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As we all know it is very easy and fast to blog with help of Microsoft’s free tool Windows Live Writer. But when it comes to formatting or reformatting operating system, there is a chance of loss of WLW data. But Now you can move securely to upgrade or format Windows, without worrying about your Windows Live Writer’s information stored. Whenever you format your PC/ Laptop, it is required to re-install Windows Live Writer, and all the previous linking database is lost. Scott has come up with a solution to this problem. He made a small program know as Windows Live Writer backup hosted at codeplex . You can download this here . Basic Requirements to run this release are- You must have .NET 3.5 SP1 installed. If you're running Vista or Win7, to run the program you will require elevated permissions(administrative). Unfortunately, this is only required for restoring a backup. Related Links :- Download dotNet | Product Home Page Related Post :- My First blog Po...

Days are gone when people rely on Internet Explorer or Mozilla Firefox. Today people want something new, something safe at which they can rely upon and something fast.   ORCA Browser is yet another powerful browser which is based on the patterns of Mozilla Firefox but far more better than Firefox. Not only does Orca Browser contains all the features, such as security, low memory usage, spell-checker, built-in download manager, etc. from a typical Gecko based browser, it also improves the speed, adds built-in features like an AD Blocker, Flash Blocker, Online Profile Storage, auto Form-Filler, and a Outlook-Style RSS Reader. The auto Form-Filler helps to memorize or fill different types of web forms and passwords. It can also protect them with a master security password. Online Profile Storage allows users to create their own account. With their username and password, users can choose to save or access their personal data such as bookmarks, Auto Fills, and RSS feeds remotely from ...

All of us like to play games, but this game is somewhat different. NUMPTY PHYSICS will check all your physics concepts in a geeky way. This crayon type game will not only make you enjoy the different levels but also test the practicality of your physics concepts. The amazing features of this game are Amazingly small size Available for all operating systems No installation It’s your geek test …………. To go through the NUMPTY PHYSICS site, click here RELATED LINKS : Play Games in Google Talk Play Console based games online Indian Political Games Free Mobile Games and Applications

Now, you can keep a strict watch, where your Image is being used in Web World. Idee Inc. created world’s first reverse image search engine to get your image identified. It can also identify your Image even if there are slight modifications from original image. Idd Inc. created TinEye , which provides this Image search for free. You can upload an Image to start your search or you can also specify URL of that image .  Moreover, if you are on iPhone then you can click a photo from your mobile and start searching. TinEye also allows searching through bookmarklet, you can add bookmarklet below to search Images on given page for its copies on internet. Drag this bookmarklet to your bookmarks toolbar for fast and easy use. You can also add TinEye search Engine to your Firefox or IE web browser by adding Firefox and IE add-ons . For more info about plug-in visit Tineye . Related Links :- TinEye | TinEye Firefox Addon Related Posts:- Google Labs Adds Similar Imag...

Google Talk service by Google is still running in beta phase, and now they’ve released Google talk real-time gadgets API . This API comes with some cool examples, like playing games and language translation, etc. If you are a developer, you can also contribute to this API by visiting here . I like playing chess and I found it there on Google talk real-time gadgets API, and that was amazing….Now, I play chess with my friends on Google Talk . If you also want to play chess or the rock-paper-scissors game, then just follow these steps- Go to Google Talk Sand box After Signing in, start chat with your friend Go to Options, click “Start Application”, and paste following address for respective games . Chess http://code.google.com/apis/talk/examples/chess.xml RPS http://code.google.com/apis/talk/examples/rps.xml Translate http://code.google.com...

This applications is for lazy people( even I too come in this category ), those who don’t have much time to take care of their account. TweetLater will automate your twitter experience and relieve you from a lot of burden. This application will make you to automatically Send a custom welcome message to those who follow you . Automatically follow those who follow you. Automatically Un-follow those who un-follow you. Automatically send you a summary of all the mails you received in your twitter account. To do this , just sign up to TweetLater and create a free account. The site also offers a premium account ( but much of your task is over with your free account ). How It Works: When you add your account, you won't see any new followers being processed for eight hours. New followers mean folks who've followed you since the last time they took a snapshot of your list of followers. They take the first snapshot when you...

  Maxthon is yet another browser which is basically aimed at developers of the Web 2.0 using windows hosting and other similar services . Although it might not look very attractive at first look, yet it can perform a number of geek tasks that a web guru requires. Maxthon Browser is a powerful tabbed browser built for all users. Besides basic browsing functionality, Maxthon Browser provides a rich set of features to improve your surfing experience. The main features which attracted me are : Utilities You can add shortcuts of your programs in Maxthon, and start them with a single click. You can even set programs to start and shutdown with Maxthon Browser. Ad Hunter Ad Hunter can efficiently clean up the web pages by stopping Popup Windows and removing Ad Content Blocks. You can add content block to the filter with the "Block Page Content..." command in the Right-click Menu. Web Sniffer Web Sniffer can help you find the real URLs of FLV video file on t...

