Archive for January, 2008

SpyPig – Get a notification when people read your email

Posted by Dickey on Jan 31st, 08 | Filed under Internet, Tips | 5 Comments

SpyPig is a free email tracking system which can send you a notification when your friends read your email. This special tracking system works with any web-based email program.

SpyPigIf you are using email client such as Microsoft Outlook with Microsoft Exchange Server, You can easily get notfied when your recipients read your email, but it is impossible for web-based email application such as Yahoo Mail, Gmail, or Live Mail to implement this feature.

SpyPig provide users a special image which include a tracking code. Users can then insert this tracking image in their email message, and they will get notified when others read the email.

To use SpyPig, simply provide them your email address, then type your message title (this is for better tracking so that you can know which email has been read). You can then choose your SpyPig image (if you don’t want your recipients know you are tracking the email, choose a blank image). After that, you can paste the tracking image on your email message and then send out the email. Currently, they limit the number of notification emails to 5 for each tracking code, which means you will only get 5 notifications even there are 10 people read your email.

SpyPig works fine with all email applications, both desktop clients and web-based email. But, you need to change some settings on your Microsoft Outlook in order for SpyPig to work. You can check it out here.

Note: Both you and your recipients must use HTML-format email so that they will download the tracking image when they open the email.

SpyPig

Songbeat – Find, play, and download music

Posted by Dickey on Jan 30th, 08 | Filed under Application, Downloads | 2 Comments

Songbeat is a desktop music search using Seeqpod technology. It comes with a built-in player and you can search your favorite song directly from your desktop.

The download speed is actually faster than P2P sharing. It is safe to use, because Songbeat does not access your hard drive. All musics shared are already available online, which means you actually download those music from the internet, not from others’ computer. The musics search take only seconds.

Songbeat

There are Basic and Pro version. Basic version is free but Pro version cost $15. The Pro version will not contains any ad and you can get unlimited music downloads. Currently, Songbeat support 10 languages and only available for Windows XP and Vista, the Mac version is coming soon.

ProcessLibrary.com – The online resource for process information!

Posted by Dickey on Jan 29th, 08 | Filed under Application | 1 Comment

If you want to know your Windows’s process information, you should go for ProcessLibrary.com. It has a database to keep the details for windows processes.

ProcessLibrary.comWhen you open your task manager, you may found some unknown processes. These processes may contains spyware or malware. So, you need a database to check these suspicious files. I had introduce WhatIsThatFile.com, which is a online database for unknown files.

ProcessLibrary.com is another service which has better and more organized database. You can search a process or browse process directory by name. Furthermore, they had listed out the Top Searches, Top Security Threats, and Top New Entries which you can access them by using ATOM or RSS.

ProcessLibrary.com introduce 2 application which are free for download: ProcessScanner and ProcessQuicklink.

ProcessScanner

ProcessLibrary.com - ProcessScanner

ProcessScanner will scan through processes running on your system and then generate a report for you, which you can access it online. The scan results are categorized into Status, Security, Performance, Network, and Source. You can then click on the process name to view the details.

ProcessQuicklink

ProcessLibrary.com - ProcessQuicklink

ProcessQuicklink adds feature to your Windows Task Manager. After install ProcessQuicklink, you can see a green icon next to each process. By clicking the icon, ProcessQuicklink will bring you to the detail page of that process.

Question: ProcessLibrary show that there is a search bar at the bottom of Task Manager after install ProcessQuicklink, but i can’t found it. Anyone willing to try it?

Extra: There is another application with can work together with ProcessScanner, called RegistryBooster, which is also provide by same company. It can scan your registry errors and conflicts within minutes.

ProcessLibrary.com | ProcessScanner | ProcessQuicklink

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SuperScreenshot – Screenshot generator

Posted by Dickey on Jan 29th, 08 | Filed under Blogging, Internet | No Comments

SuperScreenshots is a screenshot generator which can generate a high quality screenshot of any website within seconds.

