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How to backup your Windows Live Mail emails

kuanhoong — Mon, 31 May 2010 11:35:12 +0000

Windows Live Mail is an application that is part of Windows Live, a collection of Microsoft tools that are available to extend the Windows operating system. If you are a Window Live Mail user, then the Windows Mail Saver is the software for you. Basically it is a backup and synchronization tool for Microsoft Windows Mail software.

In a nutshell, Windows Mail Saver software allows you to backup and restore any components of Windows Mail: email messages with attachments, Windows Address Book, mail and news accounts, custom signatures, Windows Mail settings, Internet favorites, and subscribed RSS feeds.

Download Windows Mail Saver to your computer

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Antenna : Listen to Radio Stations Online

kuanhoong — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 13:56:21 +0000

Antenna is an Adobe AIR application that allows you to listen online radio stations. With Antenna, you can discover and listen to a vast list of stations combined with a map interface. Currently there are more than 480 radio stations. Besides that you can also switch between thousands of stations effortlessly.

Another great feature of Antenna is the ability to search your favorite radio station by country or genre, or just by clicking on a location on the map. Antenna allows you have a history of recently-listened stations and last but not least, you can even rate radio stations that you like and return to them easily later.

Download and install Antenna [requires Adobe AIR]

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Google Buzz Desktop, Adobe AIR application

kuanhoong — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 01:56:00 +0000

This is a good application for Google Buzz users. If you are hook with Google Buzz and do not like hang around inside Gmail to access your Google Buzz, then you may want to try out the Google Buzz Desktop, Adobe AIR application.

It is a standalone Adobe AIR application which has functions similar to Facebook or Twitter desktop application. Basically, this application fetches Google Buzz updates every 2 minutes.

Download from here if you are interested.

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StayFocusd : Chrome Extension that helps you to stay focused on your work

kuanhoong — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 04:03:39 +0000

If you are always distracted from your work by wasting too much time online then StayFocusd is the Chrome Extension that you really need.

StayFocusd is a productivity extension for Google Chrome that helps you stay focused on work by restricting the amount of time you can spend browsing time-wasting websites. Once your allotted time for the day has been used up, the sites you have blocked will be inaccessible for the rest of the day.

StayFocusd is highly configurable. It allows you to block or allow entire sites, specific subdomains, specific paths, or even specific pages. Nice!

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MailBrowser – Easily Manage Your Gmail Contacts and Attachments Offline

kuanhoong — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 09:11:32 +0000

MailBrowser is a free Gmail Plugin that helps you easily manage your contacts and attachments.

MailBrowser consists of two components. One is the desktop application that downloads all your mails and contacts to your hard-disk. The other is the sidebar for browsers. The sidebar fetches the relevant information when you are reading your mails. The sidebar is the primary UI for MailBrowser.

With MailBrowser, you can browse your contacts & attachments through the MailBrowser Sidebar even when you don’t have an Internet connection. Besides that, you can also directly go to the folder where the attachments are stored. All attachments are arranged according to the sender.

Download MailBrowser.

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How to add a Recycle Bin to Your Portable Flash Drives

kuanhoong — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 13:57:54 +0000

One of the disadvantages of using portable flash drive is the inability to retrieve deleted files from the recycle bin. However, with iBin, it is now possible to add a recycle bin to your portable flash drive.

iBin is a small and stand-alone portable application. To begin, download and place it on your flash drive and run it to create the iBin folder. This will be your portable recycle bin that will store all your deleted files. You may configure a larger flash drive with a lot of files. In a nutshell, iBin will indexe the entire drive to build a list of files it should protect and send to the recycle bin.

Download iBin.

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Firesizer : Firefox Add-on that allows you resize the window to specific dimensions.

kuanhoong — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 12:58:02 +0000

Firesizer 1.0 is a Firefox Browser Add-on that allows you resize your window size to specific dimensions.

Firesizer provides a menu and status bar to resize the window dimensions to a specific size. Unlike other similar extensions, this one sets the size of the *entire window*, not just the HTML area.

Download Firesizer 1.0

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How remove passwords and restrictions from your PDF files

kuanhoong — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 08:12:50 +0000

Often you may receive PDF document that may have passwords and restrictions for printing or copying. FreeMyPDF is a web service that allows you to remove all this restrictions.

FreeMyPDF only works for PDFs that you can open and read without any 3rd party plugins. For PDF documents that require a password to be viewed cannot be unlocked by this service.

Last note, you should not use this service for illegal purposes as you know you are not suppose to do so.

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TrueCrypt – Free Open-Source On-The-Fly Disk Encryption Software

kuanhoong — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 12:52:46 +0000

If you would like to keep all your files or folders secured, you can try out TrueCrypt. It is a free open-source disk encryption software that can be installed on almost all operating systems out there i.e. Windows 7, Vista/XP, Mac OS X, and Linux Main.

Basically. TrueCrypt protects users by offering powerful data protection, recommending complex passwords, explaining the benefits of hidden volumes, and erasing telltale signs of the encryption process, including mouse movements and keystrokes

Main Features of TrueCrypt are:

Creates a virtual encrypted disk within a file and mounts it as a real disk.
Encrypts an entire partition or storage device such as USB flash drive or hard drive.
Encrypts a partition or drive where Windows is installed (pre-boot authentication).
Encryption is automatic, real-time (on-the-fly) and transparent.
Parallelization and pipelining allow data to be read and written as fast as if the drive was not encrypted.
Provides plausible deniability, in case an adversary forces you to reveal the password:
Hidden volume (steganography) and hidden operating system.
Encryption algorithms: AES-256, Serpent, and Twofish.

Download TrueCrypt from here.

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Googsystray – System tray app for all Google Apps

kuanhoong — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 09:52:00 +0000

Googsystray is a system tray app for all your Google applications i.e. Google Voice, GMail, Google Calendar, Google Reader, and Google Wave.

With Googsystray, you will be able to keep track of all the latest updates of your Google apps without having to constantly signing in to the websites and checking them. Googsystray provides notification on new messages, alerts and many more.

Googsystray will run on Win2k/XP/etc with no dependencies (self-installing executable), and any Linux distribution with Python and pygtk installed.

Download Googsystray:

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