EasyDeskTicker is a freeware application for Windows that allows users to have a news line at the bottom of their desktop. The news is carried from various websites and blogs on the web through feeds.

How Can This Be Useful To Me?

1. If you are a blogger, like me then you will be having an eye on the trending topics to blog about. This application delivers the trending feeds right onto your desktop.
2. If you’re a business man, you can use this to get information about fluctuations in the market immediately.
3. Well, even if you are a typical computer user it is important to be updated with news around the world. So, this can be useful for everyone.

Features:

This application has plenty of customizable options. You can change the look and size of the ticker/news line that runs at the bottom of the screen. You can customize the feeds you want to view and also add your own feeds. You can also control the speed of the ticker using a slider.

You have two languages to view the feeds, German and English. It has a few presets for the placement and look of ticker. If you didn’t like any of them you can set your even have the privilege width and height

While the ticker is running you can click on it to view the complete news. The link will open in your default web browser. Coming to the size of the application, it is very tiny. It just occupies about 3-4 MB of your hard disk space.

Overall, this is a nice application to use if you want to be updated with the news happening around the world right on your desktop.

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SEO I Did To This Post

SEO Title: Get Live News On Computer | Live Cricket Scores, Stock Market Updates, Hot Trends

I researched on this title. There was not enough search volume for most of the titles I gave. However, I got a little good response for the title above. So added it.

SEO Excerpt: Get live news on computer desktop. Live cricket scores, stock market updates and hot trends right on your desktop with EasyDeskTicker.

I included the keywords like cricket scores, stock market updates and so on. This might get me some traffic. However, I am not sure because there is a tough competition with these keywords.

SEO Tags: get live news on computer, live news feed on desktop, live cricket scores on desktop

Mouse Extender is a quick launch tool that helps you to launch your favorite applications, or even access your important files and folders with a single click. This application is not just a typical quick-launch tool. It has even more extra-ordinary options, that you may not be expecting from it. Today, we will have a look at some unique features of this tool.

Creating Tabs

What would you expect a “middle-click application” to have? Just a simple box, that holds all rubbish? No, you are wrong. This application has an option to create tabs. You can make a set of your important docs in one tab, and create a new tab for your favorite games and so on.

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Adding Web Pages

Do you visit any site very often? You want  a website always at your fingertip? Then this feature will help you do that. You can enter URL of any webpage and add it into your quick-launch library.

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Customize The Added Icons Of Files And Folders

This is a superb feature. After adding an application or a file, you can even customize them. You can set a different icon, change the name and so on.

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Shutdown, Sleep Or Hibernate

A really awesome feature! You can even schedule hibernation, shutdown or even sleep time with this “so called SIMPLE” application. So, this acts even as a shutdown timer!

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I found this app to be very interesting and hope even you people will. This application gives its users more than expected. I have listed only the unique features of this applications. It still has numerous interesting features. Check them in this video.

SEO I Did To This Post

SEO Title: Shut Down Download Timer Cum Quick Launcher Tool For Windows – Mouse Extender

Yes, this is somewhat a ridiculous title. I have inserted the keyword, “shutdown timer” in the title. There is a very strong reason for this which I am going to let you know today.

SEO TIP: Always analyze the keywords you use in the titles using, Google Insights for Search. This is a tool that helps you to see the search intensity of any keyword you enter. I will teach you how to use this tool with this example.

First of all, I entered three keywords related to my posts, quick launch tool, quick launch program, quick launcher. Quick launcher got the highest number. [Check this link if you want]. After doing this, I even wanted toadd the Shut down timer feature in the title. So I searched it along with these three. To my surprise, I found that “shutdown timer” was more trending that all the three.[Check this link]

This is the reason why I have used “shutdown timer” at the beginning and  then “quick launcher tool”. So, today you have learned how to use a new tool, Google Insights for search!

SEO Excerpt: Here is a simple tool that acts as a shutdown timer cum quick launch tool. You can schedule shutdown, hibernate or sleep timer using this tool. But it is basically a quick launch tool

I have used two main keywords here. “shutdown timer” and “quick launch tool”. These are the main keywords that bring traffic as well as highlight my post content.

SEO Tags: shutdown timer, computer timer, timer download, pc shutdown timer, shutdown timer vista, quick launch tool, quick launch toolbar

It needs a little bit of explanation here. I have taken these keywords from the Google Insights for Search analysis. This would get me more traffic because I have exactly aimed at what people have searched for and will search for.

This is a new product released by StarDock, a reputed company. This application helps you to arrange your icons in the desktop in a categorized and nice way. This is a freeware application. Fences arranges your desktop icons into categories and makes them look cleaner than on the normal desktop.

For example, if you have ste of documents that you access daily on your desktop, you can name them as “Editing Currently” and make a category of them. Likewise, you can group My Computer, My Documents and My Network Places into a single place. It is just like putting fences to your files and folders on the desktop.

Another interesting feature of this product is, it hides the desktop icons when not in use. If you want to view it again, just double-click on the desktop.You can watch a video of this amazing application here.

Fences is compatible for all the three versions of Windows (Windows XP, WIndows Vista, Windows 7). Here are some screenshots that you can have a look at:

Download Fences Here

It is tweaked in such a way that its efficiency should increase far more than Windows 7 OS. I feel that the tweaked version is better than the usual Windows 7.

