How to Disable/Enable Google Suggest
August 28, 2008
Google has recently announced its new feature Google Suggest rolling out from the Google Labs. As you type into the search box, Google Suggest guesses what you are typing and offers suggestions in real time. This is similar to Google’s “Did you mean?” feature that offers alternative spellings for your query after you search, except that it works in real time. For example, if you type “bass,” Google Suggest might offer a list of refinements that include “bass fishing” or “bass guitar.” Similarly, if you type in only part of a word, like “prog,” Google Suggest might offer you refinements like “programming,” “programming languages,” “progesterone,” or “progressive.” You can choose one by scrolling up or down the list with the arrow keys or mouse.
And if you do not want this feature to be on your Google Search bar, you can easily take it off. Google does offers you a choice to opt out from the google suggest. Go to the Google Search Preference Page and go to Query Suggestions. You have two options for query suggestions Provide query suggestions in the search box and Do not provide query suggestions in the search box. Disabling Suggest can be done by selecting Do not provide query suggestions in the search box and can be enabled by selecting Provide query suggestions in the search box.
Hide Your Key Strokes From Keylogger
August 28, 2008
Are you using the PC of your friend or from Internet Cafes, then you could be a target for those who are behind you to steal you personal information, passwords and credit card details. And mostly all these information is ripped from the PC with help of key loggers which record all your key stokes whether its in word or you typing your password everything is either stored in unknown destination in PC or mailed to a predefined email. And its all in a fraction, you loose everything. So incase you happen to use a strange PC do keep in mind to type the sensitive information with the following two tools.
Neo’s SafeKeys is a small program that helps to defeat keyloggers on unsecure computer terminals (such as Internet Cafes).It is a custom-made tool that allows for you to mouse-click your password on an on-screen keyboard.
You type your password by clicking each button on the keyboard of this application (with your mouse). Your password will appear, letter by letter, in the text box at the bottom of the window (within a “******” password mask). Select the text with your mouse and then drag-drop it onto the password box on your online form. That’s it!
Alternatively you may use Online Keyboard which work the same way as Neo’s Safekeys. Virtual Keyboard is the great thing when you can’t install or use additional keyboard layouts bundled with your OS. For example, you’re at the internet cafe where only En/US layout is available and you want to write some letters to your Russian, Korean, Japanese or any other friends. Yes, you can just transliterate your writing, but this will take much more time than you ever expect and makes reading boring.
This is the case to have the VirtualKeyboard installed on a site: you just open it and begin typing. Virtual keyboard will do the translation/transliteration job for you on the fly. The same goes to the search engines, forums, webmail systems and much other online and offline applications. It makes a sense, to integrate tiny app there and make life easier for you and your customers.
Newspaper Clipping Generator: Create Your Own News Story
August 28, 2008
People do have a variety of hobbies like gardening, drawing, stamp collection, coin collection and some have collection of paper archives. Paper archives record the past in the time line and hence its an important piece of history. So how could it be if you could yourself easily design a newspaper clipping with all your custom date, headline, news story and finally newspaper name.
And The Newspaper Clipping Generator is such a simple tool that helps you to create fake newspaper clipping. As you type the News Paper name,date, headlines and news story, click the Generate button. And its your newspaper clipping popping on the screen. So just click on the link and grab the very own custom news clip.
Real VNC: Connecting You to Your PC
August 28, 2008
Getting mobile, its the prime requirement of everyone in this 3G era and that makes you to prefer laptops and palmtops. But for those who cannot afford those lappy’s they too can have access to their personal computer even when away from the PC with Virtual Network Computing (VNC). VNC is a remote client software which allows you to access your remote PC from any other PC. This can also be helpful in performing remote troubleshooting on your computer that is a technician need not ride down to you to fix your computer, he just can do this remotely.VNC has a wide range of applications including system administration, IT support and helpdesks. It can also be used to support the mobile user, both for hot desking within the enterprise and also to provide remote access at home, or on the road. The system allows several connections to the same desktop, providing an invaluable tool for collaborative or shared working in the workplace or classroom. Computer support within the geographically spread family is an ever popular use.
