Jonny from Jonnys Blog left a comment few days back on my Previous Post Broken Links Remover – A must Wordpress Plugin. He mentioned a freeware tool that can check all the broken links of any website. I took a look at that freeware software. It is a great tool to use for all the webmasters.

Xenu’s Link Sleuth is a freeware tool to check Broken Links of your website. It uses multi-threading to scan broken links. Hence, it is very fast compared to any other link checking software. Given the URL of the website, It can come up with all the broken links withe the details like title, type, size etc. It does all this pretty quickly.

How to use Xenu’s Link Sleuth

1. Download and install the program
2. Run the program and enter the URL of the website which you want to check
3. Now it will check for all links like normal links, images, backgrounds, style sheets, scripts and java applets.

Find Broken Links of any website. Image Credit : Xenu’s Link Sleuth

After this, It will display a continuously updated list of URLs which it has scanned so far. You can sort the list based on a certain criteria. Since, it also displays the size of each page / image, you could use this tool to check any fat pages and large images and try to optimize them to reduce the page size and the load time.

It will also scan and list out all the In-bound links and Out-bound links so you know which of your pages are most linked and contain the most outgoing links. It also displays the Missing titles and Missing Alt Text for images. This way you can find out the problems and fix it to improve your SEO score.

A full report can also be generated which can be used.

I liked this tool very much because of it’s Mult-purpose usage. Its main purpose is to find Broken Links, But as you saw in above, It can be also used to find Missing Title and Missing Alt text and can be used to improve SEO score. It can be also used to find out any fat pages and large images.

If you want to improve your SEO for your Blog or Site, then do read this:

– Increase Blogs internal linking using SEO Smart Links Plugin

– How to Show different posts for Search Engine Visitors

I recommend each and every WebMasters / Blogger to use this tool and if you know any other tool. Do share it.

Download Xenu’s Link Sleuth

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If you are staying in a big family, then you would have definitely faced this problem. You want to listen to music or watch a movie on your PC / laptop. But you also want that nobody in your family should be disturbed. What do you do then?

I have purchased a Wireless Headphone. But it is costly.

I have found another way that can be a cheaper option, if you already have iPhone or iPod Touch.

AudioIn – WiFi wireless headphone for iPhone/iPod Touch

Turn iPod Touch or iPhone to Wireless Headphone

AudioIn can turn your iPhone / iPod Touch into a wireless HiFi stereo headphone.

AudioIn comes with free AudioServer with which you can transmit the non-DRM audio output from any application running on Windows Vista (i.e. Windows Media Player, Media Center, and iTunes etc.) wirelessly to iPhone/iPod Touch. This way you can be away from your PC / laptop but can still listen to your music on your iPhone/iPod

The AudioServer application captures the audio output from any running applications and transmits that captured audio wirelessly to AudioIn on your iPhone/iPod Touch. AudioServer application should be running on your iPod Touch or iPhone.

Requirements for AudioIn

1. iPhone or iPod Touch with firmware version 2.2.1.
2. iPhone 3G has to switch to WiFi mode.
3. Any PC or laptop running Vista (all version).
4. iPhone/iPod Touch and the the AudioReceiver PC must be on the same subnet.
5. The AudioServer application must be downloaded and installed on your PC.

They are providing a free version of software that can be downloaded. Download and try it, if you like it then go for full version by purchasing it. For more details, Click here

I faced problems setting up AudioIn because my laptop doesn’t have Stereo Mix under Recording option. If you face the same problem, then check these below two posts:

– No “Stereo Mix” recording option – Here are Few Solutions

– Use Virtual Audio Cable (VAC) to solve missing stereo-mix problem

Technorati Tags: wireless, wifi, stereo headphone, stereo mix, audioin, software, hardware

Sysinternals team from Microsoft has released a tool for windows called Desktops.

Microsoft Virtual Desktop Manager – 4 Virtual Desktops

Using this tool you can have four virtual desktops at the same time. You can have multiple applications running and arrange related programs/applications in one desktop window. multimedia and chat applications on another virtual desktop window. This will make managing your desktop easy.

The software runs in your Windows taskbar. And you can very easily switch from one virtual desktop to another by pressing the keyboard shortcut or through your mouse.

Microsoft has long offered virtual desktop manager as an XP Power toy but the newer one is very light and also compatible with Windows Vista.

You can run up to four desktops using this application. It comes as a self executable file, meaning there is no installation, you could even carry it with your USB drive. This is quite useful for users who run lot of programs at the same time, you can do all your browsing in desktop 1 and listen to music in desktop 2, etc.

