Software

SharpKeys: Turn your Caps Lock key into a Google Search key.

An easy software that allows mapping of keys to increase productivity. SharpKeys here can be used to turn Caps Lock key into a Google search key.

Take Screen Captures on Windows 8 With Free Software

Use free and portable software Windows Screen Capture Tool for Windows 8, to take full and selected area screenshots with options to add watermark.

Get Popular Screenshot App Skitch Free on All Windows Platforms

I do not use own a Mac but some of our authors do (namely Vibin and Rahul). I am very happy with Windows but if there was one Mac software I really wanted on my Windows, it was the image editor Skitch. Skitch is great to take screenshots, add arrow pointers, text in different colors. […]

Winners of Backup4All Professional Giveaway

Two weeks ago, we announced a quick Giveaway contest, in which we were giving out licences to win Backup4All Professional software. The software works on Windows and should be very helpful to our winners. The good news is that we have enough licences to give away to everyone who took part. That means there is not […]

Software – Compress and Convert PNG Image Files

Yesterday, Joshua wrote a nice tutorial on how to disable small Gravatars in bbPress for better performance. The idea behind the post was if the images did not load up, it could improve the load time of the page. In tech blogging, sometimes a good detailed flow of screenshots can explain things a lot better […]

Backup4All Professional Giveaway Contest: Win 10 Licenses

Backing up your data from your computer is a very wise idea, but most people (me included) do not carry out a backup on a regular basis. If you are using Windows and want a good data backup software, then here is your chance to win free licence for Backup4all Professional Software . Backup4All Professional Features The […]

Online tool to keep track of your mentions on Facebook/Twitter

If your company has a social presence on the web, you must be getting a lot of mentions online, from a lot of sites including Twitter/Facebook etc. Tracking and responding to all those comments can be overwhelming. Sure, you can use Google Alerts(even on a feed reader), but all you get is Google results which doesn’t […]

Ubuntu Server + CrashPlan + Backup + Remote Management using Mac

We already use rsanpshot for backups. But its always feel safe to have more than one kind of backup. For other type of backup, we use Crashplan. They support all major platforms, provides many options and have their service decently priced. It will take a separate post to list down all things I like about Crashplan so […]

[Windows Tip] Get Notified When Any Program Registers Itself to Run at System Startup

The one issue with installing a new software is that very often it automatically registers itself to Run during system start-up. I personally do not like this as at times it can really slow down my computer. Many of these applications, register themselves without notifying the users. There is a discreet application which does exactly […]