Techspace: 2009

Photoshop CS3

Well. There are many photo editing softwares in which only we can do some colour modification, crop the image and some little effects. But the highly specialized and awesome software used to make any changes as you wish can be done by ADOBE PHOTOSHOP CS3. This is a pretty good stuff for all modifications and effects.

Not only the photo modification, you can edit photos and .mov(Mpeg4) format videos in such a way, viewers think as if they are watching that video in some devices such as ipod, TV, Computer, mobiles and etc........

Photoshop is as vast as ocean and you can modify anything and everything just by some simple steps. But all that steps appear to be tough at first look but as you progress in using this software, it becomes more and more easy and you feel good about your modified/edited pics/videos.

There are several such softwares with the same company ADOBE but the software used for photo editing is photoshop. There is a software called ADOBE ILLUSTRATOR which is used for the same purpose but the efffects and animation are little less. For first users, i prefer to go for ILLUSTRATOR but for some used users, better to go for ADOBE Photoshop.

There are lot more softies by ADOBE and they are used for specific purposes.

Some are listed below:---

ADOBE PHOTOSHOP

ADOBE ILLUSTRATOR

ADOBE FLASH

ADOBE FLASH PLAYER

ABOBE AFTER EFFECTS

ADOBE DREAM VIEWER

ADOBE SOUND FORGE

ADOBE AIR

and lot more.........

Some of the videos edited by photoshop are

Google Chrome 2 Beta Released - What's new?

Google Chrome is back to be the everyday browser you need.

Lets just have a glimpse on what is new ?

The most common thing people look for in a browser is - the speed. Google Chrome stable version was just good enough but it was not as good as the apple's safari. But the new Chrome 2 Beta is just no less than Safari now. The speed tests have proved that Google Chrome 2 beta is just in line with Safari. And its in the Google Chrome developer team itself announced that its twice as fast as its previous version.

Auto-fitting of two windows is one more new feature. I don't understand any use of this feature though. Just drag the tab out and release the pointer just near the other Google Chrome 2 window border. You will have 2 Chrome windows side by side equally fit to the screen.

Full screen browsing runs smooth and fine.

Zooming is lot better that is appreciable. For the previous versions, zooming meant increasing the font size. But with Google Chrome 2 Beta, you can zoom into pictures too.

A disappointing news for the Mozilla users is the add-on thing. Add-ons are not implemented even in this version and this drawback can keep the Mozilla lovers far from Google Chrome.

I personally love Google Chrome for its simplicity and beauty in it.

Try and see... Google Chrome 2 Beta.

Google Movie search

www.google.com/movies

Hey, movie search by google. Search any city and you'll get it. Its so easy now. No sign-ups nothing. Just get into the website and see what movies are running in which theatres. Very simple! :) Enjoy your weekends now. Life is so easy :)

But the fact that all the theatres are not included is a drawback. Though, multiplexes are not missed. Good thing by google.

Google Gears - Offline Gmail

I always love Google for its extreme ideas. That is why my blog has lot of posts on Google stuff. Google gears is an offline way of handling Web sites. The best one is the Google mail. Gmail.

Now you can access your Gmail inbox while you are offline. Here is an how-to guide for that.

Step 1: Go to gears.google.com and install Google gears.

Step 2: Open your Gmail inbox with any browser. And go to the labs section. To go to the labs section, click on the green conical flask shown on the top-right of your screen along with options like 'Settings' and 'Sign out'.

Step 3: Enable the 'Offline Gmail' option here. And then save changes.

Now your account will be reloaded with one more new option called 'Offline' near the labs 'settings' option. Clicking on that will take you to the Offline mode. When you do this for the first time, all your mails, attachments photos and everything will be copied on to the system. So don't enable this option if you are using public computers.

Now you will have a shortcut to Gmail on your desktop. Click that. Login. Then go Online and your new mails will be downloaded to your system. You can then go back offline and check your new mails.

If you have lot of mails in your inbox, the first time download is a painful task. Try it! :)

Google Gears is not just confined for GMail. There are lot other websites that can be handled with Gears.

Google Earth 5 - What's New?

I hadn't been using Google earth for a long time. But after considering the lot of fuss being made on twitter and other communities, I thought of trying it out myself. It was, as always, nice.