Super Screenshot

Screenshot generator is a good service for bloggers who always write about coll and new web services. By using such services, we can capture the whole page, then we can use other image editing tools to select section that we need.

SuperScreenshot is an example of screenshot generator which provide a few options for users. For example, you can choose the dimension, either capture the Top Screen or Full Page. Besides this, you can choose the size of image capture and also the format (either JPG or PNG). The screenshot below show the capture of techsnack.net:

Super Screenshot techsnack.net

SuperScreenshot

Source: makeuseof.com

G.ho.st – Global hosted operating system

Posted by Dickey on Jan 28th, 08 | Filed under Internet, Web 2.0 | 2 Comments

G.ho.st is a free web-based Operating System, a virtual computer that can be accessed by anywhere using a web browser. It provide every user a Virtual Computer (VC) which will include the personal settings, desktop, files, and even applications.

G.ho.st Similar with Joose, G.ho.st is an online desktop with an operating system and a virtual environment to store your personal settings. They provide up to 3GB storage for files and 3GB for G.ho.st mail. You can access your virtual desktop anywhere as long as you have internet access and a web browser.

G.ho.st hosted a lot of applications and services, which can run immediately without installation. Most of the applications are online services which are also free. You can view the complete applications list here. User can create a single-sign in for services which use frequently, such as Google Docs. They provide a ftp fr each user so that they can download/upload anything easier. For browsing and email, G.ho.st comes with its own browser and email client which has a pretty interface. The screenshot below shows G.ho.st browser application:

G.ho.st browser

G.ho.st is still in public alpha and it takes long time to load the application. But, its interface really attract me. Although it provide a lot of applications and services, but it is too few compare with desktop applications. I hope that they can try to integrate as many as online applications in future.

G.ho.st

How to forward good websites to your email account

Posted by Dickey on Jan 28th, 08 | Filed under Cool Stuff, How To, Internet | No Comments

Sometimes, you found some interesting articles over the internet and you would like to store them in your bookmark. But, you can’t bring your bookmark together with you, unless you install bookmark synchronization application or use online bookmark service such as Del.icio.us. But, if you want to keep your bookmark private, you had to keep these bookmarks on your own computer.

toread toread is a web service which can forward any websites to our email account. When you found any interesting article, you can click the toread bookmarklet button and a copy of the website will then delivered to your email account. You can then categorize those articles in your email account.

How it works?

  1. Type your email address and then press Start now. They will send you an email and you need to click on the link provided to verify your email account.

    toread step 1

  2. After you verify your email account, you are ready to use “toread” bookmark service. You can then right-click the [toread] button and choose “Bookmark this link” from the drop down menu to add this service to your bookmark. Otherwise, you can simply drag-and-drop the [toread] button to your Firefox Toolbar.

    toread step 2

  3. Now, you can start bookmark any websites. When you click on the toread bookmarklet button, the website’s content will automatically forward to your email account. The subject of the email will start with [toread], to indicate that the website is being sent by toread.

Notes: You can also add toread button to your blog/website so that your visitors can forward your contents to their email account. Please refer Add “toread” button to your web site! for more information.

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LockImage – Password protect your image

Posted by Dickey on Jan 27th, 08 | Filed under Application, Cool Stuff, Downloads | 1 Comment

LockImage is a light application which provide password protect for your image. After finish encrypt your image, LockImage will create an executable file, which required the password to open and view.

LockImage

Sometimes, we want to send confidential images to someone else, but we scared someone (hackers) will get these images before they reach the destination. So, we need to password protect these images.

There are few ways to password protect your images/files. For example, we can use Winzip/Winrar to zip them and choose a password to encrypt. But, there are few steps we need to go through in order to encrypt files using Winzip/Winrar. So, is there any easier way for us to password protect our image? Yes, by using LockImage, you can easily protect your image with password. It will create an executable file which contains the image.

