Author: Trisha

We have previously covered Amazon Kindle extension for the Chrome browser which lets you read free Kindle ebooks inside the Chrome web browser. But what if you do not use the Chrome web browser? Amazon has come up with a Windows application called Kindle for PC using which you can read Kindle ebooks right inside your Windows PC without requiring any browser.

Christmas is coming near with every tick of the clock. Everybody is busy preparing and decorating their houses for the great day. But what about your Windows desktop? You can also adorn your Windows desktop with an animated decorated Christmas tree if you want. Drive software is offering dozens of free decorated Christmas trees for your Windows desktop. These great looking trees come decorated with blinking lights and stay in a corner of your desktop.

LCD monitors usually get stuck or dead pixels. A stuck pixel is a point on your LCD screen which always shows light. A dead pixel is a point on your LCD screen which never shows light and stays black. Its hard to notice these dead pixels on your screen under normal usage. But there is a program called LCDTester using which you can easily find the dead pixels on your LCD screen.

If you want to perform some tasks or run scripts every time you logoff in Windows 7, then it is very easy to do. This can be useful if you want to perform tasks like cleaning internet history, deleting some folders, copying some files each time you log off in Windows. This is also handy for creating regular backups of your important files. You can add scripts to run every time at logoff using the Group Policy Editor in Windows 7.

When I play DVD movies using Media Player Classic, I can actually control the volume of the video being played using the mouse wheel. When you turn the wheel up, the volume goes up and when you turn the wheel down, the volume gets down. You can have the same functionality inside Windows itself using Nirsoft Volumouse so that which you can control the volume of the Windows using your mouse wheel.

Winter is in full swing and everyone has started to count the days to Christmas and the New Years Eve. The snow flakes have started to fall down from the sky. But if you are living in a place where you are not blessed with snowfall yet, then you can console yourself with a little application called DesktopSnowOK. The DesktopSnowOK is a free software that can show the magical effect of snow falling right on your Windows desktop.

When I go for shopping a notebook or netbook, my primary concern is to find a laptop that can be used as long as possible without using the AC power outlet. This obviously requires it to have a longer battery life. Even though your notebook battery has a longer discharge cycle, you can still improve its performance using the free Battery Care software. Battery Care is a software created to optimize the usage and performance of a typical battery that come inside a modern laptop.

IObit uninstaller is a tool that helps you uninstall programs from Windows operating system. You can already uninstall programs using the Control Panel tool called Programs and Features but the IObit Uninstaller provides many advanced features that are not present in the Windows Control Panel. You can use the IObit Uninstaller to remove installed software, uninstall toolbars, scan the registry for left over entries and more.

Sometimes when you download a video it is not in a popular format and cannot be played on your computer. But you can convert these videos into a format supported by your movie player device. The Free Video Converter is such a software that lets you convert videos from one format into another. It supports video conversion between over two hundred type of formats including the AVI, MP4, WMV, MKV, MPEG, 3GP and DVD.