technology writer, blogger, traveler and indeed a Friend :)

Classic Shell Brings Classic Start Menu In Windows 7

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Classic Shell is an application which provides Classic XP styled Start menu and Classic Explorer toolbar buttons such as Up, Cut, Copy, Paste etc. in Windows Vista and Windows 7. It is developed for people which don’t feel comfortable with Start menu of Windows 7/Windows Vista and miss the classic toolbar buttons of Windows XP. Read More

Customize Mac Logon Screen With Ravissant

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Users of Windows 7 can tweak and customize logon screens via various applications. Ravissant, however,  is an application that lets you customize Mac logon screen by adding specified logo, OS text, welcome text, and background image to it. It enables you to customize logon screen within moments - you can add your own picture, name, or any random message as easily as you type in a text file. Read More

Download And Browse Websites Offline With Maria [Mac]

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Maria is a tiny application that lets you download websites or web pages for offline browsing. You will need to insert a URL of any website and in a single click it will start downloading instantly. On launch it prompts for website address, insert the complete URL including "http://". Read More

Lingoo Lets You Quickly Translate Any Text And Copy It To Clipboard [Mac]

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Lingoo is a small wrapper application for Google online translation services which lets you translate text from one language to another quickly. It provides a novel text translation experience right from your desktop. It is developed as a background application residing in menu bar which can be activated by pressing used-defined hotkeys.  Apart from translation, it quickly makes your translated data available on your clipboard. Read More

Manage Your Own Media Streaming Server With Subsonic

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Subsonic is a web based media streaming tool which lets you play, share, search and access radio stations and offers whole lot of other features. It allows to stream music on-the-go, which works great when you want to play different genres in different locations. Once configured and set up, your media collection can be accessed from web or from any mobile phone. Yes, they have separate apps for both iPhone and Android. Read More

System Nucleus Is Windows Maintenance, Diagnostic, And Backup Tool

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System Nucleus is a robust  application which caters 10 most useful Windows tools. The idea behind the built is to provide users with various Windows build-in tools under one window for performing multiple routine tasks. Prominent features include; Backup & Recovery, Process & Program management, Start-up & Services settings, and System audit. Read More

Input Director: Share Keyboard And Mouse Between Mutliple Computers

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Input Director is a simple utility which enables you to use a single keyboard and mouse (attached to one computer) with multiple computers which are connected across the network. With the help of hotkeys or mouse pointer movement, you can select which computer gets the shared keyboard and mouse input. Furthermore, you can also share clipboard across all the connected computers. Read More

WizMouse: Scroll Background Window Without Bringing It To Foreground

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Mac users can scroll the inactive windows in the background without bringing them to focus. Windows 7, however, lacks this very useful functionality. WizMouse is a small utility that lets you scroll through background or inactive windows without clicking on them (without bringing them to foreground). You won't need to click on the inactive window, merely point the cursor there, and start scrolling with the mouse wheel. Read More

WinGuard Pro 7: Block Software Installation, Lock Task Manager, Windows Explorer, & More

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WinGuard Pro 7 is an application that allows you to password protect a program, folder, and drives, lock task manager, windows explorer, and block software installation. On launch it requires password-setup, where you can use the default password too. Password protecting any program is fairly simple, hit the Protect a Program or Website link from Welcome tab or directly access it from Access Control tab. It will list major applications which you can lock by putting a password. You can also put password on any current running tasks, click on Browse button, select the task from the list and hit Lock. Read More

Paragon Go Virtual Free: Advanced Migration and Virtualization Tool For Windows

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Paragon Go Virtual is a tool that allows you to migrate from physical hardware platform  to virtual environment.  It lets you to convert any physical system running Windows (later than 2000) with all applications, settings, and user configurations as it is to a virtualized system. It has a build-in support for eminent virtualization tools such as VMware, Microsoft Virtual PC and Oracle Virtual Box. Read More

Calculate Your Monthly Mileage With Monthly Mileage Calculator

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Monthly Mileage Calculator is an application which stores all mileage information in a small database. It can track visits per date, visits per location and total mileage easily. Pretty useful if you work for a company which requires extensive traveling. You can either calculate it for personal records or because you want reimbursement from office at the end of every month or week. Read More

Control Volume With Hotkeys Using VolControl

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VolControl has been developed to let you quickly increase, decrease, or mute volume with hotkeys. It works in two modes, first where hotkeys correspond to windows volume up, down , mute commands, and second where hotkeys simply take control of media keys if you have a media enabled keyboard. Read More

ZapDev Customizes Desktop Wallpaper

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ZapDev is an open source application which lets you scroll through specified pictures to illuminate desktop background. Put extra imaging effect on your favorite photos and get customized wallpapers easily. It helps when you get bored of same desktop wallpaper after some time, select the change background interval from its interface and you'll view a different background after specified time. Read More

Check Internet Connectivity With NetSNSOR

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NetSNSOR is a portable network application which checks for internet connectivity at selected intervals and notifies you instantly. If internet is connected, it displays a simple message stating that internet is connected and no action is taken. You can specify any file to be executed along with sound when internet is not connected. When no connectivity is found, it executes your specified file and plays the specified sound. Read More

Password Protect Games With Game Protector

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GameProtector is a small application which lets you put password on your executable files so that others can not open them. The name describes it as a game protector, but it can password-protect any executable file. Putting password on any game executable file is fairly simple - locate your game by Open button provided on the main interface, enter password, and hit Protect button at the bottom. It creates and stores a backup file once it puts password on the executable file. You can change default icon of any application with other provided icons so that nobody can access it. Read More

Build Websites With Microsoft WebMatrix

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Microsoft has recently released a tool called WebMatrix for simple and easy development of websites. It is suitable for both advanced Windows user and novices. You don't have to worry about web server configuration, data base management, or any advance concepts, since it does it all for you. Read More