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Clean up Add-on Manager in Firefox using Cleanest Addon Manager

2012-02-24T19:16:00.000+05:30

Have you ever felt that add-on manager in Firefox is busy or not so organized to utilize the space in best manner. If that is the case, there is a Firefox extension called Cleanest Addon manager which can clean and organize the add-on manager in Firefox and make it look better.

It basically cleans up the wasted space without compromising any functionality. This will be specially very useful if you have very long list of add-on and the screen is small.

Download Link: Cleanest Addon Manager

11 SEO Checklist for Drupal Search Engine Optimization

2012-02-19T20:57:00.003+05:30

I have compiled 11 SEO checklist for Drupal site to make your Drupal website SEO friendly. Mostly, I am using these tips for my Drupal based classified site which I manage. I have observed improvement in traffic after applying these techniques. You are invited to suggest more tips if you think can be useful for me or other audience.

SEO Checlist is as follows -

1. Lets start with Content. Content is king. So make sure you are going to have quality content for your web page.

2. Make your Page Title search engine friendly and must content keyword used in the page.

3. Optimize each page for one or two keywords at max.

4. Upper left corner content is important so make sure you have good part of the content on the upper left corner.

5. Content page of the theme should come before anything else in your html (i.e. all sidebars, headers, toolbar etc. should come after content)

6. Try to add a link to your site in every post, if possible.

7. Meta description is important so don't forget to write good Meta description.

8. Add one H1 element to home page

9. Check Google webmaster frequently for any website error and fix it if there is any.

10. To get indexed instantly in Search Engine - Send RSS feed through Feedburner and have Feedburner ping Google Blogsearch.

11. Installation of Google Redirect in Drupal is must.

How to Update Ubuntu 10.04 Using Terminal

2012-02-19T19:59:00.003+05:30

If you are running Ubuntu Server based on Ubuntu Lucid (10.04), most likely you will be required to update your server using terminal. It is really very easy to update Ubuntu for package and security update.

1. Open the terminal
2. Type sudo apt-get update
3. After it complete, then type sudo apt-get upgrade

How to Change Thumbnail Smaller in Windows 7?

2011-12-09T01:00:00.000+05:30

If you don't like the default thumbnail size of images when you are browsing photos in Windows 7, you can change the size by tweaking and editing some Windows Registry keys -

Lets get started:

1. Open the regedit from run -> cmd and type regedit and hit enter

2. It will open the registry windows, now locate the following key -
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft|Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer

3. Create a new DWORD value called "ThumbnailSize" and set the value between 32 to 256

This will change the thumbnail size based on the value you entered. Quality of the thumbnail can also be change using the same technique. Create another DWORD and call it "ThumbnailQuality" and set the value between 50 to 100 and it will change the quality of the thumbnail bases on the value you entered.

Caution: Use it with care and at your own risk.

Reset HP 2320 fxi MFP Printer to Factory Deafult

2011-11-21T20:39:00.000+05:30

There are so many situations when your HP Printer is not behaving the way it should be. Part of initial troubleshooting is to reset the printer to its default setting and it fixes so many unknow problem. If that is the situation and you want to reset your HP LaserJet 2320 fxi MFP printer, then follow the steps below -

Reset to Factory default:
1. Turn OFF Printer
2. With Printer OFF, Press at the same time the right arrow key and Cancel (X)
3. Press the Printer ON
4. Keep it pressed till "Permanent Storage init" message appears on the screen and then release the Cancel and arrow button.

Install factory default software in Dell Windows 7

2011-11-21T20:25:00.001+05:30

If your Dell Laptop is not booting and goes to checking your system to repair and you want to load the Dell's factory default. then follow the steps below.

Caution: This will delete everything in your computer. So, you must save your files before running this factory default restore.

