July 31, 2007

Convert any Web page in to PDF Online

Web2PDF Online is a free HTML to PDF Conversion service. You can convert and save any webpage in to PDF. You required a simple registration with the site to use this service.

They also provide a widget for your Blog or Web site that allows visitors to quickly save useful information to PDF files. Web2PDF Online also keeps track of all the PDF conversion activities in your site, providing you with a metric (Paper orientation, side margins) to measure the importance of your site contents.

Visit the site to know more

Download Windows XP professional x64 bit - SP1

Vista has already been released, but most of us still use XP—and so, try out a 64 bit Windows XP . You can download a free 120 days version of Windows XP Professional x64 (SP1) from Microsoft. The version includes Media player 10, 64Bit and 32 Bit Internet explorer etc.

Microsoft offers this x64 bit Windows XP at no coast. You can download or order for a CD from Microsoft. After you have completed the registration process, you will receive an email with a link to download page and an activation key.

To minimize compatibility problem Microsoft also provides a 64 bit wow emulator that enables you to run some 32bit application on 64 bit computer.
The download file size is 558.165 Mb and will be in ISO format (you must be burned to a CD/DVD before install)

July 29, 2007

Print large wall poster as big as your wall

If you want to print a large wall poster as big as your wall, naturally it is not possible with your A4 size printer. But, you can slice the image in to different A4 size parts and then stack them together to get a larger image, but the process is not as easy as it say.

Here is a simple solution. Just enter the site Blockposters.com, upload an image and select how many pages wide you want your image to be (Depending on your wall size). The site then cuts your image in to pieces and creates a PDF file that can be downloaded. The process is very fast and free.

Print out all images from the PDF file to make different parts of your image and combine them all to make a big wall poster.

The site allows a maximum of 1Mb file size to upload. So, if you want to upload larger image cut them in to pieces before upload.

If you like to make such a big wall paper just looks at the site from here.

July 28, 2007

Audio ambience generating system

Sound Borb is an application that was designed to be an audio ambience generating system. The idea behind this is to create an easy to use system for playing back generative ambient music and sound created.

The generative nature of Sound Borb's audio engine means that once you hit play, the ambience you're listening to will never end.

No complicated adjustment are required. All parameters are kept to a minimum, so as to make Sound Borb easy to use. Just load an ambience, and start listening. You can adjust the overall volume, the intensity (how much activity is occurring in the sound), and the happiness of the ambience. Or you can set the intensity and happiness parameters to auto.

Various ambiences like Ocean, Virtual forest etc are available for download on the download page (with permission), and you can also create your own using the tool that also can be download.

File size is 18 Mb, no installation required, just unzip and run the program , select an ambience and listen to waves or walk through a deep forest...

To download the application and ambience visit from here.

Yet another Online Video Converter

Flvix is a free online flash video converter. You can convert and download videos from You Tube, Google Video or directly from .FLV file.

Copy the link of the page with the video on it and paste it in the textbox. Choose desired format like AVI, MOV, MP4, 3GP and MP3, click on convert button. After conversion you can download the converted file from there.

The site is just like Vixy.net which is also an online flv converter. Conversion is relatively fast and simple, especially with small files and is suitable for mobile video conversion – MP4 or 3GP.

Have a try at Flvix

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July 27, 2007

Find out who is hosting any web site

Here are two tools to find out who is hosting any web site- one is online and other is little software application.

WhoIs’ is a small software application (36.kb) that allows you to find out domain registration information of a site. It communicates with WHOIS servers to obtain the domain registration information you want. (Required Microsoft’s .net framework 2 or above)

Other Software from the same author is ‘ServerInfos’ that will allow you to view information about a domain name's server or a web page's server. Enter a web address or a valid host name and ServerInfos will take care of the rest. The CheckBox "html" display html code of the home page of the selected domain name. (Required Microsoft’s .net framework 2 or above).

Who Is Hosting This’- is an online tool that enables you to find out who is hosting any web site. Simply type in any domain name and you'll get a link to the company that's hosting this particular domain.

July 25, 2007

Make your own Wall Calendar, CD/ DVD cover or Magazine cover online

Do you want to make your own wall calendar, CD/ DVD cover or magazine cover with your own photo? Visit Bighugelabs and select a tool to create and save it for printing. There are lots of different utilities to create. All are quite easy and fun to make.

