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DevManView: Windows Device Manager Alternative

Windows has a default Device Manager that is used to manage internal and externally connected devices to the system. The device manager has a tree structure that displays all the devices in a tree view but only of the single system.

DevManView is the Windows default Device Manager Alternative that can be used as its replacement. It is in fact, simple and better to use as it possess better functionality than the default device manager of the Windows. [Read the rest of this entry...]

View Documents, Images and Multimedia from One App: Universal Viewer

Most of us have many file viewers, image viewers or movie players installed in our system to view different types of files. I have been wondering it would be great if there is one tool or application that can open all these documents, images or multimedia through the single application.

Universal Viewer is an advanced file viewer with wide range of formats supported. This is like the master file viewer that can view wide range of files in different formats as [Read the rest of this entry...]

Mute/Unmute Sound on Windows Lock with Mute on Lock

Have you ever experienced this situation that you are listening to your favourite songs on the computer and need to lock your windows to protect it but when you press the Windows + L key, the sound gets mute and the song play stops.

Mute on Lock is a tiny resident utility that sits in the system tray and monitors your session: when you are locking your Windows workstation, it mutes the sound of your speakers. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Automatically Close Selected Programs before Shutdown

We happen to use many applications and programs as our daily routine but sometimes it may happen that the program is minimized and not closed. In this case the program will be running in the background.

Although shutdown causes all the programs to force exit and this may be fine for some programs but what if you have some unsaved documents in the background? Well in this case it is better to use a tool called CloseToQuit. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Disable GoogleUpdate.exe Process running in Background

If you are more into process details then you must have come across this process called GoogleUpdate.exe. You must have noticed this annoying process after you have installed Google product like Google Chrome browser or any other Google Product.

What is GoogleUpdate.exe process?

GoogleUpdate.exe is an update process from Google that runs on its own in the background to update the already installed Google product and download the new version. The process runs in the background and checks for the updates automatically. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Undo Send Email Time Increased by Gmail

Gmail has a brilliant feature of recalling a sent email or undo send email within certain specified time. This happens many times that we send the email to some other recipient or forget to attach the attachment with the message; this feature comes very useful in this case.

You must have noticed this feature besides the email sent notification as shown in the image above. If you have not come across this feature then you need to enable this feature by visiting the settings option. To activate this feature, you need to visit Settings -> Labs -> ‘Enable undo send‘ option. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Split GIF Animation Images into Separate Images

GIF images looks good to the eyes as the reason behind those animation images is that it is the combination of several static images that gives the impression of animation. Several single images are combined into one to form one animated GIF image.

But what if you want certain frame out of the many frames in the GIF image? Yes you can split or break the single GIF animated image into its constituent images to have that desired single image. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Risks with Online Gaming

We all love gaming, don’t we and most of us like to play online games as well but there are lots of risks involved with online gaming also.  Phishing is most common in the online gaming world. Gamers are more likely to click on links to external sites that steal personal information as the links are sent by the fellow gamers.

Other common risks with Online Gaming:

•    Cybercriminals seed the pirated copies of the games and that too with the malwares. What they do is, they persist gamers to download some pirated copy of the game that is infected with the malicious .exe file that can steal usernames and passwords easily. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Close Tab in Firefox with Mouse Double Click

Firefox is one of the famous browsers and is used by many users around the globe. The two different ways it has to close a tab is either by clicking the close button by the mouse or by using a keyboard shortcut Ctrl + W.

Closing a tab by both these methods is very irritating for the users who have lots of tabs opened while working on the browser. Using keyboard shortcut might be disappointing for the users who do not like working with the keyboard whereas nobody likes to take the mouse cursor up to the tab bar just to close the tab. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Prevent Cyclic Redundancy Check Error

This is a common problem and occurred to one of our readers so I thought of writing a detailed article about it, so that it may help others as well. Cyclic Redundancy Check or CRC Error is quite common and can occur in any system.

First of all believe me this error is not certain i.e. it can happen one time and not occur at other.

Why does CRC error occur?

Cyclic Redundancy Check, in reality, is a data check procedure that checks whether the data to be transferred is transferred successfully or damaged in the process. If you get this message, it means that the file being read by your PC or software is corrupted. However, it does not mean all the data is lost forever. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Voice Command Plugin for Firefox

So how you have been searching some query on Google using the Firefox browser as of now? The most common reply would be by manually typing the query in the search field and hitting Enter.

Well that is a common scenario but what is uncommon these days is the Firefox plugin called Firesay. Firesay enables you to surf the web using voice commands. This feature is quite amazing and adds the speech recognition feature to the Firefox. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Edit Photos Online with Pixer.us

If you like clicking pics and don’t want to install any software for photo editing in your system or it’s that you are at your office where you wanted to edit certain photos but can’t install any software then you have an option of editing the pics using a free online photo editor.

The online photo editor I am talking about is the ajax based online photo editor which is also free to use. The online photo editor is called Pixer.us that can not only resize, crop, rotate or flip any pic but also edit it with some effects and change the color tone etc. [Read the rest of this entry...]