The new features added to this are

Oceans - Earlier versions of Google Earth of course had oceans but not clear enough. With the new Google earth 5.0, nooks and crannies on the surface of the earth inside the oceans can be viewed. That makes it so good. Now you can dive into the ocean and check out some deeps!

History Imagery - The earlier versions of Google Earth showed pictures of locations which were taken sometime back. Now, Google Earth can take you back in history and show you how the locations looked like.

Recording Tour - Sharing your tour route has always been troublesome while explaining it to others. But not anymore with your Google Earth 5.0. You can now record your tour with a click of button. Click on the record button and fly through the destinations you went by. Click stop and then you can save the tour route. Upload it to YouTube and share it with the world. Simple! Isn't it?

3D Mars - Now this is my favourite. Google Earth had already released the sky view in its previous versions. The clarity was just quite lousy. Now, Google in collaboration with 'NASA' has released this new feature - 3D Mars. By selecting Mars from the Toolbar, the surface of the Mars can be viewed with clarity and resolution high enough. You can see Mons Olympus, the biggest Volcano in the solar system. All those things you read in General Knowledge books can be experienced now. Isn't that Cool?
Check out this video released by Google through its blog.

1473MP Picture taken during Obama's swearing-in Ceremony.

Simply awesome!

I had heard that a high-clarity picture was taken during Obama's swearing-in ceremony. Picture in which you can zoom to see a high clarity picture of a person standing a kilometer away. Considering it as just an hoax, I ignored it. But today, I got a mail. Wow! And that hoax is no more a hoax to me. Its real. I know you people won't believe. But seeing is believing. So I have the photo for you. Check it out yourselves and zoom in to see some famous personalities. You can see people sleeping, count the stars on the flag, what is in Bush's hands and anything. The clarity of picture is just superb! No words to describe that. You can see an Exit board which is out of the field. I mean you can read the letters on the board which is more than a km far. You can see every person's face. So good!

Click on the picture above or just click here to zoom and enjoy the clarity.

Google has answer to life, the universe and everything!

This is funny!

Do you know what is the answer to life, the universe and everything? No?

But Google has. :)

Go to Google.com and type in the search field, "answer to life, the universe and everything", without quotes. The answer is ??? Check out yourselves.

The answer is not a philosophical book of 100 pages or anything. Its the Google calculator that calculates your answer. And the answer is very simple if you don't waste time thinking more about the answer. Now, why is that answer so funny?

Here goes the story: The whole concept is taken from Douglas Adam's fictional series "Hitchhiker's Guide To the Galaxy". The series was screened into a movie in 2005 by the same name. Researchers, passionate to know the answer to life, the universe and everything construct a super computer called "Deep Thought". Deep thought was questioned this and Deep thought computed for 7 and half million years before the quest ended. The computer provides this answer "Fourty-two". Deep Thought was pretty sure of its answer. To say anything more than this will be called spoiler to the book and movie. But why on the earth did Douglas select 42 of all the numbers? Its his story, his book and HIS CHOICE.

Bangalore routes - www.vidteq.com

www.vidteq.com

Haven't seen a site like this. Simply great! A new bangalore based startup has brought us this amazingly good and helpful website.

Bangalore is such a big city that remembering all the routes is not so possible. Now vidteq has brought this wonderful site that comes in handy if you are moving around in Bangalore. Vidteq gives you the complete direction for driving between any two places in Bangalore. Just enter the starting point and the destination place. Vidteq gives you the driving map on the right side of the screen and the driving directions at the left bottom of the screen. And above this driving directions, you get a video terminal which shows you a pre-shot video of that route. Being on time is easy now. :)

Enjoy!

Google Calculator

Google calculator is a hidden feature of Google search. No need of separate URL. Just log in to Google.com and type in whatever you want to calculate. You can type anything like 100+130 or it can even be trigonometry of sin(30) or it can be anything. Operators that can be used are

Operator	Function	Example
+	addition	5+3
-	subtraction	9-4
*	multiplication	8*5
/	division	23/2
^	exponentiation(raise to the power of)	6^4
%	modulo	8%7
choose	X choose Y determines the number of ways of choosing a set of Y elements from a set of X elements	19 choose 3
th root of	calculates the nth root of a number	6th root of 64
% of	X % of Y computes X percent of Y	20% if 150
sqrt	square root	sqrt(25)
sin, cos etc...	Trigonometric function	tan(45)
ln	logarithm to the base e	ln(4)
log	logarithm to the base 10	log(pi)
!	Factorial	8!

