Posted by Dickey on May 30th, 08 | Filed under
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Bookmarks are very important for everyone. We use it to store important URL and a lot of interesting websites. Without bookmark, i can’t imagine how we are going to remember the URLs.
So, what happen if our Firefox’s bookmarks suddenly disappear? One of my friend’s bookmarks suddenly disappear (i am not sure the actual reason, but i suspect is cause by improper PC shut down). So, how are we going to restore the bookmarks?
Firefox actually do the job for us. So, where are the backup bookmarks and how we restore them? Follow the steps below and you can easily retrieve them:
- Go to “C:\Documents and Settings\(your account)\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\”. Replace the bracket with your account name.
- You will see a folder with random name. Go inside the folder and you will see another folder “bookmarkbackups“. Here is the place Firefox store your previous bookmarks.
- Pick the latest bookmarks, copy it.
- Go up one level, paste the bookmarks that you just copied.
- Rename the file to “bookmarks.html”.
- Done. Now your bookmarks should be restored.
Posted by Dickey on May 25th, 08 | Filed under
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For a limited time, you can grab Paragon Hard Disk Manager 8 Special Edition for free, which originally cost $49.95.
Paragon Hard Disk Manager 8 is a disk management tools, which let you to resize, move, hide, merge, restore and convert partitions without data loss. Furthermore, you can use it to backup or restore your data, with a very fast speed.
Computer Active ran a promotion for its users to download a free copy of this software, and this promotion suppose to expired at last year. However, Haris had found out that this link is still exist and you can actuallyu grab your free copy by follow the steps below:
- Download Paragon Hard Disk Manager 8 from Computer Active Website.
- Go to Paragon website, register and get a free serial number.
- Check your email, you should receive the serial number.
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Posted by Dickey on May 24th, 08 | Filed under
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Filemail is a new service which allow users to attach 2GB files through email.
A lot of free email providers will limit the attachments size. Normally, they not allow more than 10MB attachments. Even we can use online file storing services , but it is very troublesome if a single file’s size is larger than 100MB. It is because most of the free online file storing services will limit the file size to 100MB.
Filemail is a solution for you, if you need to send large attachments through email. So, how does Filemail works? It actually store your files in their server and encrypt it through a 128but AES algorithm. Your recipients will then receive an email with the download details. They can then download your attachments through the given link.
You can use your existing email address while sending the mail. Registration is not required. The advance options let you decide the download limit and the number of days until the files being removed.
Note: The sender and recipient can be blank, which means you can get the download link and send it to your friends manually.
Filemail
Posted by Dickey on May 22nd, 08 | Filed under
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Grab a free 6 months Avira AntiVir PersonalEdition Premium license now by filling up the form!
Previously, i had wrote an article about free 6 months Avira AntiVir PersonalEdition Premium. However, the link doesn’t work after few weeks. Now, i manage to find another campaign, which will also gives you 6 months of Avira AntiVir PersonalEdition Premium for free.
So, follow the simple steps and grab your license now:
- Fill in your First name, Last name, email address and country here.
- Download Avira AntiVir PersonalEdition.
- Check your email, you should receive a mail from Avira. Open the mail and find your attachment named “HBEDV.KEY“. This is your license key. Observe that this license is only valid for 6 months, and it already mention the expire date for this license key.
- Install Avira AntiVir PersonalEdition. After installation complete, go to Help -> Load license file… and select the license file which you just received. Done.
Extra: If you want to know about the previous promotion, you can view this post.
Posted by Dickey on May 22nd, 08 | Filed under
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ReadBag is a useful service which similar with Firefox’s Read It later plugin. You can save any stories and read them when you are free.
ReadBag runs on the new Google apps engine, so you just need an Google account in order to use this service. It provides user a javascript bookmarklet button so that users can add new stories quickly and easily.
To save a story, simply provide the title and URL. You can turn on the “auto archive” function, so that all stories read will automatic go to the archive folder.
There are some other features such as mobile access and API. Furthermore, Firefox users can direct posting or access ReadBag through extension, while Google Reader’s users can add stories in ReadBag by using greasemonkey script.
Another similar service is Instapaper, which is much straight forward than ReadBag. If you need extra features, i would recommend ReadBag, else go for Instapaper.
ReadBag
Posted by Dickey on May 21st, 08 | Filed under
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WaveMyPic is a free service which can apply lake effect to your picture.
There are a lot of online tools which can edit/modify/add special effects to your pictures. WaveMyPic is one of the example which can add lake effect. Simply upload any pictures and wait for the output to come out.
After you add lake effect to your picture, you will be given a link which point to the output. You can then embedded the output to your social media account using the provided link. Below is an example output from WaveMyPic:
The generated output image’s size is quite large. So i would recommend you to use the direct link to the output picture from WaveMyPic, instead of store it on your hosting account. It will save you a lot of bandwidth.
WaveMyPic
Posted by Dickey on May 20th, 08 | Filed under
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Movavi online video converter is another cool service which support a lot of output formats. You can download movie from video-sharing websites and save to your desired device/formats.
You can paste the movie clips URL or upload from your own computer. You can upload up to 5 files and the individual file is limited to 10 minutes length or 100MB. After you upload the files, you can then choose your desired output format. Movavi a lot of output format, such as avi, mpeg, ipod, psp, 3gp, and flv.
You should then provide your email address and Movavi will notify you when your files are ready.
Although Movavi provide a simple step to convert the movie, but i hope that they can provide me the download links immediately after i upload my files. It is very troublesome to check the mailbox frequently just to wait for the download links.
Movavi
Posted by Dickey on May 19th, 08 | Filed under
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SuperFast Shutdown is a free utility which can shutdown your Windows faster than you could possible imagine. It will shutdown the Windows immediately when you click the shortcut button.
How long you need to wait for the regular shutdown/restart precess? I guess a normal PC which install a lot of applications will take at least 2 minutes right? With SuperFast Shutdown, you can reduce the times needed. After you install the application, you will get two extra icons – Super Fast Reboot and Super Fast Shutdown.
My advises are to manually close all opened windows and save all open files before perform “superfast” reboot/shutdown. Else you may lost your data. It is because this application won’t prompt any warning message and will immediately shutdown when you press the shortcut icon.
download SuperFast Shutdown | download from MediaFire
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Posted by Dickey on May 19th, 08 | Filed under
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Secure Login is a Firefox extension which similar to Opera’s Wand login. It use the built-in password manager and provide extra security features for users.
After install Secure Login, you are able to use the status bar icon or shortcut key ( alt + N) to perform automatic login. Before you click the Secure Login icon or press the shortcut key, Firefox won’t automatically fill the username. This will help to protect you from malicious Javascript code from stealing your login information.
If you have multiple accounts on the same URL, Secure Login will let you choose which account you want to use. You also have the option to play a sound when login data found on the current page. The screenshot below shows Firefox highlighted the username and password fields when Secure Login found login information:
When you see the highlighted fields, you can click the Secure Login icon at Firefox status bar to automatic login. To provide more security such as preventing cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks, you can turn on “Activate JavaScript protection on login”.
If you use Firefox password manager very often and would like to protect your login information, i would recommend you in install this plugin.
download Secure Login extension
