Micro blogging is the tag that comes with Twitter. Take it or leave it. Oh please, come on. Nothing can be so rigid, right? How many times have you wished to be able to write longer Twitter messages? As you know ,Twitter messages are limited to 140 character, forcing you to write, short, straight-to-the point replies and messages which, most the time, don’t express the real meaning of what you want to say.
Let’s see how to write longer Twitter messages thanks to a couple of websites. Long Reply and Tweetmojo are two websites doing the same thing. Once the message is ready, simply click the Save Button. A short link, pointing to your message, will appear on the webpage. Just post it on Twitter and your message is put across!
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News,
Social Network
How to Link Facebook with Google and Yahoo! Accounts
Recently, Facebook gave you the opportunity to link your Google and Yahoo! account to it. But what are the benefits of such an operation?
Linking Google and Yahoo! accounts to Facebook will let you skip the login procedures you need to do to gain access to such services.
As a matter of fact, from now on, every time you sign-in to Google (I mean all Google services such as Gmail, Google Picasa, Google Docs etc) and Yahoo!, you’ll automatically be logged into Facebook as well. To activate and link Google and Yahoo! accounts to Facebook, login Facebook – Accounts - Settings and click “Add a new linked account”.
Linking Google and Yahoo! accounts to Facebook will let you skip the login procedures you need to do to gain access to such services.
As a matter of fact, from now on, every time you sign-in to Google (I mean all Google services such as Gmail, Google Picasa, Google Docs etc) and Yahoo!, you’ll automatically be logged into Facebook as well. To activate and link Google and Yahoo! accounts to Facebook, login Facebook – Accounts - Settings and click “Add a new linked account”.
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Windows
How to Customize your Taskbar in Windows 7
I want to talk about a simple trick, which always goes unnoticed, which lets you customize the taskbar and change its look dramatically.
After installing Windows 7, by default the operating system will show you the taskbar with big icons and different programs. If you don’t like what you see or if you simply want to save some space, here is a simple trick to customize the taskbar:
Right click on any empty space on the taskbar.
From the menu, select Properties.
On the taskbar tab check ‘Use small icons’ and click OK.
If instead you are of the old school and want to have the classic Windows taskbar, here is the simple procedure to follow:
Right click on any empty space on the taskbar.
From the menu, select Properties.
Next to Taskbar Buttons, select ‘Never Combine’ and just click OK.
Hope you explore more out of the available options and customize the taskbar according to your convenience.
After installing Windows 7, by default the operating system will show you the taskbar with big icons and different programs. If you don’t like what you see or if you simply want to save some space, here is a simple trick to customize the taskbar:
Right click on any empty space on the taskbar.
From the menu, select Properties.
On the taskbar tab check ‘Use small icons’ and click OK.
If instead you are of the old school and want to have the classic Windows taskbar, here is the simple procedure to follow:
Right click on any empty space on the taskbar.
From the menu, select Properties.
Next to Taskbar Buttons, select ‘Never Combine’ and just click OK.
Hope you explore more out of the available options and customize the taskbar according to your convenience.
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Tech
Edit Images in PDF files
Due to the light weighted and compact nature of the PDFs or commonly known as portable document files, they are popular for sharing information online. Unlike the .doc files that require the reader to have fonts and other formatting features on his computer in order to view the document PDFs display information to the recipient as is defined by the author.
You must have come across PDFs that contain images and pictures but it is not possible to extract these images directly from the PDF reader itself and in most of the cases you have to take a screenshot using your operating system that is installed and then crop it through a photo editing software.
On a PC
There are many ways in which you can crop photos from a PDF on a PC. If you a user of Windows Vista or Windows 7, you can make use of the Snipping tool.
Open the PDF document.
Scroll down to an area where the image is in full view.
Press the Win key.
On the search box, type “snipping tool.” Click the “Snipping tool” icon in the results under “Programs.”
Click the New button, and select Rectangular Snip.
Drag your cursor from one corner of the image into another, so that you get the image just as you like it.
Save the file.
If you’re using Windows XP, you can simply copy the desktop image into your clipboard, and edit it from there.
Open the PDF document, such that the image is in full view.
Press Print Screen to capture the screenshot into your clipboard.
Open an image editing software. You can use Adobe Photoshop, or even the basic Picture Manager that comes with Microsoft Office.
Create a new picture with dimensions which are similar to your desktop. If you’re using Adobe Photoshop, the software will automatically adjust the size to accommodate the image in your clipboard.
Paste the image by clicking Edit then Paste. Or simply press Ctrl-V.
Crop the picture using photo editing software’s cropping tool.
Save the file.
As can be inferred here that cropping an image from PDF is the easiest in the Mac, Windows Vista and Windows 7 because of the snipping tools, which are easily available.
