Some Cool Windows Tricks
Over at Technospot Ashish has a few interesting tips for all you windows users out there.. I just read through them and they work great.. Here they are : How to add Safe Mode to XP Boot List Safe mode is required when you need to fix problems such as a nasty virus infection or unistalling buggy softwares on your windows XP install.The Normal route to go to safe mode would be to use F8 Key to get into safe mode and if its not timed properly you’ll have to... Read The Rest →
Open Any Compressed file with Universal Extractor
Tired of installing a bunch of softwares to deal with various compression formats like zip, rar etc.. If yes then you definitely need Universal Extractor. As the name says Universal Extractor can only uncompress the files and not compress it. For compressing you still have to use your favorite program like Winzip or WinRar. The number of compressed file formats are increasing. ISO files seem to be getting more and more popular as well as “tar”, “gz”, “jar” and especially Mozilla Firefox’s “xpi” format which is used for browser extensions.... Read The Rest →
TubeStop : Prevent Youtube Ads from Being Displayed
Youtube recently launched their video ads service. While the new ads haven’t been accepted that well by the general public and actually many are complaining that it spoils the youtube experience. If you are one of those then you need this handy firefox extension that hides the ads from being displayed. TubeStop is an extension for Mozilla-based Web browsers that disables the autoplay on YouTube videos. This means that you can open multiple YouTube videos in tabs in the background without them all starting to play at once. TubeStop also... Read The Rest →
19 Little Known Facts of Windows XP
Windows XP happens to be one of the most popular operating systems from the Windows Family. I Just don’t like Vista because it really isn’t able to match upto Windows XP on similar loads and conditions. So here are some tricks that will give you a lot of extra muscle to use your Windows Machine. 1. Windows XP boasts of how long it can stay up. Whereas previous versions of Windows were coy about how long they went between boots, XP is positively proud of its stamina. Go to run... Read The Rest →
Connect Your Laptop to Internet without Tweaking with the Settings
If you are one of those readers who use Laptop at different places like School, Office and Home etc.. You Must be knowing what pain it is to keep shuffling between your TCP/IP settings everytime you change the location. Well there is a solution for this problem. All You need is NetSetMan a network settings manager that lets you create multiple LAN profiles on the same computer. Using NetSetMan all you have to do is configure everything once and save it as a profile and you are ready to go.... Read The Rest →
Delicer – del.icio.us Client for Windows
Delicer is del.icio.us client for Windows.It is a Desktop program that allows you to: Manage your whole delicious account. Easily search for your own tags and navigate through URLs accordingly without opening a single browser. Post new, rename existing, and delete old tags without surfing through delicious. Feeds from YouTube and delicious are available with one button-click.
Speed Up Torrent Downloads in Windows Vista
I’ve noticed that BitTorrent downloads are not as fast on my friends PC as they were for me in XP. From what I could understand, this reduction in speed is due to difference in the AutoTuning function that Vista uses on the TCP/IP stack.But guess what the optimizer actually results in slower downloads. This affects BitTorrent and other programs that make use of threaded downloads. If you are seeing slow downloads in BitTorrent too, you can disable the AutoTuning in Vista, this worked for my friend so i guess it... Read The Rest →
Intype – Text Editor for Windows
Intype is a powerful and intuitive code editor for Windows with lightning fast response. It is easily extensible and customizable, thanks in part to its support for scripting and native plug-ins. It makes development in any programming or scripting language quick and easy. Intype also has some amazing looking screencasts so if you are intrested in watching them go ahead and click these links Watch Snippets Watch Parser in Editor Video: HTML Snippets (take one)
Installing IE 6 on Windows Vista [How To]
If you are a web designer or web developer, then you know how important it is that the sites you design look and function the same in multiple browser environments. This is easily achieved by simply downloading the latest versions of Mozilla Firefox, Safari, Gecko, Konqueror, Opera and what ever you choose. But what about Microsoft Internet Explorer? It is next to impossible to run side-by-side versions of IE. Most designers use more than one PC to accomplish this. There are ways to hack earlier installations of Mirosoft IE to... Read The Rest →
Restart Windows Without Restarting BIOS
Modern Windows OS’es can take a while to boot. My Windows XP Machine takes about 1min to boot up completely. Couple this with the fact Windows wants me to restart everytime I install an update or a driver a lot of time can be wasted just for restarting the machine. Codejacked has an interesting solution to solve this problem by restarting windows but bypassing the BIOS reboot. This can actually shave of about 10-20 seconds of the boot time. Here is how can do this trick. The trick is to... Read The Rest →
