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Smart ways to Print selective parts of webpages [save ink, paper]

If you print lot of webpages on reguarly basis, then small adjustment in printing routine can save lot of paper and print ink. Ideally, a user does not need all webpage elements in hard copy format like advertisements, header, logos etc. Hence, instead of printing whole webpage you can

Compress & reduce GIF image size

GIF is a popular image format used for animated images. Due to animation and dynamic effect, these tend to be of large file sizes. You can reduce file size of a GIF image by compressing and optimizing it. Trout's GIF Optimizer is a free portable tool for quick GIF image optimization for

See HardDrive details: partitions, bytes, sectors, tracks

Technical details can be overwhelming, specially when displayed in unformatted manner. There are number of utilities to view basic hardware / software details of a computer like portable Speccy and system information tool. Ever wanted to see finer details of hard drive (partitions) on your

Calculate Aspect Ratio of monitor screen display

"Ratio of the physical picture width to the picture height" is called as the aspect ratio. With different type of display screen sizes like widescreen, square and more screen resolution options - width and height of screen display tend to vary from one user to another (as per use

Make System Restore Point in one click [Win 7 & Vista]

System Restore is an important and useful feature of Windows operating system. Each system restore point saves snapshot of your PC (state and registry), to which you can revert any time during computer use. Ideally, you will need to perform multiple clicks / steps to open system restore

Delete orphaned & duplicate DLL files on Windows

As we install and remove program applications on Windows, lot of temporary DLL junk files are left on the computer. You can easily perform PC clean up using free utility "PC Cleaner". It helps remove temporary files and folder. It can also perform deep scan for orphaned and duplicate DLL

Run Windows program software on MAC OSX system

Have you recently migrated from Windows to a MAC OSX system and sorely missing your favorite Windows program software on MAC? Besides every so popular Wine, you can try "WineBottler" program for MAC. It allows you to run Windows program on MAC systems by bottling them into separate

How to launch programs with shortcut hotkeys

Ideally we go to start menu options or double click icons to launch different program on Windows computer. You can quicken up the process of opening programs by assigning quick to use keyboard shortcut key (hotkeys). This is possible by using free utility hotkeyz. Hotkeys to launch

Create HTML webpage from text file

Do you want to create quick HTML webpage containing only text content? Free utility txt2html can help make HTML page in few simple clicks without any need of even basic HTML knowledge. It can generate simple HTML webpage from any txt document that you can upload and share anywhere on the

How to Sort & Organize folders on Windows

Folders are integral part of Windows operating system with each folder containing different type of files. Due to large number of folders, managing and organizing them for sure is a big task. However, there are Windows features and additional utilities that allow quick and easy management

Create custom Ribbon User Interface for MS Office 2007

[For Developers, advanced] Ribbon interface in Microsoft products like Microsoft Office 2007 makes accessibility of different options very comfortable. While it has become easy for users, making such ribbon interface has become complex task for developers. Now they can ease out the process