How to Add More Fonts for the Command Prompt window in Windows

Command Prompt window is the window that opens when you run cmd.exe. It is also known as the CLI (command line interface) window or console window. Windows 7 is very strict about the choice of fonts for the command prompt window. It allows you to choose from the raster fonts, Lucida Console font or Consolas font for the command prompt window. But what if you don’t like any of them and want to add more fonts for the command prompt window?

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How to Add Google Picasa ScreenSaver in Windows

Google Picasa is a popular photo editor, manager and viewer available for Windows. You can use it to create photo collages, create posters, edit images to add text and various other advanced effects easily. It can use your pictures from your local disks or web albums. It allows you to instantly publish your pictures to your Google+ account or online Picasa library. Google Picasa can also be used to create a screensaver for Windows using your pictures.

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Hover Zoom : Automatically Zoom a Picture in Google Chrome

Hover Zoom is a Google Chrome extension which you can use to easily view all the images in their full enlarged form without having to click on any thumbnail or link. Now you can browse images galleries with ease. Just move your mouse cursor over thumbnails to view images in their full size without loading a new page. If pictures are very big and cannot fit the browser window, then these pictures are automatically resized.

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Ubuntu One Free Cloud Storage for Windows

Ubuntu Linux users are well acquainted with Ubuntu One cloud storage service from Canonical. Ubuntu One used to be available only for Ubuntu Linux users, but now they have released a Windows desktop client making it accessible to all the Microsoft Windows users. Ubuntu One offers 5 gigabytes of free storage space. You can pay for an upgrade to 20 gigabytes if you think 5 gigabytes does not meet your requirements. Ubuntu One offers clients for Microsoft Windows, Ubuntu Linux, Android and iPhone.

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Free OCR to Word : Convert Scanned Images into Word Documents

Free OCR to Word is a free software for Windows that enables you to extract the text from a scanned document or image into an MS Word file. It can convert your already scanned image files into a Word document but it can also work with your scanner and directly export the scanned documents into a Word document. It boasts of around 98% OCR conversion accuracy. It supports almost all kinds of image formats like JPG, BMP, GIF, PNG, and many more.

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Amazon Cloud Drive App for Windows : Manage Your Files from Windows Desktop

Amazon started its cloud storage service almost a year ago and offers a free storage 5 gigabytes for all the Amazon account holders. Until now you could access your files on the Amazon cloud storage using only a web browser. Amazon has also come up with a desktop application for Windows and Mac. This desktop app for Amazon Cloud Drive integrates with Windows Explorer and makes it easy to upload, download and manage your files on the cloud storage.

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Remove Security Certificate Exceptions in Mozilla Firefox

Although you can add security certificate exceptions in Firefox to access some websites, it is not usually advised. The untrusted connection warning in Firefox is there for a reason. If you continue with adding the exception, the data transfer to and from that website is not encrypted making you vulnerable to man-in-the-middle attacks. If you have already added such an exception, then you should remove it as soon as possible

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Tiny Uploader : Upload Images to Imageshack or Imgur from Windows Desktop

Tiny Uploader is a Windows application that allows you to upload any picture to Imageshack and Imgur image sharing services. Tiny Uploader turns the tedious task of uploading images to image sharing websites into a very simple process. It integrates itself into the right-click context menu of Windows Explorer enabling you to upload your images just by right-clicking on them. You can also take screenshots of your desktop and other windows and automatically upload them.

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Metascan Online : Scan Files for Virus with 30+ Antivirus Engines

Metascan is an online service similar to VirusTotal that helps you scan a file using multiple antivirus engines. According to Metascan – no single antivirus solution is perfect and may omit detection of some of the malware. The same malware can be detected by some other antivirus which itself may overlook another kind of virus. But when you scan a file with multiple antivirus engines, the probability of detection failures or false detection is reduced drastically.

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