1. Setup repair is checking your system for problem. (.....Attempting to repair)

2. Send information about the problem (recommended) and Don't Send

3. View diagnostics -> repair details -> View Advanced Options for System recovery -> support

4. Selecet Keyboard input - (US) -> Press Next

5. System Recoevry Options. Choose a recoevry tool:
- Startup repair
- System Restore
- System Image Recovery
- Windows Memory Diagnostics
- Command Prompt
- Dell Backup and Recovery Manager

6. Click on "Dell Backup and recovery Manager"

7. It brings the Rstore System Windows
- Choose the backup you wish to restore from drop down box below
and "Dell Factory Image" appears in the box

8.Click "Next" -> Then Warning
"This utility will erase your operating system hard drive partition prior to restoring the factory image. This means data on that partition will be deleted and cannot be recovered. To confirm this action, please check the box below and press the NEXT button.
- Yes, erase my partition @ restore this backup.

9. Press "Y" -> NEXT button is activated and then Press "NEXT"

10. This starts erasing the partition applying the backup image

11. It greets you with this message -
"Congratulations! you have successfully restored your backup image. This utility will now reboot into your operating system."

12. Press "Finish". It will reboot the system and restore to factory defaults.

"Misprint Press "OK" To Continue" / Cleaning Error in HP CM2320 MFP

2011-11-21T19:49:00.000+05:30

Do you have a HP laser printer CM2320 fxi MFP and facing Misprint or cleaning error with that printer? I had the same problem and I have managed to fix it and I want to share my experience with other people who has the same problem. I will be happy if this can help anybody with Misprint/cleaning in his/her HP LaserJet CM2320 Printer. Please feel free to add your experience or suggestions in the comment box so that it can help somebody else too.

Symptoms:

1. After printing couple of pages (3 or 4 pages), the printer goes into cleaning mode and prints duplicate page and it happens for very many pages

2. Usually printing couple of pages, the printer goes into cleaning mode and then comes with "Misprint" error and ypu have to print OK to continue printing rest of the pages and it repeatative

3. The Printer displays "Cleaning" and then "Misprint" and you have to press OK to continue printing

This is waht I did to fix the Misprint/cleaning issue in my HP LaserJet CM2320 fxi MFP. Try this with caution, this worked for me doesn't mean that same will work for you. To get started -
Caution: Do not change or modify any settings in the printer drivers Leave all the printer drivers seetings with their dafaults values.

1. Type the IP address of the printer in Internet Explorer or any other browser

2. Click the "System" Tab

3. Then Click on the "Paper Handling" link in the left pane and change the following settings -
[a]. Default Paper Size: Letter
[b]. Default Paper Size: Plain
[c]. Manual Feed: OFF
[d]. Duplex: OFF
[e]. Tray 1 Size: Letter
[f]. Tray 1 Type: Plain
[g]. Tray 2 Size: Letter
[h]. Tray 2 Type: Plain

4. Paper Out Handling - Select Specify Time and Action and Apply fowlloing settings-
[a]. Paper Out Time: 0 seconds
[b]. Paper Out Action: Override
[c]. Press "Apply"

5. Click on "Print Quality" and set the following settings-
[a]. Power-On calibration: OFF
[b]. calibration Timing: OFF
[c]. Press "Apply"

6. Click on "System Setup" and make sure following are set -
[a]. jam Recovery: Auto
[b]. Auto Continue: ON
[c]. Press "Apply"

System Run Commands for System Admin

2011-11-17T22:09:00.000+05:30

If you are a system administrator for Windows, you will prefer some of these command for day to day task. If you know them, it will make your job easier: -

Warning: These are specifically for system admin purposes. So, while using pay extra care as it can cause serious problems in your computer if not used properly.

Click on start and then you can type these commands directly in the search box in Windows 7: -

winver - Shows the current version of Windows

msconfig - Opens MS System configuration utility which is one of widely used utility

regedit - Opens "Registry editor"

services.msc - Open all "services" running in your computer

gpedit.msc - Opens up the "Group policies"

compmgmt.msc - This opens up the "Computer management" tool where you can perform various computer management activities.

devmgmt.msc - This open up the "Device manager" tool.

diskmgmt.msc - This opens up "Disk management" tool

dfrg.msc - This open the "Disk defragmentation" tool

eventvwr.msc - This opens the "Event viewer" tool

fsmgmt.msc - You can check Shared folders

lusrmgr.msc - Open up "Local users and groups"

perfmon.msc - Opens "Performance monitor"

rsop.msc - Opens "Resultant set of policies"

secpol.msc - Open "Local security settings"

msinfo32 - Opens "System information"

sysedit - Opens "System edit"

win.ini - Opens Windows loading information

system.ini - Opens Windows system information

Show IP of your computer quickly using .bat file

2011-11-15T21:59:00.000+05:30

Batch file extension is .bat. Once file with extension .bat is clicked, it executes the dos command and show you the result in command prompt.

