Software
TouchFreeze – Activate, Freeze touch pad automatically in your laptop
Feb 1st
For those who have been working on a desktop computer for a long time and switched to laptops, the major problem is getting adjusted with the smaller keyboard. Another problem is when typing on the laptop keyboard, the thumb sometimes touches the keypad and the cursor moves to another space.
This problem usually goes away with experience. More experienced laptop users do not face this issue, as they get adjusted to the new keyboard layout over time.
However, TouchFreeze is a free utility that can be used to freeze and activate touch pad automatically. If TouchFreeze is installed, it automatically freezes the touchpad and when you stop typing, it will automatically enable the touch pad again. To download TouchFreeze goto http://code.google.com/p/touchfreeze/downloads/list
Some shortcut keys in Excel
Jan 31st
Ctrl+Shift+O: To select all the cells with comments. If there are no cells with contents then you will get ‘No cells found’ message.
Ctrl+[ : To show which are the related cells in the selected formula.
Ctrl+] : To show the related formulas of the selected cell.
Shift+Arrow key : The selection will be extended to one more adjacent cell.
Ctrl+Shift+Arrow key : The selection will be extended to the last cell with data either horizontally or vertically based on your current selection.
Shift+Home : The selection will be extended to the first cell horizontally.
Ctrl+Shift+Home : Selection will be extended to the first cell in the worksheet.
Ctrl+Shift+End: Selection will be extended until the last cell in the worksheet/.
Enter: Cursor will be moved to the next cell below the current cell.
Free Video Cutter
Jan 17th
Have you ever wondered how to cut and and extract a portion of the video from a large video file, CD, DVD and other video formats. Video Cutter software allows you to do just that.
Free Video Cutter is a free video utility to help you to cut and split your video files into small size you can use it as a "video cutter", "video splitter" or "video clipper". Program can work with most video formats, such as MPEG 1/2, MPEG4, DivX, Xvid, AVI, WMV, Quicktime MOV, Flash video and more, the output video can have a good video quality.
You dont have to have any professional IT stills, knowledge about all kinds of video formats, it is so easy to use.
VLC
Jan 17th
Media files both audio and video files are available in the internet. The problem with these files is that there are many different file formats. VLC is a program that can convert video and audio files that are suitable for your IPod and IPod Touch and IPhone. VLC can also convert and split CD and DVDs into smaller files. You can download from http://www.videolan.org/vlc/.
VLC is capable of reading most audio and video formats (MPEG-2, MPEG-4, H.264, DivX, MPEG-1, mp3, ogg, aac …) as well as DVDs, Audio CDs VCDs, and various streaming protocols.
Office 2010 beta download
Jan 17th
It has been a few weeks since, Office 2010 beta version is available for download. Microsoft is collecting feedback from these early beta version users to fix bugs and enhance various features. If you are interested in trying out the new Office 2010 beta version you can download from http://www.microsoft.com/office/2010/en/default.aspx
The download size is around 684MB (32 bit) and 750MB(64bit) version. If you would like to download and try it then it is advisible to try in a computer that is not your primary computer. It is better to try in a computer that does not store important data.
Shortcut keys in MS Word
Jan 9th
CTRL+B : To make the words bold.
CTRL+I : To italicize the words
CTRL+U: To underline the words
CTRL+DEL: To delete the word on the right of the cursor
CTRL+BACKSPACE: To delete the word on the left of the cursor
CTRL+SHIFT+SPACEBAR: To create equal spacing.
CTRL+C: To copy the selected text
CTRL+X: To cut the selected text
CTRL+V: To paste the copied or cut text.
CTRL+ALT+V: To paste special
CTRL+SHIFT+< : To reduce the font size
CTRL+SHIFT+>: To increase the font size
CTRL+[ : To reduce the font size
CTRL+]: To increase the font size
CTRL+HYPHEN: To create continuous hiphen
CTRL+SPACEBAR: To remove paragraph or character formatting
CTRL+SHIFT+V: To paste the previously used format
CTRL+Z : To undo the last action
CTRL+Y: To redo the last action that was undone.
CTRL+SHIFT+G: To bring the word count dialog box.
CTRL+L: To align text to the left
CTRL+E: To centralize the text
CTRL+R: To alogin the text to the right of the screen.
CTRL+M: To make the paragraph or the selected text in the margin.
CTRL+1: To make the spacing between lines as 1
CTRL+5: To make the spacing between lines as 1.5
CTRL+2: To make the spacing between lines as double
F7: : To check spelling and grammer
SHIFT+F7 : : To show thesaurus options
CTRL+SPACE : To enable/disable auto correct
CTRL+SHIFT+8: To show/hide hidden characters.
Ninite – All in one installer
Dec 30th
Ninite is an all in one installer. Imagine you just installed a new OS in your computer. You will then need to install all the applications one by one. You can either do it one by one or use Ninite to pick all the software you want to install and let Ninite handle the installation. It will just run in the background and install all the selected applications with default settings. Even if your computer is not new you can still find a few applications from the list and install with ease.
Yes it is that easy. It is available at http://ninite.com/
Portable Ubuntu for Windows
Dec 30th
Ubuntu linux portable edition was one of the most popular downloads in year 2009. Ubuntu portable version can be downloaded from http://sourceforge.net/projects/portableubuntu/. The popularity is due to the reason that this version can be used within Windows Desktop.
AdAware Free
Dec 30th
AdAware is one of the popular anti spyware programs. Recently it launched version 8.1.1. IT works on Windows XP, Vista and Windows 2000. It only needs 98198 Kb space to function. Harddisk space of 100MN and processor speed higher than 600 MHz. Last week its website announced that so far there has been more than 400 million downloads. It is provided by http://www.lavasoft.com/. You can download the free version from http://www.lavasoft.com/products/ad_aware_free.php
Absolute Uninstaller
Dec 29th
Many companies provide freeware and open source applications that can be downloaded freely on the internet. We find them from other friends or while browsing the internet. Then we download and install in our computers. But usually we forget about them after one or two months and stop using them.
After a few years, our computers are full of such ‘so called useful’ programs which we use very rarely. Sometimes when we uninstall them, they leave a few registries and files which are no longer useful. Therefore we need a special program to remove them and also to review other installed programs and uninstall those that we no longer use.
Doing this will increase the performance of the computer and increase the speed. ‘Absolute Uninstaller’ does just that. Even though this does similar job of ‘Add/Remove’ programs, it is more effective in uninstalling. Such as removing related registries, related desktop icons, start menu entries etc. It also searches for related files that belong to the application and removes them. You can find the ‘Absolute Uninstaller’ at http://www.glarysoft.com
You may also find other freeware applications there that might be of help.
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