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Fbquick – Facebook Notifier Even Without A Web Browser

Christian — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 07:44:56 +0000

Do you always want to be updated about the latest happenings on your Facebook account? Do you want to monitor your Facebook profile even if you don’t have a web browser? Then you should try Fbquick, a quick and easy way to get all your Facebook notifications right on your desktop.

Features of Fbquick:

Receive instant profile notifications on your desktop
Stay connected with your friends, groups, and events
Monitor your Facebook profile without a web browser
Enjoy all the fun Facebook has to offer plus more!

How to use Fbquick:

1. Download and install Fbquick.

2. Once installed, launch the application. Your default browser will open and it will direct you to the Facebook login page. Login to your Facebook account.

3. Fbquick will start checking your Facebook profile from time to time. You may edit the settings of Fbquick (update interval, items to be checked on updates, etc.) by right-clicking on the Fbquick icon on your notification area and click Options.

See how Fbquick looks when you have new notifications:

Check out Fbquick’s FAQ page for more info.

How To Upload Pictures In Facebook Directly From Picasa

Christian — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 06:33:29 +0000

Many Facebook users are annoyed with the Facebook photo uploader because it’s so slow and sometimes there’s a problem with it, but now, there are a lot of ways to upload pictures on your Facebook account by using third-party applications. One of them is the Picasa Uploader which is my favorite.

Picasa Uploader is a plugin that you can install on Picasa. It’s a fast way to upload photos to Facebook and it can really save your precious time and effort!

How to upload pictures in Facebook with Picasa Uploader:

1. Download and install Picasa for free.

2. Download and install Picasa Uploader.

3. Once installed, Facebook button will appear on the button tray.

4. To start uploading, choose the pictures you want to upload and click the Facebook button. A new window will open; wait for it to load. Click Start Upload.

Note: Facebook restricts you to 60 photos per album, so you won’t see any albums that can’t fit all of the newly uploaded photos.

Another Note: If you select “Create a New Album” but don’t enter a name, photos will be placed in a default “Picasa Photos” album which can hold up to 1000 photos. After you add photos, it’ll show up in your list in the future.

5. When you click the Start Upload button, Picasa prepares your images and sends them. This may take some time if you have a slow connection.

6. After uploading, your default browser will open and will direct you to the Facebook login page.

* If you encounter a problem, try to clear your browser’s cookies.

7. After logging in on your Facebook account, you’ll be transferred to the Upload Options page where you can choose an existing album or create a new one. When you’re done, just click the Send to Facebook button.

8. Picasa Uploader will start transferring your photos on your Facebook account. Once completed, click the Go to album on Facebook button.

9. Click Select All and Approve Selected Photos.

You’re done!

Fuzzmail – Record What You Type And Email It

Christian — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 04:03:55 +0000

Email used to be the easiest and cheapest way to send love letters to our special someone but when cell phones have been invented, people started to shift from “emailing” to “texting” because it’s more convenient, faster, and easier. But there’s a fun service out there in the name of Fuzzmail that wants to add a twist on our email.

Fuzzmail records the act of writing and lets you send it as an email. Dynamic changes, typoes, pauses and writeovers are captured and communicated. We created Fuzzmail because we wanted a more emotionally expressive alternative to email, so that an emailed love letter does not have to look the same as a business letter.

How to use Fuzzmail:

Note: Fuzzmail is FREE!

1. Just complete the form. Make sure that you type the correct email address of the recipient so he/she can receive the Fuzzmail. Enter your email address so you can receive a copy of the mail.

2. Start typing a message and Fuzzmail will record what you type.

3. When you’re done, click the “Send” button to stop recording and send your message. The recipient will receive a private link where he/she can read the message replayed in the way that you typed it.

Check out these examples:

My Love

Why Fuzzmail?

Curse, Swear, Ha!

Try Fuzzmail now and I’m sure that your recipient will love it!