It also understand the value of 'pi'. Like, you can use sin(pi/3). You can also use parenthesis to make a perfect equation. The equation inside the parenthesis will be evaluated first and then the rest.
You can also use this as converters. If you want to know x kms in terms of miles, then just type in 10kms in miles.
Conversion from decimal to binary is easy. For example, type 54 to binary. You can use hexadecimal, octal and binary numbers. Prefix hexadecimal numbers with 0x, octal numbers with 0o and binary numbers with 0b. For example: 0x7f + 0b10010101.
It also understands when you say speed of light or just c.
Not all the features of Google Calculator are included here. You can convert decimal to hexadecimal or even roman numerals. Just as described above with binary conversion. Google Calculator also understands some complex statements like this G*(6e24 kg)/(4000 miles)^2. It understands these 'kg', 'miles' and even the constants like 'G'.

Not all the features of Google Calculator is described here. Just get on Google and start experimenting with this.
Isn't this cool? A search engine not just a search engine.

AAA Logo Creator

Its everyone's wish to create a logo for their websites or blogs. But how? Most people don't know.

My personal advice is to use some really cool fonts available and make it look really awesome by changing the colors of alternative words with no spaces. That makes it look trendy and original.

The other way that I recently found was this AAA Logo creator. Its a software that could be downloaded from here. The trial version itself made me feel 'wow'. Had lot of options in it! Following are few of the designs provided by the AAA Logo creator.

File size: 6.2 MB (Trial Version)
Download page: http://www.aaa-logo.com/download.php

Worth a try!

Rhymer - For poets!

www.rhymer.com

If you are trying to be a poet and want some rhyming words for your poem, then check this site. Enter the word and you'll get all the possible rhyming words for the given word. No sign up required. Extremely simple. Just give the world. Give it a try! :)

Phandy - a photo twitter!

www.phandy.com

Ok. You people have tried twitter. Its a social networking site where people follow your updates. Your updates is something no longer than 140 characters.

Phandy is exactly like twitter. The looks match that of twitter. But here, instead of lines of words, you use pictures. And the question "What are you doing?" is "What are you seeing?" here in Phandy. Update your favourite picture and people following you will get to see that. An ultimately good site for photographers and wallpaper-seekers. Try it!

Windows 7 - A short review

I tried Windows 7 Ultimate pre-Beta version. Its still under testing. And it of course have some flaws which are getting better with every update.

I must say that this is not that bad. Windows after releasing Windows Vista might have realised that it was an extreme releasing making it unable to work on most of the PCs. Vista's requirements were quite high and non-economical. But people who were able to run on their machines said, its cool! And it was. Graphics, Speed, features were terribly good! Features like Ready boost were added.

To counter act the incompatibility of Vista, Microsoft came with Windows 7. Windows 7 is compatible even with some 5 year old computer. It runs with no graphics card. :) Requirements are optimal.
Looks of Vista with features of XP - This is how I can best describe this OS.
The traditional taskbar is given modification. No differentiation between the quick icons and the regular minimised windows. All look same. This new one actually sucks! Thank god we can change it to the traditional taskbar.
The glossy look of Windows Vista are restored.
Paint and calculators are given some modification too. (I thought Microsoft had forgotten those applications)
Best thing that I happened to see is the Action center. If something goes wrong, the OS can self diagnose the machine for troubleshooting. Its really cool!
The animations are simple and don't eat away your RAM as much as Vista did.
I heard that the Microsoft is going to give some good Bluetooth Support in its Beta version.
I still use my Windows XP as second OS.

Google Chat Bots - Language not a barrier anymore!

Here is something, not so new, but so useful. Google Chat bots! Chatting with people who don't know english was always difficult and almost impossible. But Google got a solution to this. Name of the solution is "Google Bots".

