Written By Keith Dsouza under Tips And Tricks on Friday, 22nd August 2008
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One of our readers send us a query asking us how to open a PDF File, though this is a pretty straightforward question, we are sure many people may not be aware about it. PDF or Portable Document Format is a document format that was created by Adobe in 1993 for document exchange.
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Written By Keith Dsouza under Friday fun on Friday, 22nd August 2008
Welcome to another episode of Friday fun, this week instead of showing you all the funny stuff we have been doing in the past, we will let you take the mantel and allow you to play some pranks on your friends, most of these softwares are pretty old but they are fun nonetheless, so go ahead take your pick and fool your friends.
The Mouse Trick – If you have access to your friend’s PC, give them some headache by switching the mouse buttons to function in reverse. To do that go to the control panel and select mouse, from the options you see for button configuration, check switch primary and secondary buttons, and watch your friend go crazy for a few minutes.
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Written By Keith Dsouza under Utilities on Friday, 22nd August 2008
Many XP users may be familiar with the Virtual Desktop Manager XP Powertoy which allowed you to create up-to 4 virtual desktops, unfortunately it was not the best of softwares and did not work with Windows Vista.
Microsoft released a free alternative for managing virtual desktop’s called SysInternals (a company they acquired) Desktops. Desktops is basically a lightweight (62 Kb) software that runs out of the box without requiring any install. Like the XP powertoy, Desktops too allows you to create 4 virtual desktops which you can access using hotkeys.
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Written By Keith Dsouza under Messengers on Thursday, 21st August 2008
Yahoo Messenger is one of the most user IM clients in the world, and many users use it for to IM at work, IM with friends and family and more. Yahoo messenger has several shortcut keys, using which you can buzz a person, add emoticon/smileys to your messages and more.
Related: Yahoo Messenger 9 Features Reviewed | Yahoo Messenger Tips and Tricks
In this post we will give you a extensive list of shortcuts that can be used in Yahoo Messenger.
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Written By Keith Dsouza under Tips And Tricks on Thursday, 21st August 2008
Many times you may download music files which are in .amr format, by default Windows does not have the capability to open up .amr files and you will require an external audio player like QuickTime player or RealPlayer.
Though both these players have support to play .amr files, we would suggest you use the Nokia Multimedia Player which is a lightweight option for playing mobile content like .amr and .3gp files.
Related: How to play RM files?
What is AMR format?
Adaptive Multi-Rate (AMR) is an audio data compression scheme optimized for speech coding. AMR was adopted as the standard speech codec by 3GPP in October 1998 and is now widely used in GSM and UMTS. It uses link adaptation to select from one of eight different bit rates based on link conditions. – wikipedia
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Written By Keith Dsouza under humor on Wednesday, 20th August 2008
Well Friday Fun hasn’t come in early this time, we just could not stop laughing after we viewed this post and thought it worthy enough to give you your dose of laugher earlier this week. Don’t worry Friday Fun will arrive as usual.
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Written By Keith Dsouza under Utilities on Wednesday, 20th August 2008
Emails are definitely a great way to communicate, but they can also be a big distraction when you are working on something important. How about adding a pause button that would stall the emails from flowing into your Inbox?
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