31 October, 2007

Freewares - Imaging

Adobe Digital Edition

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Adobe Digital Editions is an engaging new way to read and manage eBooks and other digital publications. Digital Editions is built from the ground up as a lightweight, Rich Internet Application (RIA). Digital Editions works online and offline, and supports PDF and XHTML—based content as well as Flash SWF for rich interactivity.

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Microsoft Photo Info

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Microsoft Photo Info allows photographers to add, change and delete common "metadata" properties for digital photographs from inside Windows Explorer.

When installed, a new "Photo Info" item appears on the context menu for files selected in Windows Explorer. To use, simply select one or more image fiiles, right-click and choose "Photo Info" to open the Photo Info properties editor. You can edit metadata for files individually, or all together as a batch. Photo Info reads and writes metadata in IPTC and XMP formats (depending on file type). It also provides enhanced "hover tips" and additional sort properties for digital photographs in Windows Explorer.
Microsoft Photo Info runs on 32-bit versions of Windows XP (with Service Pack 2 or later) and the Windows Vista operating systems.

Requires Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0.

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SIZE: 3.9MB

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PDF Watermark Creator v1.0

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Add a watermark (texts such as DRAFT, CONFIDENTIAL, or even your company´s name) to PDF files quickly and easily.

To stamp a watermark on your PDF files is to mark you PDF documents as your copyrighted property. The watermark can be stamped behind virtually every elements of a PDF file. You can choose whether to overwrite the existing text of a PDF file when the watermark is created.
With this freeware utility, you can number the pages of existing PDF files or add you company text logo or your copyright message and much more.

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SIZE: 325KB

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Picasa 2.7.0.37.36

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Picasa automatically finds and organizes all of your pictures including: jpeg, tiff, bmp, psd, and standard camera movie files. Sending pictures with e-mail used to mean five steps just to get it right. Picasa lets you pick the size and then automatically attaches your pictures. Browse through all your pictures and view slideshows of your albums with the click of a button. Enhance, fix red-eye, and even crop without losing data or permanently changing your original picture.

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SIZE: 5.93MB

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Picture Shark v1.0

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Picture-shark gives you the ability to watermark and copyright your picture galleries. You can
use logos, text or any other images. With its wizardlike interface you can easily create impressive results. Picture-shark processes hundreds of pictures each minute. It supports transparence and realtime preview. The unique feather feature generates smart edges with one click. And the best: It´s free.

Picture-shark beats all other products in speed, compatibility with all windows operating systems, the small file size and its realtime preview. After once setting position, transparent color, opacity and feather (smart edges), these settings are applied in batchmode to all choosen pictures regardless of their size. Standard file-formats and different jpg-compressions are supported.

Picture-shark´s impressive advantage - compared to other products - is it´s "feather"-feature. It smoothes the edges between the "stamp" and the picture. It applies anti-aliasing to the stamp and removes the "edged" borders that are known from many galleries on the net.

The clear userinterface allows even unexperienced users to get impressive results.

During development all useless and confusing features were left out. But still the comfort that the user knows from using Windows is still available.

Product-support is very important. You can reach the technical support via e-mail and phone for free and there are various tutorials on picture-shark´s homepage.

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SIZE: 795KB

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Watermark v2

The name leads us right. waterMark V2 is a versatile and very easy to use application for adding "watermark" images to your photos. All you need is to define a source image as watermark and place it where ever you want on the specific original photo. The transparency of the whole watermark or even a single colour can easily be set up to the needs by a control panel working in percent. All these settings can be added as a batch operation to a complete picture folder. waterMark V2 supports Bitmap, GIF, JPEG, PNG und TIFF image formats.

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Profession Tax Amnesty Scheme Date Extended

LAST DATE OF SUBMISSION OF APPLICATION FOR PROFESSION TAX AMNESTY SCHEME EXTENDED TO 03.11.2007.