Google Bots translate languages. There are more than 50 bots that google has released. Add them as your friend on Google chat and while chatting with an alien who doesn't speak your language, add these bots and make it a conference chat. Thats it! Whenever you enter something, the bot will translate it to what it is supposed to. There are different bots for different languages.

The email addresses of the bots that you should add follows the following pattern.

[from language]2[to language]@bot.talk.google.com

For example, if you want to translate English to Hindi, you add the bot en2hi@bot.talk.google.com as your friend.

Other bots are -

ar2en (Arabic to English)

de2en (German to English)

de2fr (German to French)

el2en (Greek to English)

en2ar (English to Arabic)

en2de (English to German)

en2el (English to Greek)

en2es (English to Spanish)

en2fr (English to French)

en2it (English to Italian)

en2ja (English to Japanese)

en2ko (English to Korean)

en2nl (English to Dutch)

en2ru (English to Russian)

en2zh (English to Chinese)

es2en (Spanish to English)

fr2de (French to German)

fr2en (French to English)

it2en (Italian to English)

ja2en (Japanese to English)

ko2en (Korean to English)

nl2en (Dutch to English)

ru2en (Russian to English)

zh2en (Chinese to English)

Wow! I can speak Spanish now!
Las personas se divierten!

Multiple Logins in Gtalk

Ok! Here's something cool now. Suppose you have 2 gmail ids and you want to log into both the accounts using GTalk, how will you do??? You can't open multiple Gtalks in your computer. Clicking once on the icon will open Gtalk once. You login. And clicking again on GTalk icon brings you back to the logged Gtalk!

But not anymore! Here is a cool trick that allows you to login different Gtalks simultaneously.

Right click on the Gtalk Shorcut icon on your desktop (If you don't have shortcut icon, create one). Then in the Target function of the shorcut Tab, you'll find something like this in quotes.

"C:\Program Files\Google\Google Talk\googletalk.exe"

Now append '/nomutex' to this without quotes. That is, make it

"C:\Program Files\Google\Google Talk\googletalk.exe" /nomutex

And save it by clicking OK. Now you're done! :)
Now open Gtalk login window as many times as you want just by clicking this shortcut icon and login with as many accounts as you want.

Let Internet solve your mathematics homework

http://www.mathway.com

Now here is some thing like a boon for all the lazy goons who don't do their maths home work. This site is basically a calculator. But gives a complete explanation of a problem. Enter the math problem to be solved. Be it calculus, trigonometry, simple math or anything, mathway.com gives you step by step methods of solving the problem. Isn't that wonderful??? Its a teacher! It explains everything in words. Have fun doing your homework!

PS: Sorry, parents!

Know Your Death Date - FUNNY

He he! I got into this site somehow and this is seriously funny...

http://deathdate.info or
http://deathclock.com

Both the websites are do the same work. They are equally funny and good enough for a 2 year old to believe. Enter your information and it gives you back your death date. He he! Isn't that funny? :P

Along with that, check http://oracle.deathdate.info/reincarnation. This will take you to one of the pages where you enter your name and date of birth to know what you'll be in your next life. If you don't like to be that thing in your next life, then change your name(add initials or remove) and try again.

Tiny URL - Shortening Long Links for SMS or to use in Twitter

http://www.tinyurl.com

This is a URL suppressor. I mean if you have a URL to some article in some newspaper or in some blog and it has more than 30 or more characters, then you can just use this site www.tinyurl.com to suppress it and make it tiny. Go to the website. Paste the long link that has to be suppressed. And click submit. The site returns you with a link that in this format www.tiny.com/
where is a string of random characters and numbers.

With this feature, posting URL in twitter or sending SMS is easy and helps save time. :)

TinyURL needs no registration and its simple and cool. Try out!

Windows SkyDrive

This is pretty popular on the net yet most people are unaware of it. So this post if for beginners. This is an online file sharing web site. By Microsoft! Yeah! The "Microsoft" tag itself drives people insane.

Windows Skydrive : www.skydrive.live.com

All you need is a Windows Live account.

SkyDrive gives 25GB of space! What more? huh? its Almost 1/4th of my hard disk. Check it now! Since this is already popular, I have nothing more to say about this.

