Infotix

Declutter your desk

Gaurav — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 13:16:08 +0000

Check out this cool stuff on Decluttered.com to arrange your computer panel in case you have also mess up with bunch of wires behind the system. Actually, I was randomly browsing Digg when I stumbled upon this highly useful webpage describing to declutter your desk and explaining every step with illustration. Below are some of [...]

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Expand any URL

Gaurav — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 14:27:00 +0000

Since most of you are familiar with Tinyurl which condenses URL but I stumbled upon this cool website which expands any URL. What captures my attention while visting Hugeurl.com is their tag line “Because bigger is better, right?”

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How to Hide or Remove blogger Navbar

Gaurav — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 07:57:25 +0000

A Navbar appears by default on every blog hosted by Blogspot.com.Though there is an option of changing colors of this in “Templates<< Page Elements” but sometimes this doesn’t go with your blog style.In that case you can always hide/remove this by inserting some HTML code in your template’s code.

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Improve quality of images using VectorMagic

Gaurav — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 13:22:50 +0000

Vector Magic by Stanford University is a free online service that enable you to convert bitmap images into high quality vector images. It is highly useful as it enhances the quality without making blurry.

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Paypal phishing mails

Gaurav — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 16:59:34 +0000

Yesterday I received the following phishing mail titled ” Update your Account Information” which was so precisely designed to look like an original mail from Paypal. At first glance I was not able to distinguish with any other mail from Paypal but by carefully checking the email domain which was “paybal” and checking the Link [...]

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All in one SocialBookmarking website

Gaurav — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 08:03:46 +0000

Submitting your blog post individually to various popular sociall bookmarking sites like digg, stumble ,reddit etc is quite hectic. But I found a great website Socialmarker.com where you have to submit just once

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Add watermarks to pics online by Picmarkr

Gaurav — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 14:43:21 +0000

Watermarks are the best option to save the illegal circulation of pictures and they can be easily added by photo editing softwares like Photoshop or Corel but in case you want to do it online then there is a site Picmarkr which enables to add watermarks online by just uploading the pic.

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Notepad as Diary

Gaurav — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 13:20:51 +0000

If you have habit of writing entries on day to day or time basis then carefully read this trick to append date & time with notepad file. Here goes the trick:

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Google Health Beta is now available

Gaurav — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 08:27:59 +0000

Google Health puts you in charge of your health information. It’s safe, secure, and free. Organize your health information all in one place Gather your medical records from doctors, hospitals, and pharmacies Keep your doctors up to date about your health Be more informed about important health issues

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Identify this logo

Gaurav — Sun, 18 May 2008 16:45:46 +0000

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Funny Google Mistakes

Gaurav — Sat, 10 May 2008 12:54:33 +0000

You need to a flashplayer enabled browser to view this YouTube video

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Status update feature in orkut

Gaurav — Sat, 10 May 2008 12:49:49 +0000

Looks like within few months Orkut will add all features of Facebook. Latest is the status update feature that can be updated by clicking profile and typing whatever you want to appear as your status in the box right below your name. Source: Orkut blog

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Add comments on your friend’s photo album in Orkut

Gaurav — Sat, 10 May 2008 12:39:26 +0000

Now you can add comments in your friend’s photo album like in Facebook or LinkedIn.

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Send your name to Moon

Gaurav — Fri, 09 May 2008 13:56:53 +0000

Sign up to send your name to the moon. Names will be collected and placed onboard the LRO spacecraft for its historic mission bringing NASA back to the moon. You will also receive a certificate showcasing your support of the mission.The deadline is June 27, 2008 for the submission of names. Visit Send your name to [...]

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Disable Error reporting in Microsoft Windows

Gaurav — Fri, 09 May 2008 07:41:46 +0000

If you are fed up with the error reporting messages every time any program crashes then here are the few steps that will deactivate this error reporting service completely from your system. See snapshots of the process below.

