Try day to day useful tools on your Windows/Linux(Ubuntu) operating system

Hi friends,

When I was surfing the internet, I found some useful day to day applications/tools. I thought "let me share these applications", so that atleast someone will get benefit from at least some of the tools which they are looking for.

Let me briefly explain, what it contains. The best applications/tools in 2011 developed in Windows and Ubuntu operating systems.

I personally liked,

Ubuntu Applications

News-RSS Ticker: Place your feed on desktop
Blogilo: Desktop Blogging client
MyPaint: Paint app similar to windows
Cairo-Dock: Mac like dock
Lockit: Take screenshot of app or specific area
Desktop Nova: Wallpaper rotator
Gnome Subtitles: Customize subtitles for a movie or any video
Touchpad Indicator: Automatically disable touchpad when mouse is connected
Live USB Installer: Load operating system to USB and use it anywhere you want (Carry OS with you)

Windows Applications

FTP Scheduler: Schedule your FTP upload/download file times
Tweak IE9: For better security in IE and Groupping Tabs like Firefox
CSVed: Editor to edit CSV like files
DiffPDF: Compare the differences between PDF files
TexMaker: Editor for Latex files
Folder Axe: Split your large files
Mosaic: Windows 8 look in Windows 7
Image Composite Editor: Stich photos to make panorama image
BlueStacks: Run Android apps and Games in windows
Batch Compiler: Compile you batch files and make executable
TyperText: Specify your own keyboard shortcuts to run/launch applications and even website links
KumoSync: Sync your google docs to local computer
Soluto: Remotely manage and fix PC Issues

Lot more tools are available online .. Hope some of the above apps will be useful to you.

References:
www.addictivetips.com/ubuntu-linux-tips/best-60-linux-applications-for-year-2011-editors-pick/
http://www.addictivetips.com/windows-tips/150-best-windows-applications-of-year-2011-editors-pick/

Very Useful GMail Keyboard Shortcuts

Hi Friends,

I would like to share the existing GMail keyboard shortcuts information with you. It will be very useful to fasten your mail usage.

First make sure that, you have activated the "keyboard shortcuts on" from your mail settings.

Some important keyboard shortcuts are

1. Compose (New Mail) - c
2. Reply to the Sender - r
3. Reply to All - a
4. Forward Message - f
5. Select All Messages - Press * then Press a
6. Select Unread Message - Press * then Press u
7. Delete Selected Message(s) - #
8. Move selected messages to folder - v
9. Search mail - /
10. Show next message - n
11. Show previous message - p
12. Select Conversation - x
13. Show next conversation - k
14. Show previous conversation - j
15. Report spam - !
16. Undo the operation - z
17. Keyboard help - ?

You can find all the possible GMail keyboard shortcuts from this link
http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=6594

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Opensource SWs which I have come across today ..

Some Useful Open Source Softwares:

Ninite Easy PC Setup tool:
We can select the softwares from the list and it will download and install those softwares without our intervention in the middle like pressing Next or Continue buttons.
Link: http://ninite.com/

Sumatra PDF Viewer:
Its a slim, free and open source PDF Viewer.
Link: http://blog.kowalczyk.info/software/sumatrapdf/free-pdf-reader.html

Teracopy:
Easy to copy error out or corrupted files. We can pause and resume the file copying.
Link: http://www.codesector.com/teracopy.php

Linux tools useful for day to day life

Hi everyone,

I just read some of the linux tools description from linux journals. Just want to share those things.

1. FFmpeg: Video converter to covert videos for YouTube. Our own videos will be converted in to YouTube suitable format.
2. Mutt: Its a command line e-mail reading tool.
3. Zsh: Create own shell with different colors and in output also we can put some colors to identify the output easily.
4. SOX: Audio editor, We can add echo easily by using this editor and we can convert audio to various formats.
5. Trickle: By using this tool, we can control the network traffic. In torrent downloaders and in browsers we can set the speed while downloading.
6. Privoxy: Control the web access like blocking unwanted sites and blocking unwanted content.

References:
Linux Magazine
http://www.ffmpeg.org/
http://www.mutt.org/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z_shell
http://www.zsh.org/
http://sox.sourceforge.net/
http://www.tuxradar.com/content/control-your-bandwidth-trickle
www.privoxy.org/

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Have you tried these Google Labs features? I liked these features.

Hi everyone,
I tried these Google labs features and its very useful for every e-mail user. Hope you will also like it.

There are features which will

1. Insert images in mail
2. Cancel the mail within 30 seconds, if you forgot attachment, signature, address, etc.
3. Nested folders
4. Choosing the correct name suggestion.
5. Displaying the unread messages count in the title of the page. 

If you want to use or like anyone of the above you can continue reading the blog.

• To see the Google labs, click on Settings, select Labs tab.
• Select the Enable option button for the concerned lab feature.
• Click on Save Changes at top or bottom of the page, to use these features.

Google Labs Features: 

1) Inserting Images:
    This feature provides you to select the pictures from the harddisk or from URL and display in the mail instead of attachment. Lot of my friends asked how to display an image in the mail. By using this feature you can do that.
2) Nested Labels
    Instead of having long list of labels for every simple things, you can group them and make nested labels.
3) Title Tweaks
    It will display the current label with unread message count. If you get any new mail, just by seeing the title in the taskbar, you can identify that you got an e-mail.

4) Got the Wrong Bob?
    This feature will you recommend the user with the similar name. When you are selecting some name, it will list the similar names to choose the correct one. 

5) Undo Send
    Sometimes we will be thinking something and click on send button. After just clicking, we will be thinking like, I shouldn't have click on send button. By using "Undo Send" feature, within 30 seconds we can cancel the sending mail. After finishing everything in the mail, you can send again.
Example: We want to send resume to someone, We will be concentrating on writing some good content and once we are happy with content, we will just press send button without attaching the resume. Just after clicking on send we will identify that, we forgot the attachment. At that point, we can cancel the sending mail and attach the resume and send. I think it happened with lot of you people. It happened with me too.

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