Self test your handwriting

Ever heard of Handwriting specialists? He is one who checks your handwriting and tells what kind of person you are. Yeah! This always amused me. Ever since childhood, I was fond of getting my handwriting to a handwriting specialist to check and to see how they do it. But never found one. But no worries! Here it is online too. I happened to stumble upon this website which says "Self test your Handwriting". Yeah. Link's here

http://www.handwritingwizard.com

Start the test by entering your name and the wizard starts by asking you a series of questions(contains pictures) related to your handwriting. You got to answer them. And you get the results mailed to you. As easy as that! Try it out and see what handwriting specialists have for you. ;-)

Windows Live Writer

Microsoft has answers to almost everything. This is one among the several thousand software released by Microsoft. Windows Live writer is a must have for a professional blogger. I must say.

Live writer is a blogging Client. Not just for Live Spaces, but for all. Just download this software from here and zoom into the software to see what magic this software can do. Posting was never so easy.

Install Windows Live writer. Type in the username, password and your blog URL when asked. The Writer automatically detects what kind of template you use and downloads the template. If you are using a custom template, then the writer writes a post by itself to detect what kind of formatting your blogger needs, and soon after that the temporary post created post will be deleted. Since the template is downloaded onto your computer, working offline is so easy and user friendly. Inserting Pictures, Tables, videos and tags is easier than ever. Extra plug-ins can be added. Check out!

Software can be downloaded from this page.
http://download.live.com/writer

Don't miss this.

Meebo - Online IMs

Meebo! How many of you have not heard of this?

Its a site where you can log into your various mail ids of various networks, and chat with all your friends at one place.
If you have a gmail account, a yahoo account and a facebook account and you want to use all of them at a time, and you find it irritating to switch from browser to browser to reply your friends, then log on to meebo. All IM's under same roof ;-). You can create your meebo account and save time in entering passwords and ids of all the accounts. Very useful site for those who use multiple IMs. Works very fine.
I give this a 9 on 10 rating.
All for its simplicity.

BS Player - Audio Video Player

For all the music lovers and who love keeping lot of music players in their stash, then they shouldn't miss this player.

BSplayer.

Its new and its versions are already on the net :) Only thing that sucks is their website which loads and loads and keeps loading. You'll feel that it'd keep loading forever. The free version is just no more than a simple player but the full version is lot better. One feature that its website largely claims to is the capability of the software to play and download youtube videos directly. I'm not sure if they know that its no big deal to download youtube videos for free.

I rate the free version 4 out of 10.

Download the software from their site www.bsplayer.com or www.bsplayer.org.

Photoshop.com - Web app

Adobe photoshop is now on web... :)

It cannot happen that you don't know Adobe Photoshop. But for those who operate more on the web and want to edit pics on internet, then this is the site.
www.photoshop.com
Provides you 2 GB of storage space. You can also login to your flickr, photobucket or picasa album and Copy pics directly from these sites on to your photoshop account by just drag-n-drop style! :)
Creating albums, watching slideshows and many more. Got all the features that you find in other such sites. But photo editting is one thing thats unmatchable.
Its elgant looks and great interface makes it better. Embeding slideshows into your website is just a click away if you have a photoshop account. Check it out today.

Online FLV to Other format converter

In my last post on downloading you tube videos, i gave a small tricky website that does all the job of downloading movies in .flv format. Downloading in .flv format is not always handy. And downloading in .flv and then converting it to other using softwares is lot of work. So here are 3 simple websites for your simple work. Clicks away are your videos in your desired formats.

http://www.flv2mp3.com/
Use this site if you only want the audio track from it. Enter the link and the website will give you back another link. Save that link and you will get that particular video's audio track only. That too in a convenient .mp3 format

http://www.videoconvertx.com/
Enter the link of the video that you want to download. Select the output format of that video. And you'll get that! As easy as that. Takes no time.

http://www.convertdirect.com/
This site is a combination of www.videoconvertx.com and downloadyoutubevideos.com which i told in my last post. You can either download video directly in .flv format or you can get it converted and download in your desired output. If you are downloading the converted video, then you need to give your email id to which the link will be sent to. Better hang on to the other 2 sites given above.

Isn't that easy?

Download Youtube Videos! http://downloadyoutubevideos.com/

Ever felt like downloading a youtube video and wondered how?

