http://www.techsnack.net Technology, tutorial, computer tips, downloads, web 2.0 Thu, 24 Jul 2008 13:07:38 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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. ... http://www.techsnack.net/search-for-free-portable-apps-at-app-stickcom 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 ... http://www.techsnack.net/write-protect-your-usb-drive-to-protect-it-from-virus 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 ... http://www.techsnack.net/tubezoid-best-place-to-download-youtube-clips 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 ... http://www.techsnack.net/instantly-logoff-reboot-and-shut-down-your-computer-through-tray-icon 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 ... http://www.techsnack.net/hawkeye-font-browser-browse-all-installed-fonts-on-your-computers Website loading time is alway a concern for both web developers and designers. Webslug is a tool for them to quickly measure and compare different websites loading time. We want our websites load fast, so that visitors no need to wait for a long time before can read our contents. normally, ... http://www.techsnack.net/webslug-measure-and-compare-the-websites-loading-time Windows will always highlight new installed programs at the start menu. This feature is good to some people, but i believe most of us would like to remove it. To remove this feature, right click your start menu, and choose properties. Switch to the "Start Menu" tab and press "Customize". Scroll ... http://www.techsnack.net/how-to-disable-highlighting-of-new-installed-programs-on-windows WriteToMyBlog is a web based word editor which support publish blog entries to various platform. This cool editor let users to write post without logging to their panel, and post the same blog posts to different blogging platform. The editor seems like having more features than what Wordpress provided. It is totally ... http://www.techsnack.net/writetomyblog-your-alternate-web-based-blog-editor Do you think that it is possible to edit and modify website within your browser, just like editing a wiki website? Yes, it is possible! Edit current website is a bookmarklet button. When you press the button, you can start edit the website, within install any other plugin or extension. The modified ... http://www.techsnack.net/edit-any-website-within-your-browser If you have more that one website, wondering how to put each other feeds on them? Feed Source is a service which easily integrate others' feed on your blog. There are a lot of methods to put other feeds to your website. For example, you can use Google's API to do ... http://www.techsnack.net/embed-others-feed-to-your-blog-easily-with-feed-source Privnote is an interesting web service that will create a note which will self destruct after being read. We can send someone a note through many ways, such as email and sms. But none of these are safe. People may hack the mail account and look for sensitive data, and handphone ... http://www.techsnack.net/create-notes-that-will-self-destruct-after-read USB Image Tool is a cool application for users to backup entire content of USB drive. It is built using .NET Framework 2.0. It is necessary for us to backup our USB drive frequently, especially if you have a huge capacity's USB drive, or you store important information on it. With ... http://www.techsnack.net/backup-your-entire-usb-drive-with-usb-image-tool RAMBack is a Firefox extension that can clear the internal cache memory for Firefox 3, release the unuse memory space for other applications. A lot of Firefox 2 users complain the memory usage for Firefox 2 is too high, which cause other applications to run slowly. Although Firefox 3 seems to ... http://www.techsnack.net/ramback-free-ram-usage-for-firefox-3 Sumo Paint is a powerful web based image editor, which looks similar to Adobe Photoshop. Sumo Paint was built using Adobe Flash and it lets users to create and modify image online. It even lets users to upload image from their own computer. Sumo Paint offers simple but powerful tools for users ... http://www.techsnack.net/sumo-paint-powerful-web-based-image-editor Adobe had released its new PDF reader, Adobe Reader 9. With Adobe Reader 9, users can play Flash, shockwave, and other rich media contents directly from Adobe Reader without the need to open another applications. Adobe Reader 9 also loads faster than its previous version. The main attraction of Adobe Reader ... http://www.techsnack.net/download-adobe-reader-9-now NextAction is an application which helps you to "Getting Things Done". It will always stays on the top of other applications so that you won't forget your tasks. This small application let you to record any tasks that you want to do and it will automatic saves them into your computer. ... http://www.techsnack.net/nextaction-a-fun-application-to-keep-you-focused The Color Picker is a free tool for designer to quickly grab the color code from