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Monitor Processes on Your System with WinPatrolToGo

Posted on 02. Feb, 2010 by Sourojit.

We all know about the Task Manager utility provided by Windows, but what if you wanted to do more with it besides viewing the running applications? Here you will get a simple and complete answer.

WinPatrolToGo is a free and portable utility that can help you find all information you want about your computer whenever and wherever you want. Let’s dive right into all of the options WinPatrolToGo has to offer.

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Record Streaming Audio with PCWin Speaker Record

Posted on 26. Jan, 2010 by Aminul Islam Sajib.

Have you ever wanted to record something that you’re listening to online? Maybe you’re streaming some music or a podcast online, and you don’t have any way to download it.  You could find a mic and put it in front of your speaker and press record, but that sound quality is going to be terrible.

PCWin Speaker Record is a better solution than the mic one I just mentioned.  It’s a free program that lets you record any music, voice, sound (or noise) you hear from your speakers.

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How To Autoreconnect Dial-up Connections

Posted on 22. Jan, 2010 by Aminul Islam Sajib.

Developing countries around the world like Bangladesh, India and others are still dealing with slow Internet connections. While people from developed countries are jumping towards 100 Megabit per second Internet speeds, we still dream of 1 Mb/sec speed. At this moment, I’m surfing the net at a data transfer rate of 10 Kilobytes per second.

One of the problems with dial-up is that you can have frequent disconnections.  There are two options for enabling auto-reconnect for your dial-up connection. We will talk about both.

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Top Windows 7 Tweaks

Posted on 19. Jan, 2010 by UzEE.

Most of you may have tried Windows 7 by now, and if you’re like me, your first impression would have been “WOW!”. Windows 7 is really an impressive operating system and is worth upgrading to whether you’re running Windows XP or Windows Vista.

Even though there are a ton of new features and usability improvements in Windows 7, there is still no harm in fine tuning or enabling a couple of features that Microsoft decided to hide under the mat for one reason or the other. Tweaks are nothing new to Windows. End users have been able to tweak operating systems according to their requirements since the beginning, so you shouldn’t worry about any tweak damaging your system.

Still, I’ll be including a level indicator for an estimated technical level required to execute the tweak, with Level 0 being the easiest. As for the tweaks I’m about to share today, none of them require any tweaker utility to activate. You can access them from within Windows itself.

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Easily Reinstall All Your Programs with Ninite

Posted on 23. Nov, 2009 by Aminul Islam Sajib.

Did you just upgrade to Windows 7 or recently format your computer?  One of the most tedious parts of an upgrade or a format is going out an downloading all your favorite programs all over again.  There is a solution out there that makes this much easier.

Ninite is a free service that allows you to select your favorite software from a list and quickly download and install all of them to your computer.  There are probably services out there that would do a mass download, but the real appeal of Ninite is that it does the installing as well.  This makes reformating much less of a chore.  Let’s learn a little more about Ninite.

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FileZilla: Fast and Smooth FTP Client

Posted on 19. Nov, 2009 by Chinmoy.Kanjilal.

FTP is a very useful application service and is of prime importance for bloggers and webserver admins for transferring files to and from servers.  It is also necessary for general users to download files from FTP servers.

A good FTP application can make interactions with a server easy. Previously, we covered 5 great and free FTP clients.  FileZilla was included on that list, and we like it so much here at LostInTechnology that we felt it deserved its own post.

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Recover Disk Space with DiskMax

Posted on 09. Nov, 2009 by Chinmoy.Kanjilal.

DiskMax is a completely free Windows software developed by KoshyJohn. DiskMax, as the name suggests is primarily software to free up disk space. It uses various methods to check for Windows space hogs like temporary files, logs, installers, caches and backups and simply removes or disables them thereby leaving the users with more free space.

DiskMax boasts of having removed 15 GB of junk from some computers. I removed 3 GB of unnecessary files with it when I tried DiskMax for the first time. It has been used by over 40,000 people and has been recently updated to support Windows 7.

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FeedDemon: The Best Offline Feed Reader

Posted on 03. Nov, 2009 by Chinmoy.Kanjilal.

Reading feeds is an integral part of keeping up to date with the latest happenings on the Internet. Almost all blogs provide their users with an option to subscribe to their feeds.

Now, feeds are a powerful medium of compact knowledge, but if you start reading too many of them, you have every chance of missing out the important news on time. Reading just a few of them might make you miss out on certain other perspectives of an event. In these situations, you run into a problem either way.

Another thing that can be a challenge with feed readers is that they don’t all provide offline reading options. This isn’t a big deal for everyone, but it can be for some users.

A feed reader goes a long way in making life easier.  I have tried out a lot of feed readers but none of them could attract me as much as FeedDemon.

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