On a Mac Operating System
It is quite an easy task to crop photos from a PDF file on the Mac. There are many ways to do this. Firstly you are required to take a snapshot of the image which is automatically saved as a PNG file.
Open the PDF file you want to get the picture from.
Scroll through the file such that the image is in full view.
Press CMD-SHIFT-4. Your cursor will change into a cross-hair or “target” like image.
Drag your cursor from one corner of the image to another. You will hear a clicking sound, like a camera shutter taking a picture.
This image will be saved on your PC desktop in the form of “Picture X.PNG” where “X” is the numerical sequence in which the snapshot was taken. This can be renamed as well. PNG files are, by default, viewable on web browsers, so this can even be used online.
You must have come across PDFs that contain images and pictures but it is not possible to extract these images directly from the PDF reader itself and in most of the cases you have to take a screenshot using your operating system that is installed and then crop it through a photo editing software.
On a PC
There are many ways in which you can crop photos from a PDF on a PC. If you a user of Windows Vista or Windows 7, you can make use of the Snipping tool.
Open the PDF document.
Scroll down to an area where the image is in full view.
Press the Win key.
On the search box, type “snipping tool.” Click the “Snipping tool” icon in the results under “Programs.”
Click the New button, and select Rectangular Snip.
Drag your cursor from one corner of the image into another, so that you get the image just as you like it.
Save the file.
If you’re using Windows XP, you can simply copy the desktop image into your clipboard, and edit it from there.
Open the PDF document, such that the image is in full view.
Press Print Screen to capture the screenshot into your clipboard.
Open an image editing software. You can use Adobe Photoshop, or even the basic Picture Manager that comes with Microsoft Office.
Create a new picture with dimensions which are similar to your desktop. If you’re using Adobe Photoshop, the software will automatically adjust the size to accommodate the image in your clipboard.
Paste the image by clicking Edit then Paste. Or simply press Ctrl-V.
Crop the picture using photo editing software’s cropping tool.
Save the file.
As can be inferred here that cropping an image from PDF is the easiest in the Mac, Windows Vista and Windows 7 because of the snipping tools, which are easily available.
On a Mac Operating System
It is quite an easy task to crop photos from a PDF file on the Mac. There are many ways to do this. Firstly you are required to take a snapshot of the image which is automatically saved as a PNG file.
Open the PDF file you want to get the picture from.
Scroll through the file such that the image is in full view.
Press CMD-SHIFT-4. Your cursor will change into a cross-hair or “target” like image.
Drag your cursor from one corner of the image to another. You will hear a clicking sound, like a camera shutter taking a picture.
This image will be saved on your PC desktop in the form of “Picture X.PNG” where “X” is the numerical sequence in which the snapshot was taken. This can be renamed as well. PNG files are, by default, viewable on web browsers, so this can even be used online.
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Tech
Shut Down your External Hard Drive When not in Use
If you are in a practice of regularly turning off your external hard drive it will definitely extend its life span significantly, in addition it also provides the added benefit of conserving power and keeping the data on the drive safe so that no one can access a drive without power.
But you have to be careful while removing the drive as you will need to make sure that the system is not actively using the disk. If you attempt to remove or shut down the external hard disk before ensuring the above it may result in the data that is being worked to be put at risk of being corrupted or damaged.
Double click or right click on “My Computer” to open it from your desktop or open it from the “Start” menu.
Right-click on your external hard drive and select “Eject.” The system will tell you when it has been safely removed.
Unplug the external drive from the system. Disconnect its adapter as well to conserve some more power.
But you have to be careful while removing the drive as you will need to make sure that the system is not actively using the disk. If you attempt to remove or shut down the external hard disk before ensuring the above it may result in the data that is being worked to be put at risk of being corrupted or damaged.
Double click or right click on “My Computer” to open it from your desktop or open it from the “Start” menu.
Right-click on your external hard drive and select “Eject.” The system will tell you when it has been safely removed.
Unplug the external drive from the system. Disconnect its adapter as well to conserve some more power.
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Tech
How to Extract Text from Scanned PDF Documents and Images
The built-in OCR engine of Google Search provides a great utility for converting scanned PDFs into text by just putting all of your scanned PDF images onto a public website and wait for Google spiders to convert them into editable digital text.
Nevertheless there are two drawbacks associated with this. The PDF conversion process is very time consuming, you need access to a public web server where you can upload the PDF images so that Google bots can find them.
If you do not have the patience to wait for a long time and require performing instant OCR without downloading any of the software tools, you must try OCR Terminal – which is an online Optical Character Recognition service where you can upload scanned images, multi-page PDF documents or even screenshots and convert them into searchable text documents.
