December 2012

How To Make Google Chrome Run Faster Again.. !

Howdy folks !

Google chrome is a freeware browser from Google which has around 25-28% of the market share. Have you noticed your usually speedy Google Chrome browser slowing down, or even crashing on you? Unnecessary plugins, extensions, and even browsing data can slow your browser down to a crawl, or make it crash. Here’s how to fix it.

Files that are deleted in Windows are not really deleted–just the links to where the files are located on your hard drive are removed. Despite allowing you to use the space for other files again, the actual information is still lurking on your disk space. In other words, a knowledgeable computer user would be able to locate enough information to restore a file you wanted to keep private. Luckily, the ever-useful program CCleaner provides a method to permanently remove any deleted data from your hard drive.

Top Freeware Windows Application Downloads !

These are few of my favorite applications which can be used in performing day to day tasks. Feel free to post comments below and download as much as you can as there is unlimited bandwidth given for all the downloads. Thanks to mediafire !

someone asked me is it possible to do the same in Google chrome, the answer is yes and it’s even more simpler since we are going to use the extension know as Click and Clean.

The icon C above is the click&clean icon, you can change the settings by right-clicking on it. Some of the default settings are shown below:-

The one menu to access all your preferred google services with a single click. Welcome to the Black menu, this is a Google chrome extension and it unifies all the Google services under one roof such as Google docs, Gmail, Google +, Youtube etc….

This is basically a chrome extension in which one can Access other computers or allow another user to access your computer securely over the Internet. By using the chrome remote desktop you can easily remote login to any computer which runs the chrome browser, google has announced that this product which was started about an year ago is finally out of beta testing.

Encrypt Your Files In One Click

I’m not too obsessive with safety really, just some basic rules I follow to stay within what could be defined as the safe area, however I know cases of people who are truly obsessed with the security of their files and that is for them WinfileCrypt could be useful.

Set USB Pendrive As Password Key To Lock / Unlock Windows

Windows security is a big concern when we come across various softwares that can be used to crack your windows password. Hence apart from normal security measures there should be some thing more to protect and warn you of any attempt made to access your computer when you are not there. This work can be easily done by predator.

Microsoft Security Essentials provides real-time protection for your home or small business PC that guards against viruses, spyware, and other malicious software.

How To Play Youtube Videos In VLC Media Player !

VLC stands for Video Lan Client, which is a highly portable free open source and cross platform player used in Linux, Windows and Mac osX. To download the latest version for any operating system, click here.

Create Bootable Kaspersky Rescue USB Pendrive

Sometimes, Viruses can annoy to the extent that they will not allow to boot the operating system and you are left in miserable condition. In such case, formatting and re-installing OS would be a non-profitable deal because you may lose your data if not backup and it will take a long time. Better Solution is to opt for running a Bootable Antivirus rescue disk to clean out any harmful objects present.

God Mode in Windows 7, One Stop Shop Solution To Customize Anything

Recently, God Mode, a secret feature of Windows 7 was discovered. As the name suggests, You will have all powers to customize and change functions/behavior or execute any of the administrative tools of your system from one place. GodMode gives you almost all capabilities and make feel like God with all tweaks inside a folder, this is among the not so known features of Windows 7.

10 Exquisite Windows Xp Themes

Windows Xp is commonly accepted Operating system and apparently the most popular Windows version. So, if you too are sticked with it then enhance its beauty with free Windows Xp themes.

windows 7 plus Decorate Windows 7 themes with mythical Windows Plus! for Windows 98

Plus! for Windows 7

Probably, the most often draw attention when you install an operating system is its appearance. More than anything because it’s the first thing you see with the naked eye and even more beautiful if we call attention.

Few years ago when Windows 98 was what used to be installed on computers, took out a package called Microsoft Plus! which included a series of visual themes. Well, Mananwho liked to go back to old memories decided to modify it in order to install Windows 7.

Create Image Thumbnails Instantly On Right Click Menu

RightThumb is an application that lets you create thumbnails of all images in a folder, and makes it really easy to integrate into the Windows contextual menu.

How To Batch Compress MP3 Files Without Quality Loss

MP3 Quality Modifier is an application that allows us to batch compress mp3 files and achieve reduced size. So now we can store more and more of them. This is especially helpful in case we need to stack up our portable music players with latest songs at the same time not removing the oldies.

jpg to doc Free Applications to Convert Scanned Images to Text / Word Documents

When you scan any Document page, it cannot be edited because you get Image file as output. Now, for making changes in it fro further use- It has to be re-typed so, to avoid and reduce your effort of doing the same typing work again, here are some open source freeware application which can convert scanned document images to editable text documents (more probably DOC or MS Word file).