For example:

--Monthly Calendar - Create from your photographs. Choose month and year, upload your photo and create. Pages can be created in three different sizes (Letter (8.5x11) 8x10 Display calendar in a CD Jewel Case). Make a whole year to print.

--CD or DVD cover- Just choose a photo, add some text like play list, and follow the simple printing and folding instructions.

--Bead Art - Convert your digital photos into amazing, super-fantastic bead art! These beady mosaics can be quite beautiful. Choose photographs with strong colors and funky patterns for the most striking results.

--There are many other utilities like - Badge Maker, Movie poster, Mosaic Maker, pallet Generator, Blog header and so on.

To know more visit Bighugelabs

July 24, 2007

Web site testing tool

Here is a useful online tool for webmasters. With this tool, you can test your website and receive some tips that may be used to improve further.
With this tool you can see –

How search engine robots analyze your web site, Receive tips on how to improve your Meta Tags, Check the keywords used on the page and find the keyword density, Check web server operating system where site is hosted, Check website load time, Check website file size and Check URLs and links found on the page.

At Submit express you can find the following tools like Meta Tags Analyzer, Page Snooper, Link Popularity Check, Meta Tags Generator and Key Word Suggestion Tool.

July 23, 2007

Test your broadband speed with this online tool

If you are experiencing slowness with your Internet connection you may interest in testing your broadband connection speed. Visit Speedtest, which is a free broadband speed analysis tool with servers located all over the world.

It measures the performance of your broadband connection and presents the download and uploads bandwidth speeds. The tests are performed completely within your web browser over HTTP.

You can choose like your continent – country – state- city – to test broadband speed. It will provide all ISPs connection speed that country or state represent, so you can compare your results with others.

July 21, 2007

Make your own photo album

Photozig Albums is the complete easy and free solution for managing digital photos and slideshows. You can organize your photos into albums and create slideshows with photos and MP3 songs. E-mail pictures to your friends and family, create photo galleries or blogs on the Web for free, and make CDs with slideshows and music. You can also make even screensavers.

Using Photozig Albums is so easy and very fast; even a beginner can do everything in a couple of minutes. You can easily transfer pictures from your camera, or from computer to create photo albums. Organize them in any way you want, search with tags or keywords, and share with your family and friends all in one program.

Let Photozig Albums make every picture look perfect with Red-eye correction, cropping, and "Quick Fix" to correct brightness/contrast/levels to produce a great photo. To add sound (MP3 or WAV) click on ‘Play slide show’. From the slideshow click on ‘option’ (shown on upper right corner)- ‘sound tracks’ –‘ Manage music’ – ‘Add sound’.

File size:8.33Mb.

Download from here:
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The World of Photoshop filters

This is a great site for Photoshop Filters. Here you can find thousands of Photoshop filters and see how they modify your picture. They provide descriptions of effects of each filter and you can also download the file from here.

Moreover, one and the same photo has been used to show all effects and to facilitate you comparison of particular filters.

These filters have been custom made by individuals who use Filter Factory in making custom Plug-Ins for Photoshop. If you have your own, favorite filters, you can also contact and publish them on the site.

To see and download click here

July 19, 2007

Fun games to play when you are bored

Here is a frustration buster! Enter Mr. Ferry Halim’s site when you are getting bored and click on any button shown on the main page and play with or select another one!

Ferry Halim’s site, Orisinal is so simple and contains many simple flash based games and is always fun to play.

The best attraction of the site is very clean and the main page contains only buttons. Each button represents a game. Just hover over your mouse on a button and see description of the game at the bottom of the page. Hit the button to play.

Screen shot of a game:

July 18, 2007

Web 2.0 search engine with growing search tool

Gettalink is hoping to be the internet's most comprehensive Web 2.0 search engine with a constantly growing search tools on the web. Currently Gettalink using 126 search tools for searching like Google, Digg, Yahoo, Ask, Youtube, Flicker and many more.

This is very easy and new way to search the Internet. Just type a word to search and roll over a search tool logo to find related results.

You can add new search tool by dragging a search tool in to drop zone. Visit Gettalink to try.

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July 17, 2007

Identify color harmonies faster than with any other color wheel or chart

The Sessions.edu Color Calculator is useful for design a project and is faster than any other color wheel or color chart. Rotate shapes on the color wheel to identify harmonious color schemes. Adjust saturation and lightness. Save RGB, CMYK, or HTML color values.

