Posted by Dickey on Mar 31st, 08 | Filed under
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Adobe had launched its free web-based photoshop – Photoshop Express, which is free and let users to edit photo online.
Adobe had use “Express” for the free version of Photoshop, which i felt a bit similar with Microsoft’s free version of Visual Studio which called Visual Studio Express Edition. Basically, Photoshop Express is not only a web-based photo editor, it is also a place for users to store and share photo.
Although we can’t expect Photoshop Express to has same function with Photoshop CS3, but at least Photoshop Express provide the basic tools for users to edit photo and share it with friends. After you create your account, you will be given a subdomain http://username.photoshop.com, and also 2GB of storage.
Another interesting feature is that Photoshop Express allow users to directly load image from Facebook, Photobucket, and Picasa for edit. After finish edit the image, users can choose to email it to friends or get the direct link to the edited image.
Although there are a lot of similar service which start earlier than Adobe, but i believe Adobe manage to fight them as Adobe is a well-known company which focus on Image processing.
Adobe Photoshop Express
Posted by Dickey on Mar 28th, 08 | Filed under
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Compact Timer is a free application which provide multiple countdown, countup, alarm, and stop watch features.
Sometimes, you may need an application which can create a few countdown timers, which can remind you on somethings. There are a lot of applications which provide countdown feature. But, i am a .NET supporter so i come over Compact Timer.
There are different type of timers such as Countdown, Countdown to Date/Time, Countup, Countup to Date/Time, and Stop Watch. You can create unlimited timers and run them simultaneously.
Compact Timer require .NET framework 2.0 and above to run. All timers created will be automatically saved into your system.
There are a lot of settings for the timer. For example, you can create actions when your timer finish countdown, open file or URL, and popup notifications.
This application consume around 26MB of memory. So, if your PC doesn’t has sufficient, you better try other similar applications, else it will cause your PC slow.
Compact Timer homepage | download .NET 2.0
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Posted by Dickey on Mar 26th, 08 | Filed under
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This tutorial will discuss how to create a “hidden” folder with a blank name and no icon, so that nobody will know the existence of that folder.
There are a lot of methods to make your folder invisible. The easiest way is to set the property “hidden” to true. Else, you can get some softwares to do it for you. Now, i would like to discuss another method.
Step 1
Right click on anywhere and choose New -> Folder.
Step 2
Rename the folder. When you rename, delete the original name, hold your “alt” key and press “0160“. This will create a blank name for your folder.
Step 3
After that, right click on your folder and choose Properties. Choose Customize and then press Change Icon button. Select a blank icon from the list. Now, you had successfully create a hidden folder.
People will not know the existence of the folder, even they set to view invisible folder. This is because your folder has no icon and no name!
My advise
Try to put the hidden folder at the middle of your desktop, so that no one will accidentally select them. To make your folder more secure, you can check the “hidden” property.
Posted by Dickey on Mar 25th, 08 | Filed under
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If you use a lot of USB device, i believe you will use “Safely Remove Hardware” very frequently. But if you have a lot of tray icons, you probably need to take some time to find the “Safely Remove Hardware” icon. So, why not create a desktop shortcut to remove USB devices?
Step 1
Right click on your desktop and choose New -> Shortcut.
Step 2
Type “RunDll32.exe shell32.dll,Control_RunDLL hotplug.dll” for the location. After that, change the name of the shortcut. I had rename it to “remove USB“.
Step 3
You had created your shortcut. Now you can double click it and remove and USB device as normal. This method works on Windows 2000/XP/2003/Vista.
Note: If you face any problems when removing your USB devices, you can try unlocker.
Posted by Dickey on Mar 24th, 08 | Filed under
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7tasks is a free to-do lists organizing tool which lets users to cerate and manage their to-do lists easily.
Users can use 7tasks to create to-do lists for different categories of tasks. For example, a list for to-read books, another list for to-eat food, and so on. you can also create lists for your daily tasks. It all depends on you!