Windows 7 Media Center Themes Download

In Theme7MC, there is a gallery with items for all tastes. Basically divided into 2 types, first which are installed directly and those that are installed by a patch.

Sound Effect Sources On Web For Free Download

I am going to mention and review about some free sound effects and loops download resources on Internet. Here are three such of a kind namely FindSounds, SoundSnap and FlashKit.

What Is NFO And FILE_ID DIZ In Crack Software: How To Open

Whenever you download a Pirated software, it generally comes with a NFO or DIZ file. Thought it doesn’t have directly to do with cracking your software but question arises- What is it and How to Open NFO file or read DIZ file?

10 Best Websites to Find Free , Alternative and Open Source Software

In our day to day life we use many windows software applications that makes our life easier. These applications perform tasks that if done manually can lead us to a lot of inconvenience. But not all windows applications are free to use, they may provide demo or trial versions that falls behind our expectations.

Convert From XPS To PDF Online And Offline Software Converters

Microsoft Corporation is said to be the creator of a lot of document formats including .docx, .pptx, .xps, etc. All of these document formats are meant to be opened by their respective viewer, but we know better that we can view and edit almost all of the office supported formats in free software like Open Office. The thing is not many people uses all of these document formats. So people tend to move towards file format converters like the ones I’m going to share.

Scan And Download Free Latest Software Updates From Filehippo

We use many small and free useful applications on our system, these applications gets updated from their developers time to time. These updates consists of many small improvements and additional features that might be beneficial to us. Keeping track of all the updates from different sites is a troublesome job. Now you can relax and letFileHippo Update Checker do this job for you.

Repair Word Documents

It happened with my colleague who was working on Word and then saved the file (similar to what all we do) but very next day when she went to take a print of the Word documents, the file was corrupted saying The name or file path is invalid.

doPDF Generates A PDF Document From Any Application

So, How do you create PDF documents? Now, There is no need of any separate PDF editor because its possible to generate PDF (Portable Document Format) from any application like Notepad, MS Word or whatever from where you can give printing command.

Unlock PDF And Remove Editing Restrictions

PDF files are great resource of data and information we need but they may create irritation if it is protected and restricts editing, copying and printing. To remove these annoying restrictions or unlock these PDF files, here are two methods, one is online and another local.

Ultramixer Professional DJ software

If you want to start making your first steps as a DJ, the program that you presented today can be a great way of entering the world of mixing music and getting your own riding sessions and parties.

External [Portable] Hard Disk Vs Internal Hard Disk: Which One You Should Buy

Every laptop/computer needs to have hard disk which stores operating system, application files and all your personal data. This hard disk is called internal hard disk. But sometimes need arises to increase the storage of your laptop or computer. So, which one to choose between External and Internal Hard Disk.

In that case you have options of purchasing further internal hard disk or a portable external hard disk, but for that you need better understanding to meet your requirement what type of hard disk to buy. I will be discussing some points which you should consider for making your decision. Also, after reading this post, you do not need to search anywhere else for this as I am writing these points after a full research (sources: web and my personal experiences).

hard disk External [Portable] Hard Disk Vs Internal Hard Disk: Which One You Should Buy

accelerate hard disk performance How To Accelerate Performance of Hard Disk and Maintenance Tips

Hard Disks aren’t passé yet mainly because of its low cost compared to SSDs. But Problem with these HDs is the speed which is usually related to the mechanical components of Hard Drive used for reading and writing data on disk sectors.

Free Program to Clean your Hard Disk

We generally couldn’t clean up the Hard Disk mainly because of lack of time or Laziness. In the mean time, there is lot of garbage collected because of installing and uninstalling several programs on Windows.

How To Increase VirtualBox Hard Disk Image Size

After creating Virtual Machine using VirtualBox and installed Operating system on it, you feel that the Hard Disk Storage Space allotted is too small? Do not despair, there isno need to start all over again, you can expand the capacity of a VDI virtual drive without creating a new virtual machine without having to spend time to reinstall an operating system.

CloneVDI, a nice freeware program that allows you to increase the size of virtual hard disk without altering the content. Here’s a step by step guide to increase size of VDI.

increase vdi size How to increase VirtualBox Hard Disk Image size

CheckDrive 2010 : Scan and Fix Hard Disk Errors in Windows

In order to keep hard disks in healthy condition, it is always required to scan it regularly for errors and physical damages especially when an abnormal shutdown or restart takes place. For this purpose CheckDrive is a good application to try out.

free Windows cleaner 6 Free Tools to keep Windows clean

Windows users remember the first day they installed Windows when everything went smooth, every function worked fine, responsive to our needs without any hindrance. This perfection doesn’t lasts too long and as the time passes,conditions starts becoming bad to worse. Its the time when they need proper cleaning and maintenance.

