Archive for July, 2008

EmailFuture – Send email to yourself future

Posted by Lim on Jul 31st, 08 | Filed under Cool Stuff, Internet, Web 2.0 | 3 Comments

EmailFuture is a web service for you to send an email which can be receive in future. You can use this service as a reminder for yourself.

There are a lot of similar services which i introduce before such as Time Machiner and MailFreezr. To send an email, simply fill in the web form that they provided. You are allowed to send this email to 4 persons at the same time.

There are some useful uses for EmailFuture:

  • You may use EmailFuture as a reminder for your friends’ birthday, anniversaries.
  • Email a list of goals which you would like to accomplish, so that you won’t forget them in future.

You can actually use EmailFuture as a tool for you to send something for yourself when you use public computer to online. Maybe you worried about virusses and don’t want to use your personal email account. Then you may use EmailFuture to send these information for yourself, as it doesn’t require any login details.

EmailFuture

How to block a USB devices from connect to your computer

Posted by Lim on Jul 29th, 08 | Filed under Application, Tips, Tutorial | 1 Comment

USB devices such as flash drives may harm your computer. Some of the USB drives which infected by virus will automatic copy files to your computer when connected. So, i would like to teach users how to block certain USB devices to connect to your computer.

I had cover USBDeview before, which is a utility to view and manage all devices connected to your computer, no matter previously or currently. Now, i am going to use this utility to block known devices from connect to my computer.

Note: If you don’t know what is USBDevice, you may refer to my previous article.

Steps

  1. Open USBDeview, and you will get a list like below:

  2. Now, choose which device that you want to block from connect to your computer. For example, i want to block my Kingston USB flash drive.
  3. Right-click the device and choose “Disable selected devices”, or you can press F6 to start block the device from connect to your computer.
  4. After that, try to connect the USB flash drive to your computer, you will found that you will not get any menu popup, or any new removable device at “My Computer”. But, you still will heard device connected/disconnected sound when you plug/unplug it.
  5. You can always right-click the device and choose “Enable selected devices” or F7 to unblock the device.

download USBDeview | download from MediaFire

Extract any icons from files easily with IconExtract

Posted by Lim on Jul 27th, 08 | Filed under Application, Cool Stuff, Portable Apps, Tips | 1 Comment

IconExtract is able to extract any icons/cursors from files. It is able to scan and extract icons from exe, dll, ocx, and cpl file types.

What will you do when you saw an interesting icon or cursor from a file? You probably want to grab the image, but how to grab it?

This free utilities from nirsoft.net will helps you to scan and extract any icon or cursor from the given file. Simply launch the application, drag and drop the file to it, and the application will scans and shows you the icons and cursors in the files.

You may right-click and choose to save the icon to a file (.ico format), or you may select copy to clipboard. After copy to your clipboard, you may use your favorite image editor software to edit and save in your desired format.

This is a portable application. So you can always bring it along with your USB flash drive.

download IconExtract | download from MediaFire

bit.ly – URL shorten service which tracks total clicks

Posted by Lim on Jul 26th, 08 | Filed under Cool Stuff, Internet | No Comments

bit.ly is not just a URL shorten service. Instead, it provide extra features such as track total clicks to the shorten URL.

There are a lot of URL shorten service around the internet. For example, we have tinyURL, which is among the most popular URL shorten service. bit.ly is a new launch similar service. But, it provide some extra feature for the users. For example, it will keep track total clicks to the shorten URL.

Beside the tracking service, bit.ly lets users to provide custom keyword. For example, you can customize your shor URL like http://bit.ly/keyword. Some users may ask whether bit.ly provide bookmarklet button for quick creating of short URL. The answer is yes. You can drag the bookmarklet to your browser toolbar and create bit.ly URL easily.

Summary of features:

  1. Custom keyword
  2. bookmarklet
  3. API service for web developers
  4. Click/referring tracking
  5. Automatic create thumbnail for the page link through bit.ly (although i can’t get it to function probably, but the author mention this feature in his blog, so i just list out)

Source: author’s blog

bit.ly

View all USB devices on your computer through USBDeview

Posted by Lim on Jul 25th, 08 | Filed under Application, Portable Apps | 1 Comment

USBDeview is a free utility which can list out all USB devices that currently and previously connected to your computer.

By using this utility, you can get more information on USB devices that connected to your computer. For example, you can get information about the device name, description, device type, serial number, last plug/unplug date, and much more.

For devices that currently connect to your computer, the icon’s color will turn green. For example, device Port_#0003.Hub_#0001 is currenlt connect to my computer, which is my mouse.

This utility is able to remove unwanted devices driver from your computer. It is a good utility especially you want to uninstall unused devices from your computer or you want to do a clean installation for the driver.

download USBDeview | download from MediaFire

Search for free portable apps at app-stick.com

Posted by Lim on Jul 24th, 08 | Filed under Application, Cool Stuff, Downloads, Portable Apps | 4 Comments

app-stick.com is a website which collect a lot of useful portable applications. For example, you can get your portable Firefox, portable 7-zip, and portable Skype over there.

