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RamDisk – Create A Virtual RAM Storage Drive On RAM Memory

RamDisk or RAM-Disk is a FREE to use software which lets you create a virtual storage drive which is very much similar to other logical drives on your computer and more faster in operation with access time of files greatly improved. You can access the files or folders located on your drive very faster as compared to the hard disk drives.

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As shown in the above you can choose the size of the RAM drive you want to create in between the standard sizes starting from 360kb to 3gb, choose the media type in between RAM Drive, Fixed Media or Removable Media  – that means that RAM drive will be simulating a hard drive which works is the best way as it displays the new drive under My Computer for easy access.

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Hide Your Data Inside BMP, PNG and TIFF Image File Format

Hide&Reveal is a open source free stenography tool which lets you hide any type of data including your files and folders inside the image of BMP, PNG and TIFF format. The program is distributed user GNU General Public License so you can modify the program and distribute it anywhere among your friends too.

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This program is quite simple to use to hide and reveal the data inside images, here is how you can hide or reveal data inside the images with this tool.

Tip:  Trick To Hide Files Inside A BMP Image

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Iconoid – Hide Desktop Icons Automatically As Per Mouse Cursor Position

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.

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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

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Hack To Hide All or Specific Icon In System Tray

A reader of asked us how can he hide a specific icon in system tray or all the icons in system tray. We had already written about a free application called MagicTray which lets you hide all the icons in single click in the system tray.

But still if you are interested in the geeky way of hiding the system tray icons, here it is, this can be easily implemented with a small registry hack.

Lets discuss the trick to hide all the system tray icons in system tray and how to hide specific icons in system tray.

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PushMonitorOff – Free Monitor Turn Off Application – Turn Off Your Monitor With Keyboard Shortcut

PushMonitorOff is one such cool application which lets you turn off monitor quickly with a keyboard shortcut, but why would you want to turn off your monitor ?

Sometimes when you just want to turn off the monitor and keep the other applications running, it could be required as you may be leaving your seat in office for specific amount of time but you want the programs keep running.

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This could be really good idea if you want to conserve some energy and save the environment around you, the default keyboard shortcut to turnoff your laptop or desktop monitor is Shift+F1

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ThunderFix – Fix Slow Thunderbird To Run Faster

ThunderFix is a small FREE tool which cleans the junk in thunderbird and improves the thunderbird performance to a great extent. This tool could be of great help specially if you are facing slow start time in thunderbird.

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ThunderFix detects all the .msf files with in your thunderbird profile and removes them, so the next time when you run thunderbird it will generate the new MSF files and you will see the improvement in the thunderbird startup time.

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iExporter – Export iTunes Playlist

iExporter is a small FREE program which allows you to export the iTunes playlist to any location on your computer, this way you can make your iTunes playlist available to other media players and other devices like USB Stick, SD Card or any other mp3 player.

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It will export all the native mp3 files on your computer, as most of the media playing devices around does not support playing the native iTunes files.

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CopyPath – Copy Full File and Folder Path In XP and Vista Via Context Menu

It is actually required some times when you may need the full path to a specific file or folder while working on a windows operating system, you may need a full path to a folder to paste into command prompt for some reason.

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Adding a folder or file path to the command is not that much easy as you will need to specific modifications to make that work with the command you typed at the command prompt.

The first utility in this category is CopyPath which is a free program which is designed as a explorer extension as it adds one of the most basic functionality of coping the full directory or application path to any file and folder.

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