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WebEdit: Use Text Expansion & Integrate Code Snippets Into Notepad++

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Notepad++ is a light-weight, yet powerful application development IDE that supports a great number of native and third-party plugins to speed up the application development process. If you are a web developer, and looking for a way to create text expansion functions and code templates in order to quickly use them in code files, WebEdit is just what you probably need. It’s small Notepad++ extension that includes all commonly used code templates with an option to create new code templates and edit existing ones. The extension is highly customizable in terms of configuring the code completion and template settings; it saves the settings and code templates in a ‘WebEdit.ini’ file, allowing you to share it with other Notepad++ users. Unlike other code completion and template collection managers, it has the ability to send the code templates to Notepad++ toolbar, so that you can write specified code template with a click. Read More

DFIncBackup: Backup Tool With File Mask, Schedule, Encrypt & Compress Features

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DFIncBackup is a powerful file backup utility for Windows that enables users to create highly customizable backup tasks and run them simultaneously. Supporting local and remote locations, the application can create backups in highly compressed and encrypted ZIP archive containers to prevent unauthorized usage from any external source. Moreover, the application presents an overly simple wizard to collect backup task requirements from user; it includes a number of backup options ranging from backup type (incremental and differential), source and destination folder, schedule options, file compression and encryption, and file change monitoring options. In short, DFIncBackup provides a comprehensive backup solution, carrying all the features and options that one would need to create backup tasks according to the requirements. More details to follow after the break. Read More

Benchmark PC Hardware To Diagnose System Issues With Ubuntu Live Disk [Guide]

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There are certainly sheer number of benchmarking utilities available for PC, which put primary system components, including CPU, Main Memory, GPU etc., through a diverse range of tests to measure their health, ability and performance. The benchmarking apps are generally built to diagnose PC problems and check the actual ability of a component and its performance in presence of other installed system devices. For instance, a high-end GPU may not be able to perform at its peak ability with one or more incompatible system components. Similarly, main memory requires compatible motherboard and CPU to give its best performance. Unfortunately, there isn’t a simple way to benchmark all the system components, and therefore, one needs to manually check each component’s performance while using the installed OS. Read More

Free Video Dub: Lossless Video Editor To Trim AVI, MPG, MP4, FLV Files

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Earlier, we covered video editing applications for AVI files, including Solveig Multimedia AVITrimmer and AviDemux, which allow users to crop video length without having to encode video files. There are numerous video converters available out there that can trim a wide range of video formats, but require third-party codecs to convert video files in order to crop the videos. Free Video Dub is an application to edit AVI, DivX, Xvid, MPEG4, MOV, M4V, MPG, FLV, and MPEG 1 & MPEG 2 including both transport and program stream without requiring you to encode the video. Moreover, it includes numerous track navigation controls to grab the frame you want to crop out from the video. Apart from jump to next and previous frame options, it can browse through the video by scenes, letting you quickly crop multiple scenes from video file. Read More

How To Reset IPv6 To Default Settings & Repair Interface Creation Issues

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The next version of Internet Protocol, namely IPv6, will succeed IPv4 in coming years, owing to the fact that IPv4 is running out of addresses. When all the available IPv4 addresses are allocated, IPv6 will be implemented across the world to let users establish connection and transfer data via internet. Since Windows supports both IPv4 and IPv6 version, many software that work using Internet Protocol can change IPv6 settings, which may block access to network interface. One simple solution for such issues is to manually restore the default IPv6 settings, but if you don’t know where to start off troubleshooting the issues, try using Reset IPv6. It’s a small application for Windows that lets you reset IPv6 within a few clicks. The tool is especially useful when you encounter errors like failure to open tunnel adapter, failure on interface creation, etc. This saves you the time which you’d have spent resetting the IPv6 settings manually. Read More

NppFTP For Notepad++: Access, Download & Edit Code Files On FTP Server

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Software Development IDEs like Dreamweaver, Eclipse, Visual Studio, Netbeans etc., support establishing and managing remote connections including FTP and SFTP. This enables developers to directly connect with FTP server without having to manually download the files to access and edit the source code files of live development projects. If you’re an avid Notepadd++ user, and want to bring this very feature to manage remote connections, add NppFTP to your plugin list. It’s a lightweight extension that allows you to add as many FTP profiles as you want to directly connect with your web servers for uploading and downloading code files. It’s been specifically designed to eliminate the need of using a separate FTP client to first download the files from FTP server, and then import them to Notepad++ to make the required changes. Read More