The conversion results are decently quite accurate and it also restores the document formatting and layout. You can also download the extracted text as RTF or a Word Document. The output is also available as a PDF image though I didn’t find that option very useful.
OCR Terminal is available for but there is a constraint that you are allowed to convert up to 30 scanned pages in a day and it allows for text extraction only from documents that are in English. They are also in the process of developing a desktop client that will allow users to convert scanned PDFs or TIFF images and get them back as formatted Word files without the web browser.
Note: The OCR Terminal service can also help you to extract text from newspaper clippings or images of whiteboards that you may have captured with the help of the camera that is available on your phone.
Nevertheless there are two drawbacks associated with this. The PDF conversion process is very time consuming, you need access to a public web server where you can upload the PDF images so that Google bots can find them.
If you do not have the patience to wait for a long time and require performing instant OCR without downloading any of the software tools, you must try OCR Terminal – which is an online Optical Character Recognition service where you can upload scanned images, multi-page PDF documents or even screenshots and convert them into searchable text documents.
The conversion results are decently quite accurate and it also restores the document formatting and layout. You can also download the extracted text as RTF or a Word Document. The output is also available as a PDF image though I didn’t find that option very useful.
OCR Terminal is available for but there is a constraint that you are allowed to convert up to 30 scanned pages in a day and it allows for text extraction only from documents that are in English. They are also in the process of developing a desktop client that will allow users to convert scanned PDFs or TIFF images and get them back as formatted Word files without the web browser.
Note: The OCR Terminal service can also help you to extract text from newspaper clippings or images of whiteboards that you may have captured with the help of the camera that is available on your phone.
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Mobiles
Windows 7 Phone : Review
The biggest revolution in the Microsoft’s current mobile operating system has arrived and has fallen from grace. The entire OS has been redone and the old Windows applications won’t work. It is a successor of the Window’s mobile operating system.
HARDWARE:
We haven’t seen the retail-quality device till now and both LG and Samsung have came up with their respective prototypes and we might see them on the store shelves this year.
Company is laying down the ground rules and making an attempt to compose more consistent experience across phones, but it doesn’t mean that there won’t be any variety. There will be different features for different devices like hardware keyboards, and front facing cameras but there will be a steady tone in the nature of windows phone 7 handsets.
Let’s see the detailed specs given so far:
Only large 800 x 480 (WVGA) touchscreen will be permitted at first, but later 480 x 320 (HVGA) will make an appearance.
Five specific hardware buttons are there: Start, back, search, camera button and power.
A Qualcomm Snapdragon CPU with DirectX 9 support and it is well said that the platform is well flexible to expand to other cjips in the future.
256 MB of RAM or more.
8GB of internal flash storage or more.
No support for the micro SD cards.
Wi-Fi.
AGPS.
Accelerometer.
FM radio.
5 megapixel camera or better with flash.
It has 3.7 inch capacitive touchscreen with a front face camera.
SOFTWARE:
So what’s the difference between Windows phone 7 and the previous Windows mobile? Basically, every interface patterns we have seen in previous versions are wiped out here and the design has been utterly destroyed in a nice way.
There are no more start menu, drop downs, check boxes, radio buttons, windows, and list of icons….and we can go on and on. Microsoft has worked on developing new ways to navigate a phone, and there are no icon grids, no task manager and no card view.
Windows have come up with a UI concept called “Metro”. Lots of minimal, negative space and primary colours, it is a type-and-motion heavy interface.
There are two themes present for the OS i.e., light text on black screen or black text on white screen and have a choice of picking four colours: red, orange, blue and green.
The unlock screen is somehow similar to Zune’s and a photo has to dragged upwards to unlock the screen, though it also includes date, time, upcoming calendar items, number of unread messages and number of missed calls.
There is a Start screen which is made up of movable “tiles” in a narrow strip down to the middle of the screen in sets of two across, or longer single tiles.
Tiles are animated and live and there is a change always which comes in the form of status updates from friends, new photos, new messages and so forth.
All new touchscreen keyword is present but with an important auto-correction.
MULTITASKING:
Media/e-mail sync is the built-in applications and the browser can run in the background.
It supports “page states” which are like cookies on websites. When the app is navigated away from the screen, the page state is committed to memory and when it is needed again the UI is reconstructed from the state.
Microsoft will offer a service named Microsoft notification service which will push app notifications to devices without the app needed to open. This notification will appear on the top of the phone that can be tapped to take you to that application.
Copy and paste feature is notably missing and is a big disappointment.
HUBS AND FIRST PARTY HUBS
PEOPLE HUB:
It takes contacts from Gmail, exchange, Facebook, twitter, Windows live and others, aggregating contact information and status updates in a single view.