Windows error reporting is made to support Microsoft to improve the bugs found in OS, but sometimes this error reporting causes annoyance. This problem I was facing for last so many days…, getting error report message whenever I exit from my favorite DOS based game Dave . It also happens with some soft wares too…. So, I got to remove this and used my ultimate tool “Google Search” I found that there are two methods of removing the Annoyance caused by error reporting, the one is Registry Editing Based (Advanced Method), and other is Non Registry based (Easy Method). I’ll explain the easy method first- Right click on My Computer Icon on desktop. Click Properties . Click on Advanced Tab in System Properties page. Then click on Error Reporting . Select Disable Error Reporting to Disable it Do not select notify for critical errors if you do not want to see error reporting message, ever again… Other method of getting rid of this Windows Error Repo...

From Saturday, June 13th, you will be getting a unique usernames just like other sites such as LinkedIn . This will help others to find you easily on Google or other search engines. Earlier the profile is identified by the unique number that it has at the end of the url of the pages you visit. The URL was just a randomly assigned number like "id=592952074." That soon will change. When your friends, family members or co-workers visit your profile or Pages on Facebook, they will be able to enter your username as part of the URL in their browser. This way people will have an easy-to-remember way to find you.     Facebook usernames will be available in basic text forms, and you can only choose a single username for your profile and for each of the Pages that you administer. Your username must be at least five characters in length and only include alphanumeric characters (A-Z, 0-9), or a period or full stop ("."). While usernames are currently available ...

I am using windows operating system for last decade and also sometime install Linux based distributions for testing purposes, this time I’ve found something really amazing to test operating system on my PC, and this amazing thing is React OS. It is Windows NT based open-source operating system, which supports Windows binary (exe) to run in it. React OS is still under heavy development and is in alpha stage of development. The developers itself recommend not to use for daily purposes, till some more improvements are made; but if you are a computer geek and love to try out different OS, then you may give it a try. You can download React OS by various means- Download React OS as Installation CD, Live CD You can also run it virtualized using VMware virtual machine or QMenu You can also get the source code of React OS You can get to downloads page of React OS at here . Please give your valuable reviews about this OS in comments section. Related Links :- React OS | Rea...

“ Because newer is not always better “ as quoted by OldVersion , is ofcourse a true saying that no one can deny. Sometimes our computer is not compatible with the new version that is available or sometimes the newer versions make our machine slow. OldVersion has make the way for this problem. The site has a collections of all the versions since 2001 with a large number of categories that include applications related to communication, graphics, multimedia, internet, file sharing, utilities, security, ftp and enterprise. OldVersion.com assists computer users who are unable to continually upgrade their computer. Those who find that their machine is not able to run the latest version of a certain application have no choice but to use an old version of the program. Unfortunately, the vast majority of software companies do not offer this opportunity. They are doing our small part to help bridge the digital divide by allowing everyone to enjoy the same software titles regardless ...

I keep formatting my computer in every 2-3 weeks to keep the speed of my PC up, but the greatest disadvantage of this practice is that it causes me to install same essential softwares, every time I freshly install Windows on my PC. So, I found out a solution to my problem, which is use of Portable applications. Now I tend to use maximum number of portable applications, which reduces the time taken in installation, and hence make me more productive. I think its just my motherboard drivers which are not portable for me, but everything else is Portable . It is very easy to create Portable version of any application using VMWare ThinInstall or VMWare ThinApp. I create independent software package using this and run them without installation. Other advantage is that, applications made by Thinapp does not require administrator privileges to run,  and it does not effect system files as well. This application is very light weight, less than 6 MB setup and comes with 60 days evaluation ...

Days are gone when people used to carry huge software's to burn the CDs . Small and handy software's are the need of the hour today. A portable application (portable app) is a computer software program that runs from a removable storage device such as a CD-ROM drive, USB flash drive, flash card, or floppy disk. This post will provide you some of the portable CD burners that you can carry with you in any portable device because of their small size. InfraRecoder : InfraRecorder is a free CD/DVD burning solution for Microsoft Windows. It offers a wide range of powerful features; all through an easy to use application interface and Windows Explorer integration. Active@ ISO Burner 2.0 : Active@ ISO Burner 2.0 is a simple-to-use dialog-style software to burn CD/DVD/Blue Ray ISO images compatible with the ISO 9660 standard. Automated burning is also supported. Burrrn : Burrrn is a little tool for creating audio CDs with CD-Text from various audio files. Supported f...