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Some Logos & their meaning

Gaurav — Sat, 26 Jan 2008 18:53:58 +0000

| View | Upload your own

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Video search engine

Gaurav — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 16:37:08 +0000

Recently while googling I stumbled upon Blinkx, a video search engine and was really impressed by the quality of video uploaded there in comparison to Youtube. Though there are very limited number of videos in each section as compared to large data base of Youtube but you will find most of the popular and [...]

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Google Holiday Logos

Gaurav — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 16:26:19 +0000

Below is the collection of famous logos used by Google on various holiday. | View | Upload your own

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Software for different video codecs

Gaurav — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 16:02:36 +0000

Last night I downloaded a hindi film(.avi format) but today when I tried to play with VLC player ,it was prompting “Video can’t be displayed” and only sound was playing. I also tried different codecs but nothing happens. While googling various codes,I stumbled upon a software VideoInspector(size 2.89 Mb).With the help of this wonderful software you [...]

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Tech Jewellery

Gaurav — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 15:48:56 +0000

Check out this cool jewellery for techie people out there. This includes Pi Earrings, Math Cuff links and HTML head Sterling Silver Earrings I am sure you will like these. You can even buy them at Etsy.com

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Blending iPhone to get iSmoke & iDust

Gaurav — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 17:58:01 +0000

Here is a very interesting and funny video which explains what will happen if iPhone is blended maybe it will generate iSmoke or iDust !!

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How to remove number of posts in blogger archive?

Gaurav — Sat, 05 Jan 2008 18:35:18 +0000

I am sure you have notice many times that in blogspot hosted blogs there is a number of posts against each month in the blog’s archives like shown in figure above.Though I personally don’t like this feature as it gives a wrong impression to first time visitors in case your blog don’t have good number [...]

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Display Warning/Error message on Windows Startup

Gaurav — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 18:47:08 +0000

Here is a cool trick to show a legal notice at system start up like ” You are using pirated version of Windows”.

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Download youtube videos without any software

Gaurav — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 08:01:53 +0000

I usually use Orbit player to download Youtube videos but I was never satisfied with the downloading speed it offers. Recently I came across Keepvid.com from where you can download any video from Youtube, Google, metacafe. Music.com and many more sites by just typing the url of video. You will get a download [...]

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Explore your system

Gaurav — Tue, 01 Jan 2008 13:25:23 +0000

System Explorer is a great utility which offers detailed informations about currently active processes in your system, along with startup apps, IE Addons, active services, installed drivers, established connections and opened files.

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Backup files to your Email

Gaurav — Tue, 01 Jan 2008 13:23:45 +0000

If you ever wanted the best and easiest solution to backup your files then check out this software by Emailer.zapto.org . It can upload any file of any size to your email account by just right clicking on that file and selecting “Backup to Email”.

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Free college Email Id

Gaurav — Tue, 01 Jan 2008 13:21:46 +0000

Acads.in is providing free email id like you@yourinstitute.acads.in. These professional Email address looks good on resume and for other professional distribution. The mail sent on these id’s will be redirected to your regulay Yahoo,Gmail account as filled initially.

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Free and Open Source PDF Split and Merge utility

Gaurav — Tue, 01 Jan 2008 13:19:57 +0000

This is one of the best utility that I came across recently. It’s free and open source PDF split and Merge software(76 Kb) by Paologios.com that does not require a separate PDF editor and works in a flash.

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Blogger widget for downloading Youtube videos

Gaurav — Tue, 01 Jan 2008 13:18:36 +0000

Here is a cool blogger widget that enables you to download any Youtube video by typing link of that particular video. TechnoJuice has provided 2 different styles that can easily modified according to your sidebar’s width.To insert this just copy-paste following code:

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Know about programs running on computer

Gaurav — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 14:17:00 +0000

Task manager shows all programs running on your computer and sometimes you have noticed that some programs are consuming quite large RAM like svchost.exe etc.

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