To maintain your windows clean and hassle free, here are 6 cleaning utilities suggested on DownloadSquad to run your Windows like the first run.

Run Portable Ubuntu as Windows Application

Portable Ubuntu is a Linux distribution, variation of Ubuntu, which will allow you to run Linux within Windows as if it were a program or process. So those who wish may prove what is seen as the free operating system ,

Forgot Android Unlock Pattern : How To Open

Pattern lock is most secure screen lock for Android device. By secure I mean, it is not easy to unlock if you forgot pattern. So, here are the recovery methods when you forget Pattern on Android lock. When you forgot Android Pattern to unlock device, you have following options to unlock :

android partition1 Why Low Space For App Installation? Understand Android Partitions

Many complain about Android, especially in low end devices which comes with limited memory available to install applications. And this complaint is quite justified. If I have a phone of 512 MB ??of space, why really I have only 100 MB to install applications? Why does it say that in the internal memory is only 192 MB of space?

The key to all this are the partitions. Internal storage for Android is divided into multiple partitions, and we can use only that which is reserved for data, which also has to live with all the space used by applications to store data and also the operating system. We will see in detail what these partitions are.

Windows 7: Five ways to free up Disk Space

More is always less so even if you have large diskspace at less prices , Disk Space is always a problem. Managing and saving space for making making optimized use of available hard disk space. We cover some 5 ways with which you can Regain your system speed that lets you get to know where your hard disk is occupied by unwanted files. These includes some simple manual tweaks without using 3rd party applications.

5 Programs To Monitor Changes In Windows Registry

Generally, when we install any software- Only one setup file to execute and then this installation process consist of extracting several files on your computer. Apart from files in Program Files Folder, there are many directories and registry entries which is most important.

If you are a kind of user who transfers data frequently in and out your hard disk, you might feel after a period of time that your applications are taking longer loading time. This is due to fragmentation and can be solved using a good defragmenting utility.

Download Free PDF to Word Document converter

I have tried lots of pdf to word converter software, but this one is one of the best software. Because it is very simple, small and quick. You can easily convert pdf files to word in less then 1 minute. This software needs no expertise. Just open the pdf file in this word converter and click on the “Convert” button and that’s all. Good thing is that you can get this for free, and it is a standalone program you can convert PDF to Word Doc without Adobe Acrobat Reader or Microsoft Word installed.

How to Convert PDF to Excel (XLS)

PDF to Excel conversion is not so common and generally it is not needed but can be useful at times. Copying Tables from PDFs to Excel Sheets is not an easy task. So, rather than copy-pasting, converting is viable option.

Firefox Addon to Monitor Online Visitors Realtime on Blog Website

Number of visitors online on a website lets you decide about the popularity of certain post at that moment. Whos.amung.us is probably the best and reliable service to do that. And Firefox addon will let you keep an eye on track always when your browser is open.

Here’s the simplest way to know online visitor’s activity on your blog.

How to Prepare SD Card for App to SD Partition on Android

With an Android SmartPhone at hand we love to install and try tons of applications. The main problem with devices like Galaxy Ace is that the phone memory is too low to support our expectation. As a result long before we are satisfied the “Low on Memory” notification pops up.

The only way to tackle this problem is having our applications moved to SD card. But it is not simple to move apps.

Assign Usage priority and Block Applications from accessing Internet

If you are working on a slow internet connection then bandwidth management is the only way you can work smoothly with it. For instance, if your primary work on internet is to surf on your browser but while doing this an antivirus update or other background process may trigger and eat up internet bandwidth leaving you with a poor browsing experience.

How To Decode QR Codes on Windows Offline

Use of QR codes is common these days. Specially with smart phone like Android, Windows phone, iOS; download links are normally given in QR code. Apart from the general use, some people use QR code to share personal and social information with others. Use QR Code Readers for Windows to decode them offline.

In order to access the data present in these codes you need to have a decoder application installed on your phone. You have to scan the QR Code using phone’s camera and the app will decode and redirect you to the link or will open the present data.

Sometimes it so happens that you may not be having the decoding app installed on phone or need to keep the information for later use on your Windows desktop. In Such cases a Windows QR Code Decoder comes in handy.

QR Code Desktop Reader is a Windows freeware application to decode and save QR codes. Lets see how it works.