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.
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.
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.
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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.
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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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MeeBone - a nice Meebo client built on Adobe AIR platform for those who use online multi platform IM - http://www.meebo.com.
As 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.
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yes, Subdownloader is a Free Open Source tool to automatic download/upload subtitles for video files (DIVX,MPEG,AVI,etc) and DVD's
No googling for Subtitles now, Subdownloader downloads them for you.
It uses Hashing algorithm to for fast searching and also auto detects the language of the subtitle. Users can even upload the subtitles using this software.
Install the software and then browse through the movie/video for which you need subtitles. Subdownloader searches for the subtitles from the huge database and displays you the available subtitles as shown above. You can also search by typing in the movie name.
Its a very user friendly and timesaving software. A must have for Movie buffs.
Its a open source software and Available for Windows, Linux and MacOS.
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Many times we need to convert our media files from one format to another 
so as to transfer them to our gadgets and also to reduce the size when sending it to a friend via Internet. Although there are many converters available like Total Video Converter, Xilisoft and also online tools like zamzar.com, here is a all-in-one converter for all types of media files - audio, video, picture, mobile, DVD. And guess what, its a Freeware.
Format Factory is a multifunctional media converter.
Provides functions below:
All to MP4/3GP/MPG/AVI/WMV/FLV/SWF.
All to MP3/OGG/WMA/M4A/WAV.
All to JPG/BMP/PNG/TIF/ICO/....
Rip DVD to video file.
MP4 files support iPod/iPhone/PSP format.
Source files support RMVB.
Format Factory's Feature:
1 support converting all popular video,audio,picture formats to others.
2 Repair damaged video and audio file.
3 Reducing Multimedia file size.
4 Support iphone, ipod multimedia file formats.
5 Picture converting supports Zoom,Rotate/Flip,tags.
6 DVD Ripper.
It would be great if Document conversion also is added.
Also it is only for people who use Windows (any version). Linux users can install it using Wine.
[ Homepage ] [ Download 15 Mb ]
Its really a must have software for any computer user.
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Yeah you read it right. :)
You can now SMS to any phone in India from email using 160by2.com
For this you need to have an account with http://160by2.com
To : (receiver mobile number)@160by2.com
Subject : Your username OR mobile number
the format should be as shown here in the picture
your message can be upto 80 characters.
via 160by2.com.
AVI Preview - a nice piece of software for those who download videos/movies.
The name explains it. It plays partially downloaded video files.
For people who download videos/movies via torrents and p2p, many times it happens that the file they are downloading is actually not the file they want. Some p2p software support preview. But for the ones which do not support previewing the downloading files, they lose their bandwidth and finally get to see a fake video or a corrupted one.
You just need to open the file which is downloading and preview it.
So, go to http://www.avipreview.com/ and just download the 50 Kb freeware file and prevent yourself fro getting fooled.
MyToday.com and Vakow.com are 2 great sites for mobile users in India.
MyToday is a Indian portal for mobile users. It has a great list of subcriptions like headlines, Cricket, Sensex, Movies, Business, Bollywood, Jokes, Kalnirnay, Quotes, Quiz, Word, Sun signs, Love, Bible, Gita, Tips for manager, beauty, career, health, travel, City updates for Mumbai, Delhi, Chennai and Banglore and many more keywords which you can check out here.
To start receiving updates on a topic,
sms START <keyword> <YourCity> to 09845398453
e.g. If you stay in Mumbai & want FREE CRI updates, sms START CRI MUMBAI to 09845398453
You will be charged nothing except the operator charge for the START SMS.
To stop receiving updates on a keyword, simply SMS - STOP <keyword> to the same number.
You can also manage your subscriptions online by visiting the site.
Vakow! is a community for SMS blogging and sharing where you can
1. Start your SMS blog
2. "Follow" your friends (or tags you like) and receive their SMSes
3. Find cool SMSes to share with your friends on phone, email or various social networks.
4. Send personal SMSes to any phone in India
All for FREE!
you can follow a tag/user by sending follow username/tag to 99015 54321
you can even post your SMSes from mobile to this number.
All this can also be done on the great user friendly Web Interface @ http://www.vakow.com.
Vakow also supports Twitter using which Twitter users can Tweet by sending SMS to Vakow after linking their account @ Vakow.
There are many more options available which can be checked out @ their site.
I hope you use subscribe to these services and get productive.
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Many of us are aware of the "Alt + TAB" shortcut which changes the open windows & applications and if there are 10 applications and we use this shortcut to move to some other window, many a times we cross over the required one and move on to next and to get back to the required one we press "Alt+TAB" some more times, instead we can just use "SHIFT + ALT + TAB" to go in the reverse direction.
You can even use this TIP while filling up forms in WebPages etc.
And coming to "CTRL + TAB" which is one of the best shortcuts while using applications with multiple tabs like Firefox, IE7, Foxit Reader etc. Pressing "CTRL + TAB" rotates through the opened Tabs in those applications and similarly pressing "SHIFT + CTRL + TAB" rotates through the tabs in the reverse direction.
I hope you use these shortcuts and improve your productivity.
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Many a times we want to schedule a shutdown time during nights and there are many software available to do this. But Windows has built in commands for scheduling shutdown with many features.
These are CMD commands. So you have to go to Start > Run > Type "CMD"
and then
The basic command to schedule Shutdown in XP is
" shutdown -s -t xxx " where xxx stands for no. of seconds to wait before shutdown. For eg., if you want to shutdown your PC after 2 hours 3 mins, then the command is " shutdown -s -t 7389 " (without the quotes) ( 123 mins * 60 = 7380 secs )
For more options, you can type " shutdown ? " for help.
And for Vista, though the command is same as above, unfortunately, you can schedule the shutdown only for a maximum of 600 secs (10 mins).
But no worries, because there is an excellent light weight freeware program "WinOFF" which has many more features for scheduling shutdown and you can download it from here (726 KB).
And for music lovers, you can schedule shutdown using your audio player. Check it out here.
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AIMP2 is an advanced audio player with many useful features built in like AutoShutdown, Audio Grabber, Recorder, Audio editor and tag editor besides basic features like music library, equalizer, Internet radio, file search, playlists etc.
System requirements - Windows 2k or higher
Basic Features :
Music Library - you can organize whole of your music collection with AIMP2 which indexes files as fast as 1 Gb in 5 seconds. You can rank files from 0-5. You can add folders, web URLs, create playlists.
Equalizer - 18-sliders equalizer and build-in sound effects
Reverb, Flanger, Chorus, Pitch, Tempo, Echo, Speed.
Hotkeys - Customizable local and global hotkeys
Multilingual interface
Small Size
Bookmarks and Queues
32-bit sound processing for crystal clear sound
Advanced Features :
Audio Converter - Any supported audio file can be encoded to WAV, MP3, WMA or OGG format
Audio Grabber - Audio CD Track can be encoded to WAV, MP3, WMA or OGG format
Sound Recorder - Capture sound from any audio device in your system to mp3, ogg, wav or wma format
Advanced Tag Editor - Edit ID3v1, ID3v2, Vorbis, WMA tags. Grouping rename, group editing and sort files by one of templates.
Minimize to tray option, Plug-ins & Skins support.
Pros : Very Friendly user interface, many program options, all basic audio related features included, Hotkeys, Small size (less than 3 mb) , Freeware.
Cons : I found no bad feature except that its available only for Windows users and no Video is supported.
AIMP2 Site | Download Page (2.88 mb)
I guess it's a Winamp killer.
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A new site Erail : http://erail.in/ for railway enquiry and booking. It extracts the information from the Govt. Railway site http://indianrail.gov.in .
