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Most Interesting Firefox Add-ons

July 30, 2008 | Comments Off

Mini Map Sidebar: The Minimap Addon gives you a suite of in-built maps and mapping tools for your web browser. Drag and Drop addresses or address links you find on web pages to view their location in the Map Sidebar, or by manually adding locations. Preview addresses from within any webpage using the Map Panel […]

Jul

29

Symbolic Color Rings of the Olympics Flag

July 29, 2008 | 1 Comment

Olympics symbolises with five colorful rings interlocked each other. You may be curious to know the story behind  these color rings. The five rings on the Olympic flag that is flown at both the summer and the winter Olympics which alternate bi-annually. The concept for the rings on the Olympic flag and the Olympic flag […]

Jul

26

Testing Ruggedness- ELCOT Student Laptops

July 26, 2008 | 6 Comments

As reported by PC World, Electronics Corporation of Tamil Nadu (Elcot), a goverment owned company in southern state of India uses an unusual way to test laptop computers that it plans to deliver to students of Tamil Nadu. It looks very unpleasant methodology followed in testing each machine. The laptops are placed on a hard […]

Jul

25

Bird’s Nest- Beijing National Olympic Stadium - View in Google Earth

July 25, 2008 | 2 Comments

Get the Google Sketchup 3D model view of Bird’s Nest Olympic Stadium (National Olympic Stadium),  Beijing, China in Google Earth. The stadium will host the opening and closing ceremonies of the 29th Olympiad, as well as track and field, and soccer events. It has got total capacity of 80000, and with extra temporary seating […]

Jul

13

Create PDF files - Free Online Service

July 13, 2008 | 2 Comments

Now you can easily convert your documents to PDF with a free online  service. PrimoOnline provides a super-fast way to create PDF files online, without the need to install any PDF software. Simply upload your file, enter your email address, and our server-based PDF creator will quickly convert it to PDF and deliver it straight […]

Jul

12

Screen Capture made Easy with ‘PrintScreen’

July 12, 2008 | Leave a Comment

You might have tried several tools to capture desktop screen or an active window, sometimes part of the screen which has got an interesting image. Surely it is not so easy to complete the job with old Windows screen capture methods. But, you can do this by just pressing the ‘PrintScreen’ button on your keyboard […]

Jul

3

Essential Freeware/Shareware Applications for your Windows Desktop

July 3, 2008 | 1 Comment

Word processors, spreadsheets, presentation tools, database and internet tools are essential components of a desktop PC now-a-days. Most of the users never give attention to setup a fully working computing environment by installing essential software for their regular use. Installation of a software is usually done when they forced to install any of them to […]