We are going to use this feature and type few command to get the IP of your computer displayed quickly. So, Lets get started: -

1. Open the nodepad and type following command in it -
@echo
@ipconfig
@echo
@pause

2. Click on File -> Save As and type the name of file "ip.bat" and save the file to your preferred location in your computer. The file name can be anything but .bat extensio is compulsory.

3. After the file is saved, click on the file "ip.bat". It will execute the commands we typed in the notepad and will display the ip address in the command prompt.

Change Display Name in Gmail

2011-11-15T14:01:00.000+05:30

You can change the display name of your Gmail account easily. Just follow the steps below:-

1. Click on the gear icon on the top right and then click on "Mail Settings"

2. Click on "Accounts and Import" tab

3. Under "Send mail as:", Click on "edit info" next to your email address and then you will see a blank area after "Name" where you can type your full name and Click on "Save Changes".

That's it to it. Hope this has helped you in changing your display name for Gmail.

Useful Shortcut keys for MS Excel

2011-11-14T12:22:00.000+05:30

In continuation of my previous post of useful shortcut keys for MS Word, I am going to list some of the useful shortcut keys for MS Excel. MS Excel is such a great application and lot of us who is more involved in financial and project management job tends to use MS Excel a lot. So, this list of shortcut keys for MS Excel will be very useful for any type of Excel users.

HELP: -
F1 Key :- Need Help in Excel, press F1 Key

EDITING: -
F2 Key :- Press F2 to edit the current cell
Ctrl + B :- To toggle bold text
Ctrl + C :- To copy the selected items
Ctrl + X :- To cut the selected item
Ctrl + V :- To paste the items from clipboard
Ctrl + U :- To toggle underlined Text
Ctrl + Y :- Redo the last undone action
Ctrl + Z :- Undoes the last action
F12 Key :- To open file "Save As" dialog
Ctrl + A :- To select entire worksheet
F7 Key :- Press F7 Key to start spell check
Ctrl + F :- To display Find dialog box
Ctrl + H :- To display the Replace dialog box.
Ctrl + I :- To toggle italic Text
CTRL + S :- To save file
CTRL + 1 :- To displays Format Cells Dialogue Box
CTRL + 5 :- Toggles Strikethrough Text
Ctrl + Left Arrow :- To go to end of column
Ctrl + Home :- To go to top of Worksheet (A1)
Ctrl + End :- To to the end of Worksheet
Ctrl + Pg Dn :- To go to the next Worksheet

MISC:
F5 Key :- Goto
Ctrl + N :- To open New file
Ctrl + O :- To open existing file
Ctrl + P :- To print

FOR FORMULAS:
Alt + = :- Adds Autosum in the current cell
Alt + F8 :- To open macros dialog
DATE & TIME:
CTRL + ; :- To insert current date
CTRL + : :- To insert current time

CELL SELECTION:
Home Key :- To go to start of the row
Ctrl + Spacebar :- To select the entire Column
Shift + Spacebar :- To select the entire Row
Ctrl + A :- To select entire Worksheet
Shift + Left Cursor :- To select all cells to the left of the active one
Shift + Right Cursor :- To select all cells to the right of the active one

Reduce PDF File Size Using Nitro PDF Reader

2011-11-09T16:45:00.004+05:30

I received a pdf attachment from one of my friend which was approx 14MB in size and after looking into the number of pages I found out that it was only having 10 pages scanned document. 14MB file size for 10 pages document is extremely high. I was wondering and thought of myself that how can I reduce the size of that pdf file so that I can easily forward it to somebody else and save on Intenet bandwidth and time to attach.

I have been looking for some free solution to reduce pdf file sizes for quite some time. After Googling I came across so many solution but non of them were free. Almost all the solutions were pointing to Adobe Acrobat software. I was not in position to buy such an expensive software to work only for few of my files. Luckily, I came across Nitro PDF Reader.