PICTURES HUB:
Take updated images and the pictures gallery from the Facebook, twitter and others. It also allows updating and making comment on the photos of yours in Facebook and other social networking sites. Pictures applications plug-in are also offered to edit the pictures as well as sharing it.
The main view of this hub keeps yours recently contacted people in the first view dynamically and allows to jump to any of yours recent feeds and updates.
GAMES HUB:
It integrates with Xbox live. It allows browsing gamer profiles and spotlight feeds and Xbox live and achievements. Microsoft had said that they want games which are easy to play in “minute mobile” and are focusing on turned–based games to start but we have seen few 3D XNA games shown off, which are filled with X box achievements and other features from live.
MUSIC + VIDEO HUB:
It’s a Zune HD in your phone. You will be able to access Zune pass here also and can download and browse music over Wi-Fi and 3G.
These are some apps and games that are demoed so far:
ASSOCIATED PRESS.
It makes full use of panorama view and gives you a different experience which can find on the Androids and iPhone versions. There is a nifty browsing tool that flips out images in a fan.
HUSH HUSH.
It is a diary application which almost looks like a diary and it functions very well on the large WVGA displays.
MLS.
With the cooperation of major league soccer it is an official application developed. All the statistics, reviews and updates are given of your favorite teams in major league soccer.
GOO SPLAT, BATTLE PUNKS, And THE HARVEST.
These games are from different backgrounds. Goo splat is an XNA game on Zune HD while the other two are the 3D games capable of showing off Xbox live integration.
HARDWARE:
We haven’t seen the retail-quality device till now and both LG and Samsung have came up with their respective prototypes and we might see them on the store shelves this year.
Company is laying down the ground rules and making an attempt to compose more consistent experience across phones, but it doesn’t mean that there won’t be any variety. There will be different features for different devices like hardware keyboards, and front facing cameras but there will be a steady tone in the nature of windows phone 7 handsets.
Let’s see the detailed specs given so far:
Only large 800 x 480 (WVGA) touchscreen will be permitted at first, but later 480 x 320 (HVGA) will make an appearance.
Five specific hardware buttons are there: Start, back, search, camera button and power.
A Qualcomm Snapdragon CPU with DirectX 9 support and it is well said that the platform is well flexible to expand to other cjips in the future.
256 MB of RAM or more.
8GB of internal flash storage or more.
No support for the micro SD cards.
Wi-Fi.
AGPS.
Accelerometer.
FM radio.
5 megapixel camera or better with flash.
It has 3.7 inch capacitive touchscreen with a front face camera.
SOFTWARE:
So what’s the difference between Windows phone 7 and the previous Windows mobile? Basically, every interface patterns we have seen in previous versions are wiped out here and the design has been utterly destroyed in a nice way.
There are no more start menu, drop downs, check boxes, radio buttons, windows, and list of icons….and we can go on and on. Microsoft has worked on developing new ways to navigate a phone, and there are no icon grids, no task manager and no card view.
Windows have come up with a UI concept called “Metro”. Lots of minimal, negative space and primary colours, it is a type-and-motion heavy interface.
There are two themes present for the OS i.e., light text on black screen or black text on white screen and have a choice of picking four colours: red, orange, blue and green.
The unlock screen is somehow similar to Zune’s and a photo has to dragged upwards to unlock the screen, though it also includes date, time, upcoming calendar items, number of unread messages and number of missed calls.
There is a Start screen which is made up of movable “tiles” in a narrow strip down to the middle of the screen in sets of two across, or longer single tiles.
Tiles are animated and live and there is a change always which comes in the form of status updates from friends, new photos, new messages and so forth.
All new touchscreen keyword is present but with an important auto-correction.
MULTITASKING:
Media/e-mail sync is the built-in applications and the browser can run in the background.
It supports “page states” which are like cookies on websites. When the app is navigated away from the screen, the page state is committed to memory and when it is needed again the UI is reconstructed from the state.
Microsoft will offer a service named Microsoft notification service which will push app notifications to devices without the app needed to open. This notification will appear on the top of the phone that can be tapped to take you to that application.
Copy and paste feature is notably missing and is a big disappointment.
HUBS AND FIRST PARTY HUBS
PEOPLE HUB:
It takes contacts from Gmail, exchange, Facebook, twitter, Windows live and others, aggregating contact information and status updates in a single view.
PICTURES HUB:
Take updated images and the pictures gallery from the Facebook, twitter and others. It also allows updating and making comment on the photos of yours in Facebook and other social networking sites. Pictures applications plug-in are also offered to edit the pictures as well as sharing it.
The main view of this hub keeps yours recently contacted people in the first view dynamically and allows to jump to any of yours recent feeds and updates.
