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PDFill PDF Tools - Super PDF tools collection 2007-12-10 08:16:04 PDFill PDF Tools 5.0 is a toolkit which contains 12 free tools to edit or modify PDF documents. You can merge, split, convert PDF to image, add watermark, rotate and crop the PDF documents.
The PDF format become more and more popular. We read and send a lot of PDF documents daily. So, we need some applications that can add security protection to them so that we can protect them from unauthorized edit. We add watermark and encrypt them using security options. One of the application which can perform these actions is Adobe Acrobat professional. But, it cost arround USD$500, which is very expansive for personal use.
PDFill PDF Tools provide 12 easy-to-use tools so perform simple editing to PDF documents. Their feature include: Merge, Split or Reorder, Encrypt and Decrypt, Rotate and Crop, Reformat, Add Header and Footer, Watermark by Styled Text, Watermark by Image, Convert Images to PDF, Convert PDF to Images, PDF Form Field Operations and Convert PostScript File to PDF file.
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Lock your computer using USB flash drive 2007-12-08 21:12:48 Do you know that we can use our USB flash drive
as computer lock? You need a USB flash drive and a freeware called Log Monitor. This article will discuss the steps to configure them.
Log Monitor is a freeware that has many usages. I try to go to the author page but i can’t understand the language, but i think most probably the author is a Russian. After playing with this application, i found that it can actually lock our computer and prevent others to login. The theory behind this is very simple. It keep monitoring your USB flash drive, once the file being monitored changed, or you remove the USB flash drive, this application will immediately lock your computer. If you remove your USB flash drive and the login to your computer, this application will immediately lock your computer again. Unless you hold the USB flash drive, else you can’t access that computer.
Step 1
You need to create a .log file in your USB flash drive. The file name can be anything and you can left your
Filelime - Free file hosting for everyone 2007-12-08 02:03:45 Filelime is a free file hosting service which provide free 150MB spaces with 5 multiple uploads. No registration required. Filelime is among the latest website which provide file uploading and hosting service.
There are a lot of free file hosting service that you can found. From my previous posts, i introduce about SHARE, EatLime, and also top free file hosting server. Now, i would like to introduce filelime, another file hosting server which has its unique feature. They introduce upload progress bar, which will show your upload progress in real-time! This is really useful as we can estimate how long we should wait and we may also know how much is the upload speed. The screenshot for the upload progress bar is shown below:
Another attractive feature that they offer is that you will have a direct link to the file. Upon finish uploading, they will generate a file URL directly point to that file. When user press this link, they can directly download the file, without the need to key-in Read more:everyone
rssHugger - Bring blog writers and blog readers closer together 2007-12-07 06:49:27 rssHugger is a new website which can help blog readers
discover new blogs that write about topic that the readers interested. You can get your page on rssHugger for just $20 for 10 years! But, if you write an review for it, you can get it for free!
rssHugger is create by a 17 years old guy named Collin LaHay. He is running a few sites currently such as WordHugger and Mixed Market Arts. He hope to get 250,000 free blogs signed up within the first year of operation. He will use the income to support his college expenses, invest in other internet startup companies, and also Kiva, which is a non-profit organization which loans money to entrepreneurs in the developing world.
rssHugger intent to surf better than Technorati by eliminating spam through registration. Each new blog need to register and review by them. So, they will delete those unqualified blogs. You can read more information from their About page.
From my personal point of view, rssHugger is a web directory of RSS feeds. But Read more:closer
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Dr.Web CureIt - Free portable antivirus 2007-12-06 08:45:10 Dr.Web CureIt is a free antivirus and antispyware utility based on Dr.Web antivirus scanner which can scan quickly and cure any infected system. You can run CureIt immediately after download, no installation required!
Every single computer need antivirus to get rid of virus, spyware, or malware. So, it is good that if you can bring along your antivirus application and save into your USB flash drive. You can also refer my article about Prevx CSI online malware scanner which is also a portable spyware/malware scanner that use database from their online malware center.