Now you can have an experience of having a custom domain name associated with your blogger account, just for free. You will be getting DNS management tools to manage your domain settings and have an experience of it before buying a .com domain.  There are two ways to associate your co.cc account with blogger blog, one is by URL forwarding, (a beginner lever approach) and other is advanced level approach (used to map BlogSpot domain to your custom domain). To do this sign up at www.co.cc , and get a free domain Easy Method Login to your co.cc account, click manage domain on left side, and chose third option of URL forwarding and enter the URL where you want your co.cc domain to be redirected. Effortful method This method is little effortful than above one, but it will give better results, as this will make sure that search results you get, will be in form of domain you have mapped. Just add following zone records to your account instead of URL ...

Now you can easily create free mobile version of your website or blog using a service known as MoFuse . This service easily converts your blogger blog or wordpress blog to their mobile version, along with many other features too. I’ve also created my blog’s mobile version using this service only. You can checkout the mobile version of Chill Geeks at http://m.chillgeeks.com or at http://chillgeeks.mofuse.mobi             To create a mobile version of your blog, you need to have feeds enabled. This service fetches feeds and rephrase them in mobile version. Just follow the following steps to get your own mobile site. Open www.mofuse.com select MoFuse premium service or select MoFuse for Blog, for your blog. Just enter your blog’s URL and click Mobilize!   Enter the details for your web blog or web site, and you will be signed up for this service. You will get mobile version of your site at [ your choice ].mofuse.mobi ...

India’s largest job providing company has added yet another powerful system to their profile which is receiving large amount of appreciations from its user. now you can search for jobs on gtalk. Just add jobs@chat.naukri.com in your gtalk and you can easily find any number of jobs you desire. With this facility you can even search jobs at your company place where naukri.com is blocked. What are the benefits of using NaukriOnChat? You can Search and Apply to jobs directly while chatting on Gtalk, without having to visit the Naukri.com website You can hunt jobs at Naukri.com even on slow internet connections . To get more information. just click here Related Topics Chat on Mobile Using GPRS Check if User is Offline or Invisible in Gtalk   Google Talk Bots

This post will give you the best applications for students that are available on internet which will help them not only to boost their academic career but also their social network. For making the stuff look easy, I have divided the whole into 3 main categories. ONLINE DOCUMENTATION Google Docs These are a part of Google’s SaaS (Software as a Service) version of MS Office. Documents, Spreadsheets, forms and presentations can be created within the application itself, imported through the web interface, or sent via email. They can also be saved to the user's computer in a variety of formats (OpenOffice, HTML, PDF, RTF, Text, Word). By default, they are saved to the Google servers. But they have some limitations too: The files can only be downloaded or uploaded once at a time A user can have a total of 5,000 documents and presentations, 5,000 images, 1,000 spreadsheets, and 100...

If you are found of playing T.V. based Nintendo console cassette games on your computer then, you must check out the services offered by PlayNes and Nintendo8 . These sites offer you to play Nintendo games online without a need of installing any Emulator to your computer. So, this gives an advantage to Linux or Mac users, for which there are less number of Emulators available. I enjoy playing console based games online when I get free time, these games are light on system resources and have good background music. Some of the NES based games, which I like the most are- Contra 2 Super Mario 1942 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles An updated version of Java is required to play above games, you can download Java Runtime Environment from official site of java here . Just select your operating system and install JRE to play NES based games. You can also save the state of game and can play it latter on at PlayNES. Nintendo8 provides a wide variety ...

Quite often we want to chat with our friends using our webcam but we all end up with one of our friends doesn’t have the option to video chat inspite of having a web cam. To solve this problem, we will provide you with some of the easily accessible solutions that are available free of cost. Disposable video chats are getting popular among facebook age youngsters that want to chat secretly over the internet. The main features of these video chats are that they are disposable. They do not store any of your data so that you can have utmost privacy. Here is the list of the sites along with their description that provide free of cost video chats: BoostCam : Easy to use, with no plug-ins, sign-ups required, BoostCam provides a simple solution for two way video chats. The site will generate a unique url every time a user click on the “ start chat now “ button. But the main feature in which this site is lacking is that it could accommodate only two persons at a time. ...

Yes that is the good news we all have been waiting for. We have purchased a domain from GoDaddy which will give a new life to our blog………ooops our site. We want to thank all our readers who gave their tremendous support. These are the reasons why we opt for purchasing a domain rather than relying on the default the “  blogspot.com “ : Go Hi-Tech received a large number of visitors. The total number of visitors crossed the 10,000 mark and the total number of page views is around 18,000. The blog was receiving a large number of unique visitors everyday. Go Hi-Tech has seen a tremendous amount of increase in the last few months. The name of our blog was not attractive. The “ – “ included in the url of the blog was making it not so apt for the SEO. Go Hi-Tech has the page rank of 2 out of 10 and that was acheived in a short interval of time. ChillGeeks.com is attractive, catchy and easy to remember name which help the site to reach new heights. The name is ...