HOW TO SOLVE USB DEVICE NOT RECOGNIZED ERROR IN WINDOW ?

USB Device Not Recognized

To resolve these issues, follow the steps listed in the methods below in the order listed. If the first method does not fix the problem, procede to the next.

Uninstall and then reconnect the external hard drive

This method resolves issues where the currently loaded USB driver has become unstable or corrupt.

TALKING TOM CAT FOR SYMBIAN 3 MOBILE DEVICES

Talking Cat is 3D animated cat that talks and repeat what you say. Unlike Talking Hamster and puppy talk developed by picobrothers, this app from picobrothers is far more excellent and works on all s60v5 and symbian3 devices. This app is similar to talking tom cat as seen in iphone but this one actually talks as you speak.





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HOW TO SPEED UP BROWSER USING SLOW INTERNET ?

Chrome Speed Up

Even though Google Chrome is quite a fast browser, oftentimes we have to impatiently wait for a download to complete or a page to load or perhaps for a file to upload. So, it’s wise to keep a few tricks to speed up Google Chrome up your sleeve for those days when your connection is typically slow.

Using more extensions ultimately slows down Google Chrome. When we come across a shiny, new extension, we feel like we would use it every day, but often we forget about it and it runs in the background slowing it down. You can check if such

HOW TO APPLY NIGHT MODE IN FIREFOX & MOZILLA ?

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If you surf at night, you know a regular white web page can hurt your eyes when you open it up. Here are browser extensions for Firefox that will make the web a little bit nicer at night. We've shared a few ways to make your screen more eye-friendly in the dark.

Firefox users have a extension called Blank Your Monitor that, with a keyboard shortcut, will invert the colors in your browser for easier night reading. you can open up the options and customize the colors for page backgrounds, text, and links, so it looks exactly how you want it to look. It also has a cool feature

HOW TO APPLY NIGHT MODE IN GOOGLE CHROME ?

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If you surf at night, you know a regular white web page can hurt your eyes when you open it up. Here are browser extensions for Chrome that will make the web a little bit nicer at night. We've shared a few ways to make your screen more eye-friendly in the dark, but Google recently released an extension designed to make the web more night-friendly.

Google's official High Contrast extension for Chrome is pretty great. By clicking on its icon in your menu bar, you can invert the colors of your web pages, making blindingly bright black-on-white sites white-on-black for easier viewing. It ignores photos, too, so you can still see pictures without them looking like film

HOW TO PUBLISH BLOG POST ON MULTIPLE SITES WITH ONE CLICK ?

Onlywire

Have you know about OnlyWire?  If not I am going to tell you about this amazing product being used by companies, network marketers, bloggers, etc. to get  to submit their information in one touch of the button to several social media sites.

OnlyWire will submit your content to social networks like Facebook, Twitter, Linked In, and up to 49 other services are available to go and submit your content without you have to go to each site daily to each site and submit the content.  Plus, OnlyWire  also saves you the time of having to put in the Captcha in each time you submit the information to certain sites.  A lot of sites want to make sure we are human beings submitting the information to their sites, so they require the captcha.  It is well worth it to pay the OnlyWire

HOW TO CONVERT LONG URL INTO SHORTEN LINKS ?

Shorten the url

AUTO LNK.IN is a FREE one-click-short-link solution for anyone who wants to tell about a site they have just found in their internet browser. Here is how it works:

You are browsing the net, and find a page or a picture that your friend simply must see. The URL could be very long that doesn’t look good in an email, and it’s even worse if you are going to tell about it over the phone or send it in an SMS, but AUTO LNK.IN can help!

With a single click on AUTO LNK.IN in your favorites list, LNK.IN automatically creates a short link for you, and puts it on your clip board, so you can just paste or "Ctrl + v" it

HOW TO CHECK INTERNET USAGE ?

Track Internet Usage

Broadband connection at home with a data transfer limit and the ISP charges extra money for every byte of data that you download / upload beyond the limit specified in the monthly plan.

If you can connect with the above situation, you definitely need the BitMeter for keeping a track of your internet bandwidth usage.