But, not all antivirus are portable! Some need to be installed to system folder and some of them required very large space! Here come Dr.Web CureIt, a free antivirus from Russia, which required no installation and has very small file size(8MB). The 8MB application contains the most up-to-date virus database which is update frequently. It can detects and removes virus, malware, spyware, internet worms, keyloggers, malicious
Web2PDF Online - Free PDF creation widget for blog and website 2007-12-05 04:41:19 Web2PDF Online is a free web pages conversion service for bloggers that allow visitors to quickly convert articles or website
s to PDF format.
Web2PDF Online is provide by PDFOnline, a PDF Online conversion service which can convert various document format into PDF format. Now, they provide another service which let bloggers to add a widget
to their blogs, so that users can convert articles to PDF format.
You need an account before add their widget to your blog. After you create your account, you can get your widget with just 3 steps! First of all, you need to set the conversion options such as paper orientation and margin. This is shown in the screenshot below:
Tip: You can always use the “Convert a web page to PDF” textbox to convert any webpage to PDF format.
After you set the Conversion Options, hit the “Generate the Javascript” button. It will auto generate Javascript code for you to paste on you blog.
After this, copy and paste these code to your HTML do
Prevx CSI - Free online malware scanner 2007-12-04 06:26:05 Prevx CSI(Computer Security Investigator) is a free malware scanner which has fast effective scanning and real-time checking against the most comprehensive malware database in the world.
There are more than 5000 unique spyware and malware found around the world daily. Not all anti-spyware or anti-malware applications can detect these threats. Even though we update the spyware database regularly, there are still some threats which are undetected by our applications. So, some people install a few anti-spyware applications in their PC. So, why not use a online
scanner which has a large and comprehensive database?
Prevx CSI provide users online malware scanning which based on online malware database. No installation required and users can scan their PC in less than 2 minutes! After download the application, Prevx CSI can run immediately, but user need to log-in as admin and disable the UAC(User Account Control).
You can even keep Prevx CSI in your USB memory stick and scan your friends P
Gavotte Ramdisk - Free virtual hardisk 2007-12-21 07:23:36 Windows Vista has the capability to turn your USB into RAM, but Gavotte Ramdisk can turn your RAM to a virtual
hardisk! This virtual hardisk can read/write faster than a “real” hardisk!
Do you have a lot of RAM in your PC? Do you know that it can actually convert to a virtual hardisk so that it can be accessed faster than a “real”hardisk? Why i said this virtual hardisk is faster than your “real” hardisk? This is because RAM has a faster read/write speed than a hardisk. By converting part of your RAM to a virtual hardisk, you can boost up your system performance.
Ramdisk can be used to store frequently accessed but less important data, such as temporary internet files, P2P client, and compression utility. Before you use Ramdisk, you must aware that all data stored inside will be deleted once you reboot your PC, as the RAM will be refreshed once power off. So, Ramdisk is not suitable to store important data.
Gavotte Ramdisk is a free software, which i
Grab free DivX Pro serial from DivX.com 2007-12-19 12:01:20 DivX.com is giving away free DivX Pro
Codec serial number for a limited time. Take this opportunity to grab a free DivX Pro version!
Divx is one of the most popular video codec that you can find on internet. The main advantage of DivX compare with other codec is that DivX able to compress the original video file to a smaller size while maintain the quality of the video. To view or play DivX movie, you need DivX codec which is free for download.
If you would like to create DivX movie and share with your friends, you will need DivX Pro, which is $19.99. You can view the comparison within DivX free and DivX Pro. Although you can use DivX free version with other third-party software to convert your movie, but DivX Pro include DivX Pro Codec which give better quality and more converting options.
Now, DivX Pro is free for download and you will get your free serial number. This holiday download is only available for a limited time and they are giving away both Windows and Mac OS X version.
