The DVDVideoSoft Free Studio is an ensemble of all their free stuff (23 to be precise), in one single program. We have already featured our pick of best free video converter, ripper software, best free dvd, cd burning software and also best free FLV converter, encoder software. However best these featured programs may be for a given job, it’s always desirable to have one single program that does everything you need, and DVDVideoSoft Free Studio satisfies this desire to a great extent. (more…)

Mac OSX users can now get their hands on Opera 10.5 Beta, which adds support for multi touch gestures, growl notifications, cocoa, and unified tool bar. Opera claims it’s latest browser to be the fastest, with a JavaScript speed improvement of 8 times more than it’s previous version. (more…)

It was not long ago that Opera 10.5 Beta with improved Windows 7 integration, was made publicly available. Now Opera 10.5 has a second Beta, with improved opera:config, some bug fixes including those for the context menu, widgets, and so on. (more…)

When you work on more than one PC, it becomes increasingly painful to carry your browser bookmarks each time on a USB flash drive or other medium. There are several good and free bookmark managers that let you easily switch between various browsers. However, you would still need to do installation and such other stuff to get going.  Fortunately Google Chrome has a very handy online synchronization tool. (more…)

Consider a scenario where you are trying to send a print job to a shared printer from your Windows 7 PC. Is the print job constantly failing? This situation arises for printer drivers based on Microsoft XML Paper Specification (XPS) or XPSDrv drivers. The reason for the print job failing could be due to a wrong setting for the printer under consideration. Here are the steps for correct configuration, as given by Microsoft KB980871. (more…)

When you try to pair your older Bluetooth mobile phone from within Windows 7 running on a lower end processor such as Intel Celeron or AMD Sempron, you may come across a situation wherein the pairing is not successful. Microsoft has acknowledged this problem, and provided a possible resolution for it. (more…)

Are you concerned about losing your privacy due to browsing history? One way to ensure privacy is to clean up all your browsing history from time to time either manually or using utilities such as CCleaner, NetGuard, etc. Or you could use ‘Private Browsing’ mode which deletes all browsing history when you exit the browser. (more…)

You regularly delete all your browsing history, including cookies and any search bar or address bar history. You even use private browsing mode so that everything gets automatically removed. No matter what browser you use, Firefox, IE, Chrome, or Opera, you may still leave behind traces, in the form of ‘Flash cookies’. (more…)

Aero Peek is a Windows 7 feature which lets you preview your desktop by simply hovering your mouse over the right edge of the taskbar. This is very useful, to get a quick glance at one of your desktop gadgets such as a feed reader, weather monitor, etc. Sometimes you may want to turn off Aero Peek when your laptop is running on battery, or wish to change it’s delay time for avoiding accidental ‘Peeks’. (more…)

Are you a sports fan and closely following the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics. Why not decorate your Windows 7 desktop with the Winter Olympics Mascot interactive desktop, and the high resolution wallpapers? Recently Microsoft has released the official Samsung Winter Sports theme for Windows 7. The Vancouver Winter Olympics official site has made available a set of wallpapers and an interactive desktop application for download. (more…)