To select a color scheme;

1. From the Design box select a design for your color experiment

2. Select a geometric shape to find harmonious colors on the color wheel (The Square shows complementary pairs with a set of tertiary complements. The Rectangle shows the adjacent tertiary colors of any two complementary pairs. The Triad shows a triad of color (for e.g. primary colors). The Triangle shows one complement and the two adjacent tertiary colors of the other complement). The Complement arrows show complementary pairs of color.

3. Adjust the saturation and lightness of the color scheme, if necessary.

4. Save the RGB, CMYK, or HTML color values you've selected by saving to the clipboard in the Color Box.

July 15, 2007

What is Lorem Ipsum?

May be you are all familiar with this kind of text -Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit - with many desktop publishing packages and web page editors. What is this Lorem ipsum?

Lorem ipsum is simply dummy text of the printing and typesetting industry and has been the industry's standard dummy text ever since the 1500s. It was popularized in the 1960s with the release of Letterset sheets containing Lorem Ipsum passages, and more recently with desktop publishing software like Adobe PageMaker including versions of Lorem Ipsum.

Why do we use it?

The point of using Lorem Ipsum is that it has a more-or-less normal distribution of letters, as opposed to using 'Content here, content here', making it look like readable English. Many desktop publishing packages and web page editors now use Lorem Ipsum as their default model text.

Read full history and generate your own Lorem ipsum at : http://www.lipsum.com/

July 14, 2007

Tune in to internet radio

Tun3R is a search engine for Internet radio station. It is not just like a regular search engine, you needn’t to enter a key word to search a Radio station. Just drag the orange needle around for looking interesting radio stations on the internet as we did in our good old radio.

Below the 'dial', the current station's title is updated immediately, and the audio you hear will 'tune' into the audio sample collected. And you will provide more information about the stream and its homepage will be shown, along with a thumbnail of the homepage itself. Follow the links to see the actual website, and to connect to the live stream.

July 13, 2007

Collection of skins and themes for Flex and Adobe AIR

Skin provides a means of broadening the graphical user interface options beyond a default theme.

Here is the collection of skins and themes created for Flex and Adobe AIR (formerly Apollo), as well as a showcase of other apps using these frameworks.

The site ScaleNine is a showcase for skins and themes. All the themes have been created using graphical skinning techniques and CSS, as opposed to programmatic skinning. All themes and skins are meant to be used as quick solutions for creating a different looking user interface. Skins are free to download and full installation instruction also available in the site.

Adobe Integrated Runtime - AIR

Adobe launched a public beta of ‘Adobe Integrated Runtime’ (AIR) on 10 July (Before it was referred to by its code name of Apollo) and targeting the second half of 2007 for the release of Adobe AIR 1.0.

The AIR is a cross-operating system runtime being developed by Adobe that allows web developers to build and deploy web applications to the desktop. AIR is targeted at developers who are currently leveraging web technologies, such as Flash, Flex, HTML, JavaScript and Ajax techniques to build and deploy rich Internet applications.

AIR allows applications to be built using Flash, Flex and HTML , JavaScript or a combination of both. Flash based applications will be able to include HTML based content, and HTML based applications will be able to use Flash based content. In addition, Adobe AIR applications can integrate closely with PDF documents. AIR application is free to download and use.

Similar Applications:

Microsoft Silverlight - is also a cross-browser, cross-platform plug-in for delivering the next generation of Microsoft .NET–based media experiences and rich interactive applications for the Web. Silverlight is able to make applications that blend desktop applications with internet applications.

Google Gears – Google recently released a beta version of its open source technology – Google Gears – which is a browser extension that enables web applications to provide offline functionality.

JavaFX – JavaFX from Sun Microsystems is also to create a new family of products based on Java technology designed to enable consistent user experiences, from desktop to mobile device to set-top box to Blu-ray Disc.

July 12, 2007

Online graphical dictionary

Visuwords is an online graphical dictionary and thesaurus. Just enter a word into the search box and find out the meaning and associations with other words and concepts. It Produce a diagrams reminiscent of a neural net.

Click and drag the background to pan around and use the mouse wheel to zoom. Hover over nodes to see the definition and click and drag individual nodes to move them around to help clarify connections.

Color of a node represents noun, verb, adverbs etc for example red node represent adverbs, blue represent noun like that.

Combined with a visualization and easy user interface makes it interesting.

Microsoft’s Malware Protection Center

Microsoft introduced a new Malware Protection Center Portal - official Version 1- to the public. It offers an encyclopedia of malware where you will get the detailed information about, tools and resources for investigating threats, option to download Microsoft's latest antivirus and anti-spyware signatures, listings of the top threats and other tools.