It has been added some features such as:

1. Error Reporting
2. Help
3. Natural language
4. Parental Controls
5. Tablet Pc
6. Windows Easy Transfer
7. Music and Video Samples
8. Games
9. Speech Support
10. All Languages (only English is left)
11. Natural Language

It contains not only addons and removals, but also some of the bugs in Windows 7 has been removed in this OS.

Also, a long list of features have been added in this OS. Here is the complete list of all features and applications added to this OS:

1. New Windows 7 Themes
2. New Start Button
3. 5 new FFVII dreamscene wallpapers
4. New Retro Arcade System Icons Integrated In System
5. 20+ New User Account Pics and other UA Pics from xDark
6. New Boot sound
7. New Logon Screen
8. New FFVII sephiroth dreamscene set as default wallpaper
9. Firefox 3.5.3 by neuropass
10. 7Zip
11. Perfect Disk
12. Eset Smart Security suite
13. Notepad changed to Notepad2
14. Foxit Reader
15. Crap Cleaner (with shell extensions)
16. Imgburn
17. Rapidshare AutoDownloader
18. Free download Manager
19. Adobe Shockwave player
20. Adobe Flash Player ActiveX
21. Bitlord 1.1
22. Sunrise (windows 7 tweaker)
23. Java Runtime Environment
24. Hash Check Shell extension
25. Image Resizer

It has also got some of the cPanel addons to for developers and programmers:

1. Core Temp
2. CPU-Z
3. GPU-Z
4. HWMoniter
5. PC WIZARD
6. Runalyzer
7. Startup Editor
8. IP config manager
9. TCP/IP Patch

This is the best OS for a gamer as it has everything in it.

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This is an app that helps you to post desktop screen-shots to Twitter. This is a very lightweight app that you can download and install in just 2 seconds!! This app helps you to post screen-shots to Twitter. It rests in the task bar with other icons when you are not working on it.

If you want to post from it, all you have got to do is double click on the tray icon and a box as shown in the picture will appear. Again double-click and it will ask you to update it to Twitter. It is mainly associated with 5 sites: Twitpic, Twitgoo, yfrog, Pitchur and Posterous. You can select any one of the above site and post it there. Your job’s done!!!:)

Tip: You can just use the hotkey for taking screenshots: ctrl + Shift + Z

This is a software that is worth a review. I liked this software very much and I also use it. Hope you too like this after reading this post or may be after using it.

VSO Image Resizer helps you to resize images to your custom area or to the presets that are given. This is a free software that is available for download on internet at this link.

The Features:

• It has many presets with itself if you don’t want to choose your own image length and width. Some of the presets are like normal resolutions suitable for laptops and different types of monitors. Some other unique presets are: Iphone, Iphone photo, Iphone video and Sony PSP resolutions.
• Apart from resizing, you also have option to convert images while resizing. Some of the formats that are present: (.BMP) (.GIF) (.PNG) (.JPG) (TIF).
• You can also set the quality of the output photos in comparison with the original.
• You can also add effects to images like Sepia, Borders, Inverting colours, Grayscale Conversion and Watermark Integration too!!
• This also enlarges (resizes) images to the destined length. Not only making images smaller. (It enlarges images only if it is within the resolution.

This is a great software with good interface too. It has got a very easy-to-use interface and also compatible for any lower version computers. Try this out and be sure to leave comments here. We love discussion here.

Download link: VSO Image Resizer

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This is a new extra-ordinary service launched by StumbleUpon site. ctually this was released in Beta last month. This is a multi-purpose service on the web that enables a typical Twitter and Facebook user in many ways. This service includes many tasks like:

1. URL shortening in the name su.pr.
2. Posting on twitter from StumbleUpon.
3. Posting on FaceBook from StumbleUpon.
4. Real-time Stats about the clicks of your posts and tweets.
5. Schedule the posts.

Apart from these it also has a wordpress plugin and also bookmarklet. This service enables you to look at the real time click statistics of the posts you publish. You can access this with your existing StumbleUpon account.

It also has a bookmarklet that helps you to shorten any URL on any web-page which is compatible to all the browsers. Thanks to StumbleUpon for such a great service.

Remove the close button from tabs:

You can remove the close buttons on hte right side of the tabs which is frustrating sometimes that you close them while moving from one tab to another. Type “about:config” (without inverts) in the address bar (where you type the address like www.google.com). You will get a screen of preferences. In that, using the Quick Find, type in “close”. You will get the list. Look for “Show Close Buttons” and uncheck it. Your work is done. Restart Opera. You wont see the close buttons any more on the tab.

Close Tabs by Double-clicking on them:

If you are tired of clicking on the small close tab button or right-clicking in the tabs, then here is is a simple tweak that helps you to change the option. As I said earlier go to preference editor. Again search for “close”. Now look for “Double Click to Close Tab” option and uncheck it. Save the changes. Restart. Your work is done.

Remove The Default Browser Dialog Box That Appears At Start:

This is a very good trick to make Opera open up faster. The default browser setup dialog box that apperas at the start makes the browser to load a lot slower. You can stop that box from coming. You can do this in the same preference editor as I had told earlier. In that search for “default browser”. You will get a option named “Show Default browser dialog”. Uncheck this. Restart Opera and you can see that there wont be any prompt for amking the browser default and there will be a considerable increase in speed.

Strikethrough opened link:

In the Preferences Editor, search as “strike”. You will get two branches “Link” and “Visited Link”. Check the strike-through option and restart frefox. The next time you visit a link you will see that the visited link is stroked off.