GAMES HUB:
It integrates with Xbox live. It allows browsing gamer profiles and spotlight feeds and Xbox live and achievements. Microsoft had said that they want games which are easy to play in “minute mobile” and are focusing on turned–based games to start but we have seen few 3D XNA games shown off, which are filled with X box achievements and other features from live.
MUSIC + VIDEO HUB:
It’s a Zune HD in your phone. You will be able to access Zune pass here also and can download and browse music over Wi-Fi and 3G.
These are some apps and games that are demoed so far:
ASSOCIATED PRESS.
It makes full use of panorama view and gives you a different experience which can find on the Androids and iPhone versions. There is a nifty browsing tool that flips out images in a fan.
HUSH HUSH.
It is a diary application which almost looks like a diary and it functions very well on the large WVGA displays.
MLS.
With the cooperation of major league soccer it is an official application developed. All the statistics, reviews and updates are given of your favorite teams in major league soccer.
GOO SPLAT, BATTLE PUNKS, And THE HARVEST.
These games are from different backgrounds. Goo splat is an XNA game on Zune HD while the other two are the 3D games capable of showing off Xbox live integration.
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Windows
Recovering Data From a Partition that Became Inaccessible After Interruption in Resizing
Ever partitioned your hard drive, just to find a large number of your files unavailable? Or found inaccessible or deleted files while resizing an existing partition? Well, I have faced one such problem! A month back, when I tried to resize my partition, there was power failure! When the power came back and I rebooted the system, I found that a large number of my files in that partition were missing. And I didn’t know how to perform file recovery.
Here is what I did?
Clicked on ‘Start’.
Selected ‘Control Panel’.
Choose ‘System and Maintenance’.
Opened ‘Administrative Tools’.
Selected ‘Computer Management’.
Clicked ‘Disk Management’ under ‘Storage’
Right-clicked the volume that I wanted to shrink, and selected “Shrink Volume”.
In the dialog box that opened up, I specified in MB, the amount of space I wanted to extract from that volume.
And moments after I hit ‘Enter’, there was power failure.
When the power came back, and I booted my system, the volume had become inaccessible. I had not even taken a backup, and didn’t know how to perform File Recovery. I frantically searched the internet to find out what could be done in such a situation. And then I came across a lot of information on the internet, a lot of which was of no use, and also information about various file recovery software. But nothing that suited my needs. Frustrated, I discussed with a friend of mine, who suggested to me, to use these software for file recovery. Seeing me confused, he sat with me, and we attached my hard drive to his computer. What followed was pure magic.
To begin with, we took a complete backup of every single file that was available, and also created a clone of the drive, lest something were to go wrong. We deleted the partition in question to begin with. Then we started the recovery software, and choose partition recovery followed by selecting the hard drive. We got a couple of partitions, and we immediately chose the partition that we had just deleted. Followed by this, we selected recover. This done, we selected file recovery, and selected this recovered partition as the location from where recovery had to be performed. And lo-and-behold, all my files started appearing in front of me. We extracted all these files on to a USB, and I had all my files with me.
Stellar Phoenix Windows Data Recovery software saved my life, and ensured that everything was back to normal for me. Compatible with Microsoft Windows 7, Vista, 2003, XP, and 2000, and support for FAT12, FAT16, FAT32, VFAT, NTFS, and NTFS5 file systems, this file recovery software can easily stand the test of time.
Here is what I did?
Clicked on ‘Start’.
Selected ‘Control Panel’.
Choose ‘System and Maintenance’.
Opened ‘Administrative Tools’.
Selected ‘Computer Management’.
Clicked ‘Disk Management’ under ‘Storage’
Right-clicked the volume that I wanted to shrink, and selected “Shrink Volume”.
In the dialog box that opened up, I specified in MB, the amount of space I wanted to extract from that volume.
And moments after I hit ‘Enter’, there was power failure.
When the power came back, and I booted my system, the volume had become inaccessible. I had not even taken a backup, and didn’t know how to perform File Recovery. I frantically searched the internet to find out what could be done in such a situation. And then I came across a lot of information on the internet, a lot of which was of no use, and also information about various file recovery software. But nothing that suited my needs. Frustrated, I discussed with a friend of mine, who suggested to me, to use these software for file recovery. Seeing me confused, he sat with me, and we attached my hard drive to his computer. What followed was pure magic.
To begin with, we took a complete backup of every single file that was available, and also created a clone of the drive, lest something were to go wrong. We deleted the partition in question to begin with. Then we started the recovery software, and choose partition recovery followed by selecting the hard drive. We got a couple of partitions, and we immediately chose the partition that we had just deleted. Followed by this, we selected recover. This done, we selected file recovery, and selected this recovered partition as the location from where recovery had to be performed. And lo-and-behold, all my files started appearing in front of me. We extracted all these files on to a USB, and I had all my files with me.