30 October, 2007

Convert and watch movies on your mobile/Windows Mobile/PPC

Came across this easy to use software to convert and play movies/clips/tv shows on your mobiles. Check it out -

Watch movies on all kinds of devices including Pocket PC, Palm, Smartphone, Portable Media Center. Have fun on the go. It's so convenient to put your favorite movie, TV show in pocket and watch them anywhere, anytime. This software provides you a easy to use interface to co...
Download Sompy Movie Encoder v1.0.0314

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26 October, 2007

How to Free Memory in Windows Mobile

How to Free Memory in Windows Mobile

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So you are in this situation: you have a Windows Mobile based device with good specifications and all of the programs you have installed. It should be working perfectly and meet all your needs, but instead of it is running creepy slow. That is because of the persistence of applications and programs running in the background. As a result, the shutting down of unnecessary applications in the background via settings or a third party application becomes a necessary task to running a problem-free Pocket PC.

How to Free some memory on your Windows Mobile device The reason for it is because Windows Mobile platform uses a feature called Smart Minimize, which actually leaves the program running in the background after you click on the X in the upper right hand corner.

How to Free some memory on your Windows Mobile device


One of the largest programs that consumes memory is ActiveSync, which runs in the background once you synch your Pocket PC with your computer. There are several ways you can shut down this application. The most common way is to go to Start -> Settings -> System - > Memory and selecting the grey Running Programs tab. This will open up a majority of applications running on your Pocket PC.

If you wish have more copmplete task manager and see all the processes and threads that are running in the background, there are third party utilities for this purpose. You can consider an applications like Free Task Manager, tMan, pBar, PHM Task Manager or other paid ones which you can find at MobileTopSoft's Pocket PC software archive.

How to Free some memory on your Windows Mobile device As you can see from the screenshot above there is Phone running 3 times along with the Activesync. They are taking memory that can be used for other purposes. This program is quite old but it is good because it is free and locates everything you can do in the Windows version, including: display the running applications, allowing you to activate, hibernate, stop and terminate them as well as display the running processes with their IDs, number of threads, CPU time, priority and complete path, and allow you to terminate them. You can also suspend, soft reset, and hard reset your Pocket PC if needed.

You can also try other applications for optimizing your Pocket PC's memory like MemMaid and Pocket Mechanic Pro.

Remember that by removing large applications from memory when not in use, you will provide yourself with more space for necessary applications and can potentially improve overall performance.

19 October, 2007

Prices of Computer Spares, Accessories in India

If you are looking for prices of Processors, Graphics Card, Keyboard, mouse, Printers, TV Tuner Cards, Cabinets, computer accessories, RAM, HDD, etc. in India, download the PRICELIST as given by Computer Warehouse site. Though this site is for Bangalore, the price at your place in India will be somewhere close to it.

13 October, 2007

XP Drivers for Compaq Presario V3424AU

All those who have purchased Compaq Presario V3424AU must have been frustrated looking for Windows XP Drivers for their system. V3424AU comes with Vista Basic preinstalled and XP users like us who do not want to shift to Vista, face problems relating to drivers.

So I am giving links below from where you can download the drivers and safely use XP.

Link 1
OR
Link 2

In case you are not able to install drivers or the drivers refuse to install or do not correctly install, I would suggest you to install the drivers from Device Manager.

Go to your Device Manger, check your hardware. Where ever you see yellow mark, right click - upgrade drivers/install drivers - give the path of the relevant driver you just downloaded and DONE!

In case you still are unable to find the right drivers or are unable to install them, feel free to mail me and I will help you. Justify Full

11 October, 2007

Apple iphone - Features



iPhone combines three products - a revolutionary mobile phone, a widescreen iPod with touch controls, and a breakthrough Internet communications device with desktop-class email, web browsing, maps, and searching - into one small and lightweight handheld device. iPhone also introduces an entirely new user interface based on a large multi-touch display and pioneering new software, letting you control everything with just your fingers. So it ushers in an era of software power and sophistication never before seen in a mobile device, completely redefining what you can do on a mobile phone.



