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Posted on 13 August 2008
Volumouse is a free utility that lets you quickly and easily control the sound volume on your computer by simply rolling the wheel of your mouse. This can be much more convenient than finding the sound volume icon in the system tray, clicking on the sound icon, and then adjusting the volume.
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Posted on 13 August 2008
Did you know that in Firefox, you can do more with your mouse scroll wheel than just scroll a web page up and down?
Here are a few tips on using your mouse scroll wheel in Firefox that could save you some time.
1. Closing Tabs
To close a tab just place your mouse cursor on a tab and click with the scroll wheel. This is more convenient and faster than clicking the small cross on the tabs, especially when you want to close several tabs.
Posted on 11 August 2008
Whenever you encounter an error message, be it from Windows or any other application you are using, don’t get alarmed. Dealing with errors and error messages is a part of computing.
More often than not, people just don’t have the patience to read the error messages. Sometimes my friends or co-worker call me for troubleshooting. First thing that I ask them is whether they saw any error message and most of the time their reply is ‘Yes, some kind of message popped up but I didn’t read it.’
Posted on 11 August 2008
Anyone who has a computer has time saved information that they may consider important; and if it is lost then they would have a hard time getting it back.
You might say, ‘Oh, I don’t need to worry, I always have all my important data backed up on a CD’. But you can never be 100% sure that the CD would be readable when you actually need it. And there is always a possibility of losing your data before you take a backup.
Posted on 08 August 2008
According to the speed-reading gurus, one of the main reason people tend to read slowly is that, they read one word at a time or very small blocks of words. Added to that, our eyes frequently go back to the previously read block of words and we reread them,which slows down our speed significantly.
Spreeder is a free online reading tool that can help increase your reading speed.
Posted on 06 August 2008
If you spend a lot of time watching YouTube, then Infinitube.net is for you.
Infinitube is a free service that lets you keep YouTube going on forever. Just type in a keyword for the type of videos you want to watch and the site will create a virtually endless playlist of videos from YouTube. What this means is that, once you get Infinitube to start playing the videos, you can sit back and enjoy one video after another just like you would with your TV.
This should be of great use to people who like to get their music from YouTube. Just type in your favorite band’s name and you’ll be on your way to listening to all the music they have on the popular video sharing site.
Posted on 04 August 2008
Recently BSNL (Dataone) users have been finding problems downloading files from Rapidshare.com. Rapidshare has essentially blocked access from BSNL IP address citing hacking attempts as reason.
When you try to download a file from Rapidshare you would encounter the following message:
Massive RapidShare hack attempts detected. IP block 59.90.0.0 - 59.99.255.255 blocked. Please call your internet provider.
This is definitely very frustrating, especially for those who have paid for Rapidshare Premium accounts. But believe me, every problem has a solution.
Posted on 30 July 2008
If you use your notebook computer as your main computer and if you have a spare monitor, then you can put your monitor to good use by making it your Laptop’s secondary monitor. It doesn’t really matter if the second monitor is a CRT or TFT, both work fine. Continue Reading…
Posted on 29 July 2008
Cuil, a brand new search engine, launched recently, is pitched as the world’s latest, largest and fastest search engine. At the time of launch itself, Cuil claims to have 120 billion pages or three times the volume of Google Index.
Cuil has been founded by the husband-wife duo of Stanford professor Tom Costello and former Google search architect Anna Patterson. Originally called Cuill (Irish for knowledge), pronounced as cool, has now been named Cuil. Continue Reading…