In fact, Bitmeter is more than just a bandwidth usage meter. You can create custom desktop alerts to know when your internet connection goes offline or if the net speed drops beyond a certain level.

HOW TO CREATE PERSONAL LINKS ON YOU TUBE VIDEOS ?

Linked tube

It is possible to add hyperlinks on YouTube videos via the built-in annotations feature, the only problem is that you cannot link to external websites from YouTube videos.

The problem however gets solved with LinkedTube, an online tool that lets you add hover buttons and links on YouTube videos while you embed them in web pages.

LinkedTube is a Flash widget that adds link and sharing options to

HOW TO CONVERT FILES ONLINE WITHOUT SOFTWARE ?

Zamzar

ZamZar This is an excellent general file conversion site, and PDF to DOC is one of the many conversion options available.

Usage couldn't be simpler: just surf to the site, select your conversion output type, point to the file you want uploaded for conversion and type in your email address. Some time later you will get an email with a download link for the converted file.

For my 100KB test PDF file, the download email link came back to

HOW TO CHECK PAGE RANK, TRAFFIC & BACK LINKS TO ANY WEBSITE ?

URLmatrix

Try URLMetrix to quickly check all popularity indicators Like Pagerank, Traffic Ranks, Backlinks, Bookmarks etc – for any website.

DOWNLOAD FREE MICOSOFT ANTIVIRUS FOR COMPUTER

Microsoft Security Essentials

Keeping your Windows PC secure from viruses and spyware most of the antivirus are difficult and expensive,some of the popular security suites out there are known to slow down computers.

There are quite a few free antivirus software programs available on the web but they are often convince you to purchase the professional edition and thus drive users with prompts to purchase the commercial version.

If you are looking for software that doesn’t nag you at anytime, try Security Essentials – it’s one of the best

HOW TO USE WIKIPEDIA OFFLINE ?

Wikipedia

Wikipedia, the world’s largest encyclopedia, provides database dumps of all their wikis that one can download for free and thus access the entire Wikipedia content on computers that are not connected to the Internet.

The database dumps are frequently updated and include every single article that’s available on the main Wikipedia website. The dumps are available as .xml.bz2 files that you can easily open on your computer using the free and portable WikiTaxi software.

WikiTaxi ships with an importer that will first un-compress the Wikipedia database files (.bz2) and then converts them into a .taxi file format. Now you open these .taxi files inside

WIKITAXI VS KIWIX BEST ALTERNATE FOR OFFLINE USE

Kiwix Wikipedia

A good alternative to WikiTaxi is Kiwix – this is also free software and available for Mac, Windows and Linux systems. You need to install the Kiwix software on your computer and then download one of the Wikipedia editions – the articles are packaged as .zim files that will open directly inside Kiwix without requiring any conversion.

The latest .zim package for various editions of Wikipedia can be downloaded from kiwix.org using any download manager. This is 9.7 GB file and includes all the text of Wikipedia pages but no images.

Kiwix is definitely easier to use than WikiTaxi and the packaged .zim files can read across all popular platforms but the downside is that,

HOW TO EDIT FLV VIDEO ?

Moyea FLV Video Editor Pro

The video clips that you download from YouTube are often encoded in Flash Video (FLV) format and therefore not compatible with Windows Movie Maker and other video editing software.

Another problem with FLV videos is that they won’t play on most mobile phones so you’ll first have to convert them into 3GP or some other popular format before transferring the clips to the phone.

The FLV Editor Pro software from Moyea has all the tools you need to edit an FLV clip – it can be used to crop selected portion from a video, for joining multiple FLV clips into one, for extracting still images from

HOW TO SHOW LARGE PICTURE ON WEBSITE ?

Deep Zoom Composer

Deep Zoom Composer is a free software from Microsoft that lets you place high resolution photographs and other large images in a web page without resizing them.Your viewers can then navigate through the images using standard zoom and pan controls similar to what we have in Google Maps. The only thing they would need is Silverlight .

It take three steps to create a composition (or collage) in Deep Zoom Composer.

