Multiple accounts – two Dropbox instances on one PC

Dropbox has gained a huge popularity for it’s simplicity in cloud storage and automatic update on all the logged-in computers instantly.

Dropbox offers 2GB of free storage and more storage is available for a price. But, if you just want to double the storage and don’t want to pay for the extra storage, or if you want a flexibility of using two accounts you can do it easily by installing a portable instance of PC version of Dropbox.

Now, let’s start the installation:

Step 1 – Go to This link to download portable Dropbox application.

Step 2 – Extract it, and double click on the .exe file to install the application.

Step 3 – Select the dropbox account share folder and other details for the portable account.

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Windows Live Writer settings transfer/backup – blog profiles, draft and recent posts

Microsoft’s Windows Live Writer is considered to be the most feature rich blog authoring tool. Available for free in Windows (sorry Mac/Linux folks) is known for comprehensive text editing, image management, and link management tool for bloggers.

This Christmas, I  got a awesome present, a brand new laptop. It is great working in the new machine. But, I wasn’t easy updating all of my blog addresses in the new Live Writer. So, I went searching for a tool that can backup and transfer blog profiles. 

A free tool, Windows Live Writer Backup, available in CodePlex, proved to be the perfect tool to make the task easy. Even if you don’t need to transfer profiles or settings, this is a perfect tool for keeping the backups of your blog profiles.

Downloading, installing and creating the backup is pretty easy. Clicking on the "Backup" button creates a bakcup file containing settings, posts and plugins. If you want more flexibility on what to backup and what not, you can optionally select or deselect features in Settings / Posts and Plugins.  Clicking on the text ‘Settings’ lets you deselect  ‘blogs’, ‘blog templates’, and "link glossary".  By default, recent posts are not saved. But, you can also select it by clicking on the text ‘Post’ (as shown in figure below).

After backing up the backup file (name.wlwbackup) is copied in the new machine. After installing the software in the new machine, Restore button is used to restore the profile in the new Windows Live installation.

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Free screen recording software CamStudio

If you want to tell others how to do something in computer, the best way is to record what you do it yourself. For that, you can record a video of the computer screen by a camcorder. But, that is a very inefficient and costly procedure. There is much simpler method — just record what you see in the screen without having any additional devices like camcorder.

There are many software to scree-record – and the best ones are free. The one I like most is CamStudio:

CamStudio can record all screen and audio activities in your computer and create AVI video files. It also has a built-in SWF Producer to convert AVIs into Streaming Flash videos (SWFs) too.

Download from SourceForge.

Double click the file to install CamStudio

After installing you can open the program to see the screen like:

The first red circle starts recording. Before you press the record button you have to customize the software so that you know what area of the screen you want to record and where you would like to save the output AVI file.

To select the screen region click “Region” on menu and select “Fixed Region”. Click on “select” button to select the screen area. The cursor changes until you select a rectangular are a in screen.

Now, you are ready to press the red circle, the record button.

See the preview of the the video I created by CamStudio while I was writing this post:
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Free video converter – Format Factory

Software - Format Factory

Price – Freeware (ad-supported)

Cons – Tries to promote products by ads (an eBay shortcut during installation)

There are a lot of free video editors and converters and others cost money to buy. The one I liked most is Format Factory. This free video converter available for free at formatoz.com.

With decent conversion speed and good overall quality this tool it seems better than some paid software.

One application that I like is JPEG to ICO conversion. It’s not easy to to get a 24 bit image look good in 16×16 pixels, but FormatFactory does the job well.

• Converts videos to MP4/3GP/MPG/AVI/WMV/FLV/SWF.
• Audio and videos to MP3/WMA/AMR/OGG/AAC/WAV.
• Any images to JPG/BMP/PNG/TIF/ICO/GIF/TGA
• Can rip DVD to video file , rip Music CD to audio file.
• MP4 files also support iPod/iPhone/PSP/BlackBerry format.
• It also supports RMVB,Watermark, AV Mux.
• Supports 56 languages

If you want to see the comparison of different free video convertor software please visit – wikipedia.

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Photo Filtre – free image retouching program

Q. Which is the best image retouching program. I know Photoshop is the best. But, it has way too much options and is suitable for professional, not like me. I want a simple, and casual (and may be free) tool.

A. There are a lot of tools! Some are good in one aspect and may not be good in others. A free photo editor equivalent to Photoshop is Gimp. But, it is not that simple. A few simple and small tool I prefer are – IrfanView, and PhotoFiltre. I used to use Paint (yes, it is Window’s own Paint) a lot previously. But, when I started using PhotoFiltre I don’t need Paint anymore. So, I would suggest PhotoFiltre to suit your neet.

