All the Mozilla Firefox users know the about:config way to access advanced settings in their beloved browser. But this way the settings are not listed category wise but alphabetically which is very confusing for a beginner. The Configuration Mania add-on solves both of these problems by offering an easy to follow interface where you can access most common advanced settings in a very nice, user friendly and categorized interface.
Read moreWally : Automatically Get New Desktop Wallpapers in Windows
My teenager niece is a big fan of Lady Gaga. Yesterday when I came home she was looking for Lady Gaga wallpapers on Google Image search but seemed unsatisfied. She asked me if there is any way Windows can automatically find Lady Gaga wallpapers and use them as Windows desktop backgrounds. I told her about Wally. Wally can automatically query a multitude of web sites like Google, picassa, flickr, Yahoo! etc. based on your search query and download images.
Read moreDont Reload Tabs Until Selected in Firefox
Mozilla Firefox has once again released a new version of Firefox browser – version 8. This version introduces many new features to make your web browsing faster. For example, Firefox 8 has a new feature to prevent loading of the tabs until selected. This means that if the browser is configured to restore the tabs from the last browsing session, it will not automatically attempt to reload those pages until the tab is selected.
Read moreHardware Freak : Find Information About Your Hardware
There are so many ways to find out the hardware specifications of your computer in Windows, but most of them either use commands or you have to dig deep down in the Control Panel to use them. There are some third party software available but some of them are bulky and require to be installed inside Windows to use them. If you want to use a portable third party program to find out the information about your hardware in Windows then you can use Hardware Freak.
Read moreCartoo : How Far Can You Ride in Your Car ?
Last Sunday, I was in my car thinking where should I go. I had around an hour to kill and I just wanted to enjoy driving around. I could not figure out where I should go but my friend Tony told me about this application called Cartoo which solved my problem. Cartoo is a free web based application which works with Google Maps and can tell you how far you can go in your car in a specified amount of time starting from a particular location.
Read moreApply Watermark to Your Photos with PicMarkr
You must have noticed that professionals watermark their images and write their website name or their own name at one corner of their photographs. The watermarking is necessary to give a certain level of protection to their photographs from being stolen over the internet by someone else. You can also watermark your photographs before you upload them to sites like facebook, twitter, picassa or flickr etc. You can use PicMarkr free service to easily watermark your pictures.
Read moreDecorate Your Firefox with Browser Backgrounds Extension
When you open your Mozilla Firefox browser it shows a blank white tab if you have not set any homepage. You see the same blank white background tab if you try to open a new tab. This white background is very boring and dull looking. If you want to make the new tab look better, then you can decorate Firefox new tab background with the help of the Browser Backgrounds extension. The Browser Backgrounds extension allows you to install wallpaper in the Firefox window.
Read moreShrink-O-Matic : Quickly Resize Your Photos
The other day I was chatting with my friend Veronica and I wanted to show her some of my pictures that I took during the vacations. The original pictures were very high resolution and therefore I wanted to resize them. I was disappointed to find that Windows offers no straightforward utility to resize pictures. Luckily, Veronica herself suggested me a cool software called Shrink-O-Matic using which you can easily and quickly resize your pictures.
Read moreOpenWith Enhanced : Find Suitable Programs to Open Files
I sent my vacation videos to my nana and was expecting that she would really like them. But she called me two days later to tell me that she could not open the video files – Windows did not recognize them. Often we come across such files which cannot be opened by Windows because there is no program installed in Windows to handle that type of files. You can Google and find out right application using OpenWith Enhanced.
Read moreFree USB Guard : Never Leave USB Disks Behind
Yesterday I saved all my work in my USB key, thinking that I would finish it at home. Then I shutdown the computer, had a cup of coffee and drove back home – only to realize that I had forgotten my USB key attached to my work computer! It was already late in the night and I could do nothing but clench my fists in anger. Well, if you have had such a terrible experience with forgetting your USB keys at work or at friends house, then you can try Free USB Guard.
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