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Monthly Archives: August 2009

How to backup all the device drivers installed on your Windows PC

By Sharninder | Published: August 31, 2009
All of us have at one time or the other re-installed Windows and found out that driver required to run that one piece of hardware is not available by default in windows. And of course, if you’re like me, you wouldn’t even have the drivers CD that came with the hardware ! So, what did [...]
Posted in Windows | Tagged backup, device drivers, restore, Windows | Leave a comment

Track the time you spend on your computer with ManicTime

By Sharninder | Published: August 27, 2009
I spend a lot of time online. Really, I do. A lot more than I’d like to admit. And while I haven’t really missed a deadline for any of my projects till now, I often, at the end of the day, end up asking myself, “Where the hell did the time go ?”. And I [...]
Posted in Useful Utilities, Windows | Tagged computer-usage, productivity, reporting, time, time-tracking, Windows | Leave a comment

WinFF – a media convertor for (almost) any format

By Sharninder | Published: August 24, 2009
How many times have you come across a movie or a video clip and wished that you could put it on your iPod and watch it on the go ? Or came across a DivX encoded video and wished that you could burn it to a DVD and play it on an old style DVD [...]
Posted in Linux, Open Source, Windows | Tagged convert video, ffmpeg, iphone, ipod, winff | 1 Comment

How to download youtube videos online

By Sharninder | Published: August 20, 2009
Youtube is the biggest video sharing site on the Internet. And also, arguably, the biggest source of interesting videos on the planet. If you’re like me, you’d also want to save a copy of all the interesting videos you find on youtube and on other video sites, to your computer. That, depending on who [...]
Posted in WebApps | Tagged bookmarklet, download, download videos, download youtube videos, youtube | 1 Comment

Download manager for Firefox – DownThemAll

By Sharninder | Published: August 17, 2009
If you’ve ever had to deal with an errant internet connection while downloading a set of hefty multimedia files, you’ll know how irritating that can be. The internet keeps going down and the browser keeps trying to start your download, all over again. Even if the connection is holding up well, the Internet and [...]
Posted in Firefox | Tagged add-ons, download accelerator, download manager, Firefox, firefox extensions | Leave a comment

3 ways to search photos online for reusing on your blog

By Sharninder | Published: August 12, 2009
Searching photos online is a big PITA if you care about copyright laws and stuff. A lot of bloggers just use Google image search or Flickr to search for images to use on their blogs without really understanding the terms under which the owner of the photos has released them. Yes, photos have owners (and [...]
Posted in WebApps | Tagged creative commons, flickr, Google, reuse images online, search images online | 1 Comment

5 free online file conversion services

By Sharninder | Published: August 10, 2009
In a perfect world, every software application in the world will be able to open files created with any other application. You’d be able to create a file with whichever software you have, send it to your buddies and be sure that he/she will be able to view and edit the document in whichever [...]
Posted in WebApps | Tagged download youtube videos, file conversion, online file conversion | 3 Comments
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