Stellar Phoenix Windows Data Recovery software saved my life, and ensured that everything was back to normal for me. Compatible with Microsoft Windows 7, Vista, 2003, XP, and 2000, and support for FAT12, FAT16, FAT32, VFAT, NTFS, and NTFS5 file systems, this file recovery software can easily stand the test of time.
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Social Network
Disable your Visibility Status from Selected People on Facebook Chat
You may have a number of people who are your friends and are added in the friend list of the Chat utility that Facebook provides. But you want to hide your visibility or rather your online status from certain friends on Facebook. Now how would you do this? This post will help you on accomplishing the same.
You need to know that Facebook has incorporated friend list with Chat, providing the facility of choosing among friends to whom you intend to appear online.
For an example say you want to show your online status to only your family members who are added in your friend list and be offline from the rest of your friends who are added. In comparison with the new feature of Facebook which helps you to achieve this, earlier you had to go offline to hide yourself from others and thus you were not able to appear offline to some selected friends.
You need to know that Facebook has incorporated friend list with Chat, providing the facility of choosing among friends to whom you intend to appear online.
For an example say you want to show your online status to only your family members who are added in your friend list and be offline from the rest of your friends who are added. In comparison with the new feature of Facebook which helps you to achieve this, earlier you had to go offline to hide yourself from others and thus you were not able to appear offline to some selected friends.
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Windows
True Time Tracker: Information About your System Usage Patterns!
Do you want to know how exactly you’re spending your time on the internet or your usage patterns on a particular project or subject? If your answer is Yes, then the True Time Tracker is what you really need.
The True Time Tracker is a free application and is extremely simple. It overpowers the other numerous time tracking applications in terms of simplicity and ease of use. You just need to start it up, allow it to run in the background, and it will generate several charts which would detail your usage patterns and the time spent. These charts basically include information about:
What programs you run?
Which sites you visit?
How much time you spend idle?
So, in brief, you just initiate the true time tracker and let it sit in your system tray. As a consequence of this, it will track a number of statistics about how you’re spending your time.
Also, you can organize your usage by project or subject if needed. Thus, with the help of this tracker you can sort out your time for the purpose of billing clients. You can also derive figures and data to see how much time you’re wasting. This can be done by setting the work websites and programs as “work” and unimportant websites like Facebook and Orkut as “leisure” or “time wasters”.
You can also adjust the True Time tracker to print out pie charts of your time management to PDF at any time.
Thus, the True Time Tracker would reduce a great deal of complexity which you might have faced on other time tracking applications.
Note that the True Time Tracker is a free download and is compatible with Windows only.
The True Time Tracker is a free application and is extremely simple. It overpowers the other numerous time tracking applications in terms of simplicity and ease of use. You just need to start it up, allow it to run in the background, and it will generate several charts which would detail your usage patterns and the time spent. These charts basically include information about:
What programs you run?
Which sites you visit?
How much time you spend idle?
So, in brief, you just initiate the true time tracker and let it sit in your system tray. As a consequence of this, it will track a number of statistics about how you’re spending your time.
Also, you can organize your usage by project or subject if needed. Thus, with the help of this tracker you can sort out your time for the purpose of billing clients. You can also derive figures and data to see how much time you’re wasting. This can be done by setting the work websites and programs as “work” and unimportant websites like Facebook and Orkut as “leisure” or “time wasters”.
You can also adjust the True Time tracker to print out pie charts of your time management to PDF at any time.
Thus, the True Time Tracker would reduce a great deal of complexity which you might have faced on other time tracking applications.
Note that the True Time Tracker is a free download and is compatible with Windows only.
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Windows
Keep Track of Usb Devices Inserted in your PC
Windows is an operating system that has the ability to record previous activities carried out in your system. All of us computer savvy people are well aware of how to get a sneak peek into web browsing history and view hundreds of cookies linked with all websites seen. We’re also pretty grateful to all programs that help us to delete such information and guard our privacy.
Most folks, I’m sure are oblivious to the fact that our operating system keeps track of all USB devices that were once inserted at any point of time or those that are currently connected to the PC too! By courtesy Nirosoft we have access to a freely available, handy program that can be easily downloaded.
For detailed information and queries you can look up at http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/usb_devices_view.html. Scroll down to the bottom of the linked page to Download.
This program, which is around 1MB in size helps a user to extract all this information, scrutinizes specific details and summarizes it in a table. It can successfully run on Windows XP and higher, on any 32 and 64 bit processor without a problem.
clicked from a PC, it is visible that it covers:
The device description: It can be a mass storage, Generic Bluetooth, Virtual Box USB, 3ComOfficeconn.
