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How to set CapsLock, NumLock and ScrollLock Keys On/Off using Windows Registry Tweak

Wednesday, March 11th, 2009

Most of the Windows users have preference on whether “CapsLock”, “NumLock” or “ScrollLock” keys should be turned on or off after Windows has started.

I prefer NumLock to be in On status and CapsLock in Off status after windows has completed started.

What if your preference is not same as the default settings that Windows? Below is the tip by which you can do changes in Windows Registry to permanently change the settings according to your preference!

Below are the steps to change the ON/OFF Status of CapsLock, NumLock and ScrollLock Keys:
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11.03.2009 How-To, Microsoft, TipsNTricks 12 Comments

How to Surf Web Anonymously – 25 Web Proxies

Thursday, March 5th, 2009

Most of us know that most of the sports, torrents, bookmarking, social networking, dating sites are blocked in places like School, college, universities and work places. What if you have no work at office or no classes at college and want to surf these sites?

There are ways to access restricted or blocked sites. One way is the use of proxy server to get through the firewall and have access the restricted sites.
How to Surf Web Anonymously - 25 Web Proxies
I some times get free time at office and like to surf websites anonymously. To do that, I use web proxy sites that allowed to do anonymous browsing.

The advantage of web proxies is that it protect your identity online. They hide your IP address and enable you to surf the web under their location. I have tried out lot of web proxy services to access blocked sites. Below, I am listing out 25 web proxies. Give it a try. It may work or may not.

How to surf Web using Web Proxies – 25 Web Proxies

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05.03.2009 How-To, TipsNTricks, Web 19 Comments

How to add Image Reflections using PicReflect

Thursday, February 26th, 2009

Most of the blogs use images to convey the message of the post, even i do. But, i have seen few bloggers adding something to the image to give a good look like adding image reflection. I always wondered on how to do this. I don’t know how to use Adobe Photoshop or any other graphics App.

Recently, i figured out a web service which allows use to add reflections to the image. It is very simple, easy and can be done very quickly.
Picreflect - Add reflection to images
PicReflect is a free web app that allows you to add reflection effect to your images, with no Photoshop knowledge needed.

Just go to that site, select the right options and upload the image. Hit ‘Generate’ button and you are good to go. You can also configure options like transparency, mirror effect, height, rotation angle and background color.

If you know any other tool which has more options than this. Do share it!

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26.02.2009 How-To 16 Comments

Resize Images using PIXresizer

Tuesday, February 24th, 2009

I have found lot of freeware tools and web services which offer image resizing and image conversion.

Today, i found a tool. I liked it and would like to share with you.

PIXresizer, a free photos resizer

With this you can easily create web and e-mail friendly versions of your images with reduced file sizes. It can automatically recognize image sizes to calculate the best fit and supports popular image formats like JPEG, GIF, BMP, PNG and TIFF.

When you resize an image, the new re sized image is saved in a different folder leaving the original image unchanged. It offers lot of resizing methods to choose from and can automatically recognize image sizes to calculate the best fit.

It has also a conversion in-built which can convert images to these formats (JPEG, GIF, BMP, PNG and TIFF), rotate images, convert to grayscale and resize multiple images in batch mode.

I found this very useful especially when i put images in the blog posts. The feature i like the most is Resize images in bulk
Resize Images using Pix Resizer

PIXresizer Features

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24.02.2009 How-To, Utilities 8 Comments

How to Kill Tasks from Command Prompt

Monday, February 23rd, 2009

Few days back, my laptop with Windows XP OS started giving problems. Moreover, i was unable to open the Task Manager. I rely on Task Manager to kill the non responding processes.

I started searching for other ways to Kill the Tasks (with out Task Manager). After a while, i found an alternative solution which works on Windows XP operating system. You can view all the processes running on your system via command prompt and kill them!

Kill Tasks or Processes from Command Prompt

  1. Open Command Prompt via Start -> Run… and type cmd and hit Enter.
  2. After Command prompt is opened, type “tasklist”
  3. Check below the list of processes or task running on my Laptop. Each row has process name and PID number.
    Kill Tasks from Command Prompt
  4. Note down the PID number of the Process you want to kill. For ex: PID number : 716, Process Name : GoogleUpdate.exe
  5. To kill the process or task, Type “tskill” (without the quotes) then space and the PID number.
    For ex: c:\> tskill 718
  6. The above command will kill the Process with PID number 718

In this way, you could kill the process or do lots of other things from command prompt that you can do with Task Manager.

Hope you liked this trick. If you have any other tricks. Do share by leaving a comment!

23.02.2009 How-To, Microsoft, TipsNTricks 19 Comments

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