Wattpad - ebook community intel app

I am a book fanatic and a inspiring writer. My cravings of reading were mostly satisfied by the local library but it was very limited. As a budding writer i was very much interested in the modern literature but i was unable to buy new books without financial support. The area i live in is a bit isolated with very scarce population so we don't have things like book clubs or literature communities etc these made me feel very isolated and far from the literature culture. Whenever i read a good book i wanted to discuss it with somebody or debate it. So i was looking for a good book community where i can read books and give feedback, discuss it etc. Thats when i came across Wattpad.

Manage kindle collections via computer (Tutorial)

I bought my kindle some days back and i can't express how happy i am with it. All its features are too good. But one thing i find a bit difficult is managing the collections in kindle. In the beginning it was not that much a problem as the number of books were less. But as the number started increasing managing the books and sorting them into collections started becoming very difficult and boring. I don't understand why amazon has not made any provisions for managing the collections from the computer. Anyway, so i was looking around for some trick to manage the collections from the computer when i came across the Kindle collection manager.

Kindle Collection Manager
Kindle collection manager is a small utility program to manage kindle collections from the computer in windows. It is free and easy to use. Here is a tutorial for it.

Step 1) Click here to download it.

Free online accounts and data backup with backupify

If you are a social networking addict, the scenario of losing ones online data is comparable to a nuclear attack. Many of you may argue that you can't loose your online accounts and data because you take adequate security measures but in the cyberworld no amount of security is adequate, if somebody like a hacker wants your data he will get it no matter how much time it takes. Now the only damage control method you can use is to backup all the online data. To  do this you can use a online service called Backupify.

Making a Folder Invisible in Windows

There are hundreds of reason why you would like to make a folder invisible, like playing a prank, security reasons or hiding something. Some of you may have special reasons to hide the folder ;-) . Well you could just password protect it, but it becomes very inconvenient to provide password every time you want to open the folder, especially if the folder is used very frequently. Making the folder invisible provides adequate security without to much hassle. So just thought of sharing this tutorial. So here we go

 
 Step 1) Right click on the folder --> Properties --> Customize --> "Change Icon" option.

Foobar2000 - Free alternative to Winamp and windows media player.

The software world is filled with different audio players. Most of you must be using Windows media player or Winamp because they are popular and most widely used. But popular doesn't always mean better. There are many audio players with better features and usability. One such audio player is Foobar2000.

Foobar2000

Foobar2000 is a free audio player. One of its main feature is the easy to use, user interface. It has all the basic features of a good audio player like

• It supports a wide range of audio formats like MP1 MP2 MP3 MPC AAC Ogg Vorbis FLAC / Ogg FLAC WavPack WAV AIFF AU SND CD
• Easily customizable user interface.
• Ability to read archive files without decompressing them.
• Open architecture supporting third party components.
• Windows media streaming support.

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BetterPrivacy - Security against long term tracking cookies.

According to me, today Internet is the biggest commercial platform in the world and information like user browsing habits, user's personal info etc are much valued here. Due to which a new variety of cookies called Local Shared Objects or commonly called 'Flash cookies' are used to gather this information. Flash cookies are a type of never expiring cookie which are stored on the users computer. Originally sites having flash content used the flash cookies to store the user's preferences on the site but in recent times there have been privacy concerns about them. Some of the security issues of the flash cookies are

• They do not expire.
• They are cross-browser meaning it doesn't matter which ever browser you are using till it supports flash content.
• The cookies do not need user or browser permission to send the information to its relative server.
• They are very well hidden and it is rather difficult to be aware of them.

You can get protection against this cookies by using a popular Firefox addon called "Better Privacy"


BetterPrivacy

BetterPrivacy is a popular and one of the most recommended Firefox addon, because it is easy to use and very effective. With one click it displays all the Flash cookies stored on the computer. Using its easy to use manager you can select which cookies to delete and which to keep. You can also select the automatic clean up option where it cleans all the cookies after the browser is closed. You can protect some of the cookies which you think necessary from the automatic cleanup.
To download and know more about the addon CLICK HERE

 

Downloading websites to view offline using HTTrack

If you live where you regularly face Internet connection problems it is always a good idea to download the website which you refer to regularly. You can save the pages using the browsers default save page options but it can get tiresome to save all the pages of the website one-by-one and there is no definite structure to it which can make it very confusing. But using a free utility program called HTTrack you can do all the above tasks very easily.

HTTrack Website Copier

HTTrack is a free utility program which helps the user to download webpages or entire websites including all the the linked webpages for offline browsing. You can browse the downloaded pages link to link giving you the experience of browsing the website online. Actually its just like creating a mirror of the website on your local drive. It also allows you to create filters if you don't want to download some specific type of files.

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Change mp3 Player's Firmware to Open Source Rockbox

Are you bored with your mp3 player's outdated firmware and want to try something new? Are you not satisfied with the sound quality of the mp3 player or are you bored by the same themes and looks of the screen of the mp3 player ?. If yes then Rockbox is the solution to all of the above problems.

Rockbox

Rockbox is a open source alternative for your default mp3 player firmware. You can add rockbox without actually removing the original firmware. Here are some the main features of Rockbox

•  Rockbox supports a wide range of audio formats like  MPEG-4 AAC(-LC/HE/HEv2 profiles) AC3 (raw or RM container) WMA Standard WMA Professional Speex Cook ATRAC3 WavPack hybrid files Ogg Vorbis MPEG audio layers I-III (MP3/MP2/MP1) Musepack FLAC WavPack Shorten Apple Lossless Monkey's Audio TTAwav AIFF
•  It provides many playback enhancement features like Gapless playback Crossfading ReplayGain 5 band fully parametric equalizer Variable speed decoding CrossfeedOTF playlists True random shuffle Custom UI themes Dynamic PlaylistsStereo recording FM radio, including FM recording Remote control Digital S/PDIF input/output Last.fm support Cue sheet support Changeable selector bar Album artSleep timer
•  It provides many additional Plug-ins like  JPEG viewer Rockboy Game Boy emulatorZXBox ZX Spectrum emulatorDoom WAV to MP3 encoderWAV to WavPack encoderMPEG video playerPictureFlow, an album art viewerVarious gamesMusical Instrument Digital Interface (MIDI)

To view the list of supported devices and to download it CLICK HERE

Search subtitles using firefox addon

If you are a movie buff and like to see all the critically acclaimed movies irrespective of the nationality and language, then subtitles are a very important element of this movie watching process. All movies may not include subtitles, due to which you may sometimes have to get the subtitles externally for the movie. At times this can be a headache because the subtitle's frame-rate should perfectly match with that of the movie or the voice and text will not appear in sync. So here is a Firefox addon which helps you to find the subtitles without worrying about the frame-rate and other things.

Subtitle matcher 
Subtitle matcher helps you to find subtitle of any language perfectly matched with the movie, using the unique movie hash code.

• To use,  DOWNLOAD and install it.

•  In the Browser go to "Tools" --> Subtitle matcher. There you will find many options (refer to the image to find the uses.)

 

Script to run Internet Explorer on Linux

Many users who switch to Linux from windows sometimes miss their beloved Internet Explorer, as IE does not support any OS accept windows. But there is a way to make IE work on Linux using a script and wine.

IEs4Linux
It is a free and open source script that allows the user to use Internet Explorer on Linux using Wine. 
To download IEs4Linux and get the installation procedure CLICK HERE. 

Note:-  It only supports IE till IE7. The developers are working to make it compilable with IE9 so keep a watch for it.