The main advantage of web-based to-do lists is that you can access them in different place or different computers. If your project involve a lot of people from different places, you can create a to-do lists and share the account with them, so that the manager can easily manage the tasks among the team members.
Currently, 7tasks doesn’t support notification service. So, users need to login to check the to-do lists and uncheck those tasks that had been done. But, i believe they are going to add the notification service in the next release.
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Posted by Dickey on Mar 23rd, 08 | Filed under
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If you need a reminder service which will send an email for you before an event, you can try out YourLi.st. It is free and no registration required.
Although Microsoft Outlook comes with calender service for users to manage their time table, but sometimes we need a service which will automatically email and remind us about an event. This happen especially we are not around with our PC.
YourLi.st allow users to setup unlimited email reminder alerts. Users are not required to register with them. So, you can setup the reminder quickly.
You can set your even title, date, time, and summary. After you had setup the reminder, YourLi.st will send an email to you, which contains the informations that you provided, including your IP address. So, if someone abuse this service, they will be tracked base on their IP address.
YourLi.st
Posted by Dickey on Mar 22nd, 08 | Filed under
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If you want to search for freeware, you can go download11.com. Download11.com has more than 65,000 files ready for download, and the number is increasing everyday.
Sometimes, we download a program from the internet. After finish installation, then we found that it is a shareware or demo version. So, we need to look carefully whether it bis a freeware before we download. So, why not we try download11.com, which will only gather freeware.
Download11 guys update their files database everyday, so that you won’t miss the latest version or any new free applications. They provide a link for users to upload new applications, so that users will help them to discover new applications.
Their main page is pretty simple, which listed the most popular and latest applications. You can search applications through the search box provided by them. So, try download11.com when you look for any freeware.
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Posted by Dickey on Mar 21st, 08 | Filed under
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System explorer is an application which contains a lot of useful features to replace the Windows Task Manager. It is a free and all-in-one application.
The normal Windows Task Manager comes with only a few features such as Applications, Process, Performance, and Networking. Sometimes, you need to download extra tools to get more informations about your system. So, why not try System Explorer, an all-in-one application for system monitoring purpose.
There are a lot of extra features such as suspicious files check, easy file details search through online database, easy access to System Utilities, and much more.
There are 3 main tabs: Monitoring, System, and Tools. The System tab enable users to perform tasks such as add/delete entry for Startup, uninstall applications, and explore the windows services. The Tools tab let users to easily create snapshots for easy finding of system changes.
Users can carry this application with their USB drive, as it is a portable application. System Explorer support multiple languages such as English, Espanol, Deutsch, Portuguese, and Japanese.
System Explorer website
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Posted by Dickey on Mar 20th, 08 | Filed under
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Firefox comes with spell checking feature, which able to check our spelling error in text boxes. But, there are some fields which Firefox never check, for example the input textbox for username or email address.
We need to change the settings in Firefox so that it enable spell-checking for all text fields. I found this article that talk about this.
First, open your Firefox and type about:config in the address bar and hit enter. After that, type layout.spellcheckDefault in the filter field and change the value to 2 (the default value is 1). You may need to restart your Firefox after this.
Done! Now the spell checking feature is enabled for all text fields.
Posted by Dickey on Mar 18th, 08 | Filed under
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htaccess Editor is an online generator which can easily generate .htaccess files for your websites/blogs.
If you are webmaster or blogger, i think you must knwo what is .htaccess file. There are few things that htaccess file can do:
- Rewriting URLs
- Authorization
- Redirection
- Access restriction
- Deny access to file
- Hotlinking protection
These are common features that a htaccess file can do. If you like to know more about it, you can refer Wikipedia. So, do you know how to create rule for your htaccess file? htaccess Editor is a tool which can help beginner to create their htaccess file. It provide an interface which categorized the features into different tabs. While users change the options, the results will immediately appear at the bottom text box.
After you cerate your rule, you can copy the generated code into a text file and save as .htaccess, then upload to your root folder.
Source: downloadsquad
.htaccess Editor
