TED an acronym for Technology Entertainment and Design. It’s a non-profit organization formed to disseminate "ideas worth spreading" and they do so by holding conferences and talks where they invite some of the world’s most fascinating thinkers to present their ideas. Past presenters include Bill Clinton, Jane Goodall, Malcolm Gladwell, Al Gore, Gordon Brown, Richard Dawkins, Bill Gates, educator Salman Khan, Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin, and many Nobel Prize winners. Thousand TED talks are available for free viewing online, under a Creative Commons license, through TED.com and these were watched by more than 500 million viewers. Now if
Read MoreCarrier IQ has recently found itself swimming in controversy. The analytics company and its eponymous software have come under fire from security researchers, privacy advocates and legal critics not only for the data it gathers, but also for its lack of transparency regarding the use of said information. Carrier IQ claims its software is installed on over 140 million devices with partners including Sprint, HTC and allegedly, Apple and Samsung. Nokia, RIM and Verizon Wireless have been alleged as partners, too, although each company denies such claims. Ostensibly, the software's meant to improve the customer experience, though in nearly every
Read MoreWe know how annoying it is when you start typing and all your words are in CAPs lock? After typing some text in a document you found that you typed too much text without noticing Caps Lock was on, you’re not alone sometimes this happens to everyone but make sure this doesn’t happen again for you, specially notebook users will have these type of problems as some keyboards and laptops have no activity indicators to know the user when any one of CAPs or NUM or Scroll Lock is turned on, CaPNotifier (Windows XP/Vista/7) is a freeware app that notifies
Read MoreA new tool called Gmail Hacker Pro is being circulated on the web as a free tool to hack any Gmail account. The tool is said to be a freeware, but the guys at GFI labs have found something interesting and shocking about this tool. Virus Total, the online scanner has found that the app could be a potential malware or spyware stealing your information. So in case you find any such tools, we request not to fall for such apps which can steal your information. This tool comes with a fairly slick looking website (complete with live chat support) located
Read MoreAfter you transfer photos from your digital camera in your computer/laptop you know that images are larger in size because of the several mega pixels in the camera resolution, so in case you want to share these pictures, it is always good to compress or shrink them. Shrink O’Matic is a freeware app based on Adobe Air (need Adobe Air runtime installed on your system) which can resize and shrink images in batch mode with an easy to use interface which will automatically start the resize once you add the images. Just drag and drop the image or image folder and
Read MoreAt times you might need a tool which lets you transfer your installed programs from one Windows PC to another Windows PC. PickMeApp (free, Windows) is a portable tool that lets to capture and transfer installed programs and its settings from one Windows-based computer to another Windows computer. You can use it while upgrading from an earlier Windows version like Windows Vista or Windows XP to Windows 7, for repairing or backing up programs. - Transfer all your programs from one PC to another - Use PickMeApp to Backup and Restore your PC - Use PickMeApp as a software management tool - Run PickMeApp
Read MoreAutoWinRarZip (Windows) is a utility designed for people who download a lot of archives and want them extracted automatically. By monitoring directories of your choosing for new files, AutoWinRarZip gets rid of the manual application launch and does it in the background without you noticing. You can specify directories for it to extract to and it supports most of the popular and lesser used formats. All you have to do: - chose the folder where archived files will be downloaded - chose the destination folder where decompressed/unarchived files will be AutoWinRarZip stays in you system tray, each time you download archives the program
Read MorePhabricator (pronounced fabricator) is a collection of open source applications for code review written by Facebook. It is a suite of web applications which make it easier to build software, particularly when working with teams. The major components of Phabricator are: - Differential, a code review tool; and - Diffusion, a repository browser; and - Maniphest, a bug tracker. Phabricator gives you a box of solid tools for a comparatively small setup cost. The tools all work together and are richly integrated. The whole thing is free and open source. You own all your data. Phabricator is extremely fast and proven to scale both to
Read MoreWondered you could manage your bookmarks independent of any browser, rather than associated with specific browsers, and that you could organize these within a browser independent folder structure. HTMtied is a portable application which converts any URL from the clipboard to an HTML file which acts as the URL’s shortcut. It is quite similar to bookmarking any website, however, in this case they are saved as a shortcut on required local location instead of browser’s bookmarks archive. It instantly converts any Internet address (link, URL) to a very small HTML file that when opened in any browser, it will automatically
Read MoreAutoRun and the companion feature AutoPlay was introduced in Windows 95 to ease application installation for non-technical users and reduce the cost of software support calls. It dictates what actions the system takes when a drive is mounted. Autorun causes a certain file to open or a certain program to run automatically as soon as a compact disc (CD) is inserted into the CD drive. The feature works via a file named autorun.inf. When a drive is accessed, Windows checks for the presence of autorun.inf and, if found, follows the instructions contained within that file. If there is an AUTORUN.INF file
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