Shankar Ganesh

If you’re the kind of a person who frequently tries out softwares, chances are your Windows Explorer Context Menu is loaded with unnecessary items. Even worse – these items in the menu don’t go off when you uninstall particular softwares.

Geeks can modify the registry to edit the shell context menu, while others like you and me can sit back and use these free tools to make things easier:
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If you like Opera’s look, but prefer to use Firefox, you can get the Opera theme made for Firefox. Cool, huh?

Here’s how Firefox looks after installing this theme:

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Not that perfect actually, I should say. You can install the Opera theme for Firefox directly using this link.

Warning: This is a third party theme, and is not supported by Mozilla officially. Try this theme at you own risk.

Okay it’s a cliche but let me tell you again . Here are my tips:

• Don’t use phone numbers, birthdays, names of your friends, relatives as a password.
• Don’t use dictionary words for a password – this is very important.
• Don’t just use alphabets. Always mix up numbers and symbols, uppercase and lowercase letters.
• Don’t use the same password for all your online accounts.
• Don’t have the same passwords for a long period of time. Make sure you change them in a regular time interval.
• Don’t write down your password.
• Don’t reveal your password to your friends and family.

If you have anything to say, add your views in the comments!

Just thought I can list together last month’s popular posts. So here goes the list:

• Greasemonkey scripts for Google Reader
• 3 Twitter Alternatives
• Windows Hidden Trick: Get the ‘No to all’ function
• How to turn off / disable annoying Windows Beep sounds
• Fission Firefox Extension: Progress Bar + Address Bar
• WordPress Blogging Tip: Optimizing post-slugs for better SEO
• Renaming the Recycle Bin in Windows: How-to
• Renaming the Internet Explorer Title Bar

In case you’ve missed them, do check them out!

You’ve watched those stunning videos on YouTube. And that’s not enough for you. You need to edit ‘em.

A typical process involves these steps: you have to download the video file in .flv format, convert it to a typical video format (.avi, etc), and then use a software like Windows Movie Maker to edit it and add your stuff. That’s a bit hectic.

Well, all that may sound geeky to a novice. Don’t worry, you can still edit such videos with ease using an online tool called Mojiti. Here’s how: Read the rest of this entry »

Some noise from inside your PC’s cabinet. Probably your computer’s fan is not performing well.

SpeedFan is a very useful tool that might come in handy when you need to know your computer’s fan speed and temperatures of your motherboard or hard disk. In addition to this, this software will also be able to analyze your hard drive’s status and provide you with details on its performance using SMART or even SCSI. Fool proof your hard disk from a crash.

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DeskLoops, a very cool software from Xilokit, helps you manage scuffled windows.

Every so often, your screen gets messed up with a lot of Windows. Pain.

A lot of tools are available that let you organize your windows, saving you time. One such tools is DeskLoops, and it’s a bit different from other conventional ones.

Let me show you how it works:

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This week’s batch of links:

• 10 High Tech Clock Gadgets – Dj Flush
• A review of Sony Ericsson W580i – Nirmal
• Setting up FTP in Vista using the default Network Location Feature – Joel
• Tips on monetizing your blog – Rishi
• Personalize your blog with custom CSS Bullets – Manas
• Ten jobs you can do with IrfanView Image Viewer – Pallab
• How to add new locations to the Places Bar in the file dialogs – Keith
• The world’s thinnest laptop – Madhur
• Spice up Google Reader – Ashwin
• How to create a Web 2.0-isque favicon – Photoshop Tutorial by Sankar Anand
• Where to get free expressions for AOL Instant Messenger – Gili
• WordWeb: A simple dictionary tool for your PC – Titun
• A car with air as its fuel – Shashank
• Post2Blog Free Desktop Blogging Client – Thilak
• How to disable automatic keyword forwarding – Spot Geek
• Microsoft Surface – My Guest Post on the Thinking Blog

Quite a number of software programs let you resize your pictures easily. But you may not need such programs always since you don’t resize pictures often. In case you don’t want to / can’t install a software to do the job, there are quite a number of tools available on the internet that may come in handy. Here are some of them:
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Applications can easily be pinned to the start menu in Windows XP for easy access.

You can do this by right clicking the Application’s .exe file, and selecting the Pin to Start Menu option. The program instantly appears in your Start menu, and can be quickly launched. This option is not available for folders – meaning that you can’t pin folders to the Start Menu. But you can try this hack to enable the Pin to Start Menu option for folders too:

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