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How to change the default location where new programs are installed

December 2, 2007 4 comments

By default Windows XP uses the C:\Program Files directory as the base directory into which new programs are installed. But there might be times when you want a new program to be installed in another directory or may be another drive, instead of the default location. Almost all programs allow you to choose where you [...]

Qipit – Easy way to copy and share anything printed or written

November 21, 2007 0 comments

Qipit is a free online service that lets you use your camera phone or digital camera to make a digital copy of any written or printed document to store, share via email or fax, or publish to the web. With qipit you can copy whiteboards or class notes; fax documents and contracts; scan and copy [...]

Using Gmail as your Universal Inbox

September 29, 2007 1 comment

Nowadays most people have more than one email account. If one of yours is a Gmail account, you can use it as your primary inbox to check all your POP3 accounts in your Gmail browser window. But do remember that you can check only other POP3 accounts only. You won’t be able to check Yahoo [...]

Docufarm – Search and view online documents easily without downloading

July 19, 2007 1 comment

If you are looking to search the web for documents of the type pdf, doc, rtf, ppt, xls and ps, then apart from your favorite search engine you may also want to use Docufarm. Docufarm is a free web search tool especially for document files. What’s special about Docufarm is that once you have the [...]

BareSite – Browse even non-mobile friendly websites easily with your mobile device

July 12, 2007 0 comments

Are you tired of trying to browse websites with your mobile device and getting mobile unfriendly content? While an increasing amount of publishers make their content available for mobile devices, majority of websites still are not ready for mobile browsing. BareSite is a free service that can help you browse the web using your mobile [...]

Mirror one folder to another and keep the files synchronised

July 8, 2007 1 comment

File Mirror is a tiny little free utility that helps to mirror one folder to another folder. Any changes that is made to the contents of the source folder, including changes to a file, are automatically carried out in the destination folder also. There is not much that you need to do to get it [...]

Every File Extension in the World – Never be stranded with an unknown file extension.

July 2, 2007 1 comment

A few days back one of my friends was having problems opening a certain file. He had this .mdi file that his friend had sent him as mail attachment. It was obvious that there was no associated application installed to open the file and I could not immediately remember what this .mdi extension was. A [...]

ChanceXchange – Trade your unwanted dvds, games, cds and books for things you want

June 28, 2007 0 comments

A few days ago I wrote a post about readitswapit – a site where you can swap your old books with others. But the service is available to people staying in UK only. Here is a similar service called chanceXchange that is not limited to a particular country and it is not limited to books [...]

Useful and free Gmail tools to increase your productivity

June 22, 2007 0 comments

Gmail Space – Gmail Space is an extension to the Firefox browser which turns your Gmail account into a Web drive, so you can share your content from several systems without the need of carrying them with you and through a simple to use interface. – Download. Send To GMail (aka Backup to Gmail) – [...]

ReadItSwapIt – Swap your old books for new ones

June 20, 2007 1 comment

If you’re a book-lover who likes to swap books or get new books for free, ReadItSwapIt is the site for you. At ReadItSwapIt, you can swap your old books for new/old ones. It is a free book exchange website that allows you to swap the books you don’t want for the books that you do. [...]

ExTools – A free collection of useful Excel functions

June 9, 2007 7 comments

ExTools is a free Microsoft Excel add-in program that has lot of useful functions that can make your life easier working with Excel. While some of the functions available in ExTools simplify a task which normally would take much more time otherwise some tools in ExTools are additions which are not available in Excel. These [...]

Windows in a Box – Keep every Windows settings within reach

June 7, 2007 0 comments

Windows XP has lot of settings that can be configured to affect the performance or to personalize. Some of these can be as simple as changing the wallpaper. Others can be more advanced such as the Computer Management console where you can adjust a lot of advanced things like the Disk Management. But even for [...]

Some Firefox shortcuts to speed up your browsing

June 4, 2007 2 comments

Firefox is one of the best browsers around and is a pleasure to work with. You can speed up your browsing by learning some shortcut ways to work with Firefox that besides being extremely convenient also save a lot of time. Here are some of the shortcuts that you would do well to remember. You [...]

Speed up your PC – Force Windows XP to release DLLs

June 3, 2007 3 comments

When programs run in Windows XP, they frequently use what are called DLLs (Dynamic-Link Libraries), which contain shared programming instructions that different applications use in order to run. DLLs are stored in RAM whenever the system summons them; when you quit a program, XP is supposed to release the DLL from memory. But sometimes DLLs [...]

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