We are all familiar with image hosting services like flickr and picasa. Normally, when we have to upload some pictures in our account, we login and upload the pictures via browser. How about uploading the picture, by right clicking on it and clicking the option 'Send To - Flickr' in context menu. Let's see how to use this lightning fast method to upload photos on flickr without logging in the account.Sendto Flickr: Easy Uploading To Flickr
Sendto Flickr is a freeware shell extension that uploads pictures to your filckr account by right clicking on images and choosing the 'Send to -> flickr' option. During the installation, you have to provide authentication information of your flickr account.
With Sendto Flickr, you can upload multiple files at once. There is no need to open the browser at all. It also works on flash drives and similar storage devices. During the upload, a preview of picture is shown along with the percentage of uploading completed.
By default, the uploaded files are publicly viewable. To adjust those settings you have log in your flickr account. This handy shell extension is ideal for those who frequently upload files on flickr. Sendto Flickr uses the flickr API to upload files, and is completely free from any malware or spyware.
Tuesday, September 30, 2008
How To Upload Photos To Flickr With Single Click
Sunday, September 28, 2008
8+ Best Free AntiVirus Softwares
Today, Anti-Virus is an essential component in our PC's. The threat increases more if we have dedicated Internet connection. There are many commercial and free Anti-Virus sotware, giving different levels of security from viruses, trojans, malwares and spywares. Here is a complete list of free Anti-Virus software available on Internet.
1. Avira Anti-Vir Personal: Free Version of Avira Anti-Vir AntiVirus for personal and non-commercial use.
2. AVG Anti-Virus Free Edition: One of the most popular free AntiVirus software with over 70 million downloads. Free for personal and non-commercial use.
3. avast! Home: One of my favorites with millions of users worldwide. Free for personal and non-commercial use.
4. BitDefender Free Edition: Another Anti-Virus with on-demand scanning. Free for personal and non-commercial use.
5. ClamWin Anti-Virus: This open source free AntiVirus come under GPL license. Automatic updates and scheduled scanning are some its features.
6. Comodo Anti-Virus: Yet another free AntiVirus software. Real time scanning and automatic updates provides you protection round the clock.
7. DriveSentry Anti-Virus and Anti-Spyware: DriveSentry is free for home usage. Provides real time protection and data encryption facility. Worth giving a try.
8. PC Tools Anti-Virus Free Edition: Real time protection, automatic updates, detects and quarantines suspected infections. Free version is available for home and non-commercial usage.
9. WinPooch: Open Source Anti-Virus and Anti-Spyware software. Completely free for commercial as well as non-commercial usage.
Saturday, September 27, 2008
VertrigoServ: Complete Web Development Package
If you are a budding web developer with limited resources and cannot afford expensive web server to test and benchmark your web applications, then you can use this excellent out of the box solution. It's a all-in-one web development package packed with all the necessary ingredients to run and test your site or blog on your box.
VertrigoServ is a complete web server environment comprising of Apache, MySQL, php, SQLite, SQLiteManager, PhpMyAdmin, Zend Optimizer in a single package.
Even a novice user can install it with ease, as the installation process is extremely simple comprising of simple clicks. There is no need to remember complex settings to configure the web server or database server.
The GUI interface of MySQL 'PhpMyAdmin'makes it easy for anybody to maintain and perform day to day database maintenance tasks. Whether you want to create a small web site, blog or a large scale portal, VertrigoServ gives the necessary web server environment at virtually no extra cost.
Friday, September 26, 2008
AIMP: The Ultra Light Music Player
We all have our favorite audio players and some of them have amazing features. Recently, I found an excellent audio player that is free and is not a resource hogger at all. A set of useful utilities is also bundled with AIMP audio player. This audio player is developed by Russian developers. Interface is available in English as well.AIMP: Powerful Yet Light Audio Player
AIMP is a freeware and is loaded with features, yet very light on resources. It supports almost every type of audio format and plays them seamlessly. Audio quality is extremely good.
AIMP has configurable play list, powerful graphic equalizer and many more audio enhancement features.
AIMP utilities include sound recorder, Audio converter/CD-Grabber, Tag editor and plugins collection. You can choose different skins for AIMP that are freely available from the official site.
Wednesday, September 24, 2008
How To Read ISO Files Without Any Physical Drive
We often download ISO image files from Internet and later burn them on discs to store and use them. Sometimes, it may happen that our CD drive is damaged and we have just downloaded a very important ISO image for our latest project. What to do now? How to read it? Well, here is the solution that lets you create virtual CD drives on your system and mount ISO files for easy reading.MagicDisc Virtual Drive System
MagicDisc is a Freeware and creates virtual CD drives on your system. You can add as many virtual drives in your system. It not only makes Virtual CD-ROM drive but also is capable of making Virtual CD/DVD-ROM drives
MagicDisc is also capable of compressing and decompressing ISO files, and can also be used as image burner. It also have the facility to create bootable disc and can rip various formats of files, as well convert from one type to another.
