WinCdEmu:Alternative to deamon tools

Many of us have the habit of storing CD/DVD as images in our system.This is a good practice in two ways.(1)It reduces the overhead on CD/DVD drive(2)Access will be faster.There is a popular tool to handle these images called Deamon-tools.There is another  lighter version, simple  tool called   WinCdEmu .A very simple yet handy one-click CD/DVD emulator for Win32/Win64 platforms. Supports ISO, CUE, IMG, BIN, NRG, MDF/MDS, CCD and RAW formats.
Download this tool here  WinCdEmu .

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Use speccy to know your system configuration

Many of us have a PC in our home but dont know its configuration.This tutorial is for noobs as well as advanced users.You can know about ur system configuration in many ways.One of the simple ways to do it is fire up the msdos window.Type the command systeminfo it displays  your system configuration.But it doesnot display additional information like the manufacturer of the equipment.To solve this there is a nice cool free tool called Speccy which will give you detailed information on every piece of hardware in your computer. Including CPU, Motherboard, RAM, Graphics Cards, Hard Disks, Optical Drives, Audio support. Additionally Speccy adds the temperatures of your different components, so you can easily see if there's a problem.Check this screenshot

This tool will be extremely useful when u wanna sell ur system and u have to give the system .
specifications to the buyer and viceversa.
Download this software from here Speccy

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Securely delete your data using eraser

This is an extremely useful tool to completely wipe out your sensitive data. you have a digital camera using which you have taken photos of your friends or family members.Some friend of urs asked your memory card to take some snapshots.Then you will format your memory card and give it to your friend to protect your privacy but with tools like photorec any thirdperson can extract the deleted photos and use it for illegal purposes.In a situation like this Eraser comes to our help it allows you to completely remove sensitive data from your hard drive or memory card by overwriting it several times with carefully selected patterns.
Download this tool from here eraser download

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Comodo time machine :replacement to windows system restore and settings

In simple terms Comodo time machine is windows time machine.After installing any software if you have any compatability problems associated with it.Then this software comes handy.After installing  the software it reboots ur system and takes snapshot of the entire system.

Using the icon present in the taskbar you can take snapshots or restore the system to a previous state.

If you delete any files accidentally it searches for individual snapshots to restore the system.It also offers advanced options such as automatic creation of snapshots.
Just google it and download the software

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Enhance google chrome with speed dial

Whenever you click on a new page tab in google chrome you can see a window comprising most frequently  used websites.You can view these pages either as thumbnails or as coloumns.But google doesnt offer us to custmize this page.Using a small extension called Speed dial you can customize this page with your own set of themes,create visual bookmarks ,reorder the bookmarks as u like.
Click on the above link to download this extension.

As u can see this extension has 483 ratings which means it is simply superb.The cool thing about this extension is that you can have google search box in new tab also which ofcourse is not available in default google chrome .Clicking  on options lets you to Change number of rows,number of Coloumns,
Assign a background image,display search box,display bookmarks bar........

You can change the background image by placing url in the box provided.

You can add a visual thumbnail by right clicking on the icon present at the end of the url box and select Add current page.

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Tips to enhance your Youtube experience

Watch high quality videos:- You can watch high quality videos either by using the button pointed by arrow mark.

Yoou can also add &fmt=18 to the URl in the addressbar.This increase the resolution by 480*360,video at a rate of 512 kbps and audio at a rate of 44.1khz .
Change the background:- You can add backgrounds to your youtube channel by visiting http://backgroundtube.com

Watch Youtube videos as bouncing balls:-
Have u ever wondered that we can watch  youtube videos as bouncing balls.As soon as you click any video thumbnail on that page.A black screen opens showing related videos as small bouncing balls . click this link

http://www.youtube.com/warp_speed
Shortcut                                                 function
spacebar                                                 play/pause video
Right Arrow                                           Fast forward
Left arrow                                              Rewind
UP arrow                                                Increase volume
DOWN arrow key                                 Decrease volume
[f]                                                            Full screen  

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