Tiny bytes of tech
FotoMix is a cool little program (which is free) that lets you manipulate photos in interesting ways. For example, you can remove, add or alter background easily. You can cutout people from one photo and add them to some other scenery. It’s a nice tool to create some quick photo collages or montages.
SEO Analyzer is a neat desktop app that lets you do some quick SEO analysis for your website. The tool currently provides information such as the Page Rank for the input URL, all backlinks to the input site URL, determines whether the backlink uses rel=”nofollow” or not, gets the Page Rank for the back linking websites and gets your ranking on Google, Yahoo and Bing for desired keywords.
SEO Analyzer via NirmalTV
Ever want to remap some of the keys on your keyboard? OkayKeebees is a freeware utility that lets you either always replace one key with another only when pressing a modifier key first. You can use this program to effectively move keys to the other side of the keyboard or disable keys altogether.
Windows 7 has a cool feature called Desktop Background Slideshow that automatically rotates the wallpaper on your desktop after a fixed period of time that you set.
You can get this same type of feature in Windows XP using the PowerToys Wallpaper Changer, which is part oft he Creativity Fun Pack. Just select the folder with the image and the program will automatically display a slideshow of the pictures. Neat!
Do you watch a lot of TV? If so, you might be interested in a neat little app called TV-Browser. It’s a cross-platform TV guide that can download TV programming schedules from more than 900 TV stations, including cable and satellite channels.
What’s cool is that you can setup reminders, add programs to your calendar of choice (Google Calendar, Outlook, etc), create favorites, view by genre, and even set programs to record if you have a TV tuner on your PC.
Microsoft recently released Security Essentials as a free download for Windows XP, Vista and 7. It is a free anti-virus and spyware removal program and in recent tests against other anti-virus software, it’s been rated as one of the best malware removal tools! Cool!
Anti-virus comparisons – Microsoft Security Essentials Download
Windows Live SkyDrive is a free service from Microsoft that lets you store files online, up to 25 GB. It’s quite a bit of free space and now you can access it from Windows Explorer.
SkyDrive Explorer is a free extension for Windows that lets you drag and drop files to the online drive as if it were a local drive. You can also view file information like size, create date, type, etc. Sweet!
Do you have an important CD or DVD that has been scratched and no longer being read properly by your computer? Or maybe you have a RW CD/DVD that you accidentally overwrote?
DataMiner is a free program that can help you recover data from damaged or scratched CDs and DVDs. It can recognize tons of files like BMP, PDF, PSD, EXE, MDB, and more.
Ditto is an open-source clipboard manager for Windows that allows you to store multiple items at once. By default, Windows only stores the last copied item in the clipboard.
With Ditto, you can store text, images, HTML and even formatted text. It’s fast and has a very small memory footprint. Also, you can keep clipboards in sync across computers! Neat!
Lookout is a free extension that allows you to search your Outlook emails using some powerful filtering options. Not only will it index all your emails, but you can also search within attachments in Outlook! It’s fast and has several wizards to help you create advanced queries.