US telephone users has gone through this headache of Telemarketers calling on their landline or mobile phones many times in a day. This trend is spreading like wild fire in India as well.

As reported ealier, you can register with your specific service provider and get freedom from Telemarketers calling you day in and out.

Freedom? Well, that procedure did not bring any freedom and only created confusion. Each service provider followed different procedure with varying response level. In the end people still got pesky Telemarketing calls.

To delight of all telephone users in India, TRAI (Telecom Regulatory Authority of India) has come up with a common and easy procedure for Do-not-call, irrespective of telecom service provider you use. (more…)

While we move over to next month, here is a flashback of last 30  29days. After Best of January 2008, here comes Best of February 2008. First, many thanks to everyone who has visited, linked and commented on ‘Techno Life’ @ tothepc.com

Starting with an important topic of privacy policy post for making your blogging life easy, specially if you are Google Adsense users. Get  privacy policy or !!!

After Blogging life, we are back to ease out ‘Techno Life’ with best of toolbox in the month of February 2008. Here goes:

• 3 Tools to share photos on Twitter from PC or Mobile
• 3 Tools to Fix Stuck or Dead Pixel on LCD Monitor
• 3 Ways to convert PDF Files into Flash or Web Format
• 3 Search Engines Worth a look, Give Google a break !

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Every computer user deal with lot of files on daily basis. Different type of files like Image files, video files interface us in various computer operations. At times, one can get over-board with huge number of files and find it difficult to manage.

Cutting the file clutter and making things more easy - following are 5 freeware utilities. They should make ‘Techno Life’ easy atleast in handling loads of files on your computer. Here goes:

1. Kill those Duplicate files -Duplicate files cause unnecessary strain of system resources. You can easily free up hard disk space by removing unnecessary duplicate files with ‘DoubleKiller’. It also help in reducing the time needed for backups or file searches. One cool way to (more…)

After FeedDemon for Windows Going free, NewsFire is next to join the queue of client side RSS feed reader application going FREE. NewsFire is considered a very good option for glitzy MAC OS X users.

It is simple to use and packed with loads of features for managing number of RSS feeds. You can easily filter and organize your news with NewsFire’s smart groups. It allows you to build own feeds with custom rules, or drag and drop to create groups of related content.

Besides the functionality, it has polished interface. It has looks and style to be worthy for your MAC OS X system. Best part, you get all (more…)

Youtube has tons of videos and one can find videos on any topic from around the world. Sadly, none of the Youtube Video is in high resolution and quality.

 However, there is method to view high resolution of a Youtube Video (if available) by tweaking its URL.

To view better version of a Youtube Video, simply add &fmt=6 at the end of youtube video URL. For example:

• original URL - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CmC5N1Yj-Og
• Tweaked URL - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CmC5N1Yj-Og&fmt=6

While this is good news, here is bit of bad news. This method does not work on majority of Youtube Videos. It only works, if better (more…)

Want to know topics, people and places creating the maximum buzz at Twitter? Well, Twitter Meter is here to help you. Just like Google Trends can reveal trend among keywords being searched, TwitterMeter lets you do the same for Twitter.

Check out the above comparison of Obama VS Hilary - clearly Obama is buzzing hot while Hillary is bit cold among Twittering community.

Twitter meter lets you query an index of all the words (more…)