Nitro PDF Reader is a free PDF reader and creator. After I installed Nitro PDF Reader and converted my pdf file and result was amazing. 14Mb file was resulted into almost 3.9MB. This was the result I was expecting. So this was the perfect software for me.

Let me show you how did I reduce the size of my pdf file. Lets get started -

1. Install the Nitro PDF Reader. After it is installed, if you go to "Devices and Printers" in Windows 7, you should have a printer named "Nitro PDF Creator 2 (Reader)".

2. We have to use this printer to print our pdf file and give a different name for the output file and new file will be much less in size.

3. Now, open the PDF file you want to compress.

4. Go to File and click on "Print" and select "Nitro PDF Creator 2 (Reader)" from the printer list.

5. Click on "Properties" and "Office-ready (medium files size)" under "Conversion Quality" and then press OK

6. Press OK again to send the file to printer.

7. It will ask you to type the name of the new PDF file which it will be creating at end of this PDF conversion process and it takes some time to complete the process.

8. You should have a new file now and if you check the file size it should be much smaller.

Hint: I chose "Office-ready (medium file size)" in my case but there are other options as well for "web-ready (small file size)" etc and there is an option for custom setting too if you want to play around with the size optimization by yourself.

Download: Nitro PDF Reader

Integrate Snagit Screen Capture in Windows Live Writer

2011-11-09T15:37:00.000+05:30

Are you using Windows Live Writer to blog and looking a way to integrate Snagit screen capture in it? Then this good news is for you. Now, you can easily integrate Snagit screen capture with Windows Live Writer.

Screen Capturing is one of the essential and important part of blogging. It can be quite frustrating if you have to capture the screen and edit the captured image in some other application and then attach it to your post. Although, this is the reality for most of the bloggers. But now, Snagit screen capture can be added directly to Windows Live Writer.

"Snagit Screen Capture" is a small utility which is used to capture screenshot with some added features. This comes as plugin to Windows Live writer and freely available utility on web. Once this plugin is installed with Windows Live Writer, you can easily and quickly take screenshot and manipulate the captured image.

To get started, download the "Snagit Screen Capture" plugin for Windows Live Writer and install it. It will show up under Plugin list in Windows Live Writer. It allows you to change some of the Snagit options. Once you take the screen shot, it will automatically embed the image to the post after "Finish" button is clicked. You can also save the image locally in your computer for future use if you wish to.

Requirements: Microsoft .NET Runtime 2.0 or later, SnagIt 7.0 or later and it comes with all C# for the Live Writer Api so it can be customized as needed.

Prevent Ubuntu 11.10 Screen Going Blank or Dark

2011-11-03T14:56:00.000+05:30

If you have installed or upgraded Ubuntu in your computer to Ubuntu 11.10 (Oneiric Ocelot) recently, you must have observed that SCreen goes blank or dark after it is left idle for some time. This can be very annoying in the case if you are watching movies. But no worries, there is a quick fix. Just follow the steps and change the default setting so that it does not go blank.

Lets get started:

1. Click on "Control Options" -> "System Settings"

2. Click on "Screen" in the System Settings Windows

3. Turn off the Lock by sliding it and then change "Turn Off after" to "Never"

4. Then go back to "System Setting" windows and click on "Power" and select the best suitable option under "Suspend When inactive for:". You can select "Don't suspend" to prevent the screen going blank.

Advanced Reading: Disable screen blanking in Linux

Transform Windows XP into Windows 7

2011-11-03T14:51:00.000+05:30

As we all know that Windows XP is one of the very successful operating system from Microsoft. It has been around for long time and still lot of us are using it. There is no reason to migrate to Windows 7 specially if your computer has come with Windows XP license. At the same time, if you like to experience the look and feel of Windows 7 on top of Windows XP then you can download the “Seven Remix XP” and install it.

The “Seven Remix XP” is a full installer which automates the process of substitution of system files. It improves the graphical interface of Windows XP and makes it look alike Windows 7. To make it happen, it replaces some files in your computer that contains icons, images, animations that are extracts of Windows 7. It also does some adjustments in the registry and makes backup of its archives in case that it needs to recover them.

