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Funny Point of View About LINUX, MAC and Windows

Browsing internet can give you a lot of pleasure if you are just surfing and doing nothing. I like to share a very funny comparison between LINUX, MAC and Windows;

Free PDF Unlocker and Merger

PDF files can have restrictions that prevent you from for example copying text from them or editing, printing or merging them. PDFUnlock! unlocks PDF files and removes these restrictions. If you upload a password protected PDF file, you will be asked to enter the password. PDFUnlock! does not, however, recover lost or unknown passwords. A …

5 Free Ways to Download Video From Youtube

Downloading videos from youtube is not a big deal if you have a registered account and you are paying some amount but if you like some video, don’t have an account still you like to download it and view some other time from your local computer without wasting more internet bandwidth and time to search video then use the under given tools; Few tools can also convert the video in various other extensions.

1. 3outube

Its a very easy three steps online tool to download youtube videos without any hassle and user account creation. Use the under given URL to open this fantastic online tool;

http://www.3outube.com/

2. Keepvid

Keepvid is a single step tool, you just need to drag and drop the URL from your address bar into the given address bar of keepvid and press the download button to save the video at your desired location on your local system. check the under given URL;

http://keepvid.com/

Windows 7 Hidden Modes

Windows 7, everybody knows and using it with ease and lots of services better than vista and windows XP but there are a number of hidden modes or services given by windows 7 for better performance and settings that are still unknown for most of the users and administrators. I like to share a few of them with the readers today to make windows 7 easy to use and effective in daily life. These hidden modes are intended for developers as a shortcut to various internal settings, such features have been around since Vista and even before.

These undocumented features provide direct access to all kinds of settings, from choosing a location to managing power settings to identifying biometric sensors.

How to Recover Data From a Dead Hard Drive?

Today I would like to share a very simple trick provided by a friend and successfully tested by a couple of people to recover data from a dead hard drive.

people says that if you put a dead hard drive in a freezer, pull it out and plug it in, it should run long enough to recover the data. You might feel that I am a crazy guy sharing this out of understanding theory but it worked. Checkout the under given pictures and try to recover your data from a dead hard drive at your home.

While freezing the drive for a while extends life momentarily, the real trick is to run the hard drive while it’s in the freezer. Just throw in a water tight bag first. It Works pretty well with other gadgets including iPod hard drives.

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How to Create a Real Invisible Folder or Directory

If you are sharing your computer with your other room mates and don’t like to let them know about your secrets but you don’t have a separate system still you are looking for a method to save everything from them then you are at a right place. There are lots of lot folder locker and encryptions are available on the internet and most of them look for some money and unfortunately if you lost the password you will feel unlucky to retrieve the data back.

Here is a very simple and easy trick to create or rename an existing folder invisible. How to make a folder invisible, steps are given as under; Screen Shots of this trick are given at the end of this post;

1. Create or modify the existing folder

2. During the naming hold the Alt key and enter “0160” (with out double quotes) you will see nothing but its entered already (0160 means a non-breaking space) because you can’t enter a space as a name but when you enter 0160 it will enter a non-breaking space as the name of the folder

How to set Java heap space in Apache Tomcat?

If Java runs out of memory, the following error occurs: Exception in thread "main" java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: Java heap space This can have two reasons: Your Java application has a memory leak. There are tools like YourKit Java Profiler that help you to identify such leaks. Your Java application really needs a lot of memory (more than …

Google Public DNS-Secure, Fast and Reliable

By using Google Public DNS you can get: Speed up your browsing experience. Improve your security. Get the results you expect with absolutely no redirection. Google announced Google Public DNS, a new service that lets consumers use Google as their DNS service provider. The benefits to users are a theoretically faster and more stable browsing …

Synchronize Your Data

Gone are the days of carrying important files on optical discs and thumb drives. Everyday to probably run your hands across various different keyboards, touch pads and plastic buttons. But working with so many different devices poses some challenges. The hard part is getting the various product to talk to each other. You may store …