Category: tips & tricks

CloseMany is one such tiny utility which can act as a replacement for task manager in windows, with this simple task manager type application you can kill multiple process and services in single go, you just need to select all process you want to kill and then press the kill button at the top of the application.

I have a habit to kill some programs in windows time to time so that to keep the CPU free from getting used by some irrelevant process which keep wasting the memory and CPU all the time.

But neither it is task manager or process explorer cannot kill more than one task or process running at a time. This restriction of these programs makes the overall activity quite tedious and time consuming.

Windows Live Writer is one such amazing web publishing software I have been using for a long time now, from the day I switched to windows live writer, I have rarely written any post in the wordpress web editor.

From the first day I have been using the windows live writer, I always wanted to have a portable version of windows live writer so that I can carry it on the move and take it anywhere I like to on my portable drive.

But there is a process involved with which you can make the portable version of windows live writer for you, read on further to know more.

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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.

Iconoid is a cool free application which let you hide the desktop icons automatically as per mouse cursor position, it will let you see the desktop wallpaper by making all the desktop icons invisible automatically when the mouse cursor is moved away from the desktop area to any other program window. When ever you move mouse on the desktop area it will again show up all the icons on the desktop with in a second.

Moreover this small program will let you perform lot more functions and which includes Save and Restore Desktop Icons Positions, Make Your Desktop Icons Background Transparent, Select any color for icon text. You can also make desktop icons to always hide the desktop icons.

Similar Tip: Hide your desktop icons in a double click with hide icons