anywhere on the screen. Suppose you are a designer, and you found a color which you may use it in future. So what will you do? Print screen and paste the screenshot in any graphic ... http://www.techsnack.net/the-color-picker-free-color-tool-for-designer There are a lot of websites which contains handy tools for users to manage RSS subscribtion. Today i would like to introduce some web services which will deliver RSS straight to your mailbox. I had cover a lot of RSS articles before, which mainly focus on how to filter RSS or ... http://www.techsnack.net/3-services-which-deliver-rss-to-your-mailbox URL Opener is a service which let users to open multiple URLs with just a single mouse click. There are some situations which we want to open multiple website with just a single click. For example, you may reach some websites and found some interesting links which you want to open ... http://www.techsnack.net/url-opener-open-multiple-websites-with-single-click 7-zip is a popular free zip tool for us. Unfortunately, the icons are pretty dull for me. So, i decide to patch them with more interesting icons. Before you start, you need to know the path to 7zip. Normally, it is "C:\Program Files\7-Zip". After that, you need an application called "Resource ... http://www.techsnack.net/how-to-modify-7zip-file-extensions-icon Previously i cover a handy tool to test your LCD monitor. But unfortunately that application can't fix the dead pixels. Now, i would like to introduce some methods which can fix/remove them. Before i start, lets talk about what is stuck pixel and what is dead pixel. Stuck pixel is a ... http://www.techsnack.net/how-to-fix-stuckdead-pixels-on-lcd-monitor Firefox 3 had been released at 17 June 2008. It include a lot of cool new festures. You can easily find and install new addons in Firefox 3. I am sure most of the Firefox users will install some addons or themes. But, do you know that Firefox 3 allow users ... http://www.techsnack.net/find-and-install-addons-made-easy-with-firefox-3 As we know, some of the PDF documents contains restrictions such as not allow users to print, copy and paste. You can use PDF Unlocker to remove these restrictions easily. Some PDF creator will add restrictions to the PDF documents to protect the contents from being copied or printed by users. ... http://www.techsnack.net/how-to-remove-pdf-documents-restrictions Yahoo had add two new domains - Ymail and Rocketmail for its Email service. How many of you are Yahoo mail users? I think most of the internet users will have at least one Yahoo mail account right? But, when you try to register a new account, and you found that ... http://www.techsnack.net/yahoo-adds-two-new-domains-for-its-email-service Google Docs users may discover that they can start upload, preview and share PDF documents. Google had announced this feature in the blog and every Google Docs users can enjoy it. Following Scribd, SlideShare, Docstoc, Google finally launched PDF documents sharing service. With this service, Google Docs users can upload and ... http://www.techsnack.net/google-docs-now-support-pdf-upload-and-sharing Windows 7 is the upcoming version of Windows, which is expected to be released in 2010. However, Windows XP users can download Windows 7 desktop themes patch and enjoy before it release. The Windows 7 desktop theme look similar with Windows Vista. However, there are some differences between them, as you ... http://www.techsnack.net/download-windows-7-theme-for-windows-xp Pictomio is a photo collection application, which will use the power of GPU to present your photo in 3D format. If you have a powerful GPU, you can try Pictomio. It is a simple photo collection and viewing application which utilize the power of GPU. Pictomio comes will a lot of features. ... http://www.techsnack.net/pictomio-utilize-the-power-of-gpu-for-photo-collection CloseWin is a portable application which can immediately close multiple windows in the taskbar at one time. If you like to open a lot of windows at the same time. You probably need to spend some time to close them after use, so that you won't accidentally close the wrong window. ... http://www.techsnack.net/closewin-close-multiple-selected-windows-at-one-time Thumbnail preview image is a new feature in Windows Vista. But, Windows XP users also can enjoy this feature by installing Visual Task Tips. Since i switch to Windows Vista, i really like the thumbnail preview feature. Today, i found an interesting application which can enable this feature in Windows XP. ... http://www.techsnack.net/how-to-enable-thumbnail-preview-for-each-task-in-windows-xp-taskbar Windows explorer is the most common application that we use daily. We can customize the display so that it can show the file details and also it size. Unfortunately, it is unable to show us folder size. Foldersize is a plugin for Windows explorer so that it can show us ... http://www.techsnack.net/how-to-show-folder-size-in-windows-explorer