A while back, I saw a video of this cross-platform(Java) project from MIT called Sikuli that allowed you to automate anything by just taking screenshots and writing simple scripts. I was amazed by the idea and implementation. It’s powerful and useful to automate mundane tasks which involve GUI (Graphical User Interfaces) and also allows you to simply send Sikuli scripts to help your friends and...

Ever needed information on the different versions of Microsoft .NET that are installed on a machine. Both programmers and end users would find it useful to know what versions of the .NET framework is on their computers so they know which software can be run. Here’s a useful tool from ASoft to do so. .NET Version Detector 2010 Download: http://www.asoft.be/prod_netver.html [ASoft] ASoft .NET Version...

My favorite arc hiver and one of the first software i install when i do a fresh installation of my operating system is 7-zip, a popular open source, free compression software. Here’s 5 of the top reasons why I like the software. Download: http://www.7-zip.org/ [via SourceForge] 1. It’s free and open source, beat that! There’s no free lunch in this world. Well, there sure is with 7-zip. 7-zip...

Ever wanted to cut out a portion of the video or make a collage of various smaller videos and didn’t know how to? In this article we’ll explore some software (mostly free ones) which allow us to split and merge various kinds of videos (avi, mpeg. etc). Easy Video Splitter (Free) Easy Video Splitter can help you split large AVI/DivX, MPEG(MPG) or WMV/ASF file into smaller video clips. It provides...

WPF, the Windows Presentation Foundation, comes with the excellent functionality of having animation built in to the framework. What better and easier animation that looks cool but doesn’t take much to do then the fade in and fade out of your forms. Its a set and forget animation as it just plays with the opactiy of you form. Here we’ll see how to use the storyboards to create the fade effects....

Ever wanted to integrate the functionality of the desktop based Microsoft Office with the powerful online suite, Google Docs? Ever wanted an alternative to Office Online or are so used to Google Docs you don’t want to migrate? OffiSync delivers real-time collaboration and document sharing right from where you like to work. Adding the collaboration capabilities of Google Apps as a Microsoft Office...

Here are my 5 recommendations for useful and innovative online software services and web applications that have taken advantage of web 2.0 technologies to create powerful and dynamic productivity software which we never imagined possible online. With HTML 5 and Silverlight coming up, expect more in the next year. Aviary Online image editing at it’s best. Aviary is a suite of powerful creative...

Windows Live Messenger in Windows Vista and XP used to appear solely in the notification area and we’ve gotten so used to it. Old habits die hard and it just seems so weird that it now appears in the super bar in Windows 7. Here’s a step-by-step guide to set it to appear in the notification area only and not the super bar. Windows Live Messenger in the notification area. Windows Live Messenger...

This is a short review and round up of code hosting and project hosting facilities for open source software development projects. Here we list the top five services in no order of preference.If you’re new to such stuff, open source projects can be hosted for free on these sites and you can upload your code to a repository, there is a versioning system, some offer web hosting, you’re added to...

LookInMyPC System Inspector is a useful tool that generates a report of numerous settings and system information (a PC profiler and diagnostic tool). The report is generated in HTML format and you can select which information to put in the report. LookInMyPC is useful if you want to just generate a report and mail it to yourself or print it out so that you can refer to it when you need to diagnose...