You can get detailed analysis of various threats caused by the malicious software like it’s after effects and remedies to cure it etc from here. In addition, you can also submit files that are suspected of containing malware or potentially unwanted software to Microsoft using their online form (file size limited to 10Mb) and Microsoft Malware Protection Center will send you the results of the analysis on the submission.

With this effort, Microsoft plans to make its security division more open and public.

July 11, 2007

Tutorial search engines

Even though resources are not so big, we can search and find useful tutorials at Xtream.Pixel.com. For example to make Vista wallpaper, buttons with light under or crating a web2 button etc. are found under Photoshop.

Search tutorials by category like Photoshop, 3dMax, Macromedia Flash, HTML, CSS etc.

Another search engine for tutorials is Tutorial-search.com. We can find many useful tutorials on different subject here. Tutorial on Swish Max, Blender, etc are the main attractions.

The tutorial links are uploaded by people and are free to use.

July 10, 2007

Download and convert YouTube Video

Vdownloader is a little program that allows saving video to AVI or MPEG format while downloading from Youtube, Myspace and other sites. You don’t need to visit the site to find video for download. Just enter a key word in the search box and select a source like Youtube, MySpace or DailyMotion. After getting the video double click on it. That’s all.

>>Before downloading a video configure avi codec to your choice - WMV2 or MPEG4 for conversion from the menu Option – Preferences.

>>The specialty about this software is that, no other video conversion software is required for converting flash video. So you can view the video from windows default player.

>>You can search for video from the search bar provided in the program. Alternatively, browse the sites themselves by selecting the site of your choice from the drop-down menu. If you’re select latter option, enter the site and copy the URL and paste it to ‘Video URL’ box, and click ‘Download’.

Installation:

>>Just unzip all the files to a folder in your hard disk. No installation required. Both ‘vdownloader.exe’ and ‘ffmpeg.exe’ must be in the same directory. Otherwise, videos won't be properly converted. Double click on ‘Vdownloader exe’ to open the app.

>>However, Vdownloader doesn't do quite as much as it perhaps could. For example, some times it shows an error message while double clicking on video link instead of downloading. And also downloading from some site provided in the drop down menu doesn’t work properly.

>>Above all, this is a lightweight, free application that doesn't consume your system resources and provides an extremely quick and easy way to download and convert ‘YouTube’ videos to your system.

Download latest version

July 8, 2007

Protect your Password/PIN from Keyloggers

It is very important to protect your sensitive password, PIN or data from keyloggers (basically, keylogger is a small malware program that captures your password or PIN as you type them on your key board). To avoid keyloggers you can enter the password using only the mouse. This way there is no opportunity to capture key strokes from your key board. This method protects you even against hardware keyloggers.

Mouse Only Keyboard is a small utility which provide an onscreen keyboard to enter characters. This free software is very small and no need to install (Windows). Download (email required) and unzip it. Double click on icon 'MOK', from the onscreen key board shown, select any character you required. By clicking on ‘copy’ the password gets pasted on the clipboard. Then you can past the password on the web page, where you required, by pressing Ctrl+V.

This utility is useful, especially, when you use a public computer or an unsafe machine. In that situation you can carry this software in an USB stick.

Note that, according to the developer of this tool, ‘it is impossible to be fully protected in an unsafe machine where malicious users have had access. This anti-key logger tool can cover most, but not every possible way that a determined user can use to steal keys. This tool can, however, protect you from most of the key loggers run by the majority of casual malicious users’.

July 7, 2007

Web design - a complete directory

Are you a web designer? Or do you have little knowledge about html coding and want to beatify your site or blog? Then you must browse through Web Developer's Handbook. This is an online directory for web designers - more for those who know a little about web designing.

We can call Web Developer's Handbook is a one stop shop for web designers. All links are neatly arranged and are quite easy to browse. Items are divided like Creativity, HTML web tools and services, accessibility check, Ajax, CSS layout and theory, CSS navigation menu, color tools, SEO tools, CMS and Forum tools, blogging and many more.

Beginners and professionals are alike are sure to find something here. However, found that some links are not active.

July 6, 2007

People uploaded free online sound library

Sound effects are always an essential for many of us. For example, hobbyists required sounds like animal, vehicle, or wild life for their home videos, those who looking for ring tones also need sound. Sound designers or recordists and music producers, filmmakers, web designers and video game developers are also required sound effects. Anyone, that needs sounds may like Soundsnap.