It can also be removed easily in the event that you don’t like it for any reason.

200 SMS Per Day Per SIM - TRAI

2011-11-01T20:04:00.001+05:30

Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) has increased the SMS limit /Day/SIM to 200 as oppose to 100 SMS /day /SIM earlier - reports TelecomTalk. As per the report, on 27 Sept TRAI directed all the access providers to set a limit of 100 SMS/Day/SIM. This will be effective from 01 Nov 2011.

Check Gmail and Hotmail in Yahoo! Mail

2011-11-01T14:09:00.000+05:30

Yahoo! Mail is one of the oldest free email services. Many of us are so used to it that we want to keep using it. If you are one of those die hard lover of Yahoo! mail and also have email accounts with Gmail and hotmail, you can configure Yahoo to fetch email from your Gmail and hotmail accounts.

Yahoo! mail is able to fetch email from any other account which can support POP. In our case, both Gmail and Hotmail supports POP.

To get started, first thing you have to do is to login to your Gmail and Hotmail account and enable the POP service for both account. After you have enabled POP in Gmail and Hotmail, login to your Yahoo Account and follow the steps below-

1. After you have signed-in to your Yahoo account, click on "Options" and then "More Options"

2. Click on "Accounts"

3. Click on "Add Account" and type the account name, your from name, email address, username, password and POP server address and pop port. Click "Save Changes" to save the setting and you are done.

You have successfully configured Yahoo to receive email from your POP account such as Gmail and Hotmail.

Change Yahoo mail and Yahoo Messenger Password

2011-11-01T14:04:00.000+05:30

How can you change Yahoo email and Yahoo messenger password? It can be rephrased as - How to change the password of your Yahoo account? Yahoo has many different type of services which use the same user-name and password to authenticate a user. So, changing password of your Yahoo account will eventually change the password for all Yahoo services such as Yahoo mail, Yahoo Answers, yahoo messenger etc.

Lets get started:

1. Type yahoo.com in your favourite browser. It can be Internet Explorer, Firefox or Chrome etc.

2. Click on the "Sign In" button which can be located on the Yahoo.com homepage

3. This will bring Yahoo Login screen. Now, login using your existing username and password

4. After you have signed in, you will be redirected to Yahoo homepage and your username will be visible in place of "Sign In" button

5. Now click on your username and select "Profile". At this point, you will be asked again for your username and password. This is a security feature to make sure that your account is safe and no unauthorised person is changing the password of your account.

6. This should take you to your Profile page. Look for "Account Info" link and click on "Account Info -> Change Password".

7. Thiw will bring the page here you will need to supply your old password and new password in order to change the password. You will be required to type new password twice and the click on "Save".

Congratulations... You have successfully changed the password of your Yahoo Account.

Useful Keyboard Shortcuts for MS Word

2011-10-30T23:20:00.004+05:30

Shortcuts are great time saver when it comes to perform tasks efficiently in computer. Instead of using mouse all the time and navigating through the to menu bar, shortcuts gives you direct access to the essential functionality of the application by pressing some combination of keys. Here is a run-down list of some of the very importatnt shortcuts for Microsoft Word application.

COPY & PASTE: -

Ctrl + C: It copies the selected text to the Clipboard and same can be pasted using CTRL + V to some other place in the same document or other file.

Ctrl + V: It pastes the copied text from the Clipboard into the current position in the document.

Ctrl + X: It cuts the selected text and keeps that text in the Clipboard which can be pasted using Ctrl+V command

Ctrl + D: It displays the Font dialogue box where you can get font related format and options

TEXT ALIGNMENTS: -

Ctrl + E: It aligns the selected text to Center

Ctrl + L: It aligns the selected text to Left

Ctrl + R: It aligns the selected text to Right

Ctrl + J: Full Justification.

UNDO & REDO: -

Ctrl + Z: If you have made any mistake and want to undo that before you want to save the document

Ctrl + Y: It will Redo the last undone action

PRINTING: -

Ctrl + F2: It shows Print preview

Ctrl + P: It displays the Print dialog box where you can change the default selected printer or change various settings for currently selected printer.

