URL Snooper – Download Any Media you can see in your Browser

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URL Snooper is a great tool that can sniff URLs hidden behind Javascript or ActiveX scripts. It can be used for many purpose one of which is to get the hidden URLs for streaming video and audio files so they can be downloaded locally. URL Snooper is basically a packet sniffing program that uses the excellent free WinPcap network sniffing driver. You just need to click on the “Sniff Network” before launching the page that contains the multimedia files you want to download.

This is an extremely powerful tool, if you master its different uses. Note that getting the URL you want will involve a bit of luck and some guesswork. Once you have found the URL, you will need a download manager for downloading. You can check out the Flash tutorial for some more insight about how it works.

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Filed Under: Audio/Video, Internet, Software Review, Tips and Tricks, Utilities, Vista, Windows

WinToFlash Turns Windows Installation Disk into a USB Disk Based Installer

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Drone_4 In the article “How To Install Windows 7 Using USB Flash Drive Faster“, I showed you the manual way to prepare an USB disk for installing Windows using it. Though the steps were simple but involved the risk of selecting and formatting the wrong drive altogether. Today, I found a software tool that will automate the whole process of preparing the USB disk as a bootable media for installing any version of Windows. Also using this tool will be less risky. You don’t need to worry if the DVD drive cannot read the disc or if the Windows 7 installation disk is corrupted due to any scratches. It is also more convenient to carry around your USB flash drive rather than a DVD disc. Also, now a lot of new compact small laptops or desktops doesn’t even have an optical drive.

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Filed Under: Tips and Tricks, Utilities, Vista, Windows, Windows 7

Use OfficeTab and add Tabs to Microsoft Office Applications

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OfficeTab (Translated Page) is an add-on for Microsoft Office, it includes three components: WordTab, ExcelTab and PowerPointTab, which are as the name suggests is for Word, Excel and PowerPoint respectively, so you can save screen real estate and switch between documents, sheets or presentations more easily. The major function of this add-on is to add a tab-bar similar to that found in browsers today. It is compatible with both Office 2003 and Office 2007 on XP, Vista or Windows 7.

In a nut shell OfficeTab enables you to open multiple documents within one Office window without cramming up your taskbar. Although Windows 7 seems to have solve this problem. You can easily switch back and forth between the document or even view them side by side within one window.

Using Office Tabs, you can save a lot of space and also can easily switch back and forth between the document or even view them side by side within one window. You can open a new tab the same way you would in Mozilla Firefox, that is by simply double-clicking the area where the new tab would appear. This is developed by a Chinese developer so it supports both Chinese and English version of Office.

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Filed Under: Microsoft Office, Productivity/ Organization, Vista, Windows, Windows 7

Browser Chooser Gives Flexibility To Choose What Browser To Use For Any Given Task

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Almost every user now-a-days likes to keep installed the major browsers like Firefox, Chrome, Opera, Safari, Internet Explorer, etc. on their computers. The reason for this is the different choices and features that you get from these browsers.

Its great having them all installed but the problem with any Operating system as such Windows is, it only allows us to keep only one browser as the default one. So, if you are trying to open a saved page or an application launches a link, it will open up in the default browser, no matter if you wanted it to open in a different browser.

If you’re a web developer, and you need to test your site in several different browsers, having a quick way to switch between them is even more useful. Even if you are a general user and switches browsers according to the needs will like to have the flexibility of changing the browser instead of only opening the default browser. [Read more...]

Filed Under: Browsers, Utilities, Vista, Windows, Windows 7

Troubleshoot Windows Blue Screen of Death

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The most frustrating experience while using Windows is the random restarts in case of any errors. It gets bad when we don’t even get any chance to see or verify whats wrong and troubleshoot Windows. Windows Blue Screen of Death (BSOD) displays some information regarding the cause of these random reboots but since Windows is configured to restart automatically in case of a BSOD we can’t view the error message. Here’s a simple tip to disable automatic restart in case of a BSOD and help troubleshoot the error. This tip can be used for all versions of Windows XP and above.

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Filed Under: Tips and Tricks, Vista, Windows, Windows 7

How to Add Copy To or Move To on Windows 7 or Windows Vista Right-Click Menu

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Simply import the registry files present in the archive to add a Copy To Folder… or Move To Folder… to the right-click menu of Windows 7 or Windows Vista, which can be very useful when you want to move a file but don’t have the other folder open already.

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How to add Copy To Folder or Move To Folder to the right-click menu?
You Just download, unzip, and double-click on the included registry files.

[ Download Copy To Folder or Move To Folder Registry Hack ]

Filed Under: Vista, Windows, Windows 7