There are lot of software available on the net to download youtube videos. But the simplest and the online way is here :)

Go to

http://downloadyoutubevideos.com/

Enter the URL to the video that you want to download into the box given and press submit. It gives you the download link in return. As simple as that. No need of third party softwares. No need to register in that site. Works fine. :) Downloaded file will be in FLV format.

Note: Beware of the adult ads present in that site.

gAlwaysIdle - Be idle on google talk

Google Talk does not allow users to decide when their status changes to 'idle' and back. The result is that others can tell whether or not you're at your computer.

gAlwaysIdle adds two new options to Google Talk, allowing you to change your status to be 'always idle' or 'never idle'. When your status is set to 'always idle', you'll appear idle to your Google Talk buddies, even if you're sitting at your computer typing e-mails and sending IMs.

System Requirements:

Google Talk Client

Windows XP/Vista (no 64 bit operating system)

Screenshot:

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Download Link:
http://www.4shared.com/file/79037493/5b12cef9/gAlwaysIdleSetup.html

eBoostr - Use Flash drive as RAM - Speed up your PC!

You might have heard of this Readyboost if you are a windows vista user. This is one technique by which you can use your pen drive as an extra random access memory (RAM) for your computer. When you insert a Pen drive into your Vista OS machine, you'll be given an option to boost your computer memory with USB along with other options like "Play media files", "Open folder to view files" and et cetera. This is one real helpful software. But people with windows xp need not worry.
Coz eboostr is here.
Yes, this new software is similar to ReadyBoost in Vista. It works in XP. And now you can boost up your XP OS computer's memory without much work.
You can boost up your computer using memory card reader also. Same application. Eboostr.

Requirements:

Microsoft Windows XP

USB 2.0 port version or external card-reader

USB flash drive or flash card with at least 64 MB free space

Download Link:
http://www.4shared.com/file/79035850/cdbde1a0/eBoostr.html

If you want to buy the full version of eboostr($29) check their site.
Site link: http://www.eboostr.com

Switch - Audio Conversion Software

Switch
Converting audio formats becomes often necessary. This is when this software comes in handy.
Its easy. Just drag and drop. Select the output format. And click Convert! Thats it.

Features:

Automatically normalise audio while converting.

Import multiple file formats at the same time and convert to one output format.

Ability to play tracks prior to conversion.

Import and convert a playlist (m3u and pls).

Import video files and extract audio (avi, mov, mpeg)

MP3 encoder supports constant or variable bit rates from 8 to 320kbps with optional error correction and stereo modes.

WAV encoder supports sample rates between 6000 and 196000Hz in PCM as well as a number of other audio codecs.

Allows up to 32000 files to be converted in one batch.

Can be run from the command line for automation with other applications.

Optimized CPU usage and efficient code allows for fastest conversion times.

Typical Applications

Convert wav to mp3 files to save hard drive space.

Convert mp3 to amr to load your own ringtones on your cell phone.

To open or convert strange or audio file formats not supported by other audio software you use.

Extract audio from video files (favorite sound bites) for your phone or other audio player.

Convert multiple format audio files to mp3 for your iPod, PSP or phone.

In professional audio studios to open formats not supported by your sound editor.

As a command line plugin for other software to convert or compress audio files.

For more information visit their website brought to you by NCH Softwares.
Link to their website: http://www.nch.com.au/switch/

Download the free version here:
http://www.4shared.com/file/79030755/8155a220/switchsetup.html

Must download these things for your computer

There are certain softwares without which your computer is no more than a dead machine.

When you first finish installing Windows XP and the drivers, your machine will be like a new born baby. You got to pamper it to grow it up!
Just download these things. Your computer will grow into one cool gadget machine.

