Chindogu Clock for Procrastinators (Fun Friday)
This one is for all you persons who never begin a job on time. Yes, we are all guilty of the same. One method is to set your clock faster by a few minutes.
Fun, Software, Techtites Featured, Utilities
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Creating Custom Labels in Microsoft Word 2007 (Tutorial Thursday)
Last year, as part of our admissions team duties, we were required to send out prospectus to students all over India. These ranged from a minimum of fifty envelopes to over 150 at a time. During a promotion campaign we printed around 90,000 labels!
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VLC media player (Multimedia Monday)
VLC media player is a highly portable multimedia player for various audio and video formats (MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DivX, mp3, ogg, …) as well as DVDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols. VLC media player comes with tonnes of features.
Periodic Table Quiz (Fun Friday)
This one is for all you Science buffs out there. If you are interested in testing your knowledge of the Periodic Table, you can download the Periodic Table Quiz. The quiz contains 801 questions designed to test your knowledge of the Periodic Table; the elements and their properties as well as chemistry and chemical processes.
Apple, Games, Microsoft, Techtites Featured
Gates vs. Jobs The Game (Fun Friday)
Current.com came up with the above game. Choose your player and fight your opponent with new state of the art light sabers using your mouse and arrow keys.
Disable Windows Vista Startup Sound (Tutorial Thursday)
If there is one thing I really don’t like to hear is any sound when I am starting up the computer. Windows Vista doesn’t allow you to customize the startup sound and you are stuck with the same version. Well, I chose to disable it.
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Disable annoying Vista UAC popups (Windows Wednesday)
Long back, I covered a quick method of disabling User Access Control in Windows Vista via editing the registry. Registry editing is something for advanced users only. TweakUAC is a simple tool dedicated for this purpose.
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Forumwarz (Fun Friday)
While, I’d love to write an entire article for this, it would simply spoil the fun. From the site: Forumwarz is a parody role-playing game that takes place on the Internet. In fact, Forumwarz is the Internet…
Blogging, Fun, Multimedia, Techtites Featured
Movable Type Pro with Comments (Fun Friday)
I mentioned two days back that Movable Type Pro is available for Bloggers. The August 13 release post on the Movable Type Blog announced the new features available in Movable Type Pro 4.2.
Movable Type Pro for Bloggers (Weblog Wednesday)
In an amazing attempt to fight the competition, which I believe is primarily WordPress, Movable Type is now allowing bloggers and K-12 Educational Institutions to download Movable Type Pro. The Movable Type Pro Blogger License comes with Unlimited blogs, authors and community profiles. However, support comes at a fee or $99.
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Privnote (Service Saturday)
“This message will self destruct in five seconds” runs the famous line in Mission Impossible. We definitely wouldn’t want our computers to blow up, but Privnote provides you with a service that is just like that! Privnote is a web tool that you can use to send private notes over the Internet.
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It’s a Wonderful Internet (Fun Friday)
I remember nearly ten years ago me venturing into a tiny cyber cafe in an attempt to understand what the Internet was all about, what email is and what did people mean when they said chat online. Those days, to use the internet cost a bomb with horrible dialup speeds. Well, the internet today still costs a bomb but the speeds have gotten significantly better!