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Free mp3 tag editor – batch embed album art and lyrics – Tiny tool

I am a fan of tiny tools. I wrote about few feature-rich tiny tools including tiny screen zooming software, tiny browser, tiny ISO mounting software, etc. Today, I was searching for a tool to edit mp3 tags and embed album art into the files and found this tiny tool with amazing ...

Google adds English-to-Telugu and Telugu-to-English dictionaries

Google has added English to Telugu, Tamil, Gujarati, Kannada, Marathi, Malayalam, and Bengali dictionaries and vice versa to its Dictionary section. English-to-Hindi dictionary has been available for a long time. Go to http://www.google.com/dictionary and click the drop down menu and hover the mouse on English. It shows ...

Free stock photos/images for your website or blog

I often see people copying images from other websites and blogs freely without permission. They are not aware that copying image from other websites is illegal. You can be sued and/or your site can be taken down for doing so. So, when you need an image to put in your blog ...

Downloading streaming videos got easier – FlashGot

My post on downloading videos from video-sharing sites like YouTube, Vimeo, Metcafe, etc. using Real Player has become more popular as it was an easy way and supported almost all video-sharing websites. When I learned this feature in Real Player, I have ignored every other trick and stick to Real ...

Initial caps in Open Office Writer

You might not be knowing that there is an excellent MS Office alternative exists called OpenOffice. OpenOffice is a free open-source office suite. I have been using OpenOffice lately as I have been working on creating some PDFs. The new OpenOffice 3.1 version is equipped with lot of features and ...

Free Windows Registry Cleaner

While going through an online software selling website, I have seen approx. $25 costing registry cleaner in the hot selling products list. I wondered why people are shelling out that much when there are a number of free registry cleaners are available. So, this post has come out from ...

How to calculate EMI – Download Excel EMI calculator

Being associated with bank for short-term, I often get this question from friends and relatives. How to calculate EMI? When you apply for loan, they will just tell you the EMI, but does not tell you how they are calculated unless you ask them specifically to show how they ...

How to restore the Windows XP bootloader – After uninstalling Ubuntu

I have installed Ubuntu on Windows XP just to see how the new version is looking and try some features. At the end of the day, I have uninstalled it, but struck with the problem of bootloader. After installing Ubuntu, it has made changes to Windows bootloader so ...

FLV to MP3 Converter – Free and Tiny Tool

Today, I transferred approximately 200 music files into my mobile phone, but when I tried to play them, only 30-35 files were showing up in the media player. After a quick check, I found that the player in my mobile phone can only play WAV and MP3 files. When I ...

Free and tiny screen zooming and annotation software

ZoomIt is a free screen zooming and annotation tool, which is very useful tool for the people who give presentations through projectors. It is a tiny application, only 130 KB and has lot of functions like zooming, drawing, and typing on the zoomed screen. It is just a single file which ...

Creating Dynamic Website Screenshots for Your Website

This week I have worked on a project, which required me to categorize few websites and show screenshots of those websites arranged neatly. Special requirement was dynamic creation of website screenshots because if the administrator wants, he will just add the URL and the screenshot need to be generated ...

Use any bank’s ATM for free from April 1st, 2009

As per RBI’s circular, with effect from April 1st, 2009, you can use any ATM in India for money withdrawal, account balance, or printing mini statement for FREE irrespective of your card issuing bank. RBI issued instructions at the beginning of this year to all the banks not to levy ...

How to open .DAA files – PowerISO Images

Today, I downloaded a file that was having the file extension of DAA. I do not know what DAA is and a quick search on Google told me that it is a PowerISO disc image. Though I heard about PowerISO, I do not know that .DAA (Direct Access Archive) is ...

Free MS Project alternatives

My brother works as a service engineer in a company involved in electrification projects. He has seen a company using project management software handling the projects and wanted to do the same in his company. So, we spent time on searching free alternatives to MS Project and found these interesting ...

Medical transcription as a career – Pros and Cons

Being in the field of transcription for the last four years, associated with a company or a home-based transcription provider, I wanted to write a review about this field. I get inquiries about medical transcription training and future prospects in Orkut and other forums where I participate. This article can ...