7 Free Programs That Instantly Search Files And E-mails On Your PC

Christian — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 09:12:17 +0000

Are you looking for a file on your PC’s hard drive? Windows has a built-in Desktop Search that you can use to scan your PC to help you find the file you’re looking for but you can’t just rely on it. Windows Desktop Search is not that advance and I don’t use it often because aside from it’s very slow, it doesn’t really find the files that I’m looking for. The results always turned out to be “Search is complete. There are no results to display”, but when I try to manually scan my files, I can find it.

If you’re also unsatisfied with the Windows Desktop Search, you can try installing third-party software that is more advanced and can find the files on your PC much faster!

Check out these Desktop Search Freewares:

1. Copernic Desktop Search

Copernic Desktop Search (CDS) enables you to instantly search files, e-mails, and e-mail attachments stored anywhere on your PC’s hard drive. The application executes sub second searching of Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint files, Acrobat PDFs, multimedia, and much more!

Features of Copernic Desktop Search:

Find files instantly (over 150 file types like MP3, JPG, WAV, MPEG, .doc, .ppt, PDF, HTML, ZIP files)
Find emails or attachments from Outlook, Outlook Express, Eudora and Mozilla Thunderbird
Instantly preview your results
Optimize your search by refining fields or using advanced search keywords
Benefit from automatic, seamless real-time indexing of new or updated files and emails
Search the Web or your computer from the same lightweight, intuitive interface
Save battery power by suspending the indexing process

* After installing Copernic Desktop Search, initial indexing will begin.

NOTE: In order to search the content of your computer, it requires an initial scan of all your documents. Depending on the number of files stored on your PC, it may take from few minutes to several hours, but it is performed only once. Only then you will be able to experience its full potential.

Download Copernic Desktop Search

2. Google Desktop Search

Google Desktop makes searching your computer as easy as searching the web with Google. It’s a desktop search application that provides full text search over your email, files, music, photos, chats, Gmail, web pages that you’ve viewed, and more. By making your computer searchable, Desktop puts your information easily within your reach and frees you from having to manually organize your files, emails and bookmarks.

Features of Google Desktop:

1. Useful results. Just type the file you are looking for and it will show you the most relevant search results, each of which include the file name and a brief snippet with your search terms highlighted. You can now also preview your Desktop search results right inside the browser

2. Quick search box. If you are in a hurry, you can use the quick search box. Just press “CTRL” button twice to call up the search box and press “CTRL” twice again to hide it.

3. Finding deleted files. Google Desktop creates cached copies (snapshots) of your files and other items each time you view them, and stores these copies on your computer’s hard drive. As a result, you can often use Desktop to find items you accidently deleted.

4. Advanced Search Forms. You can use the Advanced Search to speed up the searching of your files. You can easily specify the type(s) of search you want to do without having to remember specific search operators.

5. Google Desktop can find multiple file types on your computer.

6. Lock Search. If you don’t want others to search the files on your PC, you can activate the Lock Search. Simply click on the Desktop icon in your taskbar and select Lock Search from the menu. To unlock Desktop search, enter the Windows password of the current user on the Desktop home page.

Download Google Desktop for Windows

Download Google Desktop for Linux

Download Google Desktop for Mac

3. InSight Desktop Search

With InSight, you can instantly search for files stored anywhere in your PC’s hard drive. It’s also a digital music jukebox, that features ability to search for music based on information like artist, genre, year, album etc. InSight also brings Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia, right to your desktop, allowing you to search and view articles within the application itself. It also automatically updates itself for any changes that might take place on your files.

Download InSight Desktop Search

4. Locate32

Locate32 is software which can be used to find files from your hard drives and other locations. It works like updatedb and locate commands in Unix based systems. In other words, it uses databases to store information about directory structures and uses these databases in searches. The use of these databases provides very fast searching speed. The software includes a dialog based application as well as console programs which can be used to both update and access databases.

Download Locate32

5. Exalead Desktop Free Edition

It gives you the ability to search more than 100 file types, including email messages, email attachments, Office documents, PDFs, images, sound files, video clips and more.

Download Exalead Desktop Free Edition

6. Yahoo! Desktop Search

Features:

Find anything on your computer
View results instantaneously – as fast as you can type
Protect your privacy with easy search controls
Find information related to your desktop content
Take action immediately on search results

Download Yahoo! Desktop Search

7. Beagle for Linux

Beagle is a search tool that ransacks your personal information space to find whatever you’re looking for.

