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  Sun, 05 Oct 2008 15:12:50 +0200
Splicd is a web service which can grab any segment from any Youtube movie. Simply provide the URL of the movie and then type the start and stop time frame. After that, press the continue button and you will get a link to share with your friends. By visiting the link, you are able to view the [...]
Sometimes, my freinds keep sending or forwarding meaningless emails to me, which really annoying me especially when i was busy. But the problem is i don’t know how to ask them to stop doing so ( actually some of the mails do bring me some info, but most of them just wasting my time!). As i [...]
Mail2web is a web service which let you to login to your own email account through their website. You can login to your Yahoo! Mail, Hotmail, Gmail, or even your own domain email account using their service. Simply provide your email address and password to login. There are 3 types of login: Intellilogin, Advanced Login, and [...]
  Sat, 27 Sep 2008 15:48:48 +0200
TinyPaste sounds similar with TinyURL. TinyURL able to turn long URL into short URL, while TinyPaste able to turn long text into an URL. Sometimes, when you want to send some message to your freind through MSN, but MSN limits the maximum lengths for each conversation. So, you may need to separate one message into different [...]
  Thu, 25 Sep 2008 15:04:21 +0200
There are a lot of web services which let users to download online movie. Some of the example are TubeZoid, Catchvideo, ClipNabber, and etc. But, these web services may down when you want to download movie. So, why not you install an application which can download and convert movie from internet? So, how you download movie [...]
  Tue, 23 Sep 2008 16:35:19 +0200
There are a lot of web based photo editing tool, such as Pixlr, Sumo Paint, PhotoShop Express, Picnik, and etc. These application required no installation, and cross-platform. As long as you have Flash plugin installed and an internet enabled PC, you can use them. Dr. Pic is another web based photo editing tool, which doesn’t require [...]
There are a lot of temporary email service arround us. For example, we have SpamBox, MintMail, 10 Minute Mail, and etc. You may refer to my previous post for more information. However, most of the services are temporary and the email account will disappear after certain time, which means that you need to create another account [...]
Google Chrome is a new browser, and the developers release around 10 versions per day. So, how are you going to check the current version and download? Dirhael from DonationCoder.com had release an application which can check the latest release and download it using your default browser. Just press the “Check” button and it will show you [...]
If you are going to buy a laptop, i am sure you will do a lot of survey to gather more information. You may want to know the laptop’s spec, the pros and cons of the model, and probably some screenshot of the laptop in different views. So, you may need to go through a [...]
YouGetSignal is a web tools collection website and it contains a handy tool to let users find out those websites which sharing the same server. So, how to check which websites sharing the same hosting server with you? Just type your website and press the “Check” button. Wait for few seconds and you will get the [...]
File Savr is a free file hosting service. It provide free file hosting for file size that less than 10GB without create any account. However, if you want to manage your files or or have more storage, you need to purchase their premium plan, which range from $5 per month to $10 per month. Now, you [...]
Desktops is another application for users who like to have multiple virtual desktops. It is similar with Virtual Desktop Manager, but with some advantages. Virtual desktops utility will showing the currently active window, while hiding those inactive windows. Application windows are bound to their own virtual desktops so that Windows know which application to show when [...]
  Mon, 08 Sep 2008 14:50:03 +0200
QuarkBase is a powerful tool, which can “dig” everything about a website. For example, you can get the WHOIS information, traffic ranking, social popularity, total feed readers, and also the blogging platform (if the website that you traing to check is a blog). To get information about a website, simply provide the domain name and press [...]
  Sat, 06 Sep 2008 14:20:33 +0200
Senduit is a simple file sharing service. It is a free service and require no registration. The file limit is 100MB and you can choose the expire date for it. For example, you can set the link expire in 30 minutes, 1 day, 5 days, and etc. The maximum period to store this file is 1 [...]
Chaos generator is a good tool for us to generate random password. Users can set different options, and generate different length’s password easily. As shown in the screenshot, you can check or uncheck the upper letters, lower letters, numbers, and include special symbols or not. For special symbols, you can add your own symbols or remove [...]
