• Open any folder. Press ‘Alt’ button to get the menu bar on top.
• In that go to “Folder Options”, under “Tools” .
• Under the “View” tab, check the option “Reopen previously opened folders”.
• Click “Apply” and “OK”.

That’s it. The next time you switch on your computer, these folders will automatically open for you. In my opinion, this feature can be a little annoying. AFAIK, I don’t see much of a need to keep folders always open. However I do think that it can be handy when there are frequent power cuts.

Open in Chrome migrates all tabs from Firefox to Google Chrome, in just a jiffy. All you need to do is click on “Tools”>”Open in Google Chrome”. But before that, you need to set the location of you Google Chrome browser under the “Preferences”. It will automatically ask you to do this, when you start it at the beginning.

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P.S. Just for curiosity, I tried for other browser than Google Chrome and it worked! The extension can be used not only for Google Chrome, but also for any other browser. Just change the location to your favorite browser, be it Opera or Google Chrome or any other, it will work.

Usually what I do to bypass this time limit is switch off and on my internet connection. But, there are other ways like deleting cookies and so on. But, if you don’t want to do any of those things, then here are another couple of ways.In this post, I will list out a few websites that will help you to easily bypass their time restrictions, without switching on and off or deleting cookies.

To use the websites below, all you need to do is copy the URL of the video you are watching and paste it in the website. Click on “Watch”. That’s it!

1. Sheepser.com – This website supports video links from Megavideo, VideoBB and VideoZer. You can enter either the video ID or the complete URL to watch it through this website.
2. Megastreaming.org – It supports only Megavideo links.
3. EzyWatch – Supports Megavideo links.
4. MegaSkipper - Bypasses time limits from VideoBB, Megavideo and VideoZer. It also has a chrome extension that notifies whenever the limit has reached and provides the URL to open through Mega Skipper.
5. Streamo.tv – Supports Megavideo links, has a Firefox plugin too.
6. VideoURLs – Supports Megavideo links. It also finds new links for broken links. It also has a firefox extension.

Also read: How to save streamed videos

Do you watch videos online very often? What do you think about these websites, are they helpful? Comment below!

PROBLEM -  Making a neat horizontal bar with all the social-sharing buttons inline.

Well, I am not a coding expert. But, somehow I wrote a code which is simple and easy. So, I thought I would share the code here on my blog.

I scratched my head for a lot of time over this problem. But, later I came to know that I was not really looking at the problem. Okay, now first let me give you the code.

<div> 

<!-- tweet button -->  
<div style="float:left;">
<a href="http://twitter.com/share" data-count="horizontal">Tweet</a>
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"> </script>
</div>
 <!-- tweet button --> 

<!-- facebook like button-->
<div style="float:left;">
<iframe src="http://www.facebook.com/plugins/like.php?href&amp;send=false&amp; layout=button_count&amp;width=450&amp;show_faces=true&amp;action=like&amp; colorscheme=light&amp;font&amp;height=21" scrolling="no" frameborder="0" style="border:none; overflow:hidden; width:60px; height:21px;" allowTransparency="true"></iframe>
</div>
<!-- facebook like button--> 

<!-- Google +1 button -->  
<div style="float:left;">
<!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render -->  
<g:plusone size="medium" annotation="inline" width="60"></g:plusone> 

<!-- Place this render call where appropriate -->  
<script type="text/javascript">   (function() {     var po = document.createElement('script'); po.type = 'text/javascript'; po.async = true;     po.src = 'https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js';     var s = document.getElementsByTagName('script')[0]; s.parentNode.insertBefore(po, s);   })();  </script>
</div>
<!-- Google +1 button -->
</div>

One another thing-  This is the code I wrote. It is very simple and easy. But, still this code didn’t work in the beginning. Notice the highlighted part of the code above. By default, the Plus one button width will be450px or something, which makes it not possible to keep them inline. That’s why it didn’t work. But, after sometime I found the problem and fixed it. I am just giving a heads up so that you don’t do the same problem.

Also, the code I wrote is only for three buttons, but you can extend it. Just add the code of the button in between the following tags.

<div style="float:left;">
Paste the code for the button here
</div>

That’s all. You can see my code in action at the beginning of this post. Please don’t hesitate to comment if you have any problems or suggestions.

Today in this blog post, I will introduce a tool that will help you to create extension for your blog, which in turn will help your content to be easily discovered. Extension Factory is a tool that helps you to easily create extension of your blog, or rather any blog you want – all you need to do is enter the required blog URL.

It is easy to create an extension of your blog. Go to Extension Factory page. Enter the URL of the blog and click “Create your Extension”. Then, you get a code, copy and add it in your website. Or, if you want to test the extension first, you can also do it by click on “Test Extension” button. If you are a wordpress user, then there is a plugin that does the same job. You might have noticed that on my blog.

The tool basically takes the RSS feed URL of a blog and creates an extension using that feed. The tool supports Firefox, Chrome, Safari and IE. It creates a simple dialog box interface containing feeds of your blog posts. Whenever a new post is updated on your blog, the extension shows a notification (See picture below).

The extension has an option to bookmark posts too. Also, if a blog has more than one feed, you can select only the feeds you want, from the “Options” tab.