How it works?

The interface is quite simple. When you launch the application, choose File -> Open to choose an image and then choose File -> Save As to save the image as a protected executable file. You need to provide the password in order to protect your image.

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Civil Netizen – Secure file delivery from your desktop!

Posted by Dickey on Jan 27th, 08 | Filed under Application, Internet | No Comments

Civil Netizen let you deliver your file privately to others. The file transfer is fast and easy, using the built-in download manager.

Civil NetizenThere are lots of online private file sharing. I had cover some of them, including Adobe SHARE, EatLime, and PipeBytes. PipeBytes is a service which just provide a platform for user to send file through their website but they won’t store the file in their server. But, what happen if you want to share file with your friends but lazy to go through long steps or you want the download process can be resume if your internet connection get interrupted? I believe PipeBytes can’t give us these 2 features.

Civil Netizen is another file sharing tool which provide a lot of features, including a built-in download manager which can resume the download process after the internet being interrupted. Furthermore, the traffic between senders and recipients are being encrypt using 128-bit encryption. Civil Netizen support up to 4GB for total size and also preserves the folder structure.

How it works?

So, how Civil Netizen works? There are totally 4 steps involved, 2 for senders, 2 for recipients.

  1. Pack – Drag-and-drop files that you would like to share, and give your parsel a name. You can add multiple files or folders and the folder structures will be kept.
  2. Send – After you can create your parsel, you can start sending them to your friends by giving them the pickup slip. There are few options that you can choose from, either use your primary desktop email client or through IM.
  3. Pickup – When your friends get the pickup slip, they can start picking up your files by pasting the pickup slip text.
  4. Unpack – After your friends finish download the files, they can then unpack the parsel and browse the parsel’s contents.

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Taskbar Repair Tool Plus! – Fix your taskbar problems

Posted by Dickey on Jan 27th, 08 | Filed under Application, Portable Apps | 1 Comment

Taskbar Repair Tool Plus! is a portable application which can fix a lot of problems relating to your taskbar, notification area, and the quick launch bar.

Taskbar Repair Tool Plus!

Taskbar Repair Tool Plus! able to fix a lot of problems, including taskbar missing, minimized programs missing, show missing icons in notification area, restore show desktop icon in quick launch area, and etc. Basically, this program is a collection of registry files or VB script which can modify your windows registry. You can go to the website and look for the VB script for certain features.

When you choose to fix any problems or change the settings on your system, you can always look at the description before click the repair button. After you fix or change the settings, you may need to restart your system. This application is only for Windows XP, as Windows Vista will have different registry settings with XP.

Although this application is free, but you need to purchase a license if you want to use all features.

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USB Ejector – Easily eject USB drive with just one click

Posted by Dickey on Jan 26th, 08 | Filed under Application | 2 Comments

USB Disk Ejector can easily and safely remove any disk drive that plug into your USB. It is a portable application and once launch, it will detect all USB disk connect to your computer and you can remove them by double click it.

If you have a lot of portable USB device such as USB flash drive, iPod, external hardisk, you probably will need to remember the drive letter when you plug all these devices in your computer and want to remove one of them.

USB Drive EjectorLet say i had my iPod and my USB disk connect to my PC and i want to remove them from my system. I need to click the Safely Remove Hardware tray icon and then choose the correct drive. Sometimes, our system doesn’t really specify which one is which, so you need to go My Computer to look at the drive letter and then click the Safely Remove Hardware icon again to remove it.

By using USB Disk Ejector, you can easily remove these devices, because it will list out the device with its name. So, you can easily recognize which one is which.

Sometimes, when you trying to remove your USB disk, error message popup showing that the device is in use, even you close all applications that related to the device. USB Disk Ejector can solve this situation by safely remove your USB disk.

This application is useful if you deal with multiple USB disk and you don’t want the “safe to remove hardware” message popup. This applicaion also support command line options. You can read more information from the website.

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