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Entries for November, 2009

Convert Multiple PDF Files into Text Files at Once

If you have many PDF files to be converted into the text file format then what will you do? There may be many converters available to do that or some online converters but here is a tool called Ease PDF to Text Extractor that can convert the PDF files in batch for you.

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Convert or Resize Images at once in Bulk

There are several tools available to convert or resize images in bulk to other formats at once in one go. But I found this tool called PixResizer to be more effective and simple.

PixResizer can convert or resize images from one format to another in different dimension easily and quite fast. It can convert between all [...]

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Record Desktop Activities and Convert to EXE with Screen2Exe

There are many tools to record the desktop activities and record it as a video. You can record desktop activities into a movie to create demos, tutorials or even presentations.

What you need is just a tool called Screen2Exe, install it and run it. When you click on button reading “Start Recording”, the tool will start [...]

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Convert PDF to JPG or TIFF Image Formats

Ever wanted to convert Adobe PDF files into Image formats like JPG, BMP or TIFF? Well if it is yes, then here is a tool for you that can do that for you easily.

The tool is called Adolix PDF Converter and what it does is it will add a virtual printer to the system from [...]

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Disable Autorun.inf Creation in USB Pen Drives

Autorun.inf is the popular file created by the viruses in the USB Flash drives which is used by them to spread across different storage media.
It is the first file that gets created in the pen drives as soon as the drive is inserted in the system having viruses. Thus it is for sure that if [...]

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Steps to Protect exe Files from Viruses

Anti Virus is a great protection tool to safeguard our computer and files against the virus but these are not 100% efficient in use and also they require periodic updating of the virus definitions.
Here is a free, simple yet powerful tool that can protect your files and folders especially the executable exe files against the [...]

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How to Send Huge Files over Internet

It feels very bad when we want our friend to send us some song or a movie clip through email over internet because the emails like Gmail or Yahoo have some restrictions on the size of the data that we can send.
So what are you going to do if you are required to send some [...]

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Steps to send exe and other files through Email

There are occasions when we wish to send to our friend some cool software or any application via email but the email scanners don’t allow us to do that.
This is right on one part to disallow anyone to send virus which are exe files through email but it is of no use to people who [...]

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Encrypt and Password Protect Pen Drive using USB Flash Security

USB Drives are the easiest way to carry data from one location to another but their security is something that concerns most users today. Though few variants come with the default feature of password security but for others there are many tools available.
I did write about TrueCrypt but it is somewhat difficult to use for [...]

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Unlock Files Used by Other Processes using LockHunter

You must have come across a situation when you try to delete a file but the error message comes up saying “the file is in use by some other process”. If you haven’t see this then you must have came across the error message “Device currently in use” while ejecting the USB Pen Drive.

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Kill Unwanted Tasks and Services with AlacrityPC

We tend to run many programs and tasks simultaneously and sometimes this creates a heavy load on the system that the computer becomes slow and also responds very slowly.
This is the most critical situation for a gamer who wants his system to be fast and free while playing the games. Well if you have thought [...]

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Free Extended Task Manager for Windows

Though I mentioned few Task Manager Replacement tools earlier but this one deserves a separate post and that is all because of its functionality.
No doubt Windows default task manager is a great way to list and kill processes but it still lacks certain features that are provided by this Task Manager called Extended Task Manager. [...]

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