Open Office
If you don't have Microsoft Office and you badly want to use your documents and excel sheets, then there is an alternate thing for Microsoft Office. Its Open Office. Open office being an open source is free to use and distribute and also to change its code. This is a real cool software which gives you all the features that are in MS Office and more than all that, it gives you peace. There can be no legal issues with the licensing and all that. This is free to use. You'll never have this guilt of using something pirated.
Link given below. Link directs you to their site. Open Office is brought to you by Sun Microsystems. Say thanks while leaving the site.
Download page:
http://www.openoffice.org/
http://openoffice.bouncer.osuosl.org/?&product=OpenOffice.org&os=winwjre&lang=en-US&version=3.0.0

Adobe flash Player
Flash animations are as common as texts in dictionary. With youtube.com growing into such a huge site, its impossible to stay on internet without a flash player. Adobe's flash player is a must download for every internet surfer. Download it here.
For latest updates on adobe flash player, check their official website.
http://www.adobe.com/products/flashplayer/

Download link:
http://www.4shared.com/file/79028740/10f066b1/install_flash_player.html

Adobe reader
No computer is complete without an adobe reader. Everything now comes in PDF formats. Be it your timetables or documents from some government site. Everything is in PDF formats. You need adobe reader to it. Download this from here. Do read the adobe's Terms of Service before downloading. There are certain restrictions on it. PDF's are meant only to be read. You are not supposed to manipulate any text in a PDF file. You can only read them. So don't expect text manipulating stuff from this Adobe reader.
For latest updates and their ToS, check their official webpage. Click on the link below.
http://get.adobe.com/reader/
Download from the same above site>

VLC media player
I guess there's no person who's not aware of this software. VLC media player just rocks. Its simple interface and extensive features make it more reliable than any other player listed below. This is in no doubt a best player i've ever seen. Download it from here.
Download Link:
http://www.4shared.com/file/79035050/c3aeb018/vlc-098a-win32.html

GOM Player
This one helluva player. For all the people who have sticked to VLC media player, check this player for a change. Its one easy looking software with some coolest tools. Program the player to switch off after playing or shut down the computer after playing, full screen stretched, full screen normal, change the size, add external subtitles are some features of it. It opens up pretty quickly and interface is cool. Download it from here.
Download Link:
http://www.4shared.com/file/79029269/e56d1919/GOMPLAYERENSETUP.html

KM player
This is yet another player that I love a lot. Its winamp like interface may look a bit eery. But its features baffled me. Got all the features that GOM player has got. So i give this also a "Must download" rating.
Download Link:
http://www.4shared.com/file/79037123/be2dd5d9/The_KMPlayer_1434.html

AVG Free
There was a time when parents used to tell their children "God is everywhere". But now, its the age when people say "Viruses are everywhere". Its very important to safeguard your computer. But no antivirus softwares come for free. But here is one. AVG has got its Free version out. Its cool. It heals pretty good. My personal best. No need to pirate. Gets updated by itself. No worries of getting black-listed. :)Download it from here and enjoy. Happy surfing.
Download it from http://free.avg.com/

Google Picasa 3
Coolest Picture editting and managing software. Make posters, collage, video or anything. Enhance the quality of pictures. Fill light. Give effects like sepia, black and whie, saturation, tint and many more. I love this "I'm feeling lucky." feature provided by this software that almost brings life to some pics. "Retouch" is a mind-blowing picture editting tool. So easy to operate. Upload pics directly to your Picasa web album with no much difficulty. Must download if you have lot of pics on your computer. Can't match Photoshop. But more than enough for medium users.
Download Link:
http://www.4shared.com/file/79033149/87c00c16/picasa3-setup.html

Free Download manager
As the name itself says, its free. If you are crazy downloading lot of things from net, then this software is for you. Pause, resume , stop. Do anything. Just drag and drop the links to its drop box which will be present on your screen always in the fore. Queue as many as you want. Download starts automatically when your computer starts. and pauses automatically when you shut the computer down. And the best part is, it supports torrents too. So no need to download seperate torrent clients for it. But keep in mind that its just a download manager and not a download accelerator and gives you considerably best rate your connection can. Its free to use. Download it from here.
Download Link:
http://www.4shared.com/file/79029911/a8a2e80d/fdminst3.html

Mozilla 3
If you are a browser junkie, then you should have Mozilla3.
Its free. Its available in their websit
e. Download link given below also. This is an open source and you can get its source code if you want to customize it. This is an easy to use web browser with built in download manager. Yet its not so good when handling files of sizes greater than 20 or 30 mb and when your download speed is below 30kbps. It sometimes fails to resume paused downloads. But browsing is faster than anything else.
Click on the link to download.
Download Link:
http://www.4shared.com/file/79026032/542ff0ec/Firefox_Setup_305.html
If link's broken, go to http://www.mozilla.org/download.html

Where to download audio songs from?

