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.

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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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Subdownloader - for movie buffs

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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

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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.

[ Home Page ] [ Download (15 Mb) ]

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Tuesday, July 8, 2008

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Ping.fm - update all social networks in a snap

Check out a new web service http://ping.fm which lets you update your status in various social networks, post to Blogs and Microblogs. Infact I posted this via Ping.fm using Gtalk. If you are reading this post, then it works perfectly.

Few of the social networks which it supports are Blogger, Brightkite, Facebook, Friendfeed, LinkedIn, Tumblr, Twitter, etc.

You can sign up for free @ http://ping.fm ( use beta code : dreamofping ) and setup your social networks and istantaneouly post updates to all your networks via its web interface or using IM services like Yahoo Msgr, GTalk or even using your Mobile.

Its reallly a worthy Web 2.0 service for those who use different social networks.

Monday, July 7, 2008

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Format Factory - The All-in-one Media converter

Many times we need to convert our media files from one format to another converterso 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.

FormatFactory

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.

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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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Quote of the Day:
I not only use all the brains I have but all that I can borrow.
--Thomas Woodrow Wilson

Sunday, July 6, 2008

Quick Tip : Send Free SMS from email

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

free SMS gmail 

the format should be as shown here in the picture

your message can be upto 80 characters.

via 160by2.com.

AVI Preview - for those who download videos/movies

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.