The picture above shows the architecture of OpenXML Viewer. After installing the Firefox plugin, you are able to open any docx files using Firefox.

It is an useful extension for users who haven’t upgrade to Microsoft Office 2007. Basically, the extension will convert docx documents into HTML format so that web browsers can render and display to users. So, the extension is not able to shows embedded objects.

Source: Digital Inspiration

Notify.me is a service which can deliver up to date information for you through different methods. It let you directly specify which sites that you want to monitor, and notify you whenever the sites update. Although you may use rss to follow the news, but Notify.me will notify you instantly when there are updates on the sites.

These are the features of Notify.me:

• notify.me lets you get realtime notifications of information you care about.
• track items on craigslist, job postings, breaking news stories and much more.
• choose to have notifications delivered to Instant Messenger, SMS, Email, or Desktop Application.
• easily and quickly manage your notifications through the web interface.

Notify.me

Fortunately, you have an alternative application which can also protect your exe files called Empathy. Empathy is a free and portable application.

Empathy let you protect your application from unauthorize person. You can use Empathy in your office, to protect your application from you collegues, or even your BOSS!

There are 4 options in the main interface. Use the Protect button to password protect your application. While the Unprotect button will remove the password. The Test button will run the protected application and to see whether the application can be run after protected by password. The Help button will open the Empathy help file.

The protected application can be run at different machine or different Windows OS, as long as you have the password.

The unregistereded version can only accept 1 character password. This may enough for non-IT guy as people will normally stop accessing your application once they see the password protected dialog box prompt out.

To use multiple characters password, you have to send the author a picture postcard, with your name and email, and the author will send you the unlock code.

Download : Empathy

Using this service, you can you can easily grab the content or text from the PDF file. This service support other languages too.

There are some other similar services:

• Convert PDF to image
• Convert PDF to text

There are many examples of its possible useses such as catalogue software, calculation programmes, image campaigns (CMS-based), computer based training lessons or other applicatons.

Main features:

• Free! No royalties
• Complete WAMPP Server-Stack
• Runs directly from CD-ROM, USB Stick or Hard disk without installation
• Full featured webserver (based on apache)
• PHP 5.x support with many extensions installed (e.g. gd)
• Supports SQLite databases
• Runs on all versions of Windows from Win 98 and above, MAC OSX support is coming
• Support for MySQL 5 Databases
• Supports many PHP extensions (GD-Lib, PDO…) by default
• Support for Perl 5.8

Download: Server2Go

Now, i found a javascript plugin for Google Chrome that allow user to check the pagerank or alexa ranking of the website you are browsing.

This javascript bookmarklet can be used in any browser. Simply drag and drop this button [PageRank Status] to your bookmark and press it when you want to check the pagerank or alexa ranking.

Source: Chromefans.org

After you login to your Inbox, you will found that In.com has a very similar interface with Yahoo Mail. Both of them are using AJAX, and they will open new mail/item at a new tab.

The most interesting feature from In.com is they provide the shortest email address. It makes your email address easy to remember by others. In.com has built-in antivirus scanner and spam filter. But unfortunately, it doesn’t support SMTP and POP3. So, you can only use their web interface to access your inbox.

Although Gmail and Yahoo Mail provide more features, but you may try In.com if you want to have a short email address.

In.com

Now, you can download Trend micro Internet Security Suite 2008 for free. this is a promotion between Trend Micro and residential Internet customers of HTC ISP. Just download the trial version and use the following serial number to activate it:

PFEP-9991-7436-4997-1545

This license is valid for 3 years.

Notes: Please uninstall any existing Trend Micro or other security software before downloading the NEW 2008 version.

Source: Digital Inspiration

Today i browse through HQ Wallpapers and found some Windows 7 wallpapers which i feel quite nice. Here, i will share some of them. You may view HQ Wallpapers for the full content.

Source: Windows Seven HQ Wallpapers and Windows 7 HQ Wallpapers

Today, i found one article which share us 15 Windows 7 pre-release Activation Keys. These Activation keys can be used unlimited time in unlimited different client PC.

These are the activation keys

J7PYM-6X6FJ-QRKYT-TW4KF-BY7H9
D67PP-QBKVV-6FWDJ-4K2XB-D4684
HQDKC-F3P6D-C9YYM-HRB89-QDBB7
76DX2-7YMCQ-K2WCP-672K2-BK44W
2RG93-6XVFJ-RKHQ7-D2RTT-3FMQT
TT63R-8JGWP-WWT97-R6WQC-4CVWY
YQJX6-D6TRM-VWBM7-PHDJK-YPXJH
Q7J7F-GQHBT-Q42RQ-2F8XV-2WKKM
KH4X7-JY8G7-RCD7G-BYDJW-YTPXH
WYBJ8-8QVP3-24R82-VV2VP-72Q9W
9DP2R-W78GJ-GJBKW-CKR46-H3WYT
CXB7F-WWCM4-BP9V3-2YH43-RK8Y6
W9BYV-K2TB8-4YDJT-QBQWP-KFDHB
WGDJW-B8DYC-WVKX4-6MKF4-B8PK8
2PHXF-9PBDW-D3WWY-CPDKD-XG87V

Please activate your Windows 7 now!

