There are several times when you may have installed and uninstalled a software and clicked Ok on the final screen without reading the dialog box, which in turned invoked a windows restart. Such things are really annoying and the only way to abort a shutdown currently is to quickly open the run dialog, with the [...]

The default view in Windows Explorer hides the extensions of all known file-types, in such cases changing file extensions becomes difficult. You can change the default setting though to display the file extensions for all file types by opening the Folder options in Windows Explorer and un-checking the option that says, Hide extensions for know [...]

Quite sometime back we had showed you how to block certain unwanted websites without installing any softwares, the trick involved editing the Windows hosts file. HostsMan is a freeware utility which allows you to easily edit the host files and block unwanted websites with ease.

Do you open up Windows Explorer every-time to check the free disk space on your computer? Though doing that is not a hard task, why waste time when you can view the hard disk space from the system tray. TrayDiskFree is a small freeware utility that will allow you to view free space in the [...]

The most common problem you may face while sending videos to your friends and family is Hey, I cannot view the video you sent me, it asks me to download a codec which I cannot find anywhere. My mom definitely has told me this more than once (not the codecs part :-) ), after which [...]

Playing DVDs on a PC is nothing new, but why pay for softwares just to watch a DVD when you can get it for free. AVS DVD Player is a universal DVD Player which supports a wide variety of video formats. Apart from regular DVD (PAL, NTSC, VCD, SVCD) formats, also supported are: the entire [...]

With the recent PageRank update many webmasters and publishers may be eager to check their latest PageRank scores, but if you are using Google Chrome there is no toolbar available yet to view the PageRank. If you do not want to switch between multiple browsers just to check page ranks, here is a handy bookmarklet [...]

DVD Flick is a free DVD burner and authoring tool which allows you to burn the video files stored on your PC to a DVD which you can then play on your DVD player or home theatre system. In addition to burning media  files to DVDs, it also allows you to add additional audio tracks [...]

Windows Vista definitely has a lot of features as compared to Windows XP, one of the most handy improvement was the introduction of the new Start menu, which allows users to search for applications, files and more. Related: Start++ Adds Kick-Ass Features to Windows Vista Start Menu Vista Start Menu is a handy utility to [...]

FLV files are basically Flash videos which require a special player. FLV files are mostly available for downloads from popular video sites such as YouTube, Megavideo, Google Videos etc. If you have downloaded a FLV file but cannot play it on your PC, you will require to download additional softwares to be able to view [...]

Most of the video sites store videos in FLV formats, though you can easily download video files from sites like YouTube, but not many would want to store the videos in the same format. Free FLV to AVI Converter is an absolutely free application that converts Flash Video files (FLV, SWF) into AVI or MPG [...]

Digsby had been one of our favorite multi-im protocol client which had built in support for IM networks, social networking and emails from popular email providers like Gmail, Hotmail, AOL and so on. But the one major concern for us had been the huge memory footprint it used which literally used to hang the PC [...]

Outlook is a really good email, contact and calendar management tool and we have told you about shred several tools and tricks for Outlook users over time. Outlook allows you to add and access a unlimited amount of POP/IMAP/HTTP accounts, but what if you forget the passwords of accounts you have setup up in Outlook? [...]

Craigslist is not doubt one of the best site to find almost anything under the sun, including a apartment, a dog, a hot date and so on. The only problem with Craigslist, is that over time their interface has never improved, making it harder for people to search. TechCrunch has discovered two new services that [...]

The default notepad provided by windows, is the most basic piece of text-editing software you will ever come across, the surprising fact is that Microsoft has always overlooked notepad, but that is going to change in Windows 7, and notepad will get a much awaited overhaul. Notepad 2008 is a software which brings in the [...]