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Archive for March, 2009

31
Mar

Portable Avira AntiVir Removal Tool: An Antivirus in Pendrive

usb-portable-avira-antivir-removal-tool If you are using any windows OS, then an antivirus software is must required to protect from your computer from viruses, spywares & worms.Portable version of Avira AntiVir Removal Tool is one antivirus software which you can carry along with you in a USB Flash Drive.

This one is useful if your computer has an outdated antivirus or even don’t have one.The Free Portable Virus Removal Tool or Portable Virus Scanner is designed to eliminate a major set of threats.

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Screenshot of Avira AntiVir Removal Tool -Portable Virus Scanner Portable

The following Common Viruses can be detected/removed with the help of Avira AntiVir Removal Tool:

- Worm/NetSky.AA

- Worm/NetSky.B.1

- Worm/NetSky.C

- Worm/Netsky.D.Dam

- Worm/NetSky.P

- Worm/NetSky.X

- W32/Stanit.A

- Worm/Mytob.IN.2

- Worm/Mytob.KS

- Worm/Sober.J

- Worm/Sober.P

- Worm/Sober.Y

Download Portable Avira AntiVir Removal Tool

16
Mar

Proxy Server Settings in Google Chrome

If you are browsing internet from your work place or school, you might get it from a proxy server.Here is how you can change proxy server in Google chrome web browser.

1) Open Google Chrome web browser.

2) On the top right corner you will find wrench button, This is where you can customize and control Google chrome.Customize and control google chrome

3) Click that and now you will see a drop down menu, Select Google chrome Options from the list.

4) You will see an options window now, It has 3 different tabs Basics,Minor Tweaks and Under the hood.Select Under the hood

Google Chrome Options window

5) When you scroll down a little bit, you will find Change proxy settings button below Network options.On Click this, you can find an internet properties window.

internet properties window 6) Now select LAN settings bottom from the internet properties window.

7) You will be now taken to Local Area Network (LAN) Settings window.

Local Area Setting window

8) Now keep/change your proxy server ip address and port number as show in the above picture

9)If you don’t know your proxy server ip address or port number, contact your network administrator.

Note: If you are installing Google chrome web browser, it has a beautiful option to import your settings from other web browsers.It even imports your proxy server settings.Incase you have not opted for it or you want to change the proxy server, then just follow the above steps.

14
Mar

Change your Wallpapers Automatically with Wally

Some people love to change the desktop wallpaper at intervals, If you fall in this category then automate the process with Wally.Yes, Wally is a FREE program which lets you change the desktop wallpaper automatically.

wally wallpaper changer All you have to do is to set the source from which the program can load wallpapers.The wallpaper images sources like local files and folders, FTP remote folders, Flickr photo stream, Yahoo, Panoramio, Pikeo, Ipernity, and Photobucket images etc available with the program.

You can further customize the appearance of wallpaper like

  • Start automatically on system startup
  • View the info about the current desktop wallpaper on the right
  • Select the layout of the wallpaper being set as desktop wallpaper
  • You can choose to display the picture in random order
  • Switch to desktop background on play
  • Change the desktop wallpaper on application start
  • You choose to use only landscape photos if you have a wide screen monitor

The advantage of Wally over the others is its wide range of sources from which you can display wallpapers, Also the program interface is easy to control things!

Download:

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Download Wally – Free Desktop Wallpaper Changer

14
Mar

Download Facebook Photo Albums with FacePAD firefox extension

FacePAD is a Facebook Photo Album Downloader extension for Firefox that makes the process of downloading Facebook album easy with a single right click.

First, Install the FacePAD Facebook Photo Album Downloader to download photos from Facebook.

After installation of this Firefox extension, just right ‘ View Album link’ and click facebook-photo-album-downloadoption ‘Download Album With FacePAD’. Full album will be downloaded in Firefox downloads folder. If there is more than one page of photos, then you will be get prompt for successive pages with photo download like:

Alert 1: Downloading 20 Photos from page 1
Alert 2: Downloading 20 Photos from page 2
Alert 3: Downloading 15 Photos from page 3

Happy downloading :)

10
Mar

Backup Posts Plugins and Settings in Windows Live Writer

Windows Live Writer is best the best know desktop blogging editor.Many people use it for blogging.Did you even think of having a backup of it ? Here is the solution

WLW Backup is a backup application for Windows Live Writer.It will backup all Windows Live Writer’s posts, settings and plugins with a single click.This is a very simple utility to backup and restore Windows Live Writer.

