Your guide to windows 7

Whether you are noob or expert to windows 7 you must have look at this wonderful guide developed by msdn people .This book covers

• Gadgets
• Searching
• Projector Mode
• The new taskbar
• Problems step recorder
• Peek
• Libraries
• Windows Shortcut keys
• Snap
• Windows Troubleshooting & the Action Center

Download this ebook from here Your guide to windows 7

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clipgrab:Download your favourite videos from youtube and vimeo

Want to download your fav videos from youtube or vimeo then this software is for you. Clipgrab3 is a open source software available for Windows,Linux,Mac os X. It can convert downloaded videos to various formats,extract mp3 from videos.Since this is a open source you can also download its code make necessary modifications and compile to make your own app.It supports conversion to these formats
MPEG4 (video)
WMV (Video) WMV (video)
 OGG Theora (video)
 MP3 (only audio)
 OGG Vorbis (Only Audio)
Let see how to tame this

Copy your favourite youtube video link eg:-http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aeh2KILn7O4 Now paste in the area sorrunded by red rectangle.Select your video format and download quality like HD,High,Low.Finally click on Grab this link to download.
Downlaod this software from here Clipgrab.
Download its source code from here Source code for clipgrab.

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firefox addon to shorten URL's

URL shortening is required now and then these days to send shortened links to our friends.If you do URL shortening then this tutorial is for you.Shorten url is a plugin available for mozilla firefox which have access to more than 100 url shortening services.After installing this plugin click on tools from there dive into shorten url options to access 100+ url shortening services

Now you can see many url shortening url services to select from.You can also shorten urls related to mp3 files from any of the three services available.You can also choose to have icons displayed in the context menu,copy the shortened url to clipboard,post shortened urls to microblogging services like twitter..

Now lets see how this URL shortening is useful to us.
Open any webpage right click anywhere and select shortenthispageurl from the context menu

Rightclick on any link withinin a webpage to get a shortened url for that link

You can also create shortened urls for images within webpages

You can shorten your bookmarks and send them to your friends right now i dont have any bookmarks so you can see mozilla as my bookmark

You can even shorten your tabs just see the screenshot

As soon as you shorten a url you can see the shortened url in the address bar .

Finally i would like to say this this acts like swissarmy tool it saves u a lot of  time to create shortened urls.
Download link urlshortener(firefox extension)
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Update notes in your email account using scribbly

Notepad in email is a good feature,whenver i come across interesting things   i used to save them in notepad.You can also use content in your notes to send emails to your friend.Creating or updating notes in email requires us to login to our account everytime.If you wanna create/ updates notes to your web email account without logging in everytime,come with me ill show you how to do it using scribbly.
Scripply is a small app developed using Adobe air,so you have to install Adobe air to run scribbly.After downloading scribbly it asks you to enter path and whether u wanna create desktop shortcuts or not.

After clicking continue it gets installed and will look like

  scribbly contains two tool bars .let me introduce them one by one

It contains options like Change settings,email your scribble,status indicator.

The second toolbar contains options like Insert timestamp,Clear all,mute and finally if you like this you can also make a donation by clicking that $ icon.
Enough of introduction lets dive into its settings,here you have to give your mail id to which notes have to be sent automatically.

Now u will be greeted with scribbly editor it contains subject line to differntiate your notes and the bottom box is for typing content.I have also included timestamp to determine when i composed it

Now click on the icon represented by mail icon to update your notes in your email.That all folks enjoy.
Download Adobe air
Download Scribbly
Few last words am still in my home enjoying pongal holidays am still writing this post so that my readers wont get disappointed

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Norton pc checkup:Your free system doctor

We all like freewares ,free apps. Getting some thing for free make us smile right??Norton pc chekup is a free tool which you can download from Symantec lab for free(No registration hassles). Normally Norton antivirus is a resource monger it chokes up all our system resources which inturn makes our system dead slow but this cool app doesn't belong to this genre.Iam writing this post while it is running in background no issues so far.

This tool periodically check your system 1)For trojans,virus,malware. 2)It also helps you to boost ur system performance by giving a detailed report . 
Download this software from here Norton
Note:Remember that only checkup is free you have to buy the software to remove it automatically or visit their site to learn how to remove it manually.