Technical Specifications

Screen size -3.5 inches


Screen resolution - 320 by 480 at 160 ppi

Input method - Multi-touch

Operating system - OS X

Storage - 4GB or 8GB

GSM - Quad-band (MHz: 850, 900, 1800, 1900)

Wireless data - Wi-Fi (802.11b/g) + EDGE + Bluetooth 2.0

Camera - 2.0 megapixels

Battery - Up to 5 hours Talk / Video / Browsing
Up to 16 hours Audio playback

Dimensions - 4.5 x 2.4 x 0.46 inches / 115 x 61 x 11.6mm

Weight - 4.8 ounces / 135 grams



iPhone is a widescreen iPod with touch controls that lets you enjoy all your content - including music, audiobooks, videos, TV shows, and movies - on a beautiful 3.5-inch widescreen display. It also lets you sync your content from the iTunes library on your PC or Mac. And then you can access it all with just the touch of a finger.



Music

Scroll through your songs, artists, albums, and playlists with just a flick of a finger. Album artwork is dramatically presented on the large display. And now use Cover Flow to browse your music library by album artwork for the first time on an iPod.

Multi-touch

iPhone features the most revolutionary user interface since the mouse. It's an entirely new interface based on a large multi-touch display and innovative new software that lets you control everything using only your fingers. So you can glide through albums with Cover Flow, flip through photos and email them with a touch, or zoom in and out on a section of a web page - all by simply using iPhone's multi-touch display.

Keyboard

iPhone's full QWERTY soft keyboard lets you easily send and receive SMS messages in multiple sessions. And the keyboard is predictive, so it prevents and corrects mistakes, making it easier and more efficient to use than the small plastic keyboards on many smartphones.

Wireless

iPhone uses quad-band GSM, the global standard for wireless communications. It also supports Cingular's EDGE network, 802.11b/g Wi-Fi, and Bluetooth 2.0 with EDR, which links to Apple's new, remarkably compact Bluetooth headset

Built-in Advanced Sensors

iPhone's accelerometer detects when you rotate the device from portrait to landscape, then automatically changes the contents of the display, so you immediately see the entire width of a web page or a photo in its proper landscape aspect ratio.

The proximity sensor detects when you lift iPhone to your ear and immediately turns off the display to save power and prevent inadvertent touches until iPhone is moved away.

An ambient light sensor automatically adjusts the display's brightness to the appropriate level for the current ambient light, thereby enhancing the user experience and saving power at the same time



Safari Web Browser

With its advanced Safari browser, iPhone lets you see any web page the way it was designed to be seen, then easily zoom in by simply tapping on the multi-touch display with your finger.

Widgets

iPhone even has widgets: small applications that give you helpful information like stock reports, weather reports, and more in real time.

Mail

iPhone uses a rich HTML email client that fetches your email in the background from most POP3 or IMAP mail services and displays photos and graphics right along with the text.

SMS

iPhone includes an SMS application with a predictive QWERTY soft keyboard that prevents and corrects mistakes, making it easier and more efficient to use than the small plastic keyboards on many smartphones.

Photos

iPhone features a 2-megapixel camera and a photo management application that goes far beyond anything on a phone today. Sync photos from your PC or Mac, and you're ready to browse or email them with the flick of a finger.

Receiving and making a call

With iPhone, making a call is as simple as touching a name or number. In addition, you can easily construct a favorites list for your most frequently made calls, and quickly merge calls together to create conference calls.

Visual Voicemail

An industry first, Visual Voicemail allows you to go directly to any of your messages without listening to the prior messages. So you can quickly select the messages that are most important to you.

Video

iPhone's stunning 3.5-inch widescreen display is the ultimate way to watch TV shows and movies from the iTunes Store on a pocketable device. Just tap the touch controls for play/pause, chapter forward/backward, and volume.

10 October, 2007

Install Vista without Wiping Windows XP

So you have got your new Windows Vista CD/DVD (Original or Pirated) and are eagerly waiting to try it out. But your old Windows XP with huge data comes in your way... You dont want to loose your data/XP but still want Vista??? Well you should take a look at Chris step by step procedure  for the same. 