Soundsnap is a free online sound library and community. People can upload sounds and share them with the world. Browse through the directory by tag or by category and find out required sound for download. The site offering a large collection of free sound stuffs and are of good quality. You can preview sound befor downloading.

The main way that users participate is by submitting sounds and loops. People can also create a small profile that will feature their top personal tags, their email and website. You have the option of commenting on a sound or making it a 'favorite'

In order to download a sound you have to have sound results on your page. You can search for sounds via the search bar at the top, browse by category or browse by tag. On the sound 'teaser' click on the upper right corner and choose between mp3, wav or aif to download.

July 5, 2007

Add various web developer tools to Firefox

Web developer toolbar is an add-on for Firefox browser which includes many development tools for web masters - like links to page validation and optimization tools, window resizing, form and image debugging, etc.

This add-on provides extensive information about page elements, color, link details or attributes and allows you to validate CSS, HTML code; RSS feed or links of a page by validation link.

Web masters can use it to make more attractive web page. It provides a ruler utility to measure anything on a page and allows linearising a page or hiding the background.

This adds a menu and a toolbar with various web developer tools to Firefox browser and primarily aims to web masters.

July 4, 2007

The Flash idea

Visit Mr. Paul Neave’s web site and see his revolutionary ideas with Flash. The site is a good example for the use of flash to give a website a life of its own.
The site is a playground and has loads of fun stuff to do. For example; ‘Imagination’ - like doodling on paper, ‘Flower’- grows a randomly shaped and colored flower, ‘Flash Earth’-flash based zoomable map of earth, ‘Planetarium’-real time planetarium viewable through your browse etc are the attraction of the site.

July 3, 2007

Firefox is not a safe browser?

A new vulnerability reported in Firefox browser that allows malicious people to disclose sensitive information about the user.

As per the report from Secunia, a security firm, the new flaw is ‘caused due to a design error within the focus handling of form fields and can potentially be exploited by changing the focus from a "textarea" field to a "file upload" form field via the "OnKeyDown" event’.

‘Successful exploitation allows an arbitrary file on the user's system to be uploaded to a malicious web site, but requires that the user is tricked into typing the file name into a "textarea" input form’.

Although the weakness is confirmed in Firefox version 2.0.0.4, other versions may also be affected.

Secunia rated the flaw as "not critical", you're encouraged to avoid enter file names to form fields on un-trusted web sites and also to disable JavaScript support.

July 2, 2007

Test everything of your web site

It is important to test your web site to know its functionality. We must know its traffic details, page ranking, need to validate HTML/XHTML or CSS tags, how the site appears in different browser etc.

Test everything is a nice and free tool that helps you test a website with many services. You can test your site with different CSS and HTML validator; test your Meta tags and its quality, choose different SEO tools to test like Domain status, Traffic details, Page ranking, who links to you etc; test your site in different browser, Pages indexed in Google, Back links and more.

Visit and test your site

July 1, 2007

Record streaming audio

The Audio Recorder for Free is an easy to use program designed to record any sound from your sound card in real time. You can save sound to hard disk in MP3, WMA or WAV file format.

It supports input from streaming audio from the Internet, audio from external input devices like CDs, audio cassettes, phone lines etc, and microphone as well as audio from other applications, such as Winamp and Media Player. With a built-in, advanced, audio-recording engine, the recorder produces high-quality recordings. With predefined recording qualities, you can set and manage recording parameters like recording quality, automatic gain control etc. It is very easy to use comparing to MP3 my MP3

How to record a streaming audio?

1. First start playback of the Internet broadcast in the player you are using (Most internet audios required Real Player to play sound) While recording, please pay attention that the peak meters will not reach the red zone too often and too long (test recording volume by giving sample audio).

2. Then start the Sound Recorder and select the appropriate sound source. The names of the sound sources differ from one computer to another according to the sound card used, but the sound source for recording RealAudio playback, is usually named Wave out mix, Stereo Mix, What You Hear, or something in similar wording. The Sound Recorder will automatically select the appropriate recording quality.

3. Start recording in the Sound Recorder. Optionally you can restart playback in RealPlayer, to record the whole sound clip from the beginning.

Note that on certain computers you cannot change the recording quality to anything other than that of the sound quality of the Internet broadcast while recording.

Software size – 2.7Mb, supports Windows all

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