Tag Archives: Free

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 | Also tagged Download, Hacks, Service, website | 2 Comments

Download youtube videos as mp4 right form the youtube site itself

By Ajith | Published: April 15, 2008

Many softwares and websites have been introduced which allowed users to download Youtube videos directly. But many of these have been disabled by Google in some way or other. but there is an easy solution to all these downloading problems. The Youtube videos can actually be downloaded from the Youtube web site itself in mp4 [...]

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Customize your send to shell menu using sendto toys

By Ajith | Published: April 12, 2008

We have already discussed how to make a new entry in the Sendto menu. So if we need more advanced option in sendto menu we can use the Sendto Toys from Gabriel Ponti. It is a simple program that weighs only 737Kb and is Free. This program will add more advanced options to your send [...]

Posted in Software | Also tagged Review, Windows | 1 Comment

How to find out all open ports, connections and originating IP addresses

By Ajith | Published: April 3, 2008

netstat is a command available in both Windows and Unix to analyze local ports that are open and all the connections to those ports. The syntax of the command is very simple. In the picture above a verysimple example of seeing the ports and connections is shown. The -ano option tells a – all connections [...]

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Find which process has locked a file preventing it from being renamed or deleted

By Ajith | Published: April 2, 2008

Some times when we try to Rename or Delete a file an error can pop up and say that the file is in use by another program and you need to close it and try again. Although this may makes sense, sometimes we won’t simply be able to find which program has opened the file. [...]

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Speeding up your boot process – Windows

By Ajith | Published: March 17, 2008

Microsoft Configuration wizard is one tool you can use to improve your systems boot time. This tip utilizes the msconfig utility. 1. Go to Start»Run(WIN+R) and type “msconfig” , the Microsoft System Configuration Utility will pop up. 2. Select the “STARTUP” tab. This will show you a list of programs that will automatically start when [...]

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Free Vista like search box for Windows XP

By Ajith | Published: March 12, 2008

The most functional and convenient tool in Vista is the instant Search Box. Here is how to get your own instant search box on for Windows XP. Launchy is a small software that provides XP with an instant search bar like Vista. Launchy Indexes the folders you specify and hides itself in the background. When [...]

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VLC media player, one player plays all formats

By Ajith | Published: March 6, 2008

Video Lan Player (VLC) is a one of a kind Audio and video player. VideoLAN is a software project, which produces free software for video, released under the GNU General Public License. It has got everything one would ever want in a media player. It is free, supports a seemingly infinite formats of Audio and [...]

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Adsense section targetting for better contextual Ads

By Ajith | Published: March 3, 2008

Google Adsense has been a money maker for many of the bloggers out there. but many a times we have seen really nonsense ads appearing on our blogs, may be of medicine on a blog about computers etc.. Well this can easily be prevented by using ad section targeting in Adsense. By section targeting what [...]

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Online archives for file types, extensions, application used

By Ajith | Published: February 28, 2008

Filext.com is an online encyclopedia of file extensions, MIME types, programs that use specific file extensions etc. For example : msc – is a microsoft management console file. ogg – is an ogg vorbis music file car – CAR Archive Compressed Archive But with the numerous applications and corresponding files it is impossible to remember [...]

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