Software

Useful Extensions for the Chrome Browser

by nauman March 1, 2010

Sometime back I wrote about a bunch of useful Chrome extensions. Quite frankly one could have a separate Blog for the Chrome extensions because of the rate at which are coming up, and believe me some of them are very useful. This post is dedicated to some of the newer ones.

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Time to Upgrade Windows 7 RC

by nauman February 23, 2010

The world at large downloaded and used Windows 7 RC innumerable times. some of us are still doing it. Well nothing comes for free and so the joyride is bound to end soon. From March 1, 2010 people using Win 7 RC will experience shutdowns after every 2 hours and sorry the documents they will [...]

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Get Some “Fences” for your Windows Desktop

by nauman February 1, 2010

A cluttered Desktop is what we usually have, in Windows I mean. Organizing it is difficult if not impossible. I can tell by experience that most of place files, folders and frequently used app shortcuts on the Desktop. It is easier this way to access them instead of looking deep in to the hard drive [...]

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Online Reminders, do they really work?

by nauman January 29, 2010

It’s a busy world we are living in. Technology was supposed to make it more easy for us, but now its getting more complicated, we spend more time with gadgets just to make our lives easier and end up wasting more time. But there’s nor escaping it now, either go to the stone ages or [...]

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Some new Add-ons for Mozilla Firefox

by nauman January 26, 2010

Sometime back I wrote about 5 useful add-ons for Mozilla Firefox, the we also talked about creating a Persona for FF besides some easy and free tools for the world’s most loved browser. Firefox is gaining ground. I have now made a list of some useful add-ons for sharing with you guys, gals included The [...]

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Firefox 3.6 RC2 available for download

by nauman January 18, 2010

The Mozilla Firefox RC2 is now available for download. As usual it is available for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux in over 70 languages. The release notes can be accessed here and known issues are documented here. Some of the features of Firefox 3.6 RC2 are: Support for WOFF font format. Support for latest [...]

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Try out the New Applications in Yahoo Mail

by nauman January 16, 2010

If there is one E-mail service that competes with Google that is Yahoo and one search engine that dares to stare at Google well its Yahoo too. Yahoo has recently added a few applications that be used form within one’s mail box. Yahoo was previously offering a number of goodies in My Yahoo like a [...]

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Create high definition stitched panoramic photos using Free Microsoft Image composite editor

by Muzzammil Waheed January 12, 2010

Microsoft Research Image Composite Editor is  an advanced panoramic image stitcher which is available for free. Creating high definition panoramic photos using this tool is amazingly simple and does not require user input or advance image editing skills to modify images in Adobe Photoshop, All user has to do is to takes a set of overlapping photographs of a scene shot from a single camera location and pass it to ICE, the program analyzes the pictures and creates a high-resolution panorama incorporating all the source images at full resolution.

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Make a Collage of your pics with Shape Collage

by nauman January 8, 2010

There exist many options for making a Collage of your favorite pictures but I found Shape Collage to be very easy and useful. It is a small, free application for making a Collage. All one has to do is point and click and in a few seconds a Collage can be created.

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Easy and free tools for Firefox Backup and Restore – Profile, extensions and more

by Muzzammil Waheed December 31, 2009

mozilla_firefoxWe all love Firefox for its flexibility of doing all sort of browsing tasks using useful firefox add-ons and plug-ins, beautiful interface using themes and persona . But if we have to reinstall our operating system ( windows/linux/mac ) or want to move to a new PC/mac or laptop, moving all our personalized settings, add-ons and themes can be a real hassle and can cost significant time. Thanks to multiple utilities and Firefox extensions this problem is solved and we can create complete and partial backups of Firefox profile, add-ons, extensions and themes and restore it anywhere we like.

Let’s look at few automated tools for performing backups.

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