How to Backup WLW Backup:

Open Windows Live Writer Backup Program.Choose what you want to backup (like posts, settings, plugins, etc), and then click the Backup buttonmain window WLW Backup

After setting the backup name, the program does restbacking up with WLW Backup

Now the Backup completed.

How to restore:

To restore, you must have to run WLW Backup as administrator

This will take you to the main window as with backing up, select restore and choose the WLW backup file you wish to restore, it will then prompt you to check that you’re sure

resto requestion WLW Backup

This will then restore the settings

restore completed WLW Backup

There you are the windows live Backup and restore completes.

The only downside of the program is that it is still in Release Candidate 1(RC1)

But this still works good without any bugs.IF you encounter any problem contact them at codeplex.

http://wlwbackup.codeplex.com/

10
Mar

Search PDF, DOC, XLS and PPT Documents with DocJax

DocJax – is a new documents search engine powered by Google and Yahoo search engines. It list all top documents results from Google and Yahoo, Simultaneously it searches for all popular document formats(PDF, DOC, XLS and PPT).You can even limit the format to be searched (like only searching for PDF files).

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This document search engine can understand most search operators including

site:, intitle:, inurl:,site:edu (for searching university sites )

So you can easily filter junk results

If you want to search only documents from university websites.Just search for

site:edu Nanotechnology

DocJax Documents Results

Advantage of using DocJax document search over regular web search

Inline Preview : It shows the preview of content present in the documents.

It is integrated with Scribd, you can view the entire document without downloading it

Advantages over Google search:

You can search for documents in Google using the filetype operator.But this has few drawbacks

1. Google doesn’t provide “View as HTML” for some documents, then you have to download the entire document to view the what is present inside.

2. If you want to search multiple files then the search syntax gets complex.(example:nanotechnology filetype:doc OR filetype:pdf OR filetype:xls).

[Via] Document Search

8
Mar

How to make a GIF from a Video file (Movie to GIF)

Gif(Graphics Interchange Format) images are widely used due to their support and portability.This format support animation.Many of you might have seen few popular scenes in movies as GIF images.Here is an easy way to design them.All you need is the movie containing the scene and and movie to gif converter.

Download Movie to gif converter from Evan’s website,

http://www.evanolds.com/movtogifsimple.html

Extract the file, No installation required, Now Run itMovie to Gif

Now open the video file in which you want to create a GIF file, here i am creating a GIF from the trailer of Movie “The Dark knight “

Create Movie to GIF

Locate the starting frame and the end frame through the flower brackets.Now from the export tab, Select Export to animated GIF . You can even save the image as PNG,JEPG (But no animation comes) Movie 2 GIF generation

Finally before exporting it will ask about the output file resize.Select an option and click ok.

Movie to Gif Converter

You can now see the GIF output file in the source folder.

Here is mine :) Looks cool

The dark knight GIF

7
Mar

Google Chrome Now Comes With Real Player Setup

Google chrome logoGoogle is trying many new things to increase the market share of its own browser “Google chrome”.Right from the launch they are promoting it aggressively through advertisements and a link on Google and its related websites.Now they are even bundling it with third-party software.

Google Chrome Bundled with RealPlayer

Google Chrome Bundled with RealPlayer

If you try to install real media player now, you’ll notice that the setup downloads Google Chrome. Its default is set to install Google chrome.Real player seems to be the first third party application promoting Google chrome.Google replaced Firefox browser in their recommended software pack.Google chrome even installs with the latest downloads of Google earth software.

Although this is a common practice used by many, It is slightly unusual for the search giant to play these kind of tricks.

4
Mar

Update Facebook Status from Twitter Tweets:Twitter Facebook application

The best way to socialize and stay connected with everyone is to use Twitter and Facebook.Twitter is the most popular micro blogging tool and Facebook is the best social networking site.If you are using both services, you must be knowing how pain it is to update your status on both web services manually.But everyone always love to update what they are doing.If you find it difficult updating the status message, then this one is for you. Twitter Facebook application makes your job easier.

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You need to enter your Twitter login details, agree to terms of use for using it.After that, you can update your Facebook account as and when you update your Twitter account. Besides saving lot of time, it will keep both your Twitter and Facebook friends happy with constant flow updates – Twitter Facebook application.