To use Pdfgeni, simply type your keywords and hit enter. You will get a list of pdf documents which related with your keywords. You may choose to download the pdf documents or view it online through your browser.

Pdfgeni is very suitable for use to search pdf documents like any publish article or cheet sheets. Although there are many web service which let users share pdf documents, but i prefer Pdfgeni because of its loading and searching speed.

Pdfgeni

Simply choose the source and target browser and click the Export button. Currently, Transmute support Google Chrome, Firefox, IE, Opera and Safari. the advance settings allow you to create a backup for your bookmarks and append timestamp at your export file.

This application require .NET Framework to run. Before performing any conversion, remember to close all browsers, else you will get error messages. It is because your browsers will lock the bookmarks database and prevent any write action on it.

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Source: Manage Bookmarks between Different Browsers with Transmute

To use NoVirusThanks, simply upload your file and press the Submit File button. The system will then put your file in the queue. The scanning process took me more than 5 minutes even though there are only 6 files in the queue. But, i am satisfied with the overall process. It will give you a link which contains the report of the scanning process.

The maximum file size supported is 20MB. You may try to use the Search MD5 feature if you lazy to upload your file. Use any software to compute the MD5 hash and paste to to the service. It will show you the analysis of the file if that file was analyzed before.

NoVirusThanks

The old .NET logo was 8 years old and Microsoft wants a new logo which sync with .NET key values: consistency, robustness and great user experiences. That’s why they had came out with this logo.

They will provide users lightweight version of Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and OneNote. With these web based applications, user can use a browser to create and edit documents.

Microsoft will deliver Office Web applications through Office Live. With the release of Office Live, Microsoft will competes with other famous web based office provider such as Google Docs and Zoho Office.

However, the latest Google Chrome supports Greasemonkey script. Since there is no way to install extension, so the browser will only loads the scripts from c:\scripts. Furthermore, users need to add the parameter –enable-greasemonkey at the end of the shortcut.

You need build 3499 or later in order to run Greasemonkey script. You may use this method to always get the latest version of Google Chrome.

Sometimes, when you compose mail, you may accidently press the send button. This is really bad for any formal or important mail. So, Google had launched Mail Goggles, which is a service that will popup a dialog box which ask users to answer some Math questions.

This is to prevent user accidently send wrong message and user may had enough time to think twice before they hit the Send button.

To use Mail Goggles, go to your Settings page and browse to the Lab tab, then enable the Mail Goggles feature. After that, you may set the difficulty of the Math questions. Besides this, Mail Goggles also let user to choose when this feature will be turn on. For example, you may only turn on this feature at mid night, as this is the time most people feel sleepy and chances to send wrong messages are higher.

These are the summary of bugs fixed:

• Fixes a crash with Adobe Acrobat 9 whenever you close a tab that was showing a PDF file.
• Fixes a crash while dragging tabs on Windows Vista with pen input or tablet services.
• Fixes a crash while dragging tabs.
• Fixes problems with the downloaded files shelf not closing and becoming unresponsive.
• Fixes not being able to save ‘unconfirmed’ file types with different names (Save As…).
• Fixes Silverlight video not playing on some sites.
• Fixes the page encoding menu to work properly again.
• Fixes a crash in the spell checker.
• Fixes Ctrl+K to work again (focus the address bar and clear it for a new search).

You may download Google Chrome 0.3.154.6 from this page or download the portable version from this page.

In the Car DVD Players Wiki page, you will learn how to choose a suitable car DVD player and things to consider when choosing a suitable system for you. For example, you may need to consider extra features such as GPS Navigation System and ability to play iPod songs.

There are different types of Car DVD Players which suit different budgets and usages. For example, you may consider a Ceiling Mount DVD Players if you have a lot of budget, or you may get an In-Dash Receivers if you want an economical one.

If you bought an high-end system, you may also consider to read about their Anti-theft system page and get away from thieves.

ShopWiki has provide us a very detail guide on buying and you may easily search for any product using their search engine.

Sticky note is pretty important. It serve as a reminder for our daily plans. There are a lot of similar applications and some of them are paid applications.

Although Stickies for windows is a free application, it comes with an easy-to-use interface and very customizeable.

The above screenshot showed how you can customize the notes. You can even choose your own system tray icon and synchronize your notes at different PCs through Amazon S3 service.

Once you installed Stickies, you can create new notes by press “Ctrl + Alt + N” and place them anywhere at your desktop.

