Some of the characters in the flipped text may appear weird as the inverted character may not exactly match with the original character. Nevertheless, anybody could still easily read it. One shortcoming is that uppercase letters cannot be flipped. When uppercase letters are used, the flipped text converts them to lowercase.
I really don’t know whether this has any genuine use but you can surely think of some fun ways to use it. Like, sending a mail or sms to your friend with inverted text.
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Keyxl.com is one of the largest resources for keyboard shortcuts. The collection includes shortcuts for all major operating environments like Windows, Mac, and Linux. You can easily search for shortcuts by the program name or by category.
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If you want to improve your typing speed the fun way, then TypeRacer is the way to go. TypeRacer is a very addictive, but fun Web site where you can build up your typing skills with lots of practice! The main idea is obviously to type fast and accurate.
The fun part is that, you are represented by car and the car moves along as you type the given text. So the faster you type, the faster the car moves and you reach the finishing line. When you are playing against opponents, you can constantly see who is ‘driving’ the fastest.
(Suresh hasn’t even left the start line because he was busy taking the screenshot !!)
TypeRacer gives you four different options to test your skill.
- Race against others - Here you race against randomly chosen opponents and try to perform the best
- Practice - Here you are the only one racing and you can watch your progress against the clock.
- Race your friends - This is similar to Race against others, but here you invite your friends to a private race and you can even chat with your friends.
- Join a private race - This is when you are invited to a race and you want to want join the race.
Be warned that while TypeRacer can help you enhance your typing skill, it can be very addictive and can turn out to be a time waster.
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TimeBomb is a free, light weight tool to logoff, reboot or shutdown windows at a specific time without any nagging screens.
TimeBomb has no frills. As you can see from the image above, you just have to select the action, set the time and activate. After activating, if you want to cancel the action, press Deactivate (After activating, the Activate button turns into Deactivate).
Do note that TimeBomb will carry out your command without giving any warning. So if you have scheduled a shutdown it simply shuts down at the set time. Unsaved data could be lost. Open programs are closed, forcibly, if required. So, be sure to save all data and to close all important applications before the set time.
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If you are a Gmail user, you might already know that there are no folders in Gmails. Instead of folders, you organize them by labels. Even all the built-in views like inbox, sent mail, draft, trash etc are also labels.
Since there are no folders, when we search for a mail, we are actually searching the whole bag of mails. However, we can use labels to filter mails. For example, to view all the unread messages from the inbox, you would search for label:inbox label:unread. By combining the built-in labels with the labels you assign, you can create queries that narrow the result. But such queries can become long and hard to write.
Fortunately, you can replace the word label with l. So, the previous query can be shortened to l:inbox l:unread. That definitely saves as a few keystrokes, especially when we write long queries. But can it get any better?
Yes. Gmail has shortcuts for some of the built-in labels which can quicken things further.
Here is a list of shortcuts you could use;
^b - chats
^f - sent mail
^i - inbox
^k - trash
^r - draft
^s - spam
^t - starred messages
^u - unread mail
Using the above shortcuts, our previous query can be further shrunk to l:^i l:^u.
To specifically exclude mails in a label, prefix it with a - (minu) sign. So if we wanted to search for unread messages that aren’t in the inbox, we would use, -l:^i l:^u.
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]]>But what if you are stuck alone?
No problem. Just head to http://downforeveryoneorjustme.com, enter the web site address that’s giving you problems, and hit enter or click on ‘or just me‘. Within seconds you will know if the web site is down for everyone or just you.
But there is one web site for which you cannot possibly use http://downforeveryoneorjustme.com to check, and that is http://downforeveryoneorjustme.com itself. 
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]]>Changing the color of icons is easy with Rainbow Folders. Just right click on an icon an select ‘Rainbow Folders’. You can then select any color for the icon.
You can even select more than one folder at a time and change the colors of all the selected folders simultaneously. So, for example, you could mark your favorite folders with green color, your work folder with blue, your personal folders with red etc. This definitely makes navigation quicker and helps you to easily find the folder you want. You can also choose from three icon styles: Classical(9x), Typical(XP) and Modern(Vista).
The colorized folders are visible in every Explorer window, every open/save dialog and in every folder selection tree as seen in many programs. You can even add a custom tool tip to the folders.
Download Rainbow Folder
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But if you have this tiny free utility called One Click App Killer, you could kill frozen programs with a single click. That’s assuming you don’t count the double click needed to run the program first. Upon double-clicking on the program icon, your mouse pointer changes into a bull’s eye. Now, click anywhere on the frozen application’s interface to quickly eliminate it from your screen and memory. That’s it.
But do note that a wrong click and you could end up killing the wrong program. Though rare, clicking outside the frozen program’s interface could close Windows itself.
Download One Click App Killer.
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1st July 2008 would be an unforgettable day in my life, because that’s the day I received the information that I have been awarded the Most Valuable Professional (MVP) Award 2008 by Microsoft.
The Microsoft MVP Award recognizes exceptional technical community leaders from around the world who voluntarily share their high quality, real world expertise with others. Microsoft MVPs are a highly select group of experts representing technology’s best and brightest who share a deep commitment to community and a willingness to help others.
It really feels great to be a part of such an elite group of MVPs. Though the awards were announced on the 1st of July, I wanted to actually receive the physical award (which I received last night), before I posted it on the blog.
I thank Microsoft for creating the MVP award which really serves as a great encouragement for people like me. I thank Digital Quest readers who are the very purpose of this blog and without whose support I would never have received this award.
I also take this opportunity to thank my family and all my friends who have been very supportive and encouraging.
If you would like to learn more about the MVP program visit http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/ .
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]]>Karen’s Directory Printer is a free utility that can help you do the above and more.
Karen’s Directory Printer can print the names of every file in a folder or drive. It can also print a file or sub-folder’s size, date of creation, date of last modification, date of last access, attributes (read-only, system, hidden, compressed, etc.) and more. You can select what other information about the file should be included in the print.
With the File Filter option, instead of printing all the files in a location, you can choose to print a particular type of file, like say images, audio files, document files etc. You can create new filters and specify which file extensions should be included in the filter. You can even edit the existing filter.
Karen’s Directory Printer even lets you save the list to a file instead of printing it. This is quite useful if you don’t have a printer installed or if you want to email the list to someone.
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