Check out the steps that will help you run Beagle on your Linux-based computer.

You may also want to download and install Windows Search 4.0, the latest version of Windows Search for the desktop. It delivers fast search capabilities for files, e-mail, documents, and more, provides performance enhancements and support for enterprise-critical features, and is easy to manage and extend with customized functionality.

Download Windows Search 4.0 (XP/Vista/Windows 7)

How To Transfer Large Files The Easy Way

Christian — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 08:11:41 +0000

On my previous post, I presented to you Drop.io, a website that allows you to share files to your friends easily, and now I’m going to show you some websites that let you send big files (as big as 1 to 5 GB) to your family and friends! We all know that our e-mails do not have the capacity to attach files that are more than 25 MB, so what will you do when you need to send big files to your friends and family? How will you exceed the attachment limit of your email? Actually you can’t do that! Just check out these websites that I found that can solve your problem.

Transfer large files the easy way with these websites:

(NOTE: all of these services are FREE of charge and doesn’t require you to register!)

1. WeTransfer

Send up to 2 GB of files
Files are parked for 2 weeks (it means that your files are stored on their server and will be available for up to 2 weeks!)
Files and e-mail data are kept private
Up to 20 receivers per transfer

What I like in WeTransfer is its very modern and gorgeous-looking interface.

2. Transfer Big Files

Send up to 1 GB of files
Files are parked for 5 days or until the download limit of 20 downloads is reached.

3. Large Files ASAP

Send up to 2 GB of files
The interface looks boring

4. DropSend

Send up to 2 GB of files
Limits you to 5 sends per month

5. PipeBytes – one of my favorites!

Try PipeBytes here:

6. File Dropper

Simply upload your file and share your personal link to your friend
Send up to 5 GB of file

7. Hot Share

Send up to 2 GB of file

Which of these services have you tried already? Have I missed something? Say it on the comments box below.

Easy Way To Share Files And Collaborate In Real Time

Christian — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 04:39:29 +0000

Are you looking for an easy way to share you files to your colleagues? Drop.io is here to help you!

Drop.io is an easy to use, online collaboration and file sharing service that provides users with a simple, real time and private way to chat and share images, video, audio, documents and other digital content through unique, user-created and controlled sharing points called ‘drops.’

Let me teach you the basics. First, you need to learn how to create your drop:

1. If you are using Firefox, I recommend you to install the Drop.io Firefox add-on so you can create drops in just two clicks! With this add-on, you can also drag and drop files onto your browser, making it a lot easier for you to upload files!

2. Once the add-on is installed, you’ll see the Drop.io icon on your status bar. You can create a new drop by clicking on the icon, and click “Create new drop”.

3. You will then be directed to your new private drop. Insert your password and your e-mail address if you want to change important settings in the future.

Now that you know how to create you drop, next thing you need to learn is how to add files on your drop:

1. To start adding files to your drop, just drag and drop files onto your browser (if Drop.io add-on is installed).

2. If the add-on is not installed, you can still add files by clicking the “Add” button.

Now that you know how to add files on your drop, next thing you need to learn is how to share your files to your friends and colleagues:

1. Right-click on the file you want to share. Click “Link”. Copy the link and send it to your friend and it will direct them to the download page.

What is Hidden Link?

You can use hidden link if you want to share a file to your friend but you don’t want them to know the name of your drop. For more info, click here.

2. You can also send files from your drop to your friends via e-mail. Right-click on the file you want to send. Click Send to –> Email Recipient. Type the e-mail address of your friend and add a short message if you want. Click Send.

3. You can also send files from your drop to other existing drop. Right-click on the file you want to send. Click Send to –> Existing Drop and type the Drop Name of your friend. Click Send.

* It will only work if that drop allows guests to ‘add’ files.

Now that you know the basics, you can start sharing files to your friends easily and more convenient with Drop.io!

Here are some few things you might want to know:

1. You can personalize the name of your drop so you can remember it easily. Go to Settings –> Under Maintenance box, click Rename Drop. Here you can change the name of your drop.