Stickies for Windows

So, how are you going to run Live CD using MobaLiveCD?

1. Go to http://mobalivecd.mobatek.net/en/ and download the application. It is a standalone application, which need no installation. Hence, you can bring along it with your USB drive.
2. After you downloaded the application, double-click it and you will see the screen as above screenshot. Click the “Run the LiveCD” button, and then you can select your ISO image file.



3. After that, MobaLiveCD will ask you whether want to create a hard disk image for your virtual machine. If you want to save your works and retrieve them on next launch, select “Yes” and specify the location, else select “No“.
4. Your Live CD will now start booting and you can click the window to interact with your emulated OS, or press “Ctrl + Alt” to return to your current environment.

Tips: You can select the “Right-Click Menu” at the Main menu page so that you can run MobaLiveCD through your right-click context menu. To remove this feature, press the “Uninstall” button.

MobaLiveCD

Simply click at any character that you want, and it will be copied to your clipboard. You may also copy the character as HTML or as Text. To copy more than 1 character, you may highlight them and press Ctrl+C.

So, you may bookmark this website and use it to find special characters anytime. Although you may also use Microsoft Word to get the special character, but this 1 seems much more easier and faster right?

CopyPasteCharacter

Simply provide the URL of the movie and then type the start and stop time frame. After that, press the continue button and you will get a link to share with your friends.

By visiting the link, you are able to view the original movie or the splice movie. Instead of watching the whole clip, you are able to share the interesting part of any movie by using this service.

Splicd

As i go through this article, i found StopForwarding.Us may help me. Simply provide your friend’s name and email address, and it will send an email to your friend and ask them to stop forwarding meaningless emails. Your freind will not know who is the person that complain about his/her action and most probably they will though someone is spying on their computer!

Your friend will receive an anonymous email which ask them to stop spamming/forwarding emails and he will recognize his errors in sending those meaningless emails. This is the email that he will receive.

I personally think that it would be better if let us to include our name or email. So that our friend can only exclude our name in their “mailing list” while let the others interested people still able to read their mails.

StopForwarding.Us

There are 3 types of login: Intellilogin, Advanced Login, and Secure Login. With Intellilogin, you just provide your email address and password, the system will then login for you. The Advanced Login allow you to configure your server name and protocol to access. Finally, the Secure Login will use https to make sure you are using a secure connection.

You can use this service without register. But, if you want to control more than 1 email accounts and have your own contact list, you will need to register.

Mail2Web

Sometimes, when you want to send some message to your freind through MSN, but MSN limits the maximum lengths for each conversation. So, you may need to separate one message into different messages. It is very troublesome and time consuming.

So, TinyPaste may help us as it will store your message in the database, generate a short URL for you. After that, you just send the URL to your friend and they can view the original content through the URL.

TinyPaste will convert the text to Unicode format. so you can use it to store Chinese or even Japanese language text. I think this is really a good idea, but it is even better if user can encrypts the message.

TinyPaste

So, how you download movie using TubeMaster Plus? Just open the application, and type the address of the movie (it support most of the popular video sharing website). Then, the download will start automatically (depands on your settings, i had enable automtic download of new movie).

If you want to save high defination movie, you can also enable it in your settings. You may also use TubeMaster Plus to convert movie to anothe rformat. The supported formats are: FLV, AVI, MPEG, MP3, MP3, and WMV.

It is a handy and must tool for everyone who like to watch and download movie from video sharing website.

Source: Wing Loon

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Dr. Pic is another web based photo editing tool, which doesn’t require Flash plugin - It use AJAX!

There are a lot of things that you can do with this AJAX photo editing tool, for example resize, crop, rotate, brush, sharpen, oil paint, and etc. After editing the image, you can save it as jpg, bmp, gif, and png format. You may also choose the quality of the saved image.

It is useful if you use a computer which doesn’t install Flash plugin. But since Dr. Pic using AJAX, i believe some old browser like IE5 may not rander it well. So ,you better use a modern browser like Firefox 3 or IE7.

Dr. Pic

However, most of the services are temporary and the email account will disappear after certain time, which means that you need to create another account when you need.

OtherInbox provide alternative solution. It let user to register for an account, but with unlimited email addresses. Let say your username is “username”, so any emails which send to address ending with @username.otherinbox.com will be forwarded to your account.

So, you may create different email account for different use. For example, you may create forum@username.otherinbox.com for forum purpose, while sales@username.otherinbox.com for buying or selling online.

Currently, you need to have invitation code to signup for new account. Thanks Download Squad for giving out the invitation link.

source: Download Squad

OtherInbox

Dirhael from DonationCoder.com had release an application which can check the latest release and download it using your default browser.

Just press the “Check” button and it will show you the latest release version. after that, you may choose to download the Installer or Archive. The download will start with your default browser.

download from DonationCoder | download from MediaFire