Category Archives: Software

Software make the OS breathe. Be it free or paid, most of them are useful. In this category the articles about useful software are listed. The software would be most of the time Free. But occasionally I will also review paid software.

Create PDF files for free form any file by printing

By Ajith | Published: July 29, 2008

PrimoPDF is a free software that installs itself as a printer in your system. It will accept the print requests and allows you to save them as a PDF file. So you can create a PDF file from virtually any file in your system. If you need to create a PDF file from an Office [...]

Posted in Software | Tagged Free, PDF, Review | 2 Comments

Opera doesn’t accept text in Tiny MCE – WordPress

By Ajith | Published: July 20, 2008

Opera 9.5 failed to process TinyMCE correctly. so if you enterd something in the HTML editor and came back to Visual editor mode.. you won’t see any text. Check out thses screen shots. Actually it is caused by wrong implementation of JavaScript in TinyMCE. More about it is explained at opera development blog. In the [...]

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Free font previewing utitlity

By Ajith | Published: July 14, 2008

Pig font viewer is a free utility that allows you to preview your fonts. You can enter any text you want and click on the list of fonts shown from your fonts library. You can also select fonts saved in a directory by browsing to that directory through Pig Font Viewer. If you want to [...]

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Open and save Office 2007 files in Office XP and 2003

By Ajith | Published: June 19, 2008

The easiest way to enable support for the new Office 2007 file formats in Office XP is to install the Migration pack provided by Microsoft free of cost. With the introduction of the XML standard in file format, the new files with extensions ending in x (docx, xslx, pptx) will not be compatible with the [...]

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Firefox 3 beta gulping down I/O resources – simple solution

By Ajith | Published: June 12, 2008

Ever since FireFox 3 beta was released it caused more problems than it actually solved. With addons not working, history clearing problems and even installation issues its time for a change. The new issue is with I/O resource consumption by FF. Actually it is not new. I had noticed earlier on that “C:Documents and SettingsAjithLocal [...]

Posted in Software | Tagged Answer, Error, Firefox, Tips | 1 Comment

How to get icons from exe and dll files of programs

By Ajith | Published: June 7, 2008

The icons that are used by programs such as Photoshop or Microsoft Office are actually stored inside the exe or dll files coming along with the program. To capture and save these icons you can use two methods. One is by using a program that can open an exe file such as PE resource explorer. [...]

Posted in Software | Tagged File, Free, Icon, Tool | 1 Comment

Image not shown properly in Microsoft Office

By Ajith | Published: May 29, 2008

This is the screen shot of a Microsoft Office document with an image inserted into it. The top one is the original image. But Office kept on showing it with white portions as black. This is shown at the bottom of the Screen shot. If you have met with a problem like the above one [...]

Posted in Software | Tagged Error, Image, Office, Tricks, Windows | 2 Comments

How to open unknown files – without extension

By Ajith | Published: May 25, 2008

There are times when we are not quiet sure which program could be used to open a file. Worst case scenario is when the file doesn’t have an extension. Here are some ways in which you can recognize/open such files. Try the extension at an online file extension archive. Use a Universal File viwer to [...]

Posted in Software | Tagged Answer, File, Tips, Trick, Windows | 4 Comments

FireFox 3 beta, looks good, succumb your addons

By Ajith | Published: May 7, 2008

Today I downloaded the firefox 3 beta version. It is the latest version available and is in beta testing stage. Mozilla has added a list of improvements to the what’s new page. Mozilla has changed the entire look and architecture of Fireox to a neater one. Here is what the excited Firefox team has said – [...]

Posted in Software | Tagged Firefox, Free, Review | 2 Comments

Download video from any sharing site using RealPlayer 11

By Ajith | Published: April 20, 2008

RealPlayer 11 has got the amazing capability to identify the videos embedded in a page. It will show a button just above the video that will allow you to download the video. When installing RealPlayer you are given an option to add a Download Video button to your browser. Just make sure that it is [...]

Posted in Software | Tagged Download, Free, Hacks, Service, website | 2 Comments