Step 1: Import your pictures into Deep Zoom Composer.

HOW TO PLAY DRUM ON COMPUTER ?

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Rhythm Rascal

Rhythm Rascal is a software drum for your computer that makes drumming as easy as clicking on some buttons.

You need not any drumming knowledge to use this tool. Just select a combination of “pads” and listen to the music. You can then export the composition to WAV or MIDI formats.

HAVE GUESSED YOUR AGE FROM PHOTOGRAPH

if you want to know how old you look in that picture you posted on Facebook, then try this How Old are You ?.

“How Old are You” is a Hot or Not style web application where you can upload a photograph and let other users of the site guess your age. The voting results are sent to you via email.

If you are not really curious to share your own picture on the site, you can still play the age detective with pictures of other people – Good Fun & Time Pass

HOW TO CONTROL YOUR PC REMOTELY BY EMAIL & SMS ?

Remote Control Your PC

There’s no wonder here, it’s the power of TweetMyPC utility that lets you remote control your computer from a mobile phone or any other Internet connected computer.

It works like this. You first install the free TweetMyPC utility on any Windows PC and associate your Twitter account. The app will silently monitor your Twitter stream every minute for any desktop commands and if it finds one, will act upon it immediately. The initial version of TweetMyPC was limited to basic shutdown and restart commands, however the current v2 has a far more

HOW TO DOWNLOAD MULTIPLE FILES FROM FILE HOSTING SITES ?

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DOWNLOAD MULTIPLE FILES

If you ever tried downloading files from file-hosting sites like RapidShare, you know how unfriendly that process is. When you click on a links some RapidShare hosted file, wait around a minute for the timer to complete and then you get a direct link to download the file. And if you don’t download within the next minute or so, the link expires and you need to repeat the whole cycle in order to download that file.

Things get even more tough if you are trying to download files during peak hours or need to download multiple files in one go.

HOW TO ADD LIVE SNIPPETS widgets OF WEBPAGE ON DESKTOP ?

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Snippets for Webpage

You can use FireClip or Ubiquity to track portions of any web page in the browser and save these snippets of web pages on the desktop itself just like any other widget.

Its aren’t only static screenshots of websites but snippets of live web pages that will even refresh automatically after a set interval. They are created using Snippage, a free Adobe AIR utility available for both Mac and Windows.

Snippage, lets you instantly turn any web page (or just a portion) into a desktop gadget (or widget depending on whether you are using a Windows PC or a Mac).

HOW TO GENERATE AND READ BARCODE ?

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Create Barcode

If you would like to generate a Barcode image for your own name or brand, go to morovia.com, choose "Code 128" as the Barcode format and uncheck the setting that says "Show human readable text".

For instance, here’s a barcode representation of "Info World".

HOW TO CONVERT PICTURE INTO TEXT IMAGE ?

Create Text Image

ASCGEN is a small utility that converts you photographs and screenshots into high quality colored or black and white text images.

The output can either be plain text or HTML web pages.

What makes ASCGEN different from other Image to ASCII converters is that it gives you full control over the output text – you can change the output dimensions, flip sides or adjust the brightness and contrast levels of the output text image through sliders in real time.

HOW TO RECOVER ACCIDENTALLY DELETED FILES ?

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Recover Deleted Files

Accidentally deleted an important file? Lost something important when your computer crashed? No problem! Recuva recovers files deleted from your Windows computer, Recycle Bin, digital camera card, or MP3 player. And it's free!
Recuva is a free software that will scan your hard drives, USB stick and other external drives for any deleted files that it can possibly be recover. It may not work in all cases especially when you securely deleted a file.

HOW TO DELETE FILE / FOLDER THAT USED BY ANOTHER PROGRAM ?

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Window Unlocker

Sometime when you trying to delete a file from desktop but the computer won’t let you do that. Instead, it throws an error message saying that the file / folder is in use by another program or user.
You can either reboot your computer in Safe mode to delete that file or, if you want something more simple, get Unlocker. It’s a free utility that will let you close all the processes that have possibly locked the file and once they are closed, you can then safely delete the file.