Answer in details – more details on PhotoFiltre:

PhotoFiltre is the best image retouching program available for free. It features simple to advanced image adjustment tools and vast amount of filters to go with it. Best part of using PhotoFiltre is the easy learning curve.

If you don’t want to install one more program, there is a portable version (download the ‘zip’ format). The software is ready to use after unzipping.

Download PhotoFiltre from its website.

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Hotmail, Yahoo, Gmail – Attachment Size Limit

Email permit sending files and documents in the form of attachment. Some even use such facility as a free online storage. Emails however have a cap in how big an attachment be.

Here are the limits of attachment sizes in big players in email sector: Hotmail, Yahoo and Gmail :

Hotmail : 10GB (since August 3, 2010, in SkyDrive) – Unlimited storage
Yahoo : 25 MB attachment limit – Unlimited storage(since May 2007)
Gmail : 25MB (since June 2009) – 7GB storage

There are other email service providers but, none is near the three market leaders.

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Firefox 4 – million downloads in first 3 hours

Mozilla released Firefox 4 on Tuesday (March 22, 2011) with a redesigned user interface, improved performance and other impressive additions.

Some of the notable features of the new version of Firefox are:

• multi-platform Web browser
• improves HTML5 and CSS3 support,
• support for Google’s WebM video format
• new tab management system that includes tab groups
• screen real estate saving by placing the reload button in the URL field
• ability to lock tabs for sites visited regularly
• adds in-application bookmark
• password and history syncing

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Top 3 open source CMS for a website – which one is the best for you?

Building a website is much easier these days than ever due to the availability of Content Management Systems (CMS) of different flavors. With a CMS one can create the web content, publish and manage them in easier way. A lot of components can be added in the CMS to make it functional in almost any aspect of online business.

The main tasks of a CMS is to:

• Manage the website contents
• Help in content creation and publication
• Site maintenance and troubleshooting
• Back-end research and statistics
• Data security.

If you want to start a website, one of these three open source CMS might be the right bet in terms of content management, security, and community support.

1. WordPress
2. Joomla
3. Drupal

Best thing about these three CMS is – they are all free, actively being developed, a very supportive community, a huge pool of commercial developers.

Let me go in details on which CMS might be the best for you:

WordPress

If you want to start publishing your website in 10 minutes – WordPress might be the best option. Although it is a blogging platform, many websites have used it as a full CMS. It has little setup requirement. Many of the webhost offer a one-click-install service for the software. Even if your webhost doesn’t have such service, installing and getting started shouldn’t take more than half an hour. The site design can be altered in a click of a button through its theme system.

For those who want to test the blogging platform, you can create a free blog in wordpress.com.

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‘SelfControl’ your internet addiction

A free and Open Source software for Apple OS, "Selfcontrol," is very useful when you want to curb your Internet addiction. Every distractions like email, Facebook, or any websites can be "switched-off" virtually for an specified duration by this software.

For example, if you activate blockage of email, Facebook, Twitter, and your favorite music sites for 100 minutes, it can’t be "switched-on" until the time is over. A restart or even the deletion of the application won’t let you visit the blocked sites until the time is over. It sure is a tough application!

I have used it and, loved it because is very simple, neat, and you don’t need to be a geek to use it. But, it is only available for Apple computers. The developer hasn’t made it’s Windows version yet.

For those who prefer Windows, there isn’t any application as neat and simple as SelfControl. When asked about the SelfControl alternative in PC many suggest K9 to be equivalent to SelfControl.

SelfControl equivalent in Windows

K9 Web Protection is a feature packed internet filter and parental control software. The software for home use if free and can be downloaded from K9 website. Apart from  parental control, it can be configured to block specific websites and the duration of their blockage.

Download is not as straight forward as SelfControl. You need to fill a form and provide them your email address. Then they send the download link along with the K9 License in the email. The computer needs to be restarted before using the software.

UPDATE:

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US Government offers free apps for your mobile phones

The US government has relaunched its website, USA.gov, and added a mobile app store for the general public. The app store features various applications for the mobile phones.

As of now, there are only 18 apps in total to start with, the government however promises that more will be available

soon. All the application are free but not all applications work on all smart phones. Some are device specific and only work on one of iPhone, Android phone, or Blackberry phones. Some applications available as mobile web apps work on any internet connected phones.

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