Windows, Linux, WordPress Tutorials & Useful Tech Tips

Pretty Run

Post last modified:January 19, 2012
Post category:Software
Post author:Manikandan

Pretty Run helps to searche start menu, desktop or any other folder for the shortcuts or files that meet your query.

Main features:

Search Internet Explorer favorites
Search Firefox bookmarks
Search Chrome bookmarks
Search printers and start printer properties
Search Control panel items
Setup internet search engines and you can search internet with selected engine
Remember last items copied to clipboard and bring them back in case you need them
Search mp3 files (not file names but tags)
Run a group of programs with one click
Setup your magic words and start favorite programs really quickly
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UNetbootin create bootable Live USB

Post last modified:January 18, 2012
Post category:Software
Post author:Manikandan

UNetbootin is free software to create bootable Live USB drives for Ubuntu, Fedora, and other Linux distributions without burning a CD. It runs on Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X.

Main features:

create a bootable Live USB drive.
frugal install.
built-in support for automatically downloading the distro.
USB drives are bootable only on PCs.
load pre-downloaded ISO file

Requirements:

Microsoft Windows 2000/XP/Vista/7, or Linux, or Mac OS X 10.5+.
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Pogo Music Player Minimalist Linux Audio Player

Post last modified:January 24, 2021
Post category:Linux
Post author:Manikandan

Pogo is a free and open source light-weight audio player for Linux. It is a fork of popular Decibel Audio Player. It supports Ogg Vorbis, MP3, FLAC, Musepack, Wavpack, and MPEG-4 AAC file formats. It is best player for people who organize their music by albums on the hard drive. It is simple and minimalist Media Player. You can quickly search for music on local drives and in the playlist. It also comes with an equalizer and displays covers and desktop notifications support. It is written in Python and uses GTK+ and GStreamer.

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Microsoft’s next generation file system – ReFS (Resilient File System)

Post last modified:January 18, 2012
Post category:Tech News
Post author:Manikandan

Microsoft revealed its NTFS replacement yesterday, the Resilient File System on the Building Windows 8 blog.

key features of ReFS:

Metadata integrity with checksums
Integrity streams providing optional user data integrity
Allocate on write transactional model for robust disk updates
Large volume, file and directory sizes
Storage pooling and virtualization makes file system creation and management easy
Data striping for performance and redundancy for fault tolerance
Disk scrubbing for protection against latent disk errors
Resiliency to corruptions with “salvage” for maximum volume availability in all cases
Shared storage pools across machines for additional failure tolerance and load balancing
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AllDup – searching and removing file duplicates

Post last modified:January 17, 2012
Post category:Software
Post author:Manikandan

AllDup is a free software tool for searching and removing file duplicates on your computer.

Main features:

Find duplicates with a combination of the following criteria: file content, file name, file extension, file dates and file attributes
Search is performed in multiple specified folders, drives, media storages, CD/DVDs, network drives…
Search through an unlimited number of files and folders
Search for duplicates of music and video files,digital photo files,executable and any other files and hard links
Entire folders or individual files can be excluded from the search by masks or size conditions
The built-in file viewer allows you to preview many different file formats and analyze the content of the file before deciding what to do with it
Ignore the ID3 tags of MP3 files
Many flexible options help you to select unnecessary duplicates automatically
The unnecessary duplicates can be deleted permanently or copied/moved to a folder of your choice
Save and restore the search result for continue working later
Export the search result to TXT or CSV file
Turn duplicate files into hard links (NTFS file systems only) or shortcuts
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Movie to Animated GIF Converter

Post last modified:January 17, 2012
Post category:Software
Post author:Manikandan

Evan’s Movie to GIF Converter is free software to open an MPEG, AVI or WMV movie and convert a section of it to an animated GIF. It is a quick and easy tool for clipping and exporting your video files to an animated GIF.

Main Features:

supports unprotected MP4 files and can serve as an MP4 to animated GIF converter.
supports, AVI, MPEG and unprotected WMV files.
Windows 7 is required to run this version.
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Free Video Dub Video Editor

Post last modified:January 17, 2012
Post category:Software
Post author:Manikandan

Free Video Dub is free video editor to edit AVI (DivX, Xvid, MPEG 4), MPEG 1 and 2 video.

Main features:

Delete unwanted parts from video files without re-encoding (without loosing original quality).
Supports: MPEG 1, MPEG 2 and even MPEG 4 AVI, MOV, MP4 (MPEG 4), M4V, MPG and FLV files including DivX and XviD.

System requirements
Windows XP Service Pack 2, Vista, 7 with .Net Framework 2
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Google Add to Circle wordpress plugin

Post last modified:January 16, 2012
Post category:Blogging Resources
Post author:Manikandan

Google Add to Circle is a free wordpress plugin to display and to add your Google+ Page to their circle directly from your website.

Features:
badge customization.

Login to wordpress (wp-admin).
In your admin dashboard click plugins and select Add New.
Type Google Add to Circle in the search field and click Search Plugins button.
Install Google Add to Circle.
After the successfully Installation click the activate Plugin link to activate the plugin.
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HTML5 Slideshow Presentations wordpress plugin

Post last modified:January 16, 2012
Post category:Blogging Resources
Post author:Manikandan

HTML5 Slideshow Presentations is a free wordpress plugin to create HTML5 slideshow presentations directly from your website.

Main features:

won’t need to upload to slideshare.
host your own presentations.
share/present them anytime.
completely independent of your installed theme.

Login to wordpress (wp-admin).
In your admin dashboard click plugins and select Add New.
Type HTML5 Slideshow Presentations in the search field and click Search Plugins button.
Install HTML5 Slideshow Presentations.
After the successfully Installation click the activate Plugin link to activate the plugin.
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WP Social Slider – Social Activity Viewer Plugin for WordPress

Post last modified:January 16, 2012
Post category:Blogging Resources
Post author:Manikandan

WP Social Slider is a free wordpress plugin to display social activities in a slick sliding panel.

Features:

facebook, twitter, google +1.
show social share buttons.

Login to wordpress (wp-admin).
In your admin dashboard click plugins and select Add New.
Type WP Social Slider in the search field and click Search Plugins button.
Install WP Social Slider.
After the successfully Installation click the activate Plugin link to activate the plugin.
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