Customize Start Menu with Tidy Start Menu

Published at December 31, 2007   Filed Under Software, Tools   0 Comments  

If you use lot of programs then chances are that your start menu is so long that you hate to look at it. But not any more Tidy Start Menu will help you to keep your start menu in order by categorizing the programs.
For setting the menu in order, the program offers you to [...]

Spellify: Spell checker for text fields

Published at December 30, 2007   Filed Under Tools, Web 2.0   2 Comments  

Spellify is a nice Ajax powered spell checker for form fields. Spellify will make it easier for your visitors to spell check while filling the text fields.
Spellify is based on script.aculo.us/prototype Javascript library. You can easily include spellify in your web pages.
It suggests automatically if you misspell words in text fields, it shows correct [...]

How to protect your web directories

Published at December 27, 2007   Filed Under Technology, Tools   7 Comments  

I just saw a post on Life Rocks 2.0 which explains you to how to protect your wordpress theme files. It is possible for any one to see your wordpress theme files or plugin folders to see what themes you are using or what plugins you use if you don’t protect them.
What you do [...]

Send up to 5GB Email attachments with AOL’s Xdrive

Published at December 25, 2007   Filed Under Technology, Tools   0 Comments  

There are many sites where you can upload large files to share with your friends, but there are none to send large files as email attachments. AOL is trying to change this, with AOL’s Xdrive now you can upload up to 5GB file attachments with your email.
You can send any file through this way, [...]

Backup all your Emails quickly

Published at December 20, 2007   Filed Under Software, Tools   5 Comments  

Have you ever lose your email because of the your disk crash or for some other reason. Not any more now you can quickly and easily take backup of your emails with MailStore Home.
MailStore Home is a free windows app that allows you to take backup of emails from most of the desktop clients, POP3 [...]

Replace Windows Explorer with Xplorer2 Lite

Published at December 17, 2007   Filed Under Tools   8 Comments  

Xplorer2 lite is a good replacement for the default windows explorer. It is a dual-pane file manager with far more functionality than windows explorer.
Once you install and open the xplorer2 you will notice lot of options in toolbars, its hard to describe all the functions here, because i have yet to explore all the [...]

First Impressions: Microsoft Office Live Workspace (with Screenshots)

Published at December 13, 2007   Filed Under Microsoft, Technology, Tools   4 Comments  

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Microsoft launched Office Live Workspace on 10th December as an answer to Google Docs, Zoho and the recent Live Documents (coverage).
Office Live Workspace is not a complete online office, it is just like a space for sharing your documents online. I am testing currently the service, although it is not a [...]

Movable Type finally goes Open Source

Published at December 12, 2007   Filed Under Technology, Tools   2 Comments  

Six Apart announced few months back that Movable Type is going towards open-source when they released MT 4 Beta. Now the time has come and finally MT is going to open source from today.
If you don’t know what is Movable Type it is a weblog engine like Wordpress. Popular blogs like Boing Boing and [...]