EDITING: -

Ctrl + A: It will selects all in the current document

Ctrl + B: It will bold the currently selects text

Ctrl + I: It changes the selected text to Italic

Ctrl + U: It Underlines the selected text
Ctrl + ENTER: It inserts "Page Break"

F7 Key: It will launch the Spell checker

SHIFT +F7 Key: It will launch the Thesaurus

SHIFT +F3 Key: It change the case of the selected text

F4 Key: It performs the last action again

F5 Key: It displays the Go to dialogue box, from here you can also Find and Replace

SHIFT + F5 Key: It move to a previous revision means show you last changes you did to your document.

F6 Key: It will take you to the next frame or pane

SHIFT + F6 Key: It will take you to the previous frame or pane

F8 Key: It extends the current selection

SHIFT + F8 Key: It shrinks the current selection

F10 Key: It activate the menu bar and then you can follow the displayed code to perform your intended task

SHIFT + F10 Key: It displays a Shortcut Menu as as right clicking

OTHERS: -

Ctrl + F: It displays the Find dialog box to search the current document.

Ctrl + G: It displays the Go to dialog box to go to a specific location in the current document.

Ctrl + H: It displays the Replace dialogue box.

Ctrl + K: It creates Hyperlink.

Ctrl + M: It advances the cursor to one Tab at a time.

Ctrl + N: It Creates and opens a new word document.

Ctrl + O: It displays the Open File dialogue box and you can select the file you want to open.

Ctrl + S: It displays the "Save As" dialog box to save your file with new name

F12 Key: It opens "Save As" dialog box where you type the new name for the file and save it

SHIFT + F12 Key: It also open the "Save As" dialog box to save your file

Ctrl + F4: It closes the active document window

Ctrl + F6: It opens the next document window. If you have more than one document open at a time and wants to move from one document to another, then this is the shortcut you are looking for.

HELP FOR Microsoft Word: -

F1 Key: Press F1 to get help or to use the Office assistant.

SHIFT + F1 Key: It displays the context sensitive help to the right side of the document

Find IP Address of Your Yahoo Chat Friend Using netstat command

2011-10-30T21:59:00.005+05:30

If you want to know the IP address of your Yahoo! chat friend you are chatting with, netstat command can help to get that information for you. WHat you have to do is to run the cmd, type netstat -a comand and watch the log file created by netstat to find out the IP address.

To get started, start chatting with your Yahoo Friend using your Yahoo Messenger id and perform following steps below:-

1. Click on Start -> Run,

2. Type "cmd"

3. Hit "Enter" and it opens the command prompt.

4. Now type "netstat -a"

5. Open the "c:\log.txt" file and look for ypager.exe or other associated name for Yahoo service. In the event that you don't see anything related to Yahoo search for port more than 5000.

Reduce / Compress Scanned File Size Using PDF Options Image Quality Bar in HP Solution Center

2011-10-28T18:36:00.001+05:30

HP printers are very common in Small and Home Offices as well as very popular among home users. HP printer drivers comes with HP Solution center and it has in-built capability to scan in very many different file formats including pdf. PDF is popular file format when scanning documents. Lot of us face difficulty of scanned file being very large after the file is scanned and saved in the computer. Scanned file being large, even a one page scan takes very long to attach to an email or sometime it does not attach if you have the poor Internet connection.

The solution to this problem is to use HP Solution Center and change some setting to optimize the file size of the scanned documents:
1. Open the Solution Center from Start -> All programs and look for HP Solution Center

2. Click on Scan document

3. Click on the "Document to PDF file" from the preset from the left side of the pane

4. Click on "Change Settings". You can locate it in the right side of the pane and near the Scan button towards the bottom right corner.

5. It opens another windows and you can change many setting which can have effect on output file size. One very important point here is to make sure that the File Type is "PDF" not "PDF-Searchable"

6. Now Click on "Advanced Document Settings" and change the Output resolution to 200ppi and then click OK

7. Now Click on "Save to file Save options" and click on "PDF Options" which can be located next to File Type (PDF should selected as File Type)

8. This opens "Image Quality" slider bar. Adjust the image slider bar towards low. Somewhere in the middle should do fine but you can adjust as per your requirement.