It is explained in an easy language with Screenshots. Take a look at it.. 

08 October, 2007

Synchronize Google Calendar with MS Outlook

Synchronize Google Calendar with MS Outlook

1. Download RemoteCalenders
(Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 is a must to run this software)

2. Extract and install RemoteCalenders

3. Configuration -

- After installing RemoteCalenders, launch Outlook and RemoteCalenders will automatically open.

- Click on Subscribe a RemoteCalenders button to add Google Calendar to Outlook.

- In Google Calendar, copy iCal URL to get your Calendar's Private Address on the Calendar Settings page - click on Manage Calendars on the left and in the Calendar tab, click on the Calendar name that you want to work on.

- Near the bottom of the page, get the Private Address of this calendar in XML, iCal as well as HTML formatsm select iCal and copy that URL.

- In RemoteCalenders, paste the iCal URL under "RemoteCalenders URL", add the Calendar name and check "It's my Google Calendar and I want to sync both ways".


SOURCE
(This is the link to the website of the magazine (DIGIT) which carried an article about synchronising Google Calendar with Outlook).

07 October, 2007

DriveImage XML : A "Norton Ghost Alternative" !


DriveImage XML : A "Norton Ghost Alternative" !

DriveImage XML is a HDD backup and restoration software similar to Norton Ghost but FREE, the software enables you create a complete backup image of any drive or partition, You can restore later restore the image to same or another partition, you can also clone a drive to another. The program also includes an image explorer similar to Norton Ghost Image Explorer that lets you explore previously created backup images and extract individual files. Its a 1.61 MB download.

The program allows you to:

-Backup logical drives and partitions to image files
-Browse these images, view and extract files
-Restore these images to the same or a different drive
-Copy directly from drive to drive
-Schedule automatic backups with your Task Scheduler
-Image creation uses Microsoft's Volume Shadow Services (VSS), allowing you to create safe "hot images" even from drives currently in use.
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SIZE: 1.61MB

05 October, 2007

Profession Tax Amnesty Scheme Working

Profession Tax Amnesty Scheme Working -
Valid from 01.09.2007 to 31.10.2007

Under the Profession Tax Amnesty Scheme - for Registered persons

In case you have registered yourself and have a Enrollment Number, working would be as under:

1. Basic Tax + Interest (@2% p.m)* + Penalty (Rs.300/year)

* The rate of interest is taken as 2% for ease of computation. Earlier it was 1.25%.

Now take entire Basic Tax Amount + 10% x (Interest + Penalty)

E.g: You have not paid profession tax for the 2005-2006, 2006-2007, 2007-2008.

So calculation would be -

YEAR = BASIC TAX + INTEREST + PENALTY
1. 2005-2006 = 1700 + 1020 + 300
2. 2006-2007 = 2500 + 720 + 300


Interest for 2005-2006 is calculated @ 2 % p.m for 30 months, 2006-2007 for 18 months & so on.

So total payment would be Rs.4200 + 174 + 60 = Rs.4434/-

In case of unregistered person, P.T would be waived upto 2002. Thereafter Basic Tax and Interest working would be the same as registered person. But penalty would be Rs.2/day (comes to Rs.730 per year) instead of flat Rs.300 p.a.

The working has to be submitted in Annexure 1 to the Profession Tax Department along with self attested photocopy of the challan through which payment has been made in the bank.

In case you need any clarifications/Excel PT Amnesty Working Sheet (free of charge), you can mail me/comment.

You can also get Excel Utility from Mera Consultant for Rs.300/-

PS: Do confirm the calculations and check the circular regarding Amnesty scheme before relying on the contents posted here.

My Upcoming Posts

My next upcoming posts -

1. Profession Tax Amnesty Scheme in Maharashtra

2. Review - Netgear DG834G 54mbps Wireless router cum modem and Netgear W111v2 54mbps USB Wireless Adaptor

3. Review - Compaq Presario V3424AU Laptop


Will post them in a couple of days..