Tech Ravings

If you’re looking for a free application that can backup and restore your Windows Mail, Outlook Express, Mozilla Thunderbird, Firefox profile files; then here is a perfect utility for you. Named as KLS Mail Backup, it is a free application that solves the fright of losing your e-mails and associated profiles.

By default, Firefox automatically checks for updates for the web browser, installed add-ons and extensions. Further, it automatically downloads and installs the updates whenever a new version or a new update is detected. Then it requests users to restart Firefox so that the updates may take effect.

Sometimes it happens that you are running an application or performing a task that you would not like others to see. An easy way to hide the running applications is by using WinRAP.

Backupify is an online tool which lets you back up your social networking profiles and web-based data. Most of our data, nowadays, is hosted on one or the other website. For instance, most of our pictures are hosted on Flickr or on our social networking profiles. Many people believe that this data is safe and there is no chance of losing this web-based data. However, the fact is that there may be a chance of losing this data. A major glitch or in an even of hacking, you may lose your data stored on web servers. An easy way to avoid such mishap is by backing up your web data.

In case all avenues to activate Windows 7 online has failed, activation by phone is the last resort. Generally when online activation of Windows 7, against Microsoft’s activation server, fails; the phone activation is called into action. However, you can also activate Windows 7 directly by phone. Here is how you can activate your Windows 7 by using phone directly.

I recently discovered a nice utility that lets you retrieve your Windows product key. Named as Simple Keyfinder, it is a small yet powerful application that lets you recover your Windows product key in a text file and saves it to your hard disk. This file can then be transferred to your USB drive or external hard drive. This would ensure that you do not lose your expensive Windows product key in case of a system failure.

If you are a social media enthusiast and you wish to have a photo booth running at your birthday party or any such parties, then here is a perfect app for you. I recently came across PartyBooth, an application that turns your web cam into a photo booth kiosk.

YouTube supports high-definition videos. Most of the movie and game trailers are usually in high-definition so that users may get the best viewing experience. In case you are willing to download those high definition videos from YouTube, here is a nice and neat app which makes this task of downloading high-quality videos from YouTube very simple.

You may sometimes need to send out some important e-mails. While it is easy to send out an e-mail, it is hard to know whether the recipient ever looked at your e-mail or it just went unnoticed by the recipient. Recently, I discovered a fantastic web service which tracks your sent e-mails and notifies you when the recipient opens your e-mail.

A recent addition to Google Reader’s features is its capability to create/generate custom feeds for websites that do not offer feed subscription. For instance, BlogAds.com is a static page which does not allow feed subscription. In case you would like to subscribe to the site’s changes, Google Reader now provides you ability to create a custom feed for the website and allows you to keep up with any new developments that the website will see in future.