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Steal data secretly using USB Dumper

Do u want to spy on others pendrive,be a jamesbond steal the contents of others pendrive as soon as they insert into your computer secretly.This tool was made way back in 2006.But many people are still not aware of it so I thought of writing a post on it. The old tool doesn't work on windows7 but this upgraded version does.You can use this tool in two ways either to steal others data or backupyour pendrive.After downloading this tool I have extracted them to the desktop, see the screenshots

you can see too files Dump.exe and Dump.ini .The settings of the exe file will be present in the ini
file see the screenshot.

The line backup=d:\dinesh007
tells the system where to store contents of the inserted drive. Now see the line traymenu=1 here 1 means it will be shown in the tray as active if you set this value to 0 then it will be not shown in the system tray.Lets check its working or not I have inserted my friend suman's pendrive for testing lets the contents of it using Mycomputer now you can see  

there is folder called project.Now lets check our jamesbond folder whether it is copied or not see the screen.

WOW cool na .Let me know whether you like this trick or not …….
Download this tool here USB dumper .

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Explorer.exe demystified

Have u ever wondered what is "explorer.exe"  many of us may question ourselves does this process make us to explore the system like chrisopher columbus did ???may b many of us knew about this process earlier iam making this post for noobs.This process is developed by Microsoft ,it acts as a graphical shell between the user and the system.The taskbar,the widget bar all these are because of this shell.exe file.Let me tell prove it whenever ur desktop freezes launch task manager kill the process explorer.exe and click on new button type explorer.exe click ok to revive the process this should solve your problem.This process is safe as long as it resides in c:\windows either for windows xp or later versions.If you find this process anywhere else then am sure it's a infected file never dare to touch it. Get any latest antivirus tool from eset or kaspersky and run it.

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pdfgeni the ultimate pdf search engine

 Are u in desperate search of your favourite ebooks in pdf format??Have you googled many sites,forums to get your fav ebooks but in vain.Then I would say to try this site www.pdfgeni.com a search engine dedicated for pdf books.This site searches the webworld for pdf files based on the string supplied.

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How to use google calendar as remainder

Google has cool features under its belt one of them is we can use google calendar as to do list notifer.We have lot of things to do everyday in this busy life many people forgetting many to-do things like taking medicines timely,bringing household things,greeting friends on birthdays .To help us in such situations we can use google calendar as to-do list notifier which sends msgs to ur cell prior to the event to alert us .Now lets configure google calendar as reminder . Visit the link www.google.com\calendar\ .Now login with ur google account credentials Click the button settings under My calendar and goto Mobile setup .

Select your country there I have chosen India and give ur mobile number in the box provided.Now click on send Verification button. You will receive a code fill that code in the box named VerificationCode .Finally click on Finish button. Congrats you have succesffuly made a connection from web to ur mobile .

Now setting up to-do lists :-

Click on settings Select Notifications tab in calendar change By default remind me via to sms and give the time to notify you before the event

Finally lets now how to enter our todo tasks:-

Select the required month and day(green arrow) form the calendar and select the exact hour(orange arrow) type the task name in the box named What (black colour arrow)

Thats it folks now you will never forget to do your task because you don't ur leave mobile alone

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Auto change your windows 7 wallpaper

It would be nice if our window 7 wallpaper changes automatically without manual tweaking .You can do this without installing any third party app.Tweak your windows 7 settings to make it happen.Follow these steps
Click on start button type in background  in the search box Now u will  be greeted with choose your desktop background window by default the picture location will be  windows photo viewer change it to
windows desktop backgrounds .Now change the time interval to 1 minute or 1 day by checking shuffle radio button.

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Boost your windows 7 performance by tweaking

Do u know that you can give windows 7 a performance boost using this option.Computer users can be categorised into two types people who prefer visual appealing and people who loves performance.If u fall into second category then this is a must learn tip to improve ur windows7 machine performace by sacrifising some visual appeal.Dive in to see how to do this.
Step 1:-Open your control panel
Step 2:-Type visual in the search box

Step  3:- Now select the option adjust the appearance and performance of the windows pointed by down arrow.
Step 4:- Now check the radio button which says adjust for better performance click on apply and ok.