People ask me where to download songs from?

I say I just buy them.

But for those who are not bothered about piracy, visit http://123musiq.com or http://www.123musiq.com
This is one easy site where you get all the latest songs (english, hindi, tamil, telugu, malayalam and pakistani) for free. This site isn't that good. Their servers crash every now and then. So its recommended to use download manager to download.

For english songs, I prefer mp3000.net

Its a cool site except that you get bugged by some of the adult ads that site hosts. Beware of it when your parents are over your shoulders :P

Whats RSS?

RSS stands for really simple syndication. Its a way in which you can keep a track of whats new on websites you like. You just have to subscribe for it. Publishers can now easily manage to keep their visitors updated with the new contents of their site.

How to use it?
Download a feed reader. There are lots of it on internet. Install it. Now whenever you go to a website, you see this symbol which stands for RSS feeds. Most websites have RSS feeds.

Click on that icon and your feed reader will automatically open itself. So that you can subscribe to it through your feed reader. Then keep clicking ok. Now on, all the latest stuff happening in that website will be tracked by your feed reader through feeds sent by the site. It will just give you the headlines and clicking that will take you to the website.
Try google feed reader. Its an online feed reader with better interface and great features. :)

Heard of torrent downloads? What is that?

Torrents are specialized files utilized in peer-to-peer (P2P) network environments. P2P is a network of personal computers that communicate with one another by running proprietary P2P software. The first P2P software designed to utilize torrents was BitTorrent by Bram Cohen. Other torrent clients have followed.

Torrents are distinguished by a unique transfer process. To compare how torrents download to standard files, let’s first consider how normal files download off the Internet.

At any given website a user might click on a file to transfer it to his or her computer. Upon clicking on the file, the website’s server starts sending the file to the visitor in discreet data packets. These packets travel various routes to reach the user’s computer and are reconstructed upon receipt to complete the file transfer.

While this works fine for smaller files, it is cumbersome to transfer larger files this way. If the server is busy, download time can be very slow. Communication between your server and the computer can even crash, causing corruption in the transfer, or at best, delays.

Unlike downloads off the Web, torrents do not point to a single source on a P2P network when requesting files. Instead, torrents contain specific information that multiple computers in the network can read to send various parts of the requested file simultaneously and en masse. Torrents keep active track of which parts of the file are needed to complete the request. By downloading bits of the file from dozens, hundreds, or even thousands of sources, large files can download very quickly.

Working with torrents is also unique for another reason. At the same time the user is downloading file parts, the computer is also uploading parts already received to others. This decreases download time because users do not have to wait for file sources to have completed torrents before receiving needed parts of a requested file.

Once requested torrents have downloaded in full, you become a seed for those files. A seed refers to someone that has the entire file available. It is considered rude to download torrents and disconnect, referred to as leeching. Instead, users are encouraged to participate by seeding the file for others so that a minimal 1:1 share ratio is maintained. A swarm refers to the entire group of people transferring a file at any given time.

To encourage sharing, software used for downloading torrents keeps track of the share ratio. The torrent client will automatically allocate more bandwidth for downloading at faster speeds when a user shares more than he or she downloads. This usually means leaving the computer running while doing other things, as upstream bandwidth is much slower for most of us than downstream bandwidth. While it might take 40 minutes to download a 250MB freeware suite, it can take several times longer to upload that same amount of data.

Torrents are archived in libraries that are searchable with a Web browser. One cannot download torrents without installing a torrent client first. There are many free torrent clients available, some of which are open source. Once a desired torrent is found, clicking on it will open the torrent client to begin the download process. The user may have to configure his or her firewall to allow the use of certain communication ports.

Many types of files are shared as torrents, including software, music and videos. While P2P sharing is not illegal, sharing copyrighted material without permission from the copyright holder is illegal. The Recording Industry Artists of American (RIAA), and Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) have targeted some websites that cater to archiving illegal torrents.

Source: http://www.wisegeek.com/what-are-torrents.htm

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