You can set the options of auto mounting and auto verifying of downloaded ISO files through any of the created virtual drives. In this way you can test and read the image file before burning it on actual disk.
Saturday, September 20, 2008
How To Get Complete IP Information On Desktop
A normal user usually do not care much about IP addresses while surfing. But some of us do use IP querying tool every now and then. There are 100's of online IP information gathering tools on web,which are free to use. Here is one small desktop utility software that gives you accurate and detailed information associated with any IP.
The software is called 'IP Lookup', and is available freely from Softnik Technologies. 
The software gives detailed information associated with any IP, including the export facility of generated information to an external text file.
To extract IP information, simply type or copy paste the IP address in 'IP Address:' text box and click 'Lookup'. In few seconds you will get all the vital information associated with the IP.
Wednesday, September 17, 2008
Gadget Zone: Two New Cool Phones And Gaming Mouse
LG KC 910
Motorola MotoJewel
NZXT Avatar Gaming Mouse
Priced at $60, NZXT Avatar Gaming Mouse has all featured packed options for a gamer. This mouse comes with 7 programmable buttons that can be custom configured for different types of games. The Avatar mouse is also equipped with an optical sensor that can reach a maximum resolution of 2,600 dpi. The Avatar gaming mouse connect through a USB port.
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Sunday, September 14, 2008
How To Record Skype Calls For Free With No Restriction
Skype is one of the most popular VOIP messenger client used by millions of people. The voice clarity makes it the most preferable voice chat software. People often want to record Skype conversations and there are dozens of recording software available on the Internet. Most of the available solutions are shareware with restricted free versions. However, there is one free solution that lets you record Skype calls without any restrictions. You can record unlimited calls of unlimited duration with this software.Call Graph: The Ultimate Skype Call Recorder
Call Graph is a freeware with no restriction of recording durations or number of recordings for Skype. It acts as a plugin and waits for Skype connection. As soon as the connection is detected, it prompts you for recording the call. 
You will be surprised to find the amount of available features in this freeware. It includes:
1. Records Skype calls in a mp3 file, automatically
2. Manages records, view timeline of your records
3. Tagging records with name, subject etc. search with them
4. Records Skype to Skype, SkypeIn, SkypeOut, Conference calls
5. Records podcasts, lessons, interviews, meetings etc.
6. Store and access your recorded calls online
7. Share your call records with others easily
8. Search your records by date, person etc.
9. Transcribe, convert your records to text ( amazing all for free !!!)
You can set Call Graph to start automatically at system start up. File format options can also be configured easily by specifying different bit rates, sampling rate and channels to get the desired quality of voice file.
Thursday, September 11, 2008
How To Open Multiple Instances of Google Talk
By default, we can open only one instance of Google Talk. This limits us to be online in a single Google Talk ID at a given time. Suppose you want to be online in multiple Google Talk ID's at the same time, then how will you achieve it? The trick is very simple and takes just few seconds to implement. Modify Properties of Shortcut
The process is very simple. Right click on Google Talk shortcut icon, select the 'Shortcut' tab. In the 'Target' text box field, append the following string giving one white space in between.
/nomutex
Click on 'Apply' button and click OK. And here is the result...
After this setting, you can open multiple instances of Google Talk one after another. There is no limit on the number of instances that can be opened with this method.
Wednesday, September 10, 2008
How To Send Extremely Large Files Over Internet
File transfer is one of common task that an average surfer performs every now and then. We often send important documents and files across the net to our friends and relatives. Mostly, these files are not big in size and are easily transferred from within our mail account. Files bigger than that can be easily transferred through services like SendThisFile and YouSendIt. These services also have size limit restriction for free accounts, and some of them throttle transfer rate. Suppose if you want to send extremely large file (exp. 500 MB, 1GB), how will you send it?Divide And Rule
The easiest way to send large files is to break them in small chunks, and then send all pieces one by one. Once they reach their destination, merge them to recover back the original file. How can we do that? How to break a large file in small chunks, such that all pieces can be easily merged later in a single click?GSplit: The Ultimate File Splitter
GSplit is a free file splitting software capable to splitting extremely large files in self uniting chunks. Gsplit gives you the option of creating the chunks of two types viz., spanned pieces and blocked pieces.
