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Website Load Time Tester

June 11, 2007 Browsers

Pingdom is a service which provides tools to monitor web sites, E-Mail Servers, FTP servers and a multitude of other services.
Though I didn’t find the service that useful, they do seem to have introduced a nice little tool (free) to check the page loading speed.
http://www.pingdom.com/tools/fpt/?url=www.venukb.com/blog
(Replace the “url” parameter with the URL of your [...]

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Keybreeze – Quickly launch applications

May 30, 2007 Tips n Tricks

The “Start Menu” on my PC generally extends upto 3-4 columns; thanks to all the software/tools that I install/try out.
[Note: Screen width is set to 1280 pixels ]
On the top of this, Windows XP has a totally useless Start Menu; If I have to quickly launch an application, I spend more time searching [...]

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Undelete PLUS – Best Undelete Software

May 24, 2007 Tips n Tricks

When you delete a file in Windows Explorer or My Computer, the file is put into the Recycle Bin. The file remains in the Recycle Bin until you empty the Recycle Bin or restore the file.
If the files are deleted from the Recycle bin or if you empty the recycle bin, the [...]

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SimpleCSS – Making CSS Simple !

April 27, 2007 Tips n Tricks

Simple CSS is a style sheet creator for Mac and Windows. It supports CSS 2.0 specification and is a great tool for CSS beginners and experts.
The tools lets you to create a project and input all the different CSS properties via tabbed pages.

You can even import a existing CSS page and edit the same. [...]

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LockNote

February 13, 2007 Tips n Tricks

Steganos LockNote is the one of the simplest application to store/retrieve confidential data. If you want to store E-Mail account passwords, bank login details etc in a secure way, LockNote is the application to use.
It is also very secure since the information is encrypted using a password and it uses AES 256bit encryption.
There is [...]

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FlyakiteOSX – Get a Mac Look and feel on XP

January 31, 2007 Tips n Tricks

Some time back I patched the Windows Uxtheme.dll and installed a nice looking theme called BlackMesa.
I got bored with that theme and decided to install a Mac theme. A search for the same lead me to a software called FlyakiteOSX.
FlyakiteOSX is not just a theme, its a complete transformation pack (30 MB download) which converts [...]

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Launchy – Out of Beta

January 27, 2007 Tips n Tricks

Launchy is a free, must have windows utility for people who want to use more of keyboard rather than the mouse.
Launchy indexes the programs in your start menu and can launch your documents, project files, folders, and bookmarks with just a few keystrokes!
To know more about launchy, read my previous post here.

If you [...]

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Run Multiple Instances of Flickr Uploadr ?

January 16, 2007 Tools

Flickr the best online photo management and sharing application also has the best photo uploader tool.
The uploader installation binary is small 648KB) and also in “run mode” the application takes the least amount of memory and CPU cycles.
You can create sets and assign tags while uploading the photos.
However one of the problems [...]

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Dexpot – Virtual Desktop Manager

January 3, 2007 Tools

Dexpot is a free (non-commercial use) software that allows you to create multiple, virtual desktops to increase the work area of your screen by up to 20 times.
Till now I was using ATI MultiDesk as the virtual desktop manager. Dexpot is much more powerful and faster than MultiDesk.
Also it has a rich set of [...]

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Video Converter

December 1, 2006 Tools

We convert PDF’s. Our Absolute PDF converter allows end users to convert PDF to Word docs, and PDF to Excel and more. Find out more at Investintech.com.
Any Video Converter is an All-in-One video converting tool with easy-to-use graphical interface, fast converting speed and excellent video quality. It allows you to effortlessly convert video files between [...]

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