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useful software's

Backup flickr account photos

If for any reason you want to backup all the photos you had uploaded to flickr, there are lots of free tools available which lets you backup all your flickr uploaded photos easily.

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When it comes to backup of flickr account it could be case when you are moving to a new computer, or may be you want to backup all the photos and then store them on cd/dvd

Out of all the free tools available we have selected two of them which are best and easy to use out of all the tools. One of the tool is Downloadr and other one is Flickr Backup and both of them are free.

Let’s discuss about these tools one by one and do a comparative review in between them.

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useful software's

Hide Start Button On Taskbar

Start button is the most frequently clicked button in windows but on the other hand some windows users will agree that it takes some valuable desktop space which can be utilized otherwise.

Today, We will tell you how can remove the start button form your desktop and make it invisible from your eyes with a free utility called Start Killer

Taskbar with Start Button

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Taskbar without Start Button

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After removing start button from taskbar you will get more space on the taskbar to store more opened windows and applications.

Let’s see how can you remove the start button from taskbar or in other words make start button invisible on the start menu.

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vista hacks

Get Windows Seven Like Start Menu on Vista and XP

VSE7 is a FREE program which lets make your windows Vista or XP start menu look like windows seven. It lets you emulate all those effects of windows seven start menu on your windows vista and xp start menu.

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VSE7 will provide some great features windows seven start menu like enhanced UI with better effects like blur, recent items list and pinning and application rating system.

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tips & tricks

Hide Name In Start Menu In Windows

Hide Name In Start Menu is another free utility by intelliadmin which lets you hide your name on the windows start menu at the top in windows xp

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As Shown in the screenshot above you can see one with user name not hidden in the start menu and the second snapshot does not have the start menu text as username.

There are two methods with which you can remove or hide your name in start menu.

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internet hacks & tips

IE 7 Tweak Utility – Tweak Internet Explorer 7

With IE 7 Tweak Utility from intelliadmin you can easily tweak and change the look and feel of Internet Explorer 7.

IE 7 Tweak utility lets you tweak some of things associated with Internet Explorer 7.

IE 7 tweak Utility

IE 7 Tweak Utility allows you to hide the search bar, Hide the File Menu and Hide the Command bar

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useful software's

3 Ways To Free Up Your Disk Space

For those who are noticing the some what delay in my posting frequency I would like reveal, I have recently purchased a new iPhone 3G 😛 so was more excited in playing with my new iPhone. But from now on I will be disciplined again and will be posting frequently.

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Today, I have come up with three amazing free softwares which help analyse files sizes more deeply and helps you free up your disk space. All these program which I am going to mention will be very helpful to clean the drives which are running out of space.

Let’s discuss about all these programs one by one and have a comparative review among these free tools to free up the disk space.

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useful software's

Download Free Extended Task Manager For Windows

Windows Task Manager is not sufficient when you want to know the in depth details of the running programs on your computer like disk analysis, detailed network utilisation data, locate a running process.

Free Extended Task Manager allows you implement all these functionalities in your windows task manager

Disk Input/Output Analysis – To monitor which applications utilize most of your disk at the moment

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Network Port Monitoring – Lets you see who is connected to different ports of your computer and which server ports you are connected.

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announcements

Winners Of Merry Christmas Giveaway Contest

We have the names for all the winners of the Merry Christmas Giveaway Contest at Technix Update. Contest ran for 5 days and collected around 60 comments and Firstly I would like to thank all the readers for participating and subscribing with us. 🙂

The contest prizes includes the following softwares, I used The Hat for deciding the names of the winners.

1. Demo Creator – Demo Creator is a screen recording software to create software tutorials, demos and online help video for web sharing and technical support by screen recording and screen capture.

Winner Of Demo Creator – Raj 

2. A Squared Anti Malware – It Keeps your PC free from Trojans,  Bots, Viruses/Worms, Keyloggers, Dialer and  Spyware/Adware with the power of two major scan engines

Winner Of A Squared Anti Malware – Herman Schouten

3. Mamutu Anti Malware – Monitors live all active programs for dangerous behavior (Behavior Blocking).Recognizes new and unknown Trojans, Worms and Viruses (Zero-Day attacks), without daily updates.Small but very powerful. Saves resources and does not slow the PC down.

Winner Of Mamutu Anti Malware – Jude008

4. Winner Of Bumper Prize

Windows Vista Business Edition License – Harshad

Congrats to all the winners of the competition and thanks to all others readers who participated better luck next time. 🙂 Will be mailing the license key and download link to the softwares shortly