August 16th, 2011 by Aseem Kishore
Have you ever found a picture on a website, but found it to be fairly low resolution? You like the picture, but want something a little larger. TinEye is a fantastic website that lets you either upload an image from your hard drive, or point it to a picture on the Web (by entering the [...]
August 8th, 2011 by Aseem Kishore
Welcome to the second part of this two-part article about using eXpresso to temporarily associate files types with portable programs. The first part of this article covered installing and running eXpresso and using eXpresso to easily associate a file type with a portable program. This second part discusses manually adding, editing, and deleting file associations [...]
August 6th, 2011 by Aseem Kishore
The information that specifies which file types are associated with which programs is stored in the Windows registry. These file type associations allow you to double-click on a file to open it in the program in which it was created. Because portable applications you install and run on a USB flash drive do not write [...]
August 5th, 2011 by Aseem Kishore
While handheld eBook readers, such as the Kindle, Nook and iPad, have provided an easy way to read books while on the go, they’ve also introduced the inconvenience associated with many different, competing eBook formats. There is ePUB, Mobi, LIT, LRF, PDB, and a lot more. If you use multiple devices, or simply have a [...]
August 4th, 2011 by Aseem Kishore
Gadgets were introduced in Windows Vista and continued to be available in Windows 7. They allow you to view various kinds of information from the latest news updates to the phases of the moon and use some helpful utilities all on the desktop. We have previously written about a program that allows you to use [...]
August 1st, 2011 by Aseem Kishore
By default, Windows provides shell folders, such as “My Documents,” that provide quick access to common folders. If there are folders you use daily, we found a free program, called My Shell Folder, that allows you to create your own custom shell folders that provide you with quick and easy access to your favorite folders. [...]
July 30th, 2011 by Aseem Kishore
We have previously written about how to use TrueCrypt to create an encrypted file store in Ubuntu. If you take files with you on a USB flash drive or portable external hard drive, you can use an encrypted file store, which is a single file in which you can store your files like you do [...]
July 25th, 2011 by Aseem Kishore
We wrote about an add-on, called Tab Utilities, for Firefox 5 that allows you to choose what displays on a new tab, among many other useful functions. By default, a blank page is displayed in Firefox when you open a new tab. Using Tab Utilities, you can change new tabs to open your homepage, a [...]
July 18th, 2011 by Aseem Kishore
Welcome to the second part of this two-part series about using the triple-engine browser Lunascape to view web pages using four of the more popular browsers (Internet Explorer, Firefox, Chrome, and Safari) in one browser. In Part I, we covered installing Lunascape, importing settings and profiles, selecting the default rendering engine, turning off the RSS [...]
July 14th, 2011 by Aseem Kishore
Do you have many web browsers installed on your computer so you can test the website you are developing in multiple browsers? We found a browser that allows you to use four of the more popular web browsers in one browser. Lunascape is the world’s only triple engine browser that allows you to use the [...]