Word Reader is one such free tool which is quite nice and fast alternative word document reader which can open any word document in it.
It can open Microsoft Word 2007(docx document), Microsoft Word 97-2003(doc document), Hyper Text Markup Language (Htm, Html), Plain Text Format (*.txt), Rich Text Format(RTF), Plain Text Format(TXT).
Read Also: How to open a word document when you don’t have Microsoft Word installed
PowerOff is a free to use tool which lets you power off any computer connected to your network from anywhere, however in order to power down any computer of your network the username with which you are logon has to be part of the local administrative group.
This is actually a command line utility, the executable should be placed in C:/windows to install and add it to the windows command, or just browse to any directory where the program executable poweroff.exe is placed. We had previously written about a utility called LanShutDown which solves the same purpose of shutdown the system on the LAN network.
Twitter Audio is one such free application which lets you tweet your recorded voice with text on twitter. In order to tweet your voice you just need to record audio from your microphone and then you can append the text upto 110 characters.
It is very simple to use, record your message, type in your message of 110 characters and press the Tweet! button shown in the image above.
Read Also: Twittastic – A Twitter Client With Lots Of Features
Yahoo messenger is one such IM tool which is most widely used, but for those use ubuntu linux, redhat linux or any other version of linux always miss yahoo messenger.
There are two versions of yahoo messenger available for linux build, the official version of yahoo messenger can be downloaded from here, but it lacks in major yahoo messenger features like webcam, voice chat and photo sharing etc, so it can be used to for text chatting.
One more way to install yahoo messenger is given below
1. Install libssl0.9.6 through Synaptic or type the following on the terminal
sudo apt-get install libssl0.9.6
2. Download this file from messenger.yahoo.com.
3. In the terminal, write the following command
sudo dpkg -i /path/ymessenger_1.0.4_1_i386.deb
replacing path with the path to where you downloaded the file.
4. Run /usr/bin/ymessenger and follow instructions to setup Yahoo! Messenger.
Another version of yahoo messenger is implemented using Gyachi which is a yahoo client for linux which supports almost all the features of yahoo messenger including all mentioned above including photo sharing, voice chat, file sharing, group chat etc and lots more.
One day back I written about a free firefox addon which can help you any text from a webpage without any formatting, that’s means you can copy text as plain text in firefox but as one of the reader commented that firefox addon supports the older version of firefox only, moreover it could be on no help if you are not coping the text from any other source than firefox.
After some googling I came to know about two ways with which you can copy text from any source as plain text, one of the way involves a utility which which will remove any formatting from text you have copied, second way is the most common and manual way using a notepad.
Let’s discuss both of these methods in detail one by one, you can use what ever suits you the best.
It could happen many times when you try to copy any text selected on a webpage opened in firefox and when you paste the text in word document or any where else formatting remains so you undo the paste and copy the text in notepad and then copy again to the word document. As far as my experience this particular practice is really a pain on your mind and it also takes more time as usual.
Copy Plain Text is a cool firefox addon which comes to rescue in this situation and adds a context menu entry in the right click menu in firefox as Copy as Plain Text
Neowin.net has recently released the free gmail notifier application for windows 7, this tiny application will sit in windows 7 system tray and keep running in the background checking for new mails in your gmail inbox you had configured with the application, it will notify you for any new messages in your inbox.
This particular version of gmail notifier is developed to work on windows 7 only, you can right click anytime to see the subject of all the mails together.
Not only this will also notify you when it is unable to check for new mails due to lost internet connectivity, or due to wrong password.
We all have windows media player installed on our windows computers, but many times it may happen when you try to play a video file with windows media player and it does not play the file rather throws the error codec required to play the file cannot be found and it will need to download the codec first and then play the file.
Vista Codec Pack allows you to play any format video in your very own windows media player, so you don’t need to install any other media player like vlc or klite codec pack to play videos of any other format for which windows media player does not have codecs by default.