There are hundreds of reasons why you may want to shut down a application after a certain time, for example if your ISP has a unlimited bandwidth window at certain hours, you schedule the downloads to happen at those times, if you want to kill the download application when your ISP lifts the unlimited bandwidth [...]

The Windows Desktop is the most frequently visited place, and keeping it clean is really very important, since the more icons you add the more cluttered it gets. If you want a example of a really overwhelmed desktop, take a look at the picture below. Image Credit: Daily Blog Tips

Many times you may have colleagues or visitors come by your workstation, in such cases you may not want them to see what’s running on your PC. The most common way of hiding windows is using the shortcut key Windows + D to display the desktop, but that action may not be quick enough or [...]

The Windows Clipboard Manager is not really the thing you could rely on, since it only holds one entry in the memory, the clipboard erases the previous entries every time you copy something, this could be quite annoying as there is no real way to get back the older entry you had copied. We have [...]

SnagIt is one of the most popular screen capture tools available today, we have been using SnagIt for quite some time now to create the images for the blog and other uses. SnagIt in itself is a very feature rich tool, providing you with various options to capture images or record screen activities. In addition [...]

Docstoc is a document sharing service which allows users to upload and share documents with other users, in short it acts like a My Documents folder on the Internet for users, allowing them to access documents from anywhere through a browser. Docstoc offers users with a sync client to sync the documents to the web [...]

Many of you may already be aware of Sysinternals tools such as process explorer, Sysinternals desktops, PageDegrag, RegMon etc, these products were available for downloads individually through http://live.sysinternals.com as well as through Microsoft Technet.

Licensing keys are most likely to be forgotten or lost once you have installed a software, the reason could vary with users losing their original CD cases, installing OEM softwares or for that matter deleting the license key email altogether. We have written about ways in which you can view and retrieve product / licensing [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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?

Quite some time back we had shown you how to access FTP servers as a local drive in Windows, but we came across a much more advanced software called Sticky Folder which allows you to mount HTTP, FTP and Usenet news servers as a local drive in Window. Sticky Folder will allow you to mount [...]

In the past we have introduced you to FreeCalc a free alternative for Windows Calculator which had some nice features built in, but we were completely bowled over when we came across SpeedCrunch a light weight, fast and high precision calculator for Windows, Linux and Max OS X. SpeedCrunch is quite unlike a regular calculator, [...]

We have been using Launchy as a application launcher for quite some time, and even though there have been several alternatives we have talked about in the past, Executor is definitely a app we would rate higher than Launchy. The major difference between Launchy and Executor is the the emphasis on user defined keywords, which allow [...]

Mac users may be well versed with the Dock that allows users to launch applications easily, though Windows does not have a Dock as a built-in feature, you can definitely use several applications to do that, using tools such as RocketDock which we had mentioned earlier in our productivity tools and ObjectDock. CircleDock is another [...]