  Thu, 28 Aug 2008 15:32:34 +0200
Pixlr is a new web-based image editor. Its interface is pretty simple, and the loading speed is very fast. There are some other similar services which i introduce before, such as Sumo Paint, Photoshop Express, Splashup, and Picnik. There are a lot of tools which you can use. For example, they provide marquee tool, stamp tool, [...]
We use Microsoft Office everyday. There are a lot of features that are hidden by default, and we need to manually enable them so that they appear at the toolbox button. One of the example is the calculation feature. Step 1 First of all, click the “Customize Quick Access Toolbar” button and choose “More Commands…” Step 2 After that, [...]
Google had creates a lot of different logos for different holidays and events. They actually store these logos in a “museum” and everybody are allow to view these logos from their official site. For example, this site contains Holiday Logos that used by Google from 1999-2008, while this site contains logos design by Google’s users. Users are [...]
HitMeLater is a funny web service. You send them an email, they will keep it, and resend to you later. This service is similar with EmailFuture, Time Machiner, and MailFreezr. But HitMeLater will only send the mail to yourself when reach the date. You can use HitMeLater as a reminder for any important date, such as friend’s [...]
  Thu, 14 Aug 2008 14:58:26 +0200
Mloovi is a RSS blog translator tool which can translate any RSS feed into 24 languages using Google Translate. Simply provide the RSS feed URL to Mloovi, and choose the language that you want Mloovi translate to. You will then get the result in your favorite language. Beside viewing the RSS feed in your language, Mloovi also [...]
  Tue, 12 Aug 2008 14:36:03 +0200
Fumpr claims itself as the world fastest photo storage provider. Users can upload photos to the website and then share with other users, or make the photos private. You can upload up to 8mb of photos at one time and these photos will be store forever. The photo upload must be in either JPG, GIF or [...]
  Sat, 09 Aug 2008 01:28:24 +0200
Sometimes, when you want to open your PDF or Word documents at others’ computer but unfortunately the comuter doesn’t have such application to open them (although this is very rare case). So, what you going to do? If your document is PDF format, you may download Foxit Reader to open it. But if the document is [...]
  Thu, 07 Aug 2008 14:56:08 +0200
Email has become an important tool for all of us. We send and receive a lot of emails everyday as it slowly will become a replacement for the traditional mail. However, we will also receive more and more spam mail, and we may want to protect or hide our real email address when signup something. So, we [...]
  Mon, 04 Aug 2008 13:21:30 +0200
Visual Subst is a portable applications which can create virtual drives for any folders. Users may create virtual drives for folders which need to access frequently. Some users may doubt, why we want to use this application while we can simply create a shortcut link at our desktop? This seems to be right. But when you [...]
Sometimes, when you open a lot of windows, you may find that it is veru difficult to maintain them. With WinRoll, you can minimize some of the windows into their title bar. This make users easier to focus on current window, while still can see the other unused window floating at the desktop. There are some [...]
  Thu, 31 Jul 2008 12:56:15 +0200
EmailFuture is a web service for you to send an email which can be receive in future. You can use this service as a reminder for yourself. There are a lot of similar services which i introduce before such as Time Machiner and MailFreezr. To send an email, simply fill in the web form that they [...]
USB devices such as flash drives may harm your computer. Some of the USB drives which infected by virus will automatic copy files to your computer when connected. So, i would like to teach users how to block certain USB devices to connect to your computer. I had cover USBDeview before, which is a utility to [...]
IconExtract is able to extract any icons/cursors from files. It is able to scan and extract icons from exe, dll, ocx, and cpl file types. What will you do when you saw an interesting icon or cursor from a file? You probably want to grab the image, but how to grab it? This free utilities from nirsoft.net [...]
bit.ly is not just a URL shorten service. Instead, it provide extra features such as track total clicks to the shorten URL. There are a lot of URL shorten service around the internet. For example, we have tinyURL, which is among the most popular URL shorten service. bit.ly is a new launch similar service. But, it [...]
USBDeview is a free utility which can list out all USB devices that currently and previously connected to your computer. By using this utility, you can get more information on USB devices that connected to your computer. For example, you can get information about the device name, description, device type, serial number, last plug/unplug date, and [...]