Type: Mass Storage, Bluetooth Specific, Vendor specific
Connected: Yes/No
Safe to unplug: Yes/No
Disabled : Yes/No
USB Hub: Yes/No
Drive letter: Yes/No
Among other things, which aren’t mentioned above the device’s name, its serial no date/time that device was added, VendorID, ProductID, is included. This provides utility to find out whether somebody secretly used your computer system, inserted any external device and copied out personal or private details without letting you know. In other words, it’s a safety trap about which the culprit may himself not be aware of!
In my opinion, it is an effective trouble shooting tool. USB Deview is a small utility that not only stores a lists of all USB devices that are at the moment connected to your computer, or just the one’s previously used, but in addition:
USB Deview also allows one to uninstall other USB devices that were previously used
To disconnect USB devices that are currently connected to your system
To disable and enable other USB devices.
USB Deview can also be used on a remote computer, as long as you login to that computer as an administrator-user.
Most folks, I’m sure are oblivious to the fact that our operating system keeps track of all USB devices that were once inserted at any point of time or those that are currently connected to the PC too! By courtesy Nirosoft we have access to a freely available, handy program that can be easily downloaded.
For detailed information and queries you can look up at http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/usb_devices_view.html. Scroll down to the bottom of the linked page to Download.
This program, which is around 1MB in size helps a user to extract all this information, scrutinizes specific details and summarizes it in a table. It can successfully run on Windows XP and higher, on any 32 and 64 bit processor without a problem.
clicked from a PC, it is visible that it covers:
The device description: It can be a mass storage, Generic Bluetooth, Virtual Box USB, 3ComOfficeconn.
Type: Mass Storage, Bluetooth Specific, Vendor specific
Connected: Yes/No
Safe to unplug: Yes/No
Disabled : Yes/No
USB Hub: Yes/No
Drive letter: Yes/No
Among other things, which aren’t mentioned above the device’s name, its serial no date/time that device was added, VendorID, ProductID, is included. This provides utility to find out whether somebody secretly used your computer system, inserted any external device and copied out personal or private details without letting you know. In other words, it’s a safety trap about which the culprit may himself not be aware of!
In my opinion, it is an effective trouble shooting tool. USB Deview is a small utility that not only stores a lists of all USB devices that are at the moment connected to your computer, or just the one’s previously used, but in addition:
USB Deview also allows one to uninstall other USB devices that were previously used
To disconnect USB devices that are currently connected to your system
To disable and enable other USB devices.
USB Deview can also be used on a remote computer, as long as you login to that computer as an administrator-user.
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Social Network
Blooming Pictures on Facebook
What is Bloom?
On the popular social networking site Facebook, a java based application which supports version 1.5.0 and higher. It is compatible with different platforms. Blooms works cross platform in the sense, it is versatile enough to support the following operating systems:
Windows, both 32 and 64 bit processors
Mac OS.
Linux OS.
What all can I do with it?
Sitting back at your desktop, form and upload albums and also view albums created by people on your list. Bloom can be used to upload videos, tag friends and customize privacy settings for the same, import EXIF information into photo caption, and many more things.
How to go about it:
As you log into your account, the application’s main interface is right before you.
Options to create, upload, view (download) pictures. Certain parameters like album, name, location, description, privacy etc can be personalized. You can also rotate photos as per your choice.
In the File menu, you can access preferences.
Advancement in Bloom is the capability to upload photos behind a proxy server.
On the popular social networking site Facebook, a java based application which supports version 1.5.0 and higher. It is compatible with different platforms. Blooms works cross platform in the sense, it is versatile enough to support the following operating systems:
Windows, both 32 and 64 bit processors
Mac OS.
Linux OS.
What all can I do with it?
Sitting back at your desktop, form and upload albums and also view albums created by people on your list. Bloom can be used to upload videos, tag friends and customize privacy settings for the same, import EXIF information into photo caption, and many more things.
How to go about it:
As you log into your account, the application’s main interface is right before you.
Options to create, upload, view (download) pictures. Certain parameters like album, name, location, description, privacy etc can be personalized. You can also rotate photos as per your choice.
In the File menu, you can access preferences.
Advancement in Bloom is the capability to upload photos behind a proxy server.
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Mobiles
Micromax X505 Psych: Review
Micromax launched a music phone named Micromax X505 which has 2.8 inch stylish full touchscreen with a 2 megapixel camera and changeable back covers. This device is named Psych after the word Psychedelic which is a type of music.
USP:
The USP of the Micromax X505 is the Music. It is totally music centric phone and comes pre-loaded with MTV content in collaboration with the music channel MTV.
Another USP of Micromax X505 is that it features Yamaha Audio Amplifier and SRS WOW HD technology.
