Now “Undo” on Mail too!

by vbb March 20, 2009

Almost all softwares which involve some kind of editing have “undo” button/command just to revert to the original if we don’t like the change.However emails, till now have been something like “unstoppable”-once you press send.You send a mail to your boss and then just after 2 seconds  find a terrible spelling mistake.What next? Till now [...]

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Unknown File Extension -Open with what?

by vbb March 19, 2009

How do you open a CUE file or a taz file.New computer users are often baffled with certain file extension they don’t recognize.Earlier the solution was to Google to know what the extension means and then search again for a free program to open it. But not anymore, as now you have openwith.org .This is [...]

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Orkut stuffed with ads? Do you like it?

by vbb March 18, 2009

While it is no secret that Google is making a lot of money from displaying ads on orkut ,what bothers me is an excessive use of ads on many pages.Google recommends bloggers and webmasters to keep ads on their pages to a reasonable limit that does not annoys the user. Here is one page which [...]

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Freeware Word & Excel Password Recovery Software

by vbb March 16, 2009

Living in the password age,it’s fairly common for people to password protect a document and then to forget it. People working in offices usually protect their word,excel,pdf or zip files using password.If you forget the password ,then there is no way to recover it unless you are able to put your brain inside any  password [...]

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Free Anti Key Logger -Protect Your Key Strokes -Key Scrambler Personal

by vbb March 14, 2009

While shopping online,you have to enter your credit card data or when you login to your internet bank account for some work you will need to type your user name and password.At all these instances you are prone to theft of your identity.Anybody with  malicious intention can record your keystrokes and get your user name,password [...]

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Automatic Scheduled Computer Shutdown-Windows XP and Vista

by vbb March 13, 2009

I download all stuff in between 2am to 8am (BSNL Broadband Night Unlimited Plan).And I want to my computer to be turned off at 8 am automatically.How do i do this? Windows system use a shutdown.exe file to shutdown your computer.This file is usually located in c:\Windows\System32\shutdown.exe.The trick is simple.Like we schedule other programs,we can [...]

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Biggest Free Online Storage-Get 50GB Free at Adrive

by vbb March 12, 2009

Everybody is fond of online storage for the features they offer.Most of the online storage services offer a large storage space,ability to share ,and some security features.Many services are offering up to 25GB of free storage but here Adrive goes an step further and provides you with a  whopping 50GB of free storage.With the free [...]

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Find Duplicate Photos-An Advanced Way

by vbb March 10, 2009

Now having  Hard disks with nearly terabyte capacity,we no longer spare time for its house keeping and fill too many duplicate content.The biggest culprits are songs,video and photos.While there are many programs to compare files ,all are not suitable to find duplicate photos,Then VisiPics does the job and that too in a very sophisticated way.

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Prevent Viruses Spreading Through USB Drives

by vbb March 9, 2009

A lot of viruses use USB media to propagate.You must have encountered New Folder.exe or many such viruses spreading through USB drives..In order to be propagated by this way,the virus usually attack the Autorun file on the USB drive.AUTORUN.INF file is used by Windows to start some programs automatically.Viruses are usually programmed to spread automatically [...]

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How to check BSNL/other Broadband Usage

by vbb March 9, 2009

Almost all ISPs have broadband plans which allow only limited free data transfer in a month.For example, in BSNL broadband plan-Home 250 you are allowed to use a maximum data transfer of 1GB per month.Any data transfer above that is chargeable at a premium rate. Hence it becomes quite important to check your usage regularly.ISP [...]

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