Google Maps can be used to explore an area or a place. What if just want to explore new random places that you do not know about? Here is where MapCrunch comes in. MapCrunch can teleport you to a random place anywhere in the whole world using the Google Street View and allows you to explore new places. You can close down the exploration to a single continent or a country. You can even narrow down your exploration activities to a selected area or a particular city.
Read moreWinSplit Revolution: Make Optimal Use of Your PC Screen
Auto Snap is one of the features in Windows 7 that allows you to automatically arrange the windows of any application to the edges of your computer screen. But you can arrange only two windows side-by-side using Auto Snap. The freeware WinSplit Revolution application can help you arrange and organize your windows so that you can make optimal use of your PC screen and work with multiple windows at the same time.
Read moreHow to Print Passport Size Photo at Home
Of all the different types of photographs, the passport type is the most used photo size. It is used obviously in passports but it is also used in many official applications, for example, when applying for a job, for tourist visa or for admission to a college. If you need a passport photo, then you can print them at home easily – all you need is a digital camera and a color printer. You do not need any graphics editing knowledge or photo manipulating software like Adobe Photoshop.
Read moreAnvi Rescue Disk: Clean Ransomware from PC
The new trend in the PC malware is ransomware. The ransomware is a malware that locks your PC or encrypts the documents on your PC and demands you to transfer money to the cybercriminals account so that they can unlock your PC or decrypt the files. There are some ransomware like FBI Monkeypak and Reveton that have infected a multitude of people. You can use the free Anvi Rescue Disk to clean these types of known ransomware from your PC.
Read morePrintPunk: Auto-fit Webpages to the Printer Page
PrintPunk is a great tool for Internet Explorer and all the browsers based on the Internet Explorer engine (like Maxthon or Avant browsers). It enhances the printing functionality for Microsoft Internet Explorer. It allows you to shrink or zoom the webpages prior to printing. You can save your printer paper by reducing the number of pages using PrintPunk.
Read moreHow to Customize Windows 7 and Windows 8 Taskbar
Through the Control Panel in Windows, you can change the settings of various things in the operating system. But most of the users do not find many settings for the most used part of Windows – the Windows taskbar. Thanks to a freeware application called 7+ Taskbar Tweaker, now you can configure and customize the Windows 7 and Windows 8 taskbars as you please.
Read moreDriver Fusion: Safely Remove Older Drivers from Windows
When you upgrade your system hardware, Windows does not remove the driver files of the older hardware. Similarly, when you update your system drivers, older drivers files are not always removed. This leaves your Windows trying to load obsolete drivers everytime you start your PC, resulting in a slow and unreliable computer performance. Fortunately, you can use a free tool called Driver Fusion to safely remove such old device drivers from your system.
Read moreHow to Set Default Programs in Windows 8
While Windows 8 has everything that you would expect from an operating system, there are third-party programs that you would prefer to use instead. For example, Chrome browser, Thunderbird email client, Irfanview image viewer etc. To use them as your default media player, you have to set it as your default program for all the file types it supports.
Read moreMetataste: Which Movies Should I Watch?
When the Matrix series of movies ended, I found myself very excited and wondered if there are more movies like this. But finding movies of similar type is a harder task than one can imagine. The IMDB and Google certainly help but not so much. This is when I found out about Metataste – an online app that recommends you movies based on your favorite movies. You have to tell a few of your favorite movies and it would then show a list of similar movies that you might be interested in.
Read moreAutoPager: Automatically Load the Next Page in Your Browser
There are thousands of popular sites where you have to click on the Next or Siguiente links to go to the next page. If you are tired of clicking on Next in such websites, then AutoPager is the addon for you. AutoPager is a browser extension which loads the next page automatically which you can view by just scrolling down in your browser window.
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