Sysinternals Desktop Hotkey Configuration

Virtual desktop manager sits in your system tray, you can switch desktops using hot keys or with your mouse.

Download Desktops

Via Technology Bits

You should also try the following free tools :

• Taskbar Shuffle – Rearrange Taskbar Buttons
• Best PC Optimization Tool – CCleaner
• Speed up your disk – Auslogics Disk Defrag

Technorati Tags: virtual desktop, virtual desktop manager, microsoft sysinternals

Most of us save Images, Pictures, Wallpapers in our PC from the Internet, CD’s, Friend’s PC or photos taken from our Digital Camera. Most of us love to have a collection of beautiful images, pictures in any format like jpeg, bmp, gif or any other extension. After some days, months and years, your hard drive will have hundreds and thousands of images. And definitely there might be duplicate ones lying around on your drives eating up your hard disk space.

Today, i want to share a tool that i am using from last 4-5 years. With this tool, you can remove the duplicate pictures.

The tool is DupDetector, its a free ware. Click DupDetector to download it.

Below are the screen shots that show you the steps to find and remove duplicate images/pictures:

1. First select the method for comparing images/pictures from the method tab.



2. Click on Get data tab and click on Open… button and select the folder that contains all the images that you want to compare and then click Build.. button. The building of data file takes some time, so have a cup of tea or coffee and come back.



3. Click on Find dups tab and change the percentage if you want. I would recommend keep it as it is and proceed to next step.



4. Click on View dups tab and Click on Find dups button , It will show up all the duplicate images that are lying on your drive. Now Simply choose one out of the two duplicate images to remove it. The removed files will be moved to recycle bin. Thats it…

In this way, i have removed a lot of duplicate images/pictures and got back hard disk space that was taken up by duplicate images.

Hope you all find it useful. Pour in with your feedback by posting comments.

Today, i am going tell what is torrent all about and a guide to download files using Torrents.

What is Torrent ?

Torrent is also called as BitTorrent. Torrent is a technology that is used to distribute large amounts of data widely without incurring the corresponding consumption in costly server and bandwidth resources. It is a Peer to Peer P2P technology.
More on this at Torrent

More explanation to non-techies:

As i said before, Torrent is P2P technology. It enables us to share files with our peers. Suppose A has a file and wants to share it with others. Using Torrents, B can download the file from A’s computer. Now, if C wants to download it, he can do it from A and B as B has the file too. Now if another user D wants to download it, he can do it from A, B and C. Even if A stops sharing it (this can happen when A goes off from the network, switches off his computer or intentionally wants to stop sharing it), D can still download it from B and C.

Torrent network is very vast. So normally, if you want to download a file that is popular, many users will be sharing it for you.

Terms used in Torrents world:

Seeding : Sharing is called seeding, From the above example. A,B,C are seeders.
Leaching : Downloading is called leaching. From the above example. D was leacher.

What is required to start downloading?

1. Torrent Client Software
2. A Torrent Search Engine Site
3. A Torrent file. (A file with .torrent extension)

Below is the step by step guide to download stuff using torrents ( I have used BitComet torrent client software as an example):

Torrent Clients:

1. BitComet ( My Favourite one) – BitComet
2. uTorrent ( Most popular and light weight. needs very less memory. I tried, but i use Bit Comet) – uTorrent
3. Bit tornado: – BitTornado
4. Azureus – Azureus

Where to get torrent files:

1. Torrent Spy
2. Mininova
3. The Pirate Bay
4. IsoHunt

Private torrent sites:

Private torrent are great place to download and share the stuff you need. You really get good speeds and get a variety of files.

The torrent sites that I visit are:

BwTorrents ( you find hindi/bollywood movies, Telugu/Tamil/many more regional movies, Cricket torrents too)
DesiTorrents ( you find hindi/bollywood movies, Telugu/Tamil/many more regional movies, Cricket torrents too )
Demonoid

All the above sites requires invites before you can create an account, if you guys need invites to bwtorrents or desitorrents or demonoid, post your email id, I will see if you can be invited in case I have an invite.

Desi torrent sites:
DesiTorrents ( I download most of the latest movies from here.)
BwTorrents

If you have any doubts, post comments.

Hope this guide was useful

– How to find Private BitTorrent Sites Open for Signups

– How to Optimize Torrent Client for Faster Torrent Download Speeds

– Private Torrent Trackers