Nowadays, USB flash drive is a must have accessories for everybody. It is very common for everyone to have at least 2GB flash drive. So, why not install some portable applications to it?

Just go to app-stick.com, and you will get to know some free portable applications. In their main page, they listed out some of the popular applications such as Skype, Firefox, and Open Office. You can click and view portable applications of different category by clicking the link at your left hand side.

app-stick.com will not host any files. All the link will point you to the original website that host the application. Beside this, they provide a brief description for all applications, which is a good feature for those who don’t know about the applications.

I recommend users to download some System utilities to your flash drive. It may help you to solve some system problems. For example, you may download Avira Antivirus, “Autoruns” to detect any applications that run at startup.

Spent some times and you will find some useful applications there.

app-stick.com

Write protect your USB drive to protect it from virus

Posted by Lim on Jul 21st, 08 | Filed under Application, Downloads, Portable Apps | 11 Comments

USB Write Protector is a portable utilities which can write-protect your USB flash drive so that virus/spyware can’t copy itself to the drive.

The main cause of viruses are USB flash drive. These viruses tend to copy themselves to the flash drive whenever system detected new device plug in. I still remember there are some old USB drives that come with write protect feature. But unfortunately most of the new flash drive don’t come with such feature, maybe the manufacturers want to cut down the cost?

So, the only way to protect our USB flash drive is enable the write protect through our own PC. With USB Write Protector, you can turn on/off the write protect to a USB flash drive.

Open this application before you plug any flash drive into your computer. After you turn on the write protection, you will not be able to write any files to the flash drive, or delete any files from it. You must always unplug and plug your flash drive if you want to turn on/off the write protection.

Note: This utilities will not write any files to your flash drive, it just make sure your flash drive is write protected in this cumputer only. So, when you plug the flash drive into another PC, your flash drive may still infacted by viruses. So, the beast way to protect your flash drive is to install this application to all computers that you may use.

download USB Write Protector | download from MediaFire

TubeZoid – Best place to download YouTube clips

Posted by Lim on Jul 20th, 08 | Filed under Cool Stuff, Downloads, Internet | 1 Comment

Downloading YouTube movie has never been so easy. TubeZoid let users replace “youtube” with “tubezoid” so that they can download the movie on the fly.

I had cover a lot of web services which let users download movie from YouTube and other movie sharing websites. Two of the most popular are Clip Nabber and Vixy.net. But TubeZoid provide an extra feature – just replace “youtube” with “tubezoid” in the URL and TubeZoid will convert the movie on the fly!

This feature let users easily convert and download youtube movie even faster. Currently, TubeZoid supports YouTube, Google Video, Break, Veoh, Dailymotion, Metacafe, and several adult movie sites.

TubeZoid

Instantly logoff, reboot and shut down your computer through tray icon

Posted by Lim on Jul 17th, 08 | Filed under Application, Cool Stuff, Downloads, Portable Apps | 2 Comments

iPower is a utilities which will add a tray icon and let users to instantly logoff, reboot and shut down computer by double click it.

Since i installed Windows Vista, i feel that i don’t really like the Vista Lock buttons feature. I always hope that i can replace the lock and save session button with reboot and shutdown button. As i feel that i seldom lock my computer or save the session.

Finally i found iPower, which add a tray icon so that i can quickly shutdown or reboot my PC (although i have another application which can shutdown my PC within few seconds, but this utilities allow Windows to gives any warning for unsaved application.)

iPower is a portable application. Upon launch, you may right-click the tray icon to choose either “Logoff, reboot or shutdown”. The default is “Shut down”. When you double click the tray icon, magic happen. Your computer will immediately logoff, reboot or shut down depands on what you choose.

I like to restart my PC from times to times, so i had set the double-click to “Reboot”. What about you?

download iPower | download from MediaFire

Hawkeye Font Browser – Browse all installed fonts on your computers

Posted by Lim on Jul 16th, 08 | Filed under Application, Cool Stuff, Downloads | 2 Comments

Hawkeye Font Browser is a free utilities which able to list all installed fonts on your computer.

Sometimes you may want to know your computer’s installed fonts and may also wish to see the font’s render in different size or color. We may use Microsoft Word to help us, but we still need to choose them one by one in order to view result from different font type.

Hawkeye Font Browser makes viewing fonts easy. Once you launch the application, you can type some text and press the “Redraw Font List” button, so that the Font List will repaint and you can compare the results from different font type immediately.

For example, i type “You can type anything” and press the button. I can then get a list of text showing different font’s results. Click the result will show you the font type and larger display of the font render result.

This is a very handy utilities, especially you install a lot of fonts on your computer. It require .NET Framework 3.5 to run.

download Hawkeye Font Browser | download from MediaFire | download .NET Framework 3.5

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