Free Entre credits for grab 2007-12-18 08:37:32 I had go through a lot of blogs which having contest about Entrecard. They are giving free Entre credits if you post an article about their contest. Two example of them are xaviermedia.com and afrogtokiss.net. They are giving free 700 Entre credits and 2000 credits respectively, but you must fulfill their requirements.
Now, i would like to announce that TechSnack.net shows appreciation towards great commentators by giving free Entre credits to them. I currently have around 500 Entre credits and i plan to give them to my commentators. For every single comment, i will give 4 Entre credits. I wish to create a Entrecard community among my readers and encourage more people to join Entrecard.
Prize: 4 Entre credits per comment.
Deadline: Contest begins December 18, 2007 and ends December 31, 2007. All Entre credits will be sent out at January 1, 2008.
Rules: Only valuable comments will be given credits. Comments such as “nice” or “i like it” will not receive any credi
2 online service to create free favorite icon 2007-12-17 06:24:51 favikon.com and favicon.cc are free services to help bloggers/web designers to create
favorite icon quickly.
favikon.com
With favikon.com, you need only 2 steps to create favorite icon. You can either upload image from your computer or paste the image URL. The maximum size for the image is 5MB. After the image is loaded, you can see your image at the right hand side and you can drag the shaded region to any part of the image which you want to use for your favorite icon. You can change the size of the region to cover more area. After it, press the Capture & Preview button and you can see a preview of your favorite icon together with its download link. The size of favorite icon is 16×16.
favicon.cc
favicon.cc slightly different with service provided by favikon.com.favicon.cc mainly focus on let its users drawing their own icon. Although favicon.cc allow user to upload image, but it not allow users to change the region. They provide a live preview once to draw or change somet Read more:online
Shareapic - Earn money when you share pictures 2007-12-16 16:20:39 Shareapic is a free image hosting website that pay you for uploading and sharing your images. You can upload unlimited pictures and there is no file size restrictions.
Similar with other image hosting service, Shareapic offer you to upload images, get an embed code and then display those images on your website or any other website such as MySpace, Blogger, Facebook, and etc. But, Shareapic do share their revenue with users. The payment will be made when you reach $20.00 and will pay directly into your PayPal account.
So, how much you earn per image view? Let’s take an example and i will show you the calculation:
Let say Shareapic want to distribute $1000 between their users and there are 5000,000 images view for that particular month. So, each image view will equal to $0.0002, which means $0.2 per 1000 images view. So, if you have a forum or blog which have lots of readers everyday, you can imagine how much can you earn per month? It is quite a bit of money, right?
Besides ear
Jimdo - Free super website creator 2007-12-15 06:54:32 Jimdo is an easy to use websitecreator
which offer a lot of strong features. By using AJAX, they help user to create pages quickly and easily.
If you are searching free website creator, then i think Jimdo will suite you. Jimdo means “Jim will do it for you”. It is a startup company in Hamburg, Germany and currently they support 4 different languages: English, France, German, and Chinese.
When you create an account, they will provide you a subdomain name, like techsnack.jimdo.com and you will found a login link at the bottom of your page. You can easily incorporate pictures from Flickr and videos from Youtube in your jimdo’s page. The screenshot below show techsnack’s jimdo page:
You can easily change your page’s layout, colors, font, backround image and background pattern. Editing the contents of the page is pretty simple. Jimdo comes with WYSIWYG editor which allow you to edit the content and switch between visual or code view. Another interesting feat
RoundPic - Create rounded-corners image online 2007-12-14 09:31:27 RoundPic ia an online
tool for users to create anti-aliased rounded-corners images. Simply upload images from computer and hit the Round it! button and you will get your rounded-corners image done!
Rounded-corners image can give users a web 2.0 design feeling. Now, you can create rounded-corners image without using any other tools. You can either upload your images from computer or paste the URL of the images. RoundPic will then generate output for you.
After uploading the images, you can set some options to them, such as Round Size, Background Color, Image Dimensions, and its Quality. You can always see the changes by pressing the Preview button. After complete editing, you can download the rounded-corners image file. You can read more information from makeuseof.com or start using RoundPic now.