A similar type of application is RealVNC which is freeware and runs on Windows 98/2000/XP. When you log on to the remote PC you can have the entire remote desktop bridged on to your PC and you are able to work as working on your personal PC. All you have to do is to run a Server Software on the remote computer and configure a Viewer Software on the accessing PC and its all done. While initializing the viewer software it requests for IP address and password, and once the user is validated then he is given access to the PC via the remote desktop on his PC.
You can download RealVNC here
Flash Gallery : Create Simple Photo Gallery
August 28, 2008
Flash had played a great role in animating the Internet and our lives, but as it involved a bit of savvyness required minimal users had always been away from it. But its now for those normal users who can easily create Flash Gallery in just a couple of clicks. Flash Gallery is a free, simple photo gallery built in Macromedia Flash 2004, that uses XML files to store the information about which images to display. The gallery is easy to configure and update since you need to change only the XML file. The following are the features of the Flash Gallery.
- Flash Gallery is 100% FREE!
- Easy to implement in your site
- Intuitive navigation
- Cross platform – Windows/Macintosh/Linux
- Supports Latin, Cyrilic, Chinese and any other language you can think of
- Lightweight, only 11KB
- Image preloader and effects
Click Here to download Flash Gallery
PowerTalk : Text To Speech Presentation Tool
August 25, 2008
Presentations are the easiest way to build up an audience and the new approaches to your presentation can make the audience more closer to you and your ideas can be easily penetrated into their minds sooner. We here introduce to you a power point addon which can make your presentation more effective. PowerTalk is a free ‘Text to Speech’ application meant to read out text appearing on Microsoft PowerPoint presentation or slideshow. And it automatically speaks the contents on the slide as you move your slides.
And you would never get confused whether your accent is perceived by the audience. Speech is provided by the standard synthesised computer voices that are provided with Windows. Its a simple and easy interactive application which can leverage your audience to get glued on to your presentation. And it just works as you move your presentation and need not worry about the timing too.
You can try on PowerTalk on the Microsoft Powerpoint2000 and later versions. Click here to Download PowerTalk.
Ten Free Online Apps
August 25, 2008
Online tools, we now have all most every desktop tool online which includes spreadsheet, word processor, notepad etc. And why do you want to buy those apps when its available free online.We here have suggested the ten free applications online.
Google app, the best one can get, its just like your office with the presentation, word processor and spreadsheet applications. And you can even import the existing documents or create new on to Google Docs. It also provides flexibility in sharing the content and group editing by your peers.
Crazy Egg will help you improve the design of your site by showing you where people are clicking and where they are not.
Adobe Buzzword is a new online word processor, perfect for writing reports, proposals, and anything else you need to access online or work on with others. It looks and behaves like your normal desktop word processor, but it operates inside a web browser, so there’s no installation required.
ShrinkFile.net is a free resource to compress your text documents, images, PDF files and other data online, because some computers don’t have WinZip or WinRAR installed. ShrinkFile.net will host the uploaded content at a static URL for one week, allowing you to share the file with family and friends.
5.ConceptDraw
ConceptDraw Visio File Converter is a free web service, provided by Computer Systems Odessa that is available to anyone who uses diagramming software and has a requirement to open Visio (VSD) documents. This service have been created because Visio users often don’t save their drawing into Visio XML (VDX) file format.
6.RescueTime
RescueTime is time management software that helps individuals and businesses understand how they spend their time, and provides tools to help them spend it more productively.
7.Hide My Ass
An anonymous free proxy service aimed at hiding your online identity. Use our service to hide your IP address and bypass your work/school web filter with ease.
8.Postica
Postica lets you create sticky notes, attach a file, and share them with your friends.
9.Sprout Builder
Sprout is the quick and easy way for anyone to build, publish, and manage widgets, mini-sites, mashups, banners and more.
10.Vuzit
Vuzit is a web based document viewer you can embed in any web page. It’s fast to add and it’s free!