Windows 7 App Launcher: Run Programs In One Go From Taskbar

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Ever wanted to launch multiple applications for performing routine tasks in one go, without having to manually create a batch script to invoke applications’ execuatables? Although the batch script file (.BAT) can be used to run multiple commands and applications, it’s a bit tiresome to manually add new applications to batch file and edit the existing applications’ paths. What you probably need is an application like Windows 7 App Launcher to effortlessly create application profiles, so they can be launched with a single click. It’s an app launcher that lets you add applications, shortcuts, files et., without going through the hassle of creating and editing the script. Since it has a GUI-based configuration console, all you need is to bring it up for adding new applications, changing the profile icons and editing the list of applications, files and shortcuts Read More

How To Transfer Files, Settings & User Profiles From Windows 7 To Windows 8 [Guide]

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Migrating applications, personalized system and application settings, and other important data from old PC to new PC isn’t only time consuming, but also a wearisome task, as one needs to make a list of all the installed applications, Windows components, User Profile folders, System settings including Personalization, Color Management, Fonts, Accessibility, Keyboard and Mouse settings etc., and then manually transfer the settings and data to new PC. In the past, we’ve covered numerous applications such as Backup Utility, Backup Folder Sync and DataGrab, which let users effortlessly backup User Profile folders without having to manually transfer Documents, Pictures, Music, AppData, Roaming and other important folders. Applications like Special Folders Manager not only makes it easy to create copy of Users profile folders, but also help restoring them at their original locations with a click, but what if you want to migrate entire system including Settings, Applications and data saved in local drives from old PC to new PC? Read More

notpod: Synchronize Any Portable Audio Player With iTunes

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iTunes is a media manager for iDevices, and thus allows syncing Library items with only iPod, iPhone, and iPad. If you own a non-iPod portable audio player, and want to synchronize it with iTunes Music Library, have a look at Notpod. It’s a miniscule application that lets you synchronize any type of portable audio player with iTunes library without having to tweak the basic structure of iTunes Music Library.xml file. The application disguises your non-iPod music player as iTunes compatible device, and then adds it to iTunes Devices section, letting you synchronize Music Library with specified folder of your portable audio player. Read More

Scriptogr.am Uses Dropbox To Create Markdown Document-Based Web Log

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Markdown language, despite being not as powerful as other markup languages such as HTML, XML etc, allows users to create web document in easy to read & write text format, which complies with all W3C standards and rules. Unlike HTML, XHTML, and other structurally valid web documents, markdown document requires following only a few code syntaxes in order to publish them on web. Unlike other languages, this light-weight, general-purpose language doesn’t require any dedicated compiler to render the formatted text. Scritogr.am is a newly launched service that lets users create their markdown document-based personal blogs/webpages without having to manually configure web page-related settings. Read More

WinLaunch Brings Mac OS X Lion Launchpad To Windows 7

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Finding applications and system utilities from Mac OS X default Application folder (which is accessed from system Dock) can become quite wearisome, especially when you’ve installed applications in great number. For this reason, Mac OS X Lion brought a complementary utility for Application folder, namely Launchpad, which lets users quickly find, organize and launch installed applications. Although Windows 7 Taskbar, aka superbar, makes it easy to keep frequently used applications at fingertips, you may need a Mac OS X Launchpad alternative to conveniently organize your ever-growing app list. Today, we stumbled across WinLaunch, which clones Mac OS X 10.7 Launchpad, allowing you to quickly manage your installed applications as well as launch most frequently used applications with a click. Read More

How To Create Backup At Remote Location When PC Stops Booting [Beginner's Guide]

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Earlier we discussed a few ways to diagnose Windows problems and fix the issues when PC fails to boot up using Ubuntu Live USB, including reset Windows 7 admin and standard account password, perform disk wipe operation, repair lost partitions and recover hard disk data, and run anti-virus scan over entire hard disk to fix booting issues. If you've persistent Ubuntu USB, you could fix various kind of issues which are generally hard to identify on Windows, such as removing virus-infected read-only system files and services, but before you start repairing your PC using Ubuntu Live USB, it’s recommended to backup all the important data at remote location, so that you can fearlessly perform the system repair operations. In the past, we showed you how to clone an entire hard disk and make IMG (image file) of hard disk partition and then restore at defined location. This time around, we bring you a step-by-step guide on backing up important files and folders on network when PC fails to boot up. Read More

How To Repair Virus-Infected PC When Windows Fails To Boot Up [Guide]

