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TabsPreview Adds An Eye-Candy 3D Preview For Open Tabs In Chrome

TabsPreview is a Chrome extension that gives you a gorgeous 3D preview of all your opened tabs, with multiple search capabilities and customization options. It provides an instant thumbnail preview of all the opened tabs within the new tab screen or a new window. This can be quite handy for people who work with several tabs [...] (more…)

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Preview PDF Files In Windows Explorer Without Changing Default PDF Viewer

Adobe Reader is undoubtedly one of the best PDF file viewers out there (Adobe is the company behind the format, after all), but the problem with Adobe PDF Reader is that it is not a lightweight application. Low -end PCs often take a lot of time while rendering PDF documents within Adobe Reader, and therefore, [...] (more…)

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Highlight Text To Search On Google, YouTube, Wikipedia & More [Chrome]

Select Search, a Chrome extension, provides you with quick search options on popular engines, and can save a lot of time when you have to search the same term on multiple websites. With it, you can search Google, Wikipedia, Twitter with only a click or two. In addition to that, you can add other popular [...] (more…)

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Colorwheel: Convert HEX & RGB Values, Preview Colors In A Pop-Up [Chrome]

There are many apps and extensions out there that let you preview different colors using HEX and RGB values, but most of these are way too complicated. Colorwheel is a simple Chrome extension that converts HEX and RGB values and lets you preview colours in a pop-up. All you need to do is enter HEX and RGB string [...] (more…)

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Desktop Panorama: Preview & Manage Multiple Virtual Workspaces

One easily gets distracted if there are a lot of applications open on the desktop. Virtual desktops allow the user to have one application in focus at all times, without having to close the applications not currently under use. Previously, we have covered virtual desktop applications like WindowSlider and mDesktop, that let you create multiple [...] (more…)

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Bring Windows 8 App Bar To Windows 7 Desktop With Stardock Tiles

If you have habit of opening a lot of applications at once, and face a hard time organizing and navigating through them, have a go at Stardock Tiles. It is an tool that manages active applications by installing a visual bar at the side of your computer screen, allowing you to quickly preview and maximize/minimize your [...] (more…)

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AutoPanorama: Easily Create Panoramic Photos On Windows Phone 7

There was a time when it took an expert photographer to take panoramic photos of an outstanding view, and even that would be slightly flawed. Imagine how cool it would be take panorama photos without having to fuss about the right alignment of all the images? AutoPanorama for Windows Phone 7 does all the merging and [...] (more…)

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PicsLikeThat Lets You Search Images By Picture Similarity [Web]

When searching for images, won’t it be great if you could view similar images instead of a wide variety of results? PicsLikeThat is a web app that optimizes your search results by allowing you to view look-alike images. When you enter a query, a large number of images are displayed with loads of irrelevant content. To [...] (more…)

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theTabs – Preview And Switch Between Tabs In Any Window [Chrome]

Are you an Internet Explorer fan while secretly being a closet Chrome or Firefox user or is it the other way around? You love a browser that isn’t Internet Explorer but there are times when you wish a certain feature from the Windows’ default browser would be added to your favorite one? One feature that [...] (more…)

Preview Documents In Mac Before Exporting Or Printing

In Microsoft Office 2010 and 2007 there is a build-in option to preview the document before exporting or printing. This preview can be extremely useful. Suppose lets say that you want to export the document to PDF format, once saved, you open it and find that there is an extra blank page at the end [...] (more…)

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Prevent Thumbnail Animation Preview In Windows 7 & Windows 8 Taskbar

Whenever you hover the mouse pointer over the icons of the running applications in the taskbar, you will see that it displays the preview of each application with some animation. This feature consumes quite some system resources. So if you are on a low specs system(like netbook), then you should seriously think to tune up [...] (more…)

Speeding Up Thumbnail Preview For Windows 7 Taskbar

Windows 7 task bar is also known as the super bar and offers cool features like larger icons, jump lists, pinning option and particularly improved thumbnail preview feature. Taskbar’s thumbnail preview displays a small thumbnail preview of your minimized window or application when the mouse is hovered over it. But usually it takes some time [...] (more…)

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Create Preview Thumbnails From Any Video File

Video Thumbnails Maker is free tool for Windows that takes multiple screenshots of the video and then create a thumbnail out of it. It supports wide range of video formats, such as, avi, wmv, rm, rmvb, mpg, flv, mov, vob, 3gp and mkv. Note that the video codec of all above  mentioned formats must be [...] (more…)

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How To Preview A Small Portion Of Any MP3 Or AVI Video File Before Downloading It

In my last post I discussed about downloading specific files from inside zip or rar archive with LoadScout. Another useful feature of this app is that it lets you download and play a small portion of any mp3 or avi file for free. Suppose you want to download a high quality audio podcast in mp3 [...] (more…)

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How To Browse And Extract Individual File(s) From ZIP Or RAR Archive Without Downloading Them

Do you want to browse the archive and view it’s content before downloading it? Or you want to download only few files from the archive? LoadScout is a free app that lets you browse files inside remote archive and download them instantly. It has a build-in download manager which can download files easily from both [...] (more…)