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Hide your important data in a bitmap image file with portable SteganoG

 

If you ever want to transfer some very confidential data of yours, you can do it so smartly with a freeware SteganoG which lets you hide any kind of data in images.

What is SteganoG?

SteganoG stores confidential data of all types into a bitmap image apparently remains unchanged. It is provides a powerful compression and image quality will also allow you to store large amounts of data.

Portable-SteganoG 

As seen in the screenshot above you need to browse the bitmap image file and also locate the data file to hide and click the Hide button.

Some other features of SteganoG includes

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windows hacks

Minimize any application to system tray in windows with TrayIt

 

You may have felt the need sometime to minimize an application in windows to system tray to save some space on your taskbar, but you can’t as there is no option in windows to minimize any open application in windows to do it.

TrayIt is a light and free application which lets you minimize almost all the application on windows to minimize them to system tray.

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TrayIt! saves the space on the Taskbar. Each application which applies TrayIt creates a small icon in the System Tray. (System Tray area is located near the System Clock).

When any application’s window is minimized the icon of the application appears in the system tray. You can double click the application icon in the system tray to maximize it again.

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how to tutorials

Change the default files save format from .docx to .doc in word 2007

 

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Microsoft word is the mostly used out of all the Microsoft office 2007 applications, but I have seen people some times in a situation when they were cursing Microsoft Word 2007.

It happens when you have saved some important document while using microsoft word 2007 with .docx extension and taken that file some where else where office 2003 or any version later than office 2007 is installed and you cannot open .docx files. 

As .docx is the new file format recognised only by office 2007, and office 2003 or later versions of office cannot open .docx word document files.

What is .docx?

It is the default file extension for saving documents in word 2007. These docx documents are essentially a bunch of zipped XML documents  

Let’s see how can you change the default file save format to .doc which is widely supported in the backward version of office 2007.

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windows hacks

Safely Remove your pen drive with USB Safely Remove application

 

Yesterday, I came across a new cool application called USB Safely Remove which allows to remove your portable USB drives in a quick and easy way.

USB Safely Remove is a powerful program to handle all the portable devices connect to different USB ports on your computer.

It replaces your normal safely remove functionality of windows with the cool green coloured icon in the system tray (Highlighted in the image below).

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Let’s see some other features it offers

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windows hacks

Remove ctfmon.exe in windows with CTFMON-Remover

 

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There are so many useless windows process which keep on running in the background and consume your already slow computer resources and CPU usage.

One such windows process is Ctfmon.exe is one of them which always kept running in the background and using cpu all the time, although it does not consume so much of resources but most of the time ctfmon is useless for a user using windows.

What is Ctfmon ?

Ctfmon.exe is Alternative User Input Text Input Processor for Office. It activates the Microsoft Office Language Bar and the Alternative User Input Text Input Processor.

Let’s see how can we remove it with ctfmon-remover.

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vista hacks

Increase your laptop battery power with vista battery saver

 

It occurs many times when you need your laptop battery power the most, like when you are giving a presentation or doing some important work but battery goes down and reaches a critical battery level.

Specially with windows vista powered laptop this situation occurs more often, as the Graphic User Interface in vista like Aero, Vista sidebar etc. consumes much more battery power.

But you can make better and efficient usage of your battery using an application called Vista Battery Saver which will save 70% of the battery power in vista by disabling these nice looking features Aero and Vista Sidebar.

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Let’s see what more features it can offer

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windows hacks

Add any program to your startup easily with Sent To menu

 

It occurs sometimes when you may like to add a program to your start up by dragging the program shortcut in All Programs >> Startup

But there is more better way to do it,  which could save your time and make it simple. (as seen in the image below)

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Yes, you can add a shortcut to your startup folder in the send to menu, and when you want to add any program to startup with windows startup, you can right click on the program shortcut and select Startup.

Let’s see how can you do this tweak.

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tips & tricks

Copy anything to your clipboard with out formatting with Clipboard Fusion

 

Have you ever feel the need to copy some text from an application like Microsoft Word or a Web Page etc. with out any formatting ?

Normally when you copy some text from one application to another the main problem arises because of the formatting of the text you copy is not removed. A Free application called ClipboardFusion makes this possible for you.

ClipboardFusion 

What is ClipboardFusion ?

ClipboardFusion is a small freeware nifty application which sits in your system tray and monitors your clipboard and when ever it finds any text in the windows clipboard it will srub ( “clean” ) that text, to remove all formatting.

Let see some more ClipboardFusion offers in features.