  Enjoy folks.................................

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How to use Cache my work to hibernate and restart

Cache my work is a great app from codeplex people thanks to them.This happens to me many times i daily install antivirus updates,install new softwares go for a tea or snacks the system restarts momentarily after updating and i remain pulling my hair.As we  know after critical system install or patch the system reboots automatically.If we are present at the system then we can save the open documents etc.what if we went to have coffee,This softwares comes to your help it saves your current windows session by caching your work and restores it after the system restart.Many of u may think that windows built in hibernate or hybrid sleep
does the same ,let me remind you hybernating doesnt make any changes to registry instead it stores the present settings  which is usually done in system restart so this softwares combines the features of Hibernate and Restart.
Download this here Cache my work

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How to take highquality screenshots using Screenpresso

Many of us who are not aware of these tools generally use printscreen to take screen shots but it has got limited number of features.For authors of books,webpublihsers,ebook makers it is advisable to include Professional looking screenshots.Initially i used Snagit for all my printscreen jobs but this little yet extremely powerful software has to be purchased.Now am going to tell you about a software which is equally powerful and its absolutely free.Screenpresso is the freeware which has variety of operations under its belt .After running the screenpresso for the first time it would look like this

You can either install it or directly run it is a portable app.Its built-in image editor lets you crop, spotlight an area or comment parts of captured image. Add drop shadow, round corners and reflection ....

 you can change the file format to jpeg,png or tiff.You can also resize many inages ata single click,add effects like rounded corner and drop shadow.
Download this tool here

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12 Must have google chrome extensions|addons

Google chrome is the first browser to invent features like Incognitomode for anonymous browsing,running each tab as a seperate process.In addition to the inbuilt features here is list of must have extensions to google chrome users.


WOT(Web of trust):- This extension warns you about risky Web sites that try to scam visitors, deliver malware or send spam. The WOT community has scanned millions of Web sites. Web site ratings are continuously updated by millions of members of the WOT community and from many trusted sources, such as phishing site listings. The nice thing about WOT is it doesn't block the site to the user, like other reputation-based wares, but gives users a traffic light graphic which helps them to know that they are going into dangerous sites.

Google Chrome Backup :-This tool helps you to create backups and restore them,It also helps to manage profiles such as bookmarks,history etc...

Xmarks Bookmark synchronization :-This  is one of my favourite and popular bookmarking tool. It gives users a backup for their bookmarks and lets them sync them across computers and browsers Firefox, Safari, IE and now, Chrome. 

IE tab:- Some sites still require internet explorer to view them properly.This extension solves that problem.

 Shareholic :- This is one of the most useful addons which connects chrome to many social networking sites like Facebbok,twitter ,Digg,LinkedIn......

AdThwart :-This reduces the number of ads displayed on a web page thus make us easier to browse.I recommend you also to try this Adblocker.

CoolIris:-This addons provides us a cool 3d way to browse images,videos on the web instead of waiting for each image page to load. The images will appear like a 3d wallpaper.Check out for yourself to see this cool feature.

Google Url shortener:-Url shortening is required now and then these days to send shortened links to our friends.This also helps u to manage shorten the links in your scraps and postings.

Google Translate :-Suddenly you came across an interesting site with different language,You dont know the site language but in deadly in need of that info.What would you do .SImply install this xtension and translate the page.

ShowIP :- As the name says using this tool you can know your ip without any hassles.


RandomMagic :-This tool helps you to take decisions while you are in dilemma.This adds three mini-applications: a coin flipper, a dice roller and a random number generator. Try this it helps you in tough times.

Google Mail Checker :-This extension check your inbox regularly for any unread message and notifies you.

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Make your dualcore|quadcore systems boot faster

Did u know that we can make systems with multicore to boot faster than normal systems.If u have never heard of it learn how to do it here.We know that all the  booting information of a system is present in boot.ini file we can tweak this file by typing Msconfig in the run dialog box and select boot tab option in windows Vista and 7.For Windows xp select the tab boot.ini and then select advanced options.

In windows 7 and vista select check the box Number of processors and select 2 from the dropdown list.

For windows xp users check the box /NUMPROC then select 2 from the list.

This makes ur system to boot faster.

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