3outube – easiest way (yet) to download youtube videos
Feb 24th
No longer do you need to use a flashy add-on. No longer do you need to copy the youtube URL and paste it in a text box for a download link. Just replace the y in youtube in the address bar with 3 and press enter. You go to a new page with download links [...]
Screen capture to animated Gif using Cropper [How to]
Feb 21st
Cropper is a very handy free screen capture utility. It can be used to capture a part of the screen, and create an animated gif such as this one below: You can download Cropper from the Codeplex site. After installing Cropper, head over to the Cropper plugins site and download the AnimatedGif plugin. Extract [...]
Set a profile as default in Firefox [How to]
Feb 17th
If you use multiple Firefox profiles you might want to set one of them as the default profile to open links that you click on, for example, in a Google chat conversation or in an Outlook Express email. Here’s how you can set any Firefox profile as the default profile to handle all such clicks. [...]
Alias in windows command line MS-DOS [How to]
Feb 13th
Windows command line does not have a bash equivalent of .bashrc file to create aliases. If you want to create aliases so that you can use, for example, ls instead of dir in the MS-DOS command line to view directory listing, read on. First we’ll create a bat file with all the aliases as doskey [...]
Turn Off Monitor AND Lock Windows with one click
Feb 6th
I use the Turn Off LCD utility from RedmondPie.com to turn off my laptop’s display whenever I want. But if you want it to turn off the monitor AND lock Windows too, you can create a small batch file to do both. Open notepad and create a .bat file with the following in it: rundll32.exe [...]