Hope this will be helpful guide to you.

Resource Link: HP Discussion on Reduce PDF file Size

Take Control of Your Computer

2011-10-26T15:37:00.001+05:30

This is a small suggestive post for all PC’s owner from me. My main aim here is to explain how can you be sure that your computer is fully under your control. It sounds very weird at the first glance but you must understand that physical control of your computer is not enough in this cyber world.

At one point of time, you must have installed one or more freeware programs in your computer. Most of the freeware program is legitimate and does not harm. But there are some out there which tends to control your computer once installed.

Take “Crawler Radio” and “RadioRage” for example. They are great freeware program but tries to take control of search engine and homepage in Internet explorer. Although, it displays the message suggesting the intention. But most of us don’t care much while installing any program and accidentally these kind of programs get our permission to get installed. Now, your computer is not fully under your control.

What do you do in this situation? First, you must be very careful while trying any new freeware in your computer. Second, if it is installed you need to uninstall it to get rid of it.

You will not be so lucky all the time in the second case as some of the freeware tends to leave some trail in your computer. So, what do you do to avoid this kind of problem.

What I would suggest is safeguard your computer by creating “Restore Point” before installing any freeware and that can be used to restore your computer back to the state before you installed that freeware.

That’s it to it and happy safeguarding your computer.

Optimize Memory in Windows using Memory Optimizer Pro

2011-10-26T15:36:00.001+05:30

We all know the importance of memory in a computer. Every file or application you open in your computer, it takes some portion of the available memory. If you are working on couple of lengthy spreadsheets or other memory intensive programs simultaneously, you will start to experience that your computer is getting slower.

This is most undesirable thing for a computer user. Fortunately, there are some applications which can optimize and free up some of the memory. You can use Memory Optimizer Pro in this case to optimize the memory usage by currently running applications in your computer.

To use Memory Optimizer Pro, download it and install it in your computer. Open the program from Start –> All Programs after it is installed and hit the “Recover Free Memory” button as there is nothing to configure. It does the task and optimizes the memory.

It displays total memory of your computer and a bar showing used memory, cached memory and free memory. After the optimization of memory is finished, this little freeware congratulates and displays how much memory was recovered. Usually, it takes some time to optimize and some of the currently running programs may stop responding during that period. I have personally installed it in my computer and found to be effective.

Link: Download Memory Optimize Pro

Open Any Unknown File Extension Easily with OpenWith.org

2011-10-24T17:44:00.001+05:30

There are several situations when we can't open a file sent from our friend or colleague. We wonder what could be the reason. In windows, every files is associated with a file extension such as .doc, .pdf, .jpg etc. When we click on any file, MS Windows looks for the associated program based on the associated file extension and opens the file using that program. But, it can not open a file if the appropriate program is not found in the computer.

For example, if the name of your file is abcd.pdf and Adobe Reader is not installed in your computer then you can not open the file. In order to open that file, you need to download Adobe Reader from Adobe.com website.

Openwith.org is a simple desktop application provided free from Openwith.org which can open any kind of file type and if it does not find the program in your computer, then it looks for free appropriate substitute program on the Internet and download them for you. You can find more details about this at their website.

All you have to do is to download the Openwith.org program and install in your computer. To open unknown files, right click on the file and select “OpenWith.org - How do I open this?” and it will search for a free program to open the file and will download it for you.

One Application - Over 100 Type of File Formats - OpenFreely

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Yes, You Heard It Right. One Application and over 100 type of file formats – OpenFreely. OpenFreely is an application for Windows which can open over 100 types of file formats easily and best part is – it’s free.

It supports Windows 7 and 100% free software. It has lot of powerful feature as you can open, edit and save Microsoft Office files, watch over 20 different types of Media, print all types of document and images and open compressed file or decompress them. It looks very promising.

It supports following file types:-

1. Documents - .docx, pptx, xlsx, wps, pdf and many more…

2. Audio/ video files - mp4, mp3, move, avi, ogg, pmeg and many more…

3. Images - tiff, psd, bmp, jpeg and many more…

4. Compression - rara, zip, tar, tgz, gz and many other..

Please check the website for file types it supports.

Link: OpenFreely