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Free Remote Desktop Sharing with CrossLoop

Posted on 01. Feb, 2010 by Prasanth Chandra.

When I say “desktop sharing program”, it surely leaves an impression of a complex program which only highly skilled computer professionals can handle. CrossLoop is a free remote desktop sharing program that is amazingly simple, so no matter how much computer knowledge you have, this program will be easy to use.

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5 Great and Unknown Google Products

Posted on 27. Jan, 2010 by Prasanth Chandra.

Google has made one’s life on Internet easier. Whether I’m talking about the million pound gorilla, Google Search Engine or Gmail, Google Documents, Google Reader, Picasa, or Google Calendar, each of these products plays a huge a role in our daily lives.

Google lets us discover new things, send mails, organize our stuff, share pictures, and much more. That’s just covers the mainstream Google products.  Google is always experimenting and trying out new things. If I ask you to name all the Google products, you will probably miss several of their lesser know products.  This article is going to tell you about 5 great Google services that aren’t very well known.

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How to Make a Favicon

Posted on 15. Jan, 2010 by Prasanth Chandra.

The term Favicon stands for “Favorites Icon”. When you open a web site in a web browser, you will be able to see a small image on the address bar before the web site address, that particular image is called a Favicon.

For most users, Favicons are useful in identifing a particular site in a group of flooded bookmarks. And in the view of a web site or blog owner, a favicon has the potential to let your website stand out in a bookmark list.

This post is going to show you how to quickly create a favicon for your blog or website.

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Recover Office and Windows Product Keys with ProduKey

Posted on 17. Dec, 2009 by Prasanth Chandra.

Initially, I used a text file to store my Windows and Office product keys.  This made it very easy to keep up with these keys in case I ever needed to reinstall those program, but if I was to ever accidentally delete this file or it got corrupted, I would not be able to reinstall any of my software.  This was a little concerning.

Produkey offers a solution to this problem.  It is a free program which is designed to help you find certain CD or product keys on your computer.

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Share and Discover Presentations Online with SlideShare

Posted on 16. Dec, 2009 by Prasanth Chandra.

Everyone knows that YouTube is a great video service, but most people don’t know that the same model YouTube uses has been applied to presentations.  You can see this model in action at SlideShare.  SlideShare is a web application which is designed to make it easy to upload and share your best presentations.

Features offered by SlideShare are so beneficial that it has become a major online tool used my business men and lecturers to give and show off their sales pitches and presentations, respectively. The reason for this is that SlidShare sees over  17 million people use the service every month.

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Top 3 PayPal Alternatives

Posted on 09. Dec, 2009 by Prasanth Chandra.

PayPal is an e-commerce service which facilitates money transactions on the Internet.  You can sync your PayPal account with your debit card, credit card or bank account.  There are varying options about PayPal.  Some users love it, and some love to hate it.

If you are one of those people who do not like PayPal and are looking for a trusted alternative, this list will surely help you out. Below are some the best alternatives for PayPal.

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Retrieve Data from Damaged Hard Drives, CDs and DVDs with Unstoppable Copier

Posted on 04. Dec, 2009 by Prasanth Chandra.

There are lots of frustrations involved when migrating from one hard drive to another. Many of us while moving or recovering system files or huge amounts of data from one local drive to another run into some type of damaged file.  This is amazingly frustrating, because one little error can prevent you from getting lots of your data.

Unstoppable Copier is an open source software which retrieves the data from your hard disk or CD/DVD  with bad sectors, badly damaged disks and/or boot sector failures.

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Watch Videos in the Background with Double Vision

Posted on 17. Nov, 2009 by Prasanth Chandra.

If you are watching a YouTube video or a movie and you need to do some important work  at the same time, what would you do? You can’t do both at the same time. Or can you? Double Vision makes it possible.  Using this amazing software, you can watch videos in the background while doing any kind of work be it editing your documents or browsing websites.

Let us look at the different features of Double Vision.

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