Tuesday, July 15, 2008

Quick Tip : Press SHIFT to Hibernate your PC

Hibernating a computer is a nice way to restore the state of the computer even after powering it off. Hibernate saves the state of the system by writing the contents of the RAM to the hard disk before powering off the computer and then restoring back to state when we switch on the PC.

First you have to enable Hibernate option which requires some amount of harddisk space ( ~ to the RAM ). You can enable it by going to Control Panel > Power Options as shown below.

And an easy way to hibernate is go to start > turn off and then when this screen below appears press 'SHIFT' key and you will get Hibernate instead of Standby.

Monday, July 14, 2008

Easily kill applications which are not working

Got some window dead? Unable to shut it down?
not to worry .. Here's a tiny piece of software which quickly kills the applications which are not working. You just have to hover this application over to the window you want to shut down and voila the window is closed and the application is killed. It is similar to FORCE QUIT option in Ubuntu. You can make great use of this little application - Download Click Gone Setup.
[ via Digital Quest ]

Saturday, July 12, 2008

Freeware DVD OrganizerS Integrated with IMDB Data - EMDB & Coollector

Tired of DVD clutter at your home? Are you searching for some software to organize  and manage your DVD collection?

Your search ends here.

EMDB and COOLECTOR are 2 lightweight, easy to use Movie Organizers integrated with IMDB.com for Movie Buffs.

EMDB is a small utility to keep track of your DVD collection. With an automatic import from the database of IMDB, export to csv, text or complete website, thumbnail cover preview, a loan tracker, search function and multi-language user interface.

Install EMDB. Open it and then type in the movie name and EMDB searches all the data related to the movie from IMDB.com like Genre, Cast, Director, Producer, IMDB no., Year, Movie length, Plot outline, Thumbnail and even the IMDB rating of the movie. You can even give your custom values and then just click add button to insert your DVD into the database. You can even add the Loan details if you have lend it to someone.

emdb

Once the movies are added to the database, you can anytime search for your favorite movie, sort them, export them to either Text or HTML format and even print the list.

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Coollector is another lightweight software. Its a personalised Movie encyclopedia and collection organizer with the huge database updated in realtime with IMDB and also an additional feature to find the best price for a DVD. It also gives link to YouTube videos/trailers related to the Movie/Person.

coollector 

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And for people who need to organize books, audio, game and movie DVD's, there is a perfect software for all-in-one Organizer - LIBRA. Though it doesn't support integration with IMDB, it does support database from AMAZON which makes your search easy.

Libra 

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In all the above software, you can export your collection and print them easily. Its up to you to decide on which of the above freeware to use based on your requirements and comfort with the software.

But the bad part is that all the 3 software run only on Windows. Linux users can install these using WINE.

EMDB  |   COOLLECTOR   |   LIBRA

For Movie Buffs - Download Subtitles automatically.

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Thursday, July 10, 2008

MeeBone : A desktop Client for Meebo built on Adobe AIR

MeeBone - a nice Meebo client built on Adobe AIR platform for those who use online multi platform IM - http://www.meebo.com.

meeboneAs we know, Meebo is one of the fastest growing website for multi protocol messaging supporting Yahoo, Gtalk, MSN, AIM, ICQ and Jabber which recently included many more options like chatrooms, video calling, file transfer and also Meebo me widget enabling users to chat with their website visitors in realtime.

With MeeBone, website users need not always log on through browsers to chat with their customers. Its all integrated in their desktop now with this pretty AIR application.

And the best part is, its build on Adobe AIR which supports cross platform.

You need Adobe AIR installed. Get it here.

[ Home Page ] [ Download - around 400Kb ]

[ via Appaholic ]

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Wednesday, July 9, 2008

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