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Although Antivirus suites including MS Security Essentials, Avira, Avast, Norton AntiVirus etc., help us protect the system from malwares, viruses, spywares, keyloggers and other like potentially harmful programs, sometimes malware infected applications manage to slip through deployed antivirus security cracks and attack the system booting process. In such a case, anti-virus suites can’t identify and remove the infected application/processes unless the you repair the infected system boot sectors, and then boot into Windows to perform the virus removal operation over entire disk. In this post, we will show you how to clean your system from viruses when you can not boot into Windows. Read More

Asus Multiframe Utility: Resize & Snap App Windows To 9 Screen Regions Per Monitor

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Although Windows 7 Aero Snap feature lets users quickly snap windows to required side of the screen, it doesn’t allow adjusting more than 2 application windows. For this reason, users need to manually minimize the passive applications, and then adjust the required windows on the screen. If you’ve been looking for an easy to use application that lets you arrange active application windows in upto 9 regions of the screen, take a look at Asus Multiframe Utility after the jump. Read More

Bluetooth Stack Switcher: Switch Between Multiple Bluetooth Drivers

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Having a hard time switching between multiple Bluetooth stacks? Since Windows 7 doesn’t provide a convenient way to disable the current Bluetooth stack and activate the required one, switching has to be done manually. If you’re running 32-bit Windows, you can use Bluetooth Stack Switcher to quickly switch between configured Bluetooth stacks. It’s a tiny system tray tool that automatically finds and lists down installed Bluetooth drivers, letting you quickly choose the stack you want to activate. In case, the Bluetooth configuration file (bth.inf) gets corrupted, it can find the optimized Blutetooth configuration for your system and replace the corrupted/missing file. Read More

150 Best Windows Applications Of Year 2011 [Editor's Pick]

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At the dawn of 2011, we provided you with a list of 150 best Windows application of 2010. This, year we covered not only Windows software, but also Mac OS X and Linux applications in great number. Since Windows is the most widely used operating system, we tried to keep our focus on finding and covering best Windows software, tricks and tips. While it is important to look for all the good things that the future might hold, it is also worth looking back to see the fine finds of previous year. Keeping the tradition alive, we now have a compilation of the 150 best Windows applications of the year 2011. So, it’s time to browse through some extremely handy applications and pick the ones that best suit your needs. Read More

How To Create Customizable Multiboot System Rescue Disk

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System Rescue bootable disks are built to help users easily troubleshoot those PC problems, which are generally quite difficult to fix such as corrupt boot sector, malware infected system files, physical & logical hard disk bad sectors, disk write failures and so on. In our previous guide on completely wiping the hard disk, we recommended using DBAN (Darik’s Boot And Nuke) Boot CD to shred the auxiliary and removable hard drives. Like any other boot disk, DBAN runs in a complete isolated environment to perform the disk wipe operation. Tools like DBAN, eScan Rescue, MSSS, Hiren’s Boot CD etc., require burning the ISO file on a separate disk for creating a bootable disk to fix PC issues, but what if you want to create a customizable bootable USB or CD/DVD disk to use all your favorite system diagnostic utilities without having to change the bootable disks on system startup? Read More

How To Setup Personal FTP Server Using FileZilla [Step-By-Step Guide]

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FTP clients like FileZilla, Cyberduck, WinSCP etc. are widely used to access, download and upload files to web server by creating an FTP connection. The FTP connection uses a special network protocol namely File Transfer Protocol to not only send and receive data requests, but also transport data by making direct connection with target host. Unlike HTTP, which is specifically designed to transport hyper-text over a TCP connection, FTP connection makes sure that server will respond to request as soon as it receives one from source host. Not only does it provide quick file transfer facility, it also brings bulk file handling capability in terms of both downloading and uploading data, and file transfer resume feature. Today, we bring you a step-by-step guide on setting up your personal FTP server, so that you can access it from anywhere via FTP client, and allow others to download and upload to your server. Read More

AutoJpegTrunk: ExifTool-Based Utility To Batch Remove Image Meta Data

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Want to quickly strip metadata information off your images without having to specify each EXIF element? AutoJpegTrunk is a small, yet powerful tool, which uses console-based ExifTool (by Phil Harvey) as underlying technique to remove metadata from images in one go. The application also calculates the total space that you save during the process of removing metadata. It's been specifically developed to help users who rely on ExifTool to delete the meta data from images. Unlike ExifTool tool, which enables users to read, write and edit existing meta data information, it performs only the ExifTool’s deletion process over the specified images set. Read More