Loonapix - Add frames to your photo online 2007-12-13 09:20:01 Loonpix is a free web application which can add frames to your photo. Currently, they provide up to 18 different frames for users.
Loonapix launch an image processing website which can add frames to your photos. You can upload any pictures or select any pictures from the web and add frames to them. They suggest that your picture’s size should not more than 5MB.
There are 4 frame categories for you to choose from: emotions, friends, occasions, and others. Loonapix will suggest 9 top rated frames for you. After you upload your picture, you can select any frames from there and Loonapix will generate the output. You can perform simple editing to the output picture such as scaling and moving the original picture to suit the frame.
Picture below show the result of Loopnapix towards this website:
Currently, they provide 18 different frames for users. After you generate your result, they will provide a permalink to your picture. Permalink for picture above is http://www.loonapix.com/im Read more:online
Jooce - Flash-based WebOS 2007-12-12 08:40:35 Jooce is a new, Flash
-based WebOS which provide a lot of tools and very pretty interface. They provide simple but powerful interface so that its users can feel like using their own computer.
There are a lot of WebOS around us, such as Goowy, YouOS and eyeOS. Jooce is a new WebOS compare to them. But, it has a very simple interface which focus on Communication, Playing and Sharing files between Jooce users. They even don’t provide any web browsers. This is because they want to have a different WebOS with others.
According to them, there are around 500 million people access the internet each day from a cybercafe. These users will using different computers everyday and they don’t have a system to store their files or organize their digital life. So, Jooce providing them a stable platform which mainly focus on media sharing and also let them communicate with each others.
Jooce is your private online desktop. You can organize your files, share them with your friends and even c
Clicky - Web 2.0 Analytics 2007-12-24 22:31:40 Clicky is an easy to use in-depth web analytics and statistics package. They offer tons of features which let you analyze and track almost everything your readers done!
There are a lot of web analytics program available to choose including Sitemeter, Statcounter, Google Analytics
, Mint, and even FeedBurber. Depands on your own needs, you may choose one of these services or combination of them. As i know, many blogs/websites use 2 or 3 web analytics program to track their visitors, because single program can’t fulfill their needs. So, why not choose an analytics program which offer all the features required? Here comes Clicky, a brand new Web 2.0 style web analytics program, which offer tons of features and services (although some of the features are only available for paid users).
If i show you the whole features list that Clicky offer, you may need to spend more than half an hour in this post, so i had summarize a few outstanding features that their competitors don’t have
How to create a free Flash countdown timer 2007-12-24 04:45:38 This countdown is generate by an online tool using flash. It is very simple and you can choose the text color, background color, countdown date, and also the text under the timer.
You can then set the size of the countdown timer. Here, i set my timer size to Normal. After you done all the settings, press the Generate Countdown Now button and it will give you a HTML code. Embed them into your website/blog and you can see the result immediately.
Click here to get one for yourself!
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Yamelo - Find and remember music videos 2007-12-23 03:41:18 Yamelo can help you bring back those classical music videos
from the sixties and beyond. Yamelo shows the successes music of that month of the year, from 1965 until now.
Remember that high school party? Remember your first kiss? Remember driving your first car? Some melodies are probably seamlessly connected to these moments! Yamelo brings back the memories of your musical timeline.
You can search and found your music through 3 ways. The first one is through the artists’ tag cloud. Alternately, you can type a song or artist name in the search box. The last methos is the most interesting one, which is the timeline. You can click on any month or year on the timeline, and the popular artists’s name will appear as tag cloud at right hand side. If you click on the artist’s name, you can browse his/her music videos through YouTube.
I am wondering that why they stop at 1965? Why they don’t go back further? And where they get these videos?
