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How to Play Video Files Having Ordered Chapters

January 14th, 2012 No comments

If you are an anime fan and download mini encoded mkv files for watching anime series, then you have probably encountered this format called Ordered Chapters. So basically the uploading team will cut the opening and ending themes of the anime to two separate files. These two will be common for all the main episode files and should be placed in the same folder. That way the file size of the main anime episodes will be significantly less and it will be quicker to upload and download and will save some bandwidth.

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How to Delete Unsent Skype Messages When Recipient is Still Offline

November 6th, 2011 No comments

I have done this thing quite a few times. But the thing is the users whom I sent the Skype message by mistake used to be online at the same time and I couldn’t do anything before the message got delivered. But few days back I was on Skype and my mouse betrayed me! I clicked on someone’s profile and just dragged it to some other Skype contact! So basically I just shared the contact details with the second guy. Though they already knew each other and in each other’s contact list in Skype, I had some spare time and as the user was offline I thought there must be some way if I want to clear this mess :)

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Solve Unable to connect to the proxy server Error in Google Chrome

July 21st, 2011 3 comments

I was planning to write this post for several days now as I faced this problem personally. And today finally I have found the enthusiasm. So few weeks back when I tried to open a website in my Google Chrome, I couldn’t open a single link. It showed the message:

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Skipscreen For Google Chrome Officially Launched

May 21st, 2011 No comments

If you are looking into this post, I guess you will probably know what SkipScreen add-on does for Firefox. And like most of us you were waiting for a similiar extension in Google Chrome. So the wait is finally over. http://godownloadsongs.com has launched a version of this free add-on for Chrome just a few days ago. Currently it supports free file hosting sites like Rapidshare, Megaupload and zShare. Yesterday I installed it and checked with Megaupload and it worked just like it would in Firefox.

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Directly Send Screenshot From Skype Without Storing Image Locally

April 13th, 2011 No comments

Today I discovered this cool feature in Skype. Generally, when you want to take a screenshot in Windows you use Print Screen button. It copies the image in clipboard and then you have to save it to some image editing software like MS-Paint. After that you can use it as you wish or send the image to someone. But if you are using Skype to send a screenshot to your contact, you can skip that saving image part. Just do a Print Screen and go to your Skype chat window. Do a CTRL+V or right click there and paste it. Skype will directly convert it to a PNG image from the clipboard and now you can send it to your buddy :)

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How to Check if Someone is Invisible in Gtalk

January 25th, 2011 3 comments

I will share a quick trick to check whether your Gtalk buddy is really offline or has gone invisible.

  • Click on the contact you want to confirm as invisible or offline.
  • Click on the Options on the top right corner of the chat window and select “Go off the record”.

  • Now type any message and send it.
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Increase Cell Size to Accommodate Text in Excel Sheet

January 24th, 2011 No comments

I just stumbled into this problem yesterday. I had to print out an excel sheet, but a column had small cell size for a few  values that I wanted to enter. So the text got hidden for a few cells. I wanted to increase size of those individual cells so that they could accommodate the text properly.

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Best Free Download Manager That You Can Get Online

December 13th, 2010 1 comment

Yeah! It is the best free download manager that I have used and certainly most popular. If you don’t want to spend money to buy Download Accelerator Plus which is the most popular paid one, then it is a pretty good free alternative. It follows the same logic of splitting up your file in sections and download them simultaneously, thus making your download faster. And it supports resume broken downloads too. Basically most of the download accelerators use the same basic logic of splitting your files whether they are paid or free ones. But what stands apart for FDM is its clean interface. If you install it you will know.

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Get TuneUp Utilities 2009 Full Version For Free

November 23rd, 2010 No comments

I have tried several system utility softwares three or fours back while I was still studying. And, frankly speaking TuneUp Utilities was my favourite :)

Now when Tune Up has just released TuneUp Utilities 2011, I have found a promo offer from their German site that can give you legal valid license key for TuneUp Utilities 2009.

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Fully Functional Word to PDF Converter Free, Grab It Before Offer Expires

October 13th, 2010 No comments

Today I just stumbled onto this cool offer where you can get this Word to PDF converter for free. It is called PDFTiger and without this promotional offer you have to buy it for $39.95. It not only converts Word to and from PDF, but there is a bunch of other formats also that you can convert from and to PDF. It would be better for me to quote them. They summed it up pretty concisely :)

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