Tech Ravings

I recently came across a web search engine – Slide Finder, which indexes presentations. This is very useful as now we can search for Impress or PowerPoint presentations very easily. This web-based search engine further comes in very handy when you are lacking ideas for your new presentation.

Recently, I came across a fantastic utility which made my experience of using Windows a bit zippier. The utility I am talking about is named as Start Menu Animation. Start Menu Animation is a free utility which adds an animation of it to your Windows Vista or Windows 7 the Start Menu.

The Aero effect of Windows 7 and Windows Vista is something that is really addictive. Once you have got addicted to the Aero Glass interface of Windows 7 and Windows Vista, you will never like to switch back to the normal style.

I recently came across a very interesting utility which lets you snip any part of a website or a web page and lets you turn that part into a desktop widget. For instance, you can have a desktop widget containing only the search box of Google.com on your desktop. How easy would this make for you to perform search using the search capabilities of Google.com right from your desktop! Besides having a search box on your desktop, you may also have a widget showing recent articles from your favourite blogs or for any other purpose that you can think of.

If you are planning to buy a hard disk recovery utility which can recover your important files, then this is the right time to take some action. The time is indeed right because EASEUS Data Recovery Wizard 4.3.6 is up for free grabs. As the promotion, EASEUS is giving away a genuine key to EASEUS Data Recovery Wizard 4.3.6 for a limited period of time.

The software generally costs around $70 but just for a few days you can get a genuine license to EASEUS Data Recovery Wizard 4.3.6 for free.

Features of EASEUS Data Recovery Wizard 4.3.6:

• Recover deleted or lost files emptied from the Recycle Bin.
• File recovery after accidental format, even if you have reinstalled Windows.
• Get data back from RAW hard drives.
• Get back files after a partitioning error.
• Disk recovery after a hard disk crash.
• Recover office documents, photos, images, videos, music, email, etc.
• Support FAT12, FAT16, FAT32, NTFS/NTFS5 file systems.
• Recover from hard drive, USB drive, memory card, memory stick, camera card, Zip, floppy disk or other storage media.
• Bootable media based on WinPE.
• High quality of file recovery.

EASEUS Data Recovery Wizard 4.3.6 is

There are many screen capturing utilities available. The one which I personally use is FoxArc. However, I came across a very powerful and a very useful screen capturing utility and now I have switched to my latest discovery – Screenpresso. While most of the screen capturing utilities comes with basic function of taking a screen shot, Screenpresso comes with a whole lot of options.

You may sometimes need to search a topic across different search engines before you can get the content that you needed. Going through multiple search engines manually is a time-taking and a non-easy task to do. However, there is a geekier and easier way. Well, the easier way goes by a web application called Sputtik.

The Aero effect of Windows 7 and Windows Vista can only be activated if your PC meets the minimum system requirements. Those computers, which have low-end graphic cards or have no graphic cards at all, cannot enjoy aero glass effect. Further, Aero effect is not available in Windows 7 home Basic and Windows Vista home Basic editions.

Dropbox is the easiest way to store, synchronise and share files online. To simplify this easiness further, here is a nice and clean utility. Named as MailDrop, it is an application that expands the scope of Dropbox and allows you to upload files to Dropbox using your e-mail.

There are many people who do not know the difference between a Netbook and a Notebook. A friend of mine called me last night and asked me whether he should go for a Netbook or a Notebook. I asked him straightforwardly – “Do you know the difference between a Netbook and a Notebook?” and he said that he wasn’t sure of it. So for other people that do not know the difference between a Netbook and a Notebook, here is a post for them.