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iphone tips

Backup iPhone Safari Bookmarks On Your Computer

It very easy to replace bookmarks stored your computer in safari or internet explorer to your iPhone but this way iTunes will delete all the bookmarks stored in the safari browser on your iPhone and overwrite with all the bookmarks on your phone.

iphone-safari

But what if you want to backup all your safari bookmarks so that you can restore them on your iPhone by syncing next time after firmware upgrade. It was some what different case with me, as I want to backup all the safari bookmarks on my iPhone so that I can restore them back after jail breaking my iPhone 3g.

Lets see how can you backup all your iPhone safari bookmarks on your computer browser including Safari or Internet Explorer

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windows hacks

Delete / Replace System Files in Windows

It happens some times when some of the windows system files got corrupted with time due to various reasons.

If you want to delete a system file in Windows XP you may be able to do it easily just by renaming the system file and just refresh the folder view. After refresh windows XP will create the missing file automatically or otherwise you will need to close and reopen the explorer window for that folder.

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But In Windows Vista you can delete or replace a system files, even with administrative privileges. The default windows service called TrustedInstaller protects all the system files by default which will keep protecting the system files and prevent it from getting overwritten.

Today we will tell you how to replace or delete system files in windows both manually and by using software.

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useful software's

Free Word 2007 Docx and OpenOffice Swx To Rtf Format Converter

It really becomes a big problem some times when you receive a Microsoft Word 2007 docx document or an OpenOffice Swx document which you can read, as you neither have office 2007 installed nor open office installed on your computer.

You may have office 2003 or later which can’t read any of the above mentioned format files, so best option is to change default extension while saving in word 2007 to doc.

Docx-Converter

However there are some solutions available to solve this problem like some online converter services like zamzar.com and others. Even Microsoft has released a compatibility pack for office 2003 which lets you read office 2007 docx documents in office 2003, you can download the compatibility pack from here.

But In short all these ways to convert docx documents or downloading the compatibility pack needs takes time, which you don’t have some times if it is an important document to read quickly.

So, we will suggest you a free utility NW Docx Converter, NW Docx Converter is a FREE application designed to convert Word 2007 Docx and OpenOffice Swx and Odt files to universal RTF format.

Let’s discuss the features of NW Docx Converter 

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windows 7

Windows 7: Hide Action Center Notification Messages (For Geeks)

This would be my first post on windows 7, I have just installed windows 7 beta after downloading it with in 2 days at my patehic internet speed, After downloading I managed to burn the DVD with my laptop DVD writer and then made my Old Dvd Writer on the desktop to read the dvd any how. But now I am happy as I am writing my first post about Windows 7 from Windows 7 itself.

According to me Windows 7 seems to be an upgraded version of windows vista till now with some cool improvements and some buggy improvements including the Action Center which was previously known as  Security Center in Vista and XP.

Action Center Messages
Action Center Messages

Action Center is again a useful feature for windows 7 users which alerts you about the pending actions form your side after installing windows 7.

When I first noticed Action Center I was assuming that it would be some intelligent component embedded in Windows 7 this time which may be alerting you about the pending drivers you need to install in windows but very soon I realize that it is another Security Center type thing. It may be useful for layman people but not at all usefull for geeks.

Lets see how can you hide action center notifications on windows 7

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useful software's

Free Notebook Battery Monitor Application

Many times you feel the need to have a separate battery monitoring application on your laptop, as you tend to forget about the low status of your battery.

There are few FREE applications available on web which lets you monitor and alert you about the remaining battery status, we are going to review these applications today.

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There are two most simple and popular programs which will tell you how much power is remaining in your laptop battery. We have already written an artcle baout a FREE utility which alert on low battery on notebook.

Let’s discuss both of these programs one by one

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tips & tricks

Shortcut To Eject and Close CD/DVD Drive

Ejection of CD or DVD some times becomes tiring action as you need to physically press the button on the CD/DVD writer or reader to open the tray and then to close the tray also in some of the CD/DVD writer or reader.

Today, We will tell you how can you create shortcuts to eject and close the CD/DVD Tray and we will also share some FREE utilities which do the eject and close the CD/DVD Tray any time.   

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By Default Windows vista allows you to easily eject the CD/DVD Drive by right clicking the CD/DVD drive and select Eject in the context menu. But there is no Close Tray option to close the CD/DVD tray. But you add the option to close the tray using CloseTray.

In order to add the option Close Tray in the right click context menu follow the procedure given below.

1. Download closetray.zip and extract it.

2. Double-click closetray.reg to add it to registry.

closetray

Note: It may require restart for the settings to come into effect 

If you want to create desktop shortcut to eject or close CD/DVD drive tray then there are hell lot of ways to do that.

Lets discuss all of them one by one and some other utilities for the same purpose.

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useful software's

Drag n Drop Files and Folder Path To Command Window In Vista

Many times we want to open paste the path to the current folder we are browsing through windows explorer in vista, but when we try to drag and drop the folder or the file in command prompt we can’t do it as it not allowed in windows by default.

DropCommand is a small windows add on which lets you enable the features of draging and droping the files and folder path in windows command prompt.


You can drag and drop multiple files in window command prompt after installing and running DropCommand

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internet hacks & tips tips & tricks

Shutdown Your Computer Faster In One Click

After we are done with our work on our computer we want it to shutdown less effort and as faster as it can be. Today we will tell you all the ways not only to shutdown, restart or hibernate your computer faster in single click of the mouse.

Shutdown is a simple tool which lets you turn off your computer in single click.

self-shutdown

This utility gets installed and creates a shortcut on your desktop to run it and shutdown your computer, this shutdown utility runs a basic command in windows again but it asks to close if there are any running applications.

Download Shutdown

So, you can also create a shutdown shortcut on your desktop which will run the same command with which you can shutdown your computer in single click.