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Unveil The WinXP Hidden Treasures

Sanal Kumar — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 17:14:20 +0000

Even though we had our hands on the Microsoft Windows XP for a couple of years, still being the most successful Microsoft product. There are some of the hidden treasures that are still in dark. So we at TechBrave is to unveil those hidden treasures of WindowsXP to our valuable readers.

Get ready for those hidden XP features

1. Private Character Editor

Using Private Character Editor (PCE), you can create up to 6,400 unique characters (such as special letters and logos) for use in your font library. PCE contains basic tools for creating and editing characters, along with more advanced options.

Basically PCE is used for editing fonts.You can access PCE from Start->Run and type eudcedit.

2. Media Player 5.1

You may be using the latest version of Windows Media Player but still at some point of time you would like to have the old player due to some failure in the new one or your likeness for a less complex one then you are free to use Media Player 5.1. This can be accessed from Start->Run and type mplay32.

3.iExpress

I too had wondered wether such a application ever existed in XP. And had spent hours searching for a free setup creator application. iExpress can be used for creating Setup installers. iExpress can be initiated from Start->Run and type iexpress.

4.Dr.Watson

Dr. Watson for Windows is a program error debugger or in basic terms its an inherent windows repairing tool. The information obtained and logged by Dr. Watson is the information needed by technical support groups to diagnose a program error for a computer running Windows. To start Dr. Watson, click Start, click Run, and then type drwtsn32.

Top Three Disc Burning Applications

Sanal Kumar — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 12:11:06 +0000

Disc storage media had serving the computer industry for long time and also the most preferred alternate against the flash drives, as they are found much economical. As the disc burners grew popular so the disc burning applications too had its popularity. We at techbrave have evaluated the top three disc burning softwares.

Nero Burning ROM

Nero the Rolls Royce of burning applications and the earliest burning application. In addition to disc-ripping and burning capabilities with which Nero first made its mark, the digital-media suite also offers a bevy of options for managing movies, music, and photos. Nero helps you create and edit videos and music files, share that content online, turn your PC into a media center, and back up and recover data in case of disaster. Nero 8 includes a revamped entry page in addition to new support for burning and creating HD and Blu-ray CDs and DVDs.

Direct access to all features from the project launcher
High Definition format support
Data restoration on damaged discs
Xbox 360™ and PlayStation® 3 streaming features
Blu-ray Disc and HD DVD burning support
SecurDisc data protection support
Copy a disc with just one click
Graphics optimized for Windows Vista®
Continual free updates

Ashampoo Burning Studio

Ashampoo offers quite a few packages in the DVD authoring sphere. While most of the software isn’t free, in a surprising move the company has started offering earlier, feature-complete versions of its software suite for free. With the ability to burn to all known media, create compressed backup archives with password protection; split archives automatically across multiple CDs, DVDs or Blu-ray discs, and a host of other features, this suite is easily among the best choices available.

Deep Burner

DeepBurner is a CD/DVD burning software that lets you create Data Cds, Bootable CDs, and Audio CDs as well as data DVDs. In addition, it lets you burn ISO files, create ISO images and includes a tool to create and print CD/DVD labels, and also lets you design an auto start menu to launch documents or programs from the CD. The interface is easy to use and organized in several steps and supports drag and drop of files into the burning queue. DeepBurner supports all certified formats for burning, as well as BurnProof and Overburning technologies (if supported by your drive) and should work with all Works with all IDE (Atapi), SCSI, USB and FireWare CDR/W DVD/RAM drives.

Ten Free Online Apps

Sanal Kumar — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 17:01:30 +0000

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.

1.Google Docs

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.

2.Crazy Egg

Crazy Egg will help you improve the design of your site by showing you where people are clicking and where they are not.

3.Adobe Buzzword

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.

4.ShrinkFile.NET

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!

Some Usefull Firefox 3 Plugins

Sanal Kumar — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 15:59:15 +0000

Firefox the best ever browser that set record of millions of download in single day, one of its main features are addon plugins. Theres are plugin for each and every activity on line whether its managing your contacts or for blogging you can get an exclusive plugin for your need. Lets see the top five Firefox 3 plugins.

GreaseMonkey

GreaseMonkey allows you to customize the way webpage behaves using JavaScript. There are a variety of scripts mostly available at http://userscripts.org. GreaseMonkey also allows you to generate your own scipts and execute those scripts.

HandyTag

HandyTag provides a set of relevant keywords in the bookmark panel. These keywords are retrieved from different sources.

WML Browser

WML Browser allows you to view mobile sites in your firefox window. As most of the WAP and mobile version sites are not viewable in PC, WML Browser helps you out.

Tagmarks

Tagmarks is a set of icons to the bookmark, allowing you to add tags to your bookmark on a click on each of the icon in the browser.

Pencil

Pencil is a GUI Prototyping and sketching addon. Pencil uses the SVG support to implement all the rendering and scripting.

Top Five Linux Distros

Sanal Kumar — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 11:56:20 +0000

Lots of distributions, of course using Linux is nightmare for the windows users and selecting the right distribution is a much greater nightmare, thousands of distros to choose from. And the best way is to look for the distribution that suits you the most. Here are some of the top linux distros, we have not included distributions like Redhat as they are paid versions of linux.

1.Ubuntu

Ubuntuis a highly popular distro as has a default GNOME front end, installs quickly and easily and comes with reliable partitioning software. It’s also available as Kubuntu if you prefer working in KDE. Available as a single-CD installation, free Ubuntu CD available at shipit.ubuntu.com

2.Fedora Core

Fedora Core is the free version that is funded by Red Hat Linux and its free and supported versions by Red Hat. Now it’s a free download and a continuingly popular one, a kind of ongoing research lab for Red Hat’s paid products.

3.Mandriva

Mandriva , Available as a single-CD installation called Mandriva One, Mandriva can also be obtained as a commercial release if you want full tech support.Mandrive has a Flash version, a 4GB USB key that runs the OS through a USB port.

4.Freespire

Freespire is the free version of the well-known Linspire, easy to install and work with, Freespire and Linspire are designed specifically for Linux newcomers. For $49.95, you might appreciate the support you get with Linspire.

5.OpenSUSE

This Open SUSEis the free version of SUSE, Novell’s enterprise Linux version. It has a well-written installation routine and a strong collection of included software.

6 Services To Send Huge Attachments Via email

Sanal Kumar — Sun, 17 Aug 2008 18:17:02 +0000

There are thousands of email service providers such as yahoo,gmail,hotmail and many other xmails and ymails, but none of them are ready to provide facilities to its users to attach huge files, some limiting attachments at 5MB some at 10MB and nothing more. Incase you would like to send your friends your family party video or snaps, its really hectic to strip all your video to several bits and mail it. And its now the following services come to help.

MailBigFile : MailBigFile is a simple way of sending huge attachment emails to a single recipent. It allows a max size of 512MB and even more in pro version.

YouSendIt: Convenient and easy way to send huge files. A variety of packages for pro customers.

Pando: Pando sends the attachments with secure P2P file transfer and send any file faster and easily. Pando requires an app for its operation.

SendThisFile: SendThisFile send email with attachments with no size limit for free, while they also have pro version. SendThisFile does not include virus scanning.

Send6: Send6 emails attachments of size max 100MB without registering. Registered and pro accounts provide other facilities like contacts,online storage etc.

Tonsho: Tonsho allows you to send email attachments of max size 100MB and also filter junk mail too.