2. You can edit what permissions you want your guests to have (if they can add files, comment, re-order files, chat, and download) in the Guest Permission box. Go to Settings –> Guest Permissions and edit your settings.

3. You can chat with your guests and do simple web-based real time presentations. For more info, check out this video.

4. The maximum size per drop is 100 mb (FREE, create as many drops as you want!). You can also upgrade your drop to get more space, management and functionality!

5. You can also use Drop.io from your Y! Mail. It allows you to attach large files of up to 100 mb per e-mail! Check it out on your Y! Mail Applications pane.

Launch Windows Update From Firefox

Christian — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 04:12:38 +0000

I already discussed to you the importance of keeping your Windows PC updated on my previous posts and now, I will teach you how to open Windows Update from Firefox. WindowsUpdate is a Firefox add-on that adds a “Windows Update” item to the Firefox Tools menu and launches Internet Explorer to the Windows Update site when clicked.

How to use WindowsUpdate:

1. Install WindowsUpdate and once installed, restart your browser.

2. Go to Tools –> Windows Update. Internet Explorer will open and will direct you to the Windows Update site.

3. Click Express and install the updates if there is any.

How To Make Photos Smaller And Upload Faster In Facebook

Christian — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 03:22:34 +0000

Before you upload your photos in Facebook or any other sites, it’s best if you’ll optimize your photos to make it smaller so it will not take you a long time to email or upload it to any websites. If you are using Firefox, there is an add-on that makes a smaller copy of your pictures before you upload or attach it on your e-mail.

Shrunked Image Resizer, once installed will ask you if you want to resize your photos when it detects a JPEG Image. With this add-on, uploading and attaching photos will be a lot faster!

How to use Shrunked Image Resizer:

1. Install Shrunked Image Resizer and restart your browser.

2. If you want to change the settings, you can go to Tools –> Add-ons –> Shrunked Image Resizer and click Options. Shrunked Image Resizer Configuration window will open. Here you can adjust the settings.

3. Go to Facebook or other sites. Upload photos using the simple uploader.

* Shrunked Image Resizer won’t work in websites that offer Flash- or Java-based image uploaders. To use the add-on with these websites, you’ll need to find the browser-based uploader.

4. You’ll be asked if you want to resize your photos. Click Yes to proceed.

(Optional) You can check “Remember my answer for this website” if you want to automatically resize your photos whenever you’re uploading to that website.

How To Activate Turn Off The Lights In YouTube

Christian — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 07:27:46 +0000

Turn Off The Lights is a cool feature on YouTube but not all videos has this feature. Some people said that it only appears on videos that are over 10 minutes long. But if you want to activate this feature even on short videos, there is a very simple solution to that.

Turn Off The Lights is cool because it fades to dark the entire page while you are watching a video in YouTube as if you are in the cinema.

Here’s how it looks:

Without Turn Off The Light:

How to activate Turn Off The Lights feature in Google Chrome:

1. Download and install Turn Off The Lights extension.

2. Watch a video in YouTube and click the lamp on your address bar.

How to activate Turn Off The Lights in Firefox:

1. Download and install Greasemonkey.

2. Restart your browser.

3. Install Turn Off The Lights script.

4. Watch a video in YouTube and click the lamp above the video.

How To Organize Your Messy Status Bar In Firefox

Christian — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 09:07:01 +0000

Do you find your status bar messy? Do you want to hide the icons that you don’t use often? Here’s the solution to your simple problem! Organize Status Bar is a Firefox add-on, and as the name implies, it lets your organize your status bar to make it look more neat and uncluttered. With this add-on, you can now re-arrange, remove or hide any icon or text in the Firefox status bar!

How to use Organize Status Bar:

1. Download Organize Status Bar.

2. After the installation, restart your browser.

3. Open the Organize Status Bar Option window. Go to Tools –> Add-ons –> Organize Status Bar and click Options.

4. You’ll now see all the icons on your status bar. You can hide these icons by clicking the Hide button on the Organize Status Bar Option window.

* You can easily revert it back to your default settings by clicking the Reset to Default button.

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