If you want anymore information about this tool, visit their FAQ here.

Don’t you think getting feeds of your favorite blog right on your browser would be great? So, IMHO this a simple yet good tool. What do you think about this tool? Would you use it for your blog? Or how would you use it? Drop in your comments below.

There are very few tools, I guess, that look for text inside the archived files too, and one such tool is LookDisk. LookDisk is a small freeware tool, weighing around 10 MB. It has many good features. Overall, it’s a fully packed tool for searching something on your computer, which a normal Windows Explorer search won’t yield you.

Let me dive right into the features of this tool. I am going to list out only the features that are not present in, or different from other search tools available.

• First, as I told you above, it can search even files inside archives, for text.
• There are two tabs. One called “Search parameters” and the other “Ext parameters” for any kind of search – Be it a search for duplicate files, or general search. You can save the parameters that you choose for a particular search.
• Search for multiple file names or exclude multiple file names.
• You can exclude files with certain extensions, even archives.
• You can also search for top 10 largest files in a drive or a folder.

These are some of the prominent and unique features in this tool. As far as I know, there are not much tools that have all the general features along with these additional features. So, I can say that this is a fully packed search tool for Windows.

Also, if you are searching for a tool that would only search within compressed files, then you can do that right from your computer.

How to Search for Compressed Files in Windows 7 search

First, open any folder. Click on “Organize” button on the top-left corner. Go to “Folder and Search options”. There, under the search tab, select “Include compressed files (ZIP,CAB..). That’s it.

You can now search even inside compressed files. However, this might slow down the search a little bit.

Download LookDisk

Do you know any other tool worth mentioning? Then, please let me know through the comments form below.

uTorrent is one of the most popular and most used torrent client. In this post, I am going to show you how to limit the rate of  download or upload for a particular download.

• Select the torrent download for which you want to limit the download/upload rate.
• Right-Click on it and select “Properties” option.
• In the dialog box opened, under the “Bandwidth Settings” change the maximum download rate and upload rate as you desire.
• If you want to change it back to default, replace the rate by 0.

That’s it. You can now browse the web while the torrent is downloading.

However, if you look back a few years, then you would see a thick division between the online computing and the local computing. But, with the popularity of social networking sites increasing everyday and also the Cloud Computing technology evolving day by day, the line that divided the online computing world from the local computing world is diminishing very quickly.

But, that doesn’t mean that we would stop using our local storage. We still use our local storage as backup always. So, if you are a person, who stores a lot of data online on different social networks and other file sharing sites, then Social Folders is an excellent tool to use.

Be Social. Stay Local – is the aim/motto of the creator of Social Folders. This tool acts like a bridge between the Online world and the local world of computing that I talked above.

If you upload your photos to Facebook, or videos to Youtube or your documents to Google Docs very frequently, then this tool is a boon for you. Even after uploading your files online, you still keep them offline, i.e. on your local computer. So, why not do both the things at the same time? Social Folder lets you do exactly that!

In simple words, this tool lets you upload files to different sites from windows explorer. This tool is currently in private beta. So, you need to ask for an invite by giving you email id on their website. I got an invite in a very short time. So, I think even you will get one, if you are early enough to grab it. After you have got the invitation, you will be directed to a page where it asks you to download Social Folders setup file on your desktop. Download it. A 5MB file.

Now, install the Social Folders on your desktop through the setup. That’s it. The installation process is done. Now, you will be directed to your account online. Here, you need to add different websites that you want to sync locally. Click on “Connect to new Website” and select a website. It currently supports most of the major websites like Flickr, Google Docs, Instagram, Photobucket, Picasa and Youtube.

Connect to the websites and now you can start uploading or downloading files.

You can download files from your account onto the desktop (in a folder called Social Folders, automatically created) from your online account. Also, uploading files is a piece of cake! Just paste the files into the Social Folders folder and refresh. It will automatically upload it to your account online. Simple, isn’t it?

And also, by the way, just out of curiosity, I tried to upload some unsupported files into Facebook, and refreshed. It didn’t get uploaded. Nice.

Also, if you edit a file and refresh, it will upload the edited file again.

You can also transfer files across different sites, by just copying and pasting the files into the respective folders. For example, if you want to upload the images, from Picasa to Facebook then just copy and paste those photos from Picasa folder into the Facebook folder.

Maybe, I have left out some of the features, but you will know about it as you use it. Alright, concluding this with my opinion, I would say this tool will go a long way. I have liked every feature and also the idea behind this tool and the whole concept Be Social. Stay Local – is awesome. Hats off to the creator!

To use Kick Ass, first drag and drop the bookmark below to your Bookmarks toolbar. Click on it, to activate. Now, a pointer(white) will appear with which you can shoot the web elements. To shoot press Space, while Arrow keys control the motion of the pointer. Also, if you want to identify all the HTML elements (i.e. your enemies) press and hold B.

KICK-ASS (Drag and drop this link into your Bookmarks toolbar, or right-click and bookmark the link)

Go ahead and enjoy destroying the web! You can also view the source code here.

Here is a screenshot:

BEFORE:

AFTER: