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Organize Your Music Collection with MusicBrainz Picard Tagger

Nirmal — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 21:14:13 +0000

If you are not able to organize your huge music collection, then Picard Tagger might just be the right program you are looking for. MusicBrainz Picard is a free MP3 file tagger that can identify track information by comparing an audio track’s “unique digital fingerprint” to the information in the MusicBrainz database. It is based on a tagging concept that is centered around album or release information for groups of tracks and will help in identifying individual tracks within that framework.

This software is specially useful when you rip tracks from an audio CD and most of the cases tracks will be named a track1 etc. Picard creates a patented and unique digital fingerprint for audio files that it processes and compares it to the MusicBrainz database in order to identify it. This database is user maintained and it has around 392772 artists, 594408 releases and 6890758 tracks information as of July 2008. You can also contribute to this by creating an account.

The interface is also pretty simple to use. Picard tagger works on Windows, Linux and Mac OS X.

Download Picard Tagger

How to Create a Live Search Box for your Blog

Nirmal — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 17:00:00 +0000

The default site search provided by Wordpress themes is not much effective in searching contents for your blog or web. Its always good to have a good search box so that your visitors can have much better exposure to articles. Similar to Google Custom search for websites, Live Search also has a custom search for blogs and website. The difference for Live Search is that you need not go navigate from an existing page to search for contents.

To create a Live Search, navigate to Live Search box page. There are two options basic and advanced search box. The basic version searches a single site that you specify, or the entire Web. The advanced version searches multiple sites you specify, the entire Web, or applies a Live Search Macro. Once you select the version, next you enter the website name and URL. You will be able to add multiple sites if you select advanced version.

Next you need to select the language, width of the box and the theme for the search box.

Copy paste the code where you want to display the Live Search Box. Here is how the search result look like.

Create a Live Search for your Blog

Download Free Video Convertor for iPhone 3G

Nirmal — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 22:30:32 +0000

Videora iPhone 3G Converter is a free iPhone 3G video converter that converts video files, YouTube videos, movies and DVD’s so you can play them on your iPhone 3G. This freeware can convert all types of video files like avi, divx, xvid, flv, x264, vob, mpeg, DVD’s, YouTube, etc. into the video formats (MPEG-4, H.264) that can be played on the iPhone 3G.

You can also download Videos from YouTube and Convert to iPhone format. YouTube videos can be directly accessed from the program. There are stepped options for more advanced users interested in controlling greater audio/video detail. If you have an iPhone, go ahead and convert your favorite DVDs to iPhone video format.

Download iPhone 3G Converter

How to Customize the Appearance of Windows Vista Sidebar

Nirmal — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 19:22:02 +0000

Sidebar is one of the notable additions to Windows Vista. You can customize and change the looks of the sidebar. One such freeware which helps you in applying themes to the sidebar is Windows Sidebar Styler. It helps in resizing and customizing the appearance of Windows Sidebar so that it fits other UI elements.

First step is to Download the application and install it on your Vista. Restart Vista after installation and then open the Sidebar styler application. Here you will be able to see a lot of default theme available.

A preview of the themes is available on the right side. One you have decided on the theme, you will need to load and then apply the theme using the play button located at the bottom.

You will be able to resize the sidebar by selecting the option in the more menu located at the right bottom corner. Once the size of sidebar is selected, it can be locked, preventing further resizing. You can download more skins from WinCustomize Gallery.

The sidebar styler is available in two versions, 32 bit and 64 bit. Sidebar styler is also available in different languages.

Download Windows Sidebar Styler

Download Free Windows 7 High Resolution Wallpapers

Nirmal — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 06:35:04 +0000

Windows 7 is the next OS from Microsoft which is slated for release early 2010 and there has been lot of discussion on the UI changes when compared to Vista. For the time being lets have fun with these Windows 7 wallpapers. These are high resolution wallpapers created at Devianart. All credits to creators and owners of the images.

Click on the images to Download them (from Author’s site).

Hope you liked them and already started using.

How to Add a Watermark for Documents in Office 2007

Nirmal — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 21:15:28 +0000

When you want to mention that a document is confidential or a draft copy, its always good to add a watermark to the document. Watermarks informs people about the document and since they are transparent in color, they sit behind and don’t divert people’s attention from the document’s content.

Watermarks are mainly intended for printed documents and will not show up in the web Layout view of the document. To create a watermark, follow these steps;

1. Open a word document in Office 2007 and select the Page Layout tab in the Ribbon. Inside page layout, you will be able to see an option “Watermark”

2. Here you will be able to select any of the default watermarks available or you can create a custom watermark.

3. In custom watermark, you can either select a picture for watermarking or use text.

When you select text watermark, you will be able to specify the font, alignment, size, layout etc. You can also select an image from the computer as watermark. Once you are done with customizing, click OK.

Now you will be able to see the watermark in action. All printed documents will have this watermark.

Block Pop-Up ads with Pop Up Stopper Free Edition

Nirmal — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 19:00:15 +0000

Latest versions of web browsers have build in Pop up blocker, but still few pop ups get through the browser. A free pop up blocker is a good way to prevent pop up. Pop up blocker free edition is a powerful ad blocker. This pop-up blocker features a powerful, yet easy to use, interface which allows quick access to its wide variety of features. Pop-Up Stopper Free supports Internet Explorer, Netscape & Mozilla only.

It can also block Messenger Service and desktop ads. There’s no need to adjust proxy settings or add sites to a list. Pop-Up Stopper will not strip Web images or slow your browser. I case you need to allow pop-up for any website, you need to hold down the CTRL or Shift key.

Pop Up Stopper is a good freeware to prevent pop-up and only limitation is that you cannot add sites to white list, so that pop-ups are not blocked.

Download Pop Up Stopper Free Edition

Opera Mobile 9.5 Beta for Available for Download

Nirmal — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 11:15:36 +0000

Opera has released the first beta version of the Opera Mobile 9.5. This beta version is designed for Windows Mobile 5 and 6 with touchscreens. Opera Mobile, first launched in 2000, and with over 100 million installations since 2004. The first beta of Opera Mobile 9.5 comes outfitted with added performance, faster speed and a new UI.

Features in Opera Mobile 9.5;

Opera Mobile 9.5 beta loads Web pages 2.5 times faster than Internet Explorer Mobile.
It defaults to full Web page viewing with the ability to allows users to pan and zoom.
The new UI is cleaner and more intuitive.
Opera Mobile 9.5 is the most standards compliant browser available.
Browse with the full richness of AJAX.
Integrated with address auto-complete, Password Manager and pop-up handler.
Multitask with tabbed browsing and view content in wide screen.

Plans for future betas include:

Opera Widgets
Opera Link
Gears
Symbian OS support

Download Opera Mobile 9.5

How to Download Free Office Templates Using Office 2007

Nirmal — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 21:05:46 +0000

Microsoft Office Online provides free templates for resumes, letters, invitations, envelopes, receipts, reports and many more. You can download these templates for free from Office live website. Alternatively these can be downloaded using Office 2007. The advantage of using Office 2007 for downloading the templates is that its in well arranged formats and locating documents is much more easier.

To download the templates, open Word 2007 and click the Office button on the top left corner and select New. Now you will be asked to select a template.

By default, blank document is selected. Below you can see a category Microsoft Office Online and under this you will be able to see different categories of templates. When I select a category, the different sub categories are displayed in second column.

Select a sub category and you will be able to see all the templates with the description of eachtemplate displayed on third column.

At the bottom of the page, you will be able to see a Download button. Once you have selected the document, you will be able to download the document.

You will be prompted with a dialog saying that this feature is available only for genuine Office 2007 users and its checked each time the document is downloaded

You can also use the search bar located on top of second column to find any specific templates.

NB: Please note that the templates available will depend on the application you are opening. For example if you open a word document and search for Excel based templates, you will not able to find. For excel based templates, you will need to search using Excel 2007. An Internet connection is required to search and download templates.

How to Enable Spell Check for Input Fields in Firefox 3

Nirmal — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 19:06:15 +0000

Firefox by default has a spell checker which underlines the misspelled words using a red line. This spell check is available only for text areas and not for text input fields like title for Wordpress blog post or a subject line for an e-mail etc. But you can enable spell check for text input fields as well. To do this, type about:config in address bar and press enter. Click on the button “I’ll be Careful, I promise”. In the filter field in the config file type layout.spellcheckDefault.

The default value is 1, double click the entry and change the value to 2. click ok and close. You need to restart Firefox to see spell check enabled.

If spell check is still not enabled for input fields, then right click on the word and select Check Spelling option.

This tip will also work in Firefox 2.