Spanned pieces are created across multiple disks, ideal for taking away in removable storage media. It is quite similar to RAID storage pattern of chunks across multiple disks. In this approach, the size of individual chunks is automatically decided by the software depending on the space available in disk and is variable. On the other hand, blocked pieces option gives you complete control of the size and type of chunks. In this approach you can specify the size of chunks. For example, you can set the option of dividing a 500 MB file into 100 MB chunks or 67 MB chunks or 23 MB chunks. The software automatically tells you the number of pieces that will be generated depending on the size you have mentioned. After all the pieces have been created, a single re-uniting .exe file is also generated (< 600 KB), that merges all the pieces together in a single click.
The destination computer doesn't need to install GSplit, because the .exe contains all the necessary code to reunite the file. Once the file splitting process is done, you can easily send them one by one via E-Mail, or any free file transfer service.
Tuesday, September 9, 2008
X-1: Spice Gaming Mobile Phone Launched In India
Spice has launched its latest mobile phone with gaming console named Spice X-1. The mobile phone gaming market is expanding at rapid pace in Asia-Pacific region, and spice is trying to capture it quick and fast. X-1 comes with a detachable gaming console, to give real experience of gaming for its customers.
X-1 comes with a large 2.4 inch display with 240x320 pixel resolution. A power packed 2 Megapixel camera adds icing on the cake. The handset supports .NES ROM files. You can also play .GB, .BGC Colour ROM extensions of Gameboy. It can even play Super Nitendo .SMC ROMs. The phone also has integrated FM.
The handset supports GPRS and WAP (not EDGE). Other connectivity options include Bluetooth v.20 with A2DP support and USB v2.0. Price is Rs. 7,500, that includes gaming console and 512 MB microSD card.
Monday, September 8, 2008
Create Icons and Favicons Easily With IcoFX
There are several icon editing programs available on Internet. Some are shareware, while others are free. I have tried many programs, but IcoFX is the best icon and favicon editing software. It is freeware and has some easy to use advanced features, available only in some commercial counterparts. The favicon of freshtechtips has been created in IcoFX in less than 10 minutes.
IcoFX gives you the flexibility to create icons in different standard sizes and of different color depths.
Color Depths
Size
Icon editing is supported by all standard image editing tools like sharpen, blur, shading, negative and much more. Advanced color palette generation is integrated within the icon editor, making it every easy to work on.
It also has an screen capturing tool to take selective parts of desktop as an icon. I was particularly impressed by the batch processing feature of IcoFX, that lets convert a group of icons into images and vice versa in a single click.
iPhone 3G Available In Easy Installments In India
Airtel and Vodafone have finally announced the availability of Apple iPhone 3G in easy installments for its subscribers. Both companies have tied up with several leading banks (Axis Bank, ICICI) to offer iPhone connections in easy installments.
Subscribers have the option to choose from several installment schemes, including a flexible option of paying the amount in 12 easy installments under EMI plan.
Airtel EMI Options
Vodafone EMI Options
Thursday, September 4, 2008
Google Chrome: Heating Up the Browser War
Google has finally released it's much anticipated open source web browser Chrome. Currently, Microsoft's IE dominates the web browser segment capturing around 70% of the user base, closely followed by Firefox, Opera and Safari. Mozilla foundation has recently introduced the version 3 of its popular Firefox browser, and Microsoft has already announced the development of Version 8 of IE. With the launch of Chrome, the race to capture the web browser market has heated up. Chrome is based on WebKit toolkit on which Safari browser is built. Chrome will be available free and Open Source under BSD license. At present, Google has released the Windows version (for XP and Vista). Linux and Mac versions are in the pipeline.
Chrome: Google's Operating System
I have tested Chrome on XP machine, and can safely say that Chrome is going to be the Google's Operating system on Internet, blurring the line between your desktop and browser. The installer itself is less than 1/2 MB in size, which downloads and installs the actual browsing software (Approx 7MB). The installation was smooth and bookmarks and other settings were automatically important both from IE and Firefox. I must admit that page rendering and download speed in Chrome is noticeably fast. Thankfully, most of the common keyboard shortcuts of Firefox are supported in Chrome.
Interestingly, each tab in Chrome is handled by a separate process. The advantage of this approach is that in case any tab hangs the other tabs are not affected and browser doesn't crash. Only the affected tab is killed. Unfortunately, in the current version you have to manually configure this option. Flash is working on XP machine, although there are some reports of flash not working fine in Chrome on Vista platform.
Currently, add-on and extensions (plugins) are not supported in Chrome. Google has announced the availability of API in coming months that will enable third party developers to create add-ons and plugins for Chrome.
