Monthly Archives: January 2010
Fast, Light-weight Sticky Notes for Windows?
| 7 January 2010 | Posted by whiztech under Uncategorized |
You probably using post-it notes attached to your monitor or desk to make reminders or short notes. If your post-it notes seem very disorganized and messed up your desk, maybe it’s time for you to use a virtual one.
PNotes is a small and light-weight sticky virtual notes program for Windows. It is skinnable and very flexible. Each individual notes can have their own settings, reminders, skins, fonts, colors, etc.. Some features of PNotes:
Enable GodMode (Useful Centralized System Settings) on Windows 7 / Vista
| 4 January 2010 | Posted by whiztech under Uncategorized |
This tips is only for Windows 7 (32 and 64 bit) and Vista (32 bit only, using this trick on Windows Vista 64 bit will cause Windows to crash). Well, this god mode is not going to make your Windows installation immune to virus or something like that, but instead it provides you with shortcuts to useful system settings.
Enabling GodMode on Windows 7 / Vista
1. Right click on any blank area on your desktop and choose ‘New’ > ‘Folder’.
2. Rename the folder to:
GodMode.{ED7BA470-8E54-465E-825C-99712043E01C}
3. Magically the folder transformed into GodMode!
4. You can actually change the ‘GodMode’ text to something else, for example, if you want to name it ‘System Settings’ just name the new folder to this:
System Settings.{ED7BA470-8E54-465E-825C-99712043E01C}
[via Web Talk]
Show Your Name In Windows 7 or Vista Taskbar
| 3 January 2010 | Posted by whiztech under Uncategorized |
Quick tip for Windows Vista and 7 only. You can make your Windows installation a little bit different from others by putting a custom text (your name for example) next to the clock on your taskbar.
1. To put a custom text next to the clock on your taskbar, go to Start Menu > ‘Control Panel’ > ‘Region and Language’ options. Click ‘Additional settings…’ (1) and then click the ‘Time’ (2) tab.
2. Change the AM and PM field (3) to the text that you wish to be displayed next to the clock on your taskbar (maximum of 12 characters). Press ‘OK’ (4) to save the options.
3. Make sure ‘Short’ and ‘Long’ time format field have ‘tt’ at the end of it (5) (‘h:mm tt’ for ‘Short time’ and ‘h:mm:ss tt’ for ‘Long time’ format).
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5 Websites to Check if a Website is Down for Everyone or Just You
| 3 January 2010 | Posted by whiztech under Uncategorized |
Quick tip. When we are trying to access our favourite website and the website is down, sometimes we might think, “Is the website is down for everyone or just me?”. If the website is down for everyone, you probably don’t have to worry because the problem is not at your end. If it is just you, then you might have a problem and you need to check your Internet configuration. In this post, you will find 5 websites that let you quickly check if a website is down for everyone or just you. The first 3 are my favourite.
1. downforeveryoneorjustme.com
Plain simple! Just enter the website address that you want to check and the result will be displayed in a simple way.
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Simple yet Effective Download Manager for DepositFiles, FileFactory, Hotfile, MegaUpload, Rapidshare, SendSpace (and More!)
| 1 January 2010 | Posted by whiztech under Uncategorized |
I was looking for a simple download manager that will let me to easily queue the download from multiple file hosting site such as Hotfile and Rapidshare. I found JDownloader, a one-click-host download manager written in Java. Unfortunately I don’t really like it especially the part where it uses too much of my precious CPU cycles and memory. As I was looking for the alternative, I stumbled upon MDownloader and it come with ‘Don’t click – queue it’ tagline. Well.. another .NET application and the chance of it to use a lot of CPU and memory is high but I decided to give it a try.
Surprisingly, I found that MDownloader is quite good. The first version that I use was MDownloader 0.9. The interface is very simple and despite the moderate memory usage, MDownloader is quite tame when it came to CPU usage. You won’t notice MDownloader is running in the background.
To use MDownloader, copy the links that you want MDownloader to download, and hit ‘Quick Paste’ (1). It will take some time before the downloads popped up in MDownloader. Just as simple as that and MDownloader will automatically download from all the links. MDownloader has built in captchas recognition but sometimes the OCR (optical character recognition) engine fails to recognize the captchas and you need to manually enter them. If you are queuing a lot of files, make sure you check MDownloader every hour or two, or you ended stuck at the captchas without downloading anything!
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