HOW TO SHORTEN THE START-UP TIME OF WINDOW ?

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Startup Window Fast

You are not alone suffer with this problem but the most people run through this, But with some minor tweaks, you can get your sluggish Windows to start much faster.

The logic is fairly simple. Your computer loads quite a few software programs and services during start-up (look at all the icons in your Windows System tray). If you can trim this list, your computer’s boot time will decrease.

Free utility called Soluto and it helped reduce the start-up time of my Windows computer from 3.15 minutes to around 1.25 minutes. All this with a few easy clicks.

HOW TO LISTEN YOU TUBE MUSIC WITHOUT VIDEO ?

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Listen Youtube Music

If you want to listen music you launch your web browser, open the site YouTube.com, type the title of the song in the search box and then click on one of the search results to play that song.

The other useful alternative for this you may find more handy is Quisple.

Quisple is a compact Windows utility that lets you play music from YouTube directly on your desktop without even having to launch the browser. Just type the song name in the Quisple player and it will instantly stream the corresponding song from YouTube.

Quisple uses the Google APIs to search for that song on YouTube and automatically plays the first search

ALTERNATIVE OF WINDOW DEFRAGMENTER

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Defragger vs Dfragmenter

Windows already has a built-in disk defragmenter, you can check-out a worthy alternative called Defraggler . It sports a more appealing and informative UI and does some unique things as well.
The Microsoft tool defrags the entire drive and the user rarely has a clue on what’s happening behind the scenes. Defraggler gives you control – you can just defrag the most fragmented files and folders without doing the entire drive. For instance, files like the Outlook PSTs become fragmented often and with Defraggler, you can target them directly for defragmentation.
Defraggler offers another unique feature where you can move all the large files that you don’t use often, like videos, program installers, etc., to the end of the hard drive. The logic is that Windows will then be able to access the frequently used smaller files faster as they’re at the start of the drive.

HOW TO SPEAK ANY FOREIGN LANGUAGE ?

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Google Translate

You can use the free Google Translate service to instantly translate text from one language to another, you may even LISTEN to the translated text by clicking the speaker icon.

Such feature may come handy in situations when the person on the other side of the phone doesn’t understand your language. You can type the text in your native language, hit translate and play the translated text as audio over the phone.

Will this thing really work?

As part of Demo, these girls decided to call an Indian restaurant and placed the entire order in Hindi using the “text to speech” feature of Google Translate.

HOW TO DELETE FILES PERMANENTLY FROM COMPUTER ?

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SDelete window Utility

When you delete a file from your computer, it moves to the Windows Recycle Bin. You empty the Recycle Bin and the file is permanently erased from the hard drive. Right?

The file seems to have been deleted but a skilled techie may have no trouble restoring that "deleted" file using data recovery software – some of which are freely available online. Here’s why:

To permanently erase files and prevent your confidential files from getting into wrong hands, Microsoft offers a free command line utility – SDelete (Secure Delete) – that overwrites all the free space to prevent data recovery.

You can use SDelete both to securely delete existing files (replacement of delete), as well as to securely

TRANSPARENT LOCK FOR WINDOW USER

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Clear Lock for Window

Before leaving the desk, you can quickly lock your computer using the “Windows logo key + L” shortcut and that will prevent anyone else from using the system in your absence.

However, if you have programs running on your computer that you want others to see while you are away but without giving them access to the system, try utility Clearlock.

This is Windows utility that will also lock your computer but adds a transparent layer to your desktop screen. That means people can view what happening on the desktop but they can’t use it unless they have a password.

PAGES ARE NOT OPEN IN GOOGLE CHROME WHY ?

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DNS error in chrome

Sometime when we are trying to open a web page in Chrome and all it gives you is this error message – “DNS Error – cannot find server.”

After refreshing a page the error persists. Then open an alternate browser, like Firefox or IE, and the website loads up without any problem. So its a Chrome specific issue and has nothing to do with  DNS Servers or your Internet connection.

Chrome website suggests that you clear your browser cache, delete the cookies and scan your computer for malicious software to fix the issue.