Friday, February 22, 2008

Blogger Backup, Mobile Blog, MP3 Emails, Twitter Software, Passport Photos

Create a Mobile Friendly Blog with Google Reader in 10 seconds

Your blog may look perfect on the desktop but there are lot of people checking your content on small mobile phone screens.

You need not be a geek, just use Google Reader and your mobile phone optimized blog is ready - see live example at m.labnol.org.

Turn Your Emails into MP3 Files Online

Vozme is web based tool that turns any snippet of text into an MP3 audio file that you can either listen online or download to your local hard drive.

The Best Twitter Software for Windows

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Print Your Passport Size Photos at Home

print passport size photo If you have a photo printer at home, you can easily convert any of your digital picture into a valid passport size photograph using ePassportPhoto.

Upload the digital photo, crop and you immediately get a printable strip of 6-8 photographs for free.

Backup Your Blogger Blog Posts and Comments Locally

Blogger Backup is a free Windows Utility that saves your entire Blogger posts to the disk and can easily restore them in case you accidentally delete your blog.

Blogger Backup follows the incremental backup style so if you run the software again after a week, only blog posts and comments published during this seven day period will be downloaded locally, not the entire blog.

Save Clippings from Microsoft Documents

You are reading a long document in Microsoft Word and wish to save some important parts to a separate file. You can either create a new Word document and copy-paste selected content to the new document or a better option is to create "document scraps."

Free Movie Recorder for Your Computer Screen - TipCam

TipCamp is a new screen recording software for Windows similar to other screencasting tools like Jing, Camtasia Studio or Camstudio.

While Jing and Camstudio render the desktop screen recording video in SWF format, TipCamp uses Flash Video (FLV) that is supported by blip.tv.

Thursday, February 21, 2008

Camera Phones, Google Snooping, YouTube Tools, Techmeme Video

Stop Your Boss From Seeing Your Google Search Queries

There are chances that someone is secretly spying on your Google search tracks for various reasons. For example, the employer may monitor your Google search habits to know if you are looking for jobs elsewhere while the local ISP may be collecting your Google queries with the purpose of selling that data to large analytics companies.

When Specific Websites Do Not Open on your Computer

Your computer is connected to the Internet and you can reach most websites just fine but there’s a problem when you try to open some particular website(s). How to diagnose and fix this issue ?

The Best YouTube Video Tools

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How to Make a Time Lapse Video

Learn how this Techmeme Time Lapse movie was shot and produced in couple of hours.

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10 Creative Uses of Mobile Camera Phones

taxi in delhiMost shopping malls here have huge underground parking but there aren’t any signboards so it gets tough to locate the car. So when you park the car, just look towards the escalator (or the exit door) and take a picture or record some video. This will save lot of effort (and time) when you return with all those heavy shopping bags.

Facebook Blocked, Web Screenshots, Best Free Software

Save Screenshots of Web Pages

Kwout is like a Print Screen key for your web browser. Type in the web page address and Kwuot will convert the entire web page as an image.

Apple Safari on Windows

Apple introduced Safari for Windows around six months ago calling it the fastest web browser that is almost twice as fast as IE 7 or Firefox 2.

But did the browser really pick up any momentum ? The Google Analytics report says no.

The Best Free Software Programs for Windows

Given all these wonderful choices, why pay?

We have picked some of the best software programs and utilities for your Windows computer that are completely free and still extremely useful.

Related: Free Software Programs from Microsoft

How to Access Blocked Facebook at School

If you also happen to work in such a company where the office firewall has restricted access to Facebook, there's a workaround - your email.

Boopsie, SyncToy, Online Virtual Office, Firefox Passwords

Synchronize Files in Folders and USB Drives with SyncToy

Microsoft Synctoy is a must-have utility to help you synchronize files in different directories of the same computer or between a computer and external storage devices like the iPod and USB pen drives.

Do Stuff on Office Computer That You Thought was Impossible

Life inside the office can sometimes be very restrictive for employees.

You are not allowed to check personal email, there are no permissions to install new software, tons of websites are banned (loss of worker productivity), you cannot store music because management thinks that MP3s are illegal, YouTube videos are prohibited and so on.

The Best Tools for Running a Successful Online Office

Virtual offices, where employees and co-workers can be located in any corner of the world, have become a reality. More and more businesses are keen on exploring the concept of virtual office because they save on office rentals, employee commuting costs and host of other "unnecessary" expenses.

Your Saved Passwords in IE or Firefox Are Not Safe

When you type some password into a web form, both Internet Explorer and Firefox prompt if you would like them to remember your password. The moment you click Yes, you actually put your login credentials at serious risk.

Type Less Characters when Accessing Internet from a Mobile Phone

If you were to read the Wikipedia entry of Benazir Bhutto on a mobile phone, you would either visit Google or the official Wikipedia website, type her complete name in the search box and hit Go. That's lot of typing.

With Boopsie, you can type "ben bhu" – it will show all Wikipedia pages that match the string and clicking on the link will take you to the appropriate web page. Similar "pa hi" will find Paris Hilton.

Related: Why Use Mobile Browsers on the Desktop