Things that stop me when i f
Boost your traffic with Entrecard 2007-12-22 02:18:19 There are a lot of articles that talk about Entrecard. These articles tell you what is Entrecard, how it can be used to increase your traffic
, and some of them even discuss about the quality of Entrecard traffic. But, some of my readers still not very clear about it, so i decide to write an article which mainly focus on new bloggers.
Before you continue, you must believe that Entrecard can really bring traffic for you. I assume that you already have an Entrecard account and you had read the Entrecard’s “Help”. If you don’t have an account, you can click here to register.
I had signup Entrecard about 1 week ago and i had read a lot of articles about it and try my best to gain as many as credits. I believe a lot of new Entrecard users do not know how to utilize it to boost up the traffic. So, i decide to summarize a few methods that i had used:
Visit websites that required low credits to advertise and try to leave comments to them:
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PointPic.com - Add comments to your images 2008-03-11 07:15:35 PointPic.com is a web service which can easily add comments to your images. Users are allowed to add multiple comments in a single image.
You can upload image from your computer or provide the URL of any online images. After that, you can start to add comments to them. Your comments will look like a speech [...]
Hide your unwanted windows when your boss come 2008-03-08 20:09:17 Magic Boss Key is an application which can hide active program window immediately by using a hot key.
I believe most of us will browse the net or do ur own stuffs during office hours. But, we need to be You can hide the browser windows, folder windows, applications windows, all your desktop icons and taskbar [...]
2 ways to protect your email address 2008-03-08 08:16:58 Sometimes, we want to sign up for a web service, but were hesitate to giving out our email address
because it may brought us a lot of spam mails. There are a few solution to this question.
Use a disposable email address
There are a lot of disposable email that you can choose. Guerrilla Mail and Mint [...]
Get yourself a free ajax loading bar 2008-03-07 03:31:11 ajaxload is a free service which can generate a ajax loading bar for web developers.
If you are a web developer, i believe you will need the ajax loading bar for Web 2.0 application. But, generate a ajax loading bar will take some time, if you are new to graphic design. So, you may try ajaxload, [...]
MyLiveSignature - Create your signature online 2008-03-06 04:34:42 MyLiveSignature provide a free service for users to create their signature online
, without using any external tools.
A lot of forums user will include their signature at the bottom of their posts. Some of them are simple text but some of them are well designed graphic. If you want a simple text signature with some font [...]
Spam Proof eMail Generator - Use it to avoid spam mail 2008-03-05 07:28:17 Spam Proof
eMail Generator
is a free service which will convert your email address to an image, which then allow users to embedded it in forum or website, so that spam bot can’t collect your email address when they crawl the website.
The spam bots search the websites and create mailing list to send the spam. [...]
ASCII Art Generator- Convert image to ASCII code 2008-03-04 06:30:06 There are a lot of services which play around with ASCII
code. For example, hide image behind text, convert image to ASCII code, create ASCII text, and etc. ASCII Art Generator
is a website which provide conversion of image to ASCII and text to ASCII.
In my previous article, i had introduce a service which can [...] Read more:Convert
Audiko - Create and share mobile ringtone online 2008-03-03 08:17:09 Audiko is a simple service which help you to cerate a ringtone for your favorite song and share it with other users.
There are a lot of website which provide ringtone downloads for free. Zedge is a very good example which provide video, ringtone, wallpaper, and theme download for free.
But sometimes we may want to [...] Read more:online
goWebtop - Flash based email service 2008-03-02 08:06:45 goWebtop provide a flash based email service for users. The interface is very familiar with out desktop mail client.
goWebtop beta comes with a very familiar interface, but built with flash technology. When i first log into my account, i feel that the interface is similar with my Yahoo! Mail interface. It is a Web 2.0 [...] Read more:Flash
PDFTextOnline - Free online PDF to text converter 2008-03-02 03:54:54 PDFTextOnline is a free converter
which provide PDF to text conversion. It can extract text from a PDF document and you can download the output as a zip file to your own computer.
There are a lot of desktop applications that move into web applications. One of the example is Google Docs, which let users cerate [...] Read more:online
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