Key Features of Micromax X505 Psych:
2 megapixel camera.
Facebook ready.
2 Psychedelic back panels inside.
Nimbuzz.
Snaptu.
Detailed Specifications Of Micromax X505:
Dimensions: 104.8 x 56 x 12.9 mm.
Operating Frequency: Quad Band GSM.
Display: 2.8 inch QVGA Full touchscreen display.
Video Player: MP4, 3GP, AVI.
Integrated Opera Mini Browser.
Java.
Battery: Li-ion 900 mAh.
Standby Time: Upto 5 days.
Talktime: Upto 3 hours.
Memory Expansion: Micro SD card upto 8 GB.
Multi format music player.
Bluetooth with A2DP.
The price of Micromax X505 is not revealed yet.
USP:
The USP of the Micromax X505 is the Music. It is totally music centric phone and comes pre-loaded with MTV content in collaboration with the music channel MTV.
Another USP of Micromax X505 is that it features Yamaha Audio Amplifier and SRS WOW HD technology.
Key Features of Micromax X505 Psych:
2 megapixel camera.
Facebook ready.
2 Psychedelic back panels inside.
Nimbuzz.
Snaptu.
Detailed Specifications Of Micromax X505:
Dimensions: 104.8 x 56 x 12.9 mm.
Operating Frequency: Quad Band GSM.
Display: 2.8 inch QVGA Full touchscreen display.
Video Player: MP4, 3GP, AVI.
Integrated Opera Mini Browser.
Java.
Battery: Li-ion 900 mAh.
Standby Time: Upto 5 days.
Talktime: Upto 3 hours.
Memory Expansion: Micro SD card upto 8 GB.
Multi format music player.
Bluetooth with A2DP.
The price of Micromax X505 is not revealed yet.
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Social Network
How to Share Files on Twitter?
Twitter is the best place to share your thoughts in the Internet. As a matter of fact, thanks to its micro-blogging features you can share whatever you like with other users in a matter of seconds. One of the biggest limits of Twitter is that you can only share tweets, small sentences you can now change can now share Longer Tweets than 140 characters. But what if you wish to share documents and files?
FileSocial.com is a wonderful website that lets you share photos; documents and whatever file you like on Twitter.
The way it works is rather simple. All you have to do is:
Type your Twitter login and password.
Write a twitter, attach the document you want to share and you are done.
Your Twitter will display a “tweet” with your message and a link to the file.
You can also backup your Twitter account and can also easily search Twitter in real time.
FileSocial.com is a wonderful website that lets you share photos; documents and whatever file you like on Twitter.
The way it works is rather simple. All you have to do is:
Type your Twitter login and password.
Write a twitter, attach the document you want to share and you are done.
Your Twitter will display a “tweet” with your message and a link to the file.
You can also backup your Twitter account and can also easily search Twitter in real time.
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Windows
Delete specific Files from Multiple Folders
The application Folder Cleaner is a kind of utility that provides features used for batch file deletion and also offers a great utility to delete some specific kind of files from multiple folders.
Folder cleaner includes a very useful search option which offers you the freedom to delete files categorized under a particular category. You can preview and analyze in advance the deleting process using the build-in file analyzer.With this you can specify or mark a list of folders rather than only choosing a single folder. For the purpose of simplicity in the task of listing down the folders, take help of the search engine and locate the different files you intend to delete from local drives and removable media.
You can even select the folders manually by making use of the right-click menu. Use the toolbar to access the tools and features.
When you are done with the listing of the folders, the next step is to list down the folders and then choose the folders and manage the cleaning options to delete the specific files in some uniform manner. It should be noted here that you can use filters to either include or exclude a specific file type from the deletion process.
You can also check out the deletion process in order to display and view the number of files to be cleaned. To clean the selected folders click on the Recycle bin button. This application works on Windows XP, Vista and Windows 2007.
Folder cleaner includes a very useful search option which offers you the freedom to delete files categorized under a particular category. You can preview and analyze in advance the deleting process using the build-in file analyzer.With this you can specify or mark a list of folders rather than only choosing a single folder. For the purpose of simplicity in the task of listing down the folders, take help of the search engine and locate the different files you intend to delete from local drives and removable media.
You can even select the folders manually by making use of the right-click menu. Use the toolbar to access the tools and features.
When you are done with the listing of the folders, the next step is to list down the folders and then choose the folders and manage the cleaning options to delete the specific files in some uniform manner. It should be noted here that you can use filters to either include or exclude a specific file type from the deletion process.
You can also check out the deletion process in order to display and view the number of files to be cleaned. To clean the selected folders click on the Recycle bin button. This application works on Windows XP, Vista and Windows 2007.
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