DQ links for April 11, 2007

April 11, 2007 3 comments

Web Applications skrbl.com – An online whiteboard. Write notes, draw, upload pictures, share files. Collaborate with friends on the same screen. Talkr.com – Audio chat instantly. Tweeto.com – An online task manager. Add tags to tasks, color label tasks and track active/completed tasks through RSS feeds. Software Coolexon Dictionary – 60 Languages in a 3MB [...]

Make free VoIP calls to landlines and mobiles from your PC

April 10, 2007 0 comments

With GizmoCall you can make free web-based calls to most landlines and mobile phones around the world. Yes, it’s truly free. Making calls is easy. Just go to Gizmocall website and enter the phone number you want to call in the ‘Type a number‘ field and click ‘Call‘. If it is the first time you [...]

Twingine – Compare Google and Yahoo! Search Results

April 10, 2007 0 comments

A few days ago I wrote a post about Releton where, with a single search, you can get the results from both Google and Yahoo! in the same page. The results in Releton are a mixture of search results from Google and Yahoo! But many a times you would prefer that the results are displayed [...]

DQ Quick tips for 10-04-2007

April 10, 2007 0 comments

For quick access to the Windows Desktop press [Windows Key]+D or [Windows key]+M (Actually minimizes all other windows). You can also click on the Desktop icon on the Quick Launch toolbar. You can organize the items in your All Programs menu (or Programs if you’re using the classic start menu) and its submenus by dragging [...]

Spice up your webpages with round cornered CSS boxes

April 9, 2007 0 comments

One of the most common ways to make things stand out in a web page is to put the content in a < div > tag with a background color and/or borders – in effect creating a box. But this only creates a square cornered box which is so to say…boring. How would it be [...]

Time-saving shortcuts in Windows Explorer

April 9, 2007 1 comment

Certain keyboard shortcuts can be real time-savers in Windows Explorer, especially when used in conjunction with the mouse. Here are some that you may find useful. Hold the Alt key while double-clicking a file or folder to view the Properties sheet for that object. This is a much quicker way than right-clicking and selecting Properties. [...]

Peepel joins the online office suite race

April 5, 2007 1 comment

Peepel is the latest entrant in the online office suite race which already includes players like Google, Zoho, Thinkfree etc. The first thing that strikes you when you see the interface is the web 2.0 ‘ish’ look compared to the more formal looking Zoho or Thinkfree office suites. Peepel office suite basically has a spreadsheet [...]

Get search results from Google and Yahoo in one page

April 4, 2007 0 comments

When it comes to searching the web, Google and Yahoo are the two major players that come to mind. Suppose, you want to use both, what do you do? You could open two windows, one for Google and one of Yahoo and then search both for the same keyword. Or you could head to Releton.com. [...]

Get your documents converted to PDF for free

April 4, 2007 0 comments

Here is a short list of places where you can get your documents converted to pdf without installing any software. All the conversions take place online and it’s all Free. Free PDF Converter: Convert Microsoft Office, OpenOffice, graphics and vector files to PDF. PDF Online:Convert documents directly into PDF, with the ability to tweak various [...]

Moving and Copying files/folders – a quick refresher

April 3, 2007 0 comments

Have you ever wondered why sometimes when you drag a file it gets copied and at other times it gets moved? The problem is that drag and drop works differently in different situations. If you drag a file or folder from one place to another on the same physical drive (e.g., from c:\docs to c:\files), [...]

Transfz – Quickly search from any application….and more

April 2, 2007 2 comments

Transfz (Pronounced transfuse) is a free application that lets you launch online searches from virtually any document or application whether it be on the desktop or on the web. Using it is very simple. Just select the word or phrase that you want to search. Press [Ctrl]+D which is the default hotkey to bring up [...]

Make any webpage look like a Microsoft Word document

April 2, 2007 2 comments

Here is a cheeky little site that makes it safer for you to read your favorite blogs or any other site from your office. Workfriendly.net makes your browsing less conspicuous by making any webpage look like a Microsoft Word document. Just go to workfriendly.net and enter the address of the site or webpage you want [...]

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