There are several free and paid cleaning tools available for your Windows PC. CCleaner is probably the most famous of them all. SlimCleaner is the world’s first software that lets you clean and optimize Windows systems using a crowd-sourced approach. SlimCleaner uses aggregated-cloud feedback to recommend optimal settings for programs, start-ups and services. SlimCleaner uses what’s called “authoritative ranking” to ensure that the ratings for your programs are accurate and that they reflect what people really think. It works by weighing the ratings of each contributor against their previous levels of accuracy and against the ratings of high-ranking users. Features…

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Google announced the release of their official tag managing tool. Titled Google Tag Manager, the tool lets you manage tags (such as tracking and marketing optimization tags) on your site. You can add and update AdWords, Google Analytics, Floodlight and non-Google tags from the Google Tag Manager user interface instead of editing site code. Tags are tiny bits of website code that let you measure traffic and visitor behavior, understand the impact of online advertising and social channels, use remarketing and audience targeting, test and improve your site, and more. Features include: Asynchronous tag loading—so your tags can fire faster…

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A few months back, we blogged about 7 applications for your Mac to prevent it from sleeping. While these programs make the process extremely simple, OSX Mountain Lion comes inbuilt with a ready command line tool that makes this process extremely easy. Fire up Terminal and run the following command: caffeinate -i -t 36000 & The command above will tell OS X to not sleep on idle (-i) and to keep running for 36,000 seconds or 10 hours (-t 36000). The ampersand at the end tell caffeinate to run in the background. This means you can close the terminal window…

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There are quite a few websites out there which provide you with some good tools to find out about websites on the internet. Stat My Web is one such site that can easily fetch a lot of data about any website. The website provides detailed stats about websites like – when it was created, where is it hosted, how much is it  worth and where does it rank on the web. These detailed stats are displayed in both graphical and text  formats. I like the level of accuracy of most of the stats. The age of the website, rank and…

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Facebook has become a powerful medium to share your photographs. Even I took the plunge a few months back when I came to London. The best feature of Facebook’s photo support is the ability to tag your friends in photos. Usually, these are photos that you do not own and I am sure you’ve love to have a copy of them for your records. You could go about the long drawn way of downloading these one at a time, or you grab hold of a utility that would do the job. One such software is Pick&Zip. Pick&Zip is a totally…

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Ever see your CPU usage spiking or the occasional process eating up a bit more memory than desired? Windows Task Manager is a great tool for this, however, if you are looking for something a bit more powerful, you might want to try out Auslogics Task Manager. Auslogics Task Manager will allow you to view the applications, processes as well as services that are currently running. It provides comprehensive yet easy to understand information about running applications, processes, and services, as well as disk activity, CPU, RAM and Internet traffic usage. Features: Not only does the program display all running…

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If you have been using your USB drive for a while, you’ll soon notice that there are quite a few “junk” folders and files created. In fact this is true for most of the folders on your system. One solution is to manually sit and clean all the files. Another alternative is to use a software designed for this purpose. USBDriveFresher will keep your USB drive clean by removing unwanted files automatically and according to rules you specify. You can start off by downloading the software and installing it. The download is a bit big weighing in at ~7.4MB. You’ll…

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Sometime back I made a post on Three Tools to Recover your Deleted Items. Today I’ll cover five more free software that you could use to recover data. DiskDigger DiskDigger can recover files from any type of media that your computer can read. This includes USB flash drives, memory cards (SD, CompactFlash, Memory Stick, etc), and of course your hard drive. The types of files that it recovers includes photos, videos, music, documents, and other formats. DiskDigger works by thoroughly scanning each sector of your media for traces of files. DataRecovery DataRecovery is freeware to undelete accidentally deleted files even…

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One tool that every engineer needs is a scientific calculator. One tool that almost every student needs is a calculator. Calculators have a come a long way and Casio has done fantastic job of churning out more powerful calculators year on year. With the advent of the computer and the internet calculators have gone online. The default one that comes with Windows is extremely useful for daily use. However, if you’re looking for something more powerful, then you should check out eCalc. eCalc is a free online calculator that supports many advanced features including unit conversion, equation solving, and even…

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As a web and graphics designer there are lots of tools and software available to help one do their work. In fact, I would bet that without some of these tools that we completely take for granted, most of us web designers would be fairly miserable. Here’s a list of the 6 tools that I think every designer should have: 1) Photoshop / Dreamweaver : I wasn’t planning on listing anything that wasn’t free in this list, but no list related to web design would be complete without Adobe’s Photoshop. Dreamweaver is a program that you can live without, especially…

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