Faststone Screen Capture Program Review
August 14th, 2008
Considering the amount of screen captures I put on my blog you will agree that I do need one that makes me really productive which is exactly what FastStone Screen Capture program is.
The most surprising is its main interface. Its one of the simplest and inconspicuous looking interfaces I have ever seen.
Among the multitude of features it provides 3 are worthy of note.
CCleaner - System Maintenance Tool Review
July 8th, 2008
Application : CCleaner
Category : System Maintenance Tool, Privacy Tool, Registry Cleaner
Homepage : www.ccleaner.com
Download : Here
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CCleaner is a freeware system maintenance tool. It can be used to remove the unused files which are taking up your hard disk space. CCleaner is much faster than the system cleaner provided by windows.
JZip Archiving Tool Review
June 26th, 2008
Application : JZip
Category : Archiving Tool
Homepage : www.jzip.com
Download : www.jzip.com
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JZip is a free archiving tool for Windows. It is small and executes fast with good response time. The popup menus are similar to WinZip. But unlike WinZip there are no popups asking you to upgrade software or to buy a premium version. Overall JZip is a good replacement for WinZip.
Gigaget Download Manager Review
June 24th, 2008
Application : Gigaget
Categories : Download Manager
Homepage : www.gigaget.com
Download Links : here
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By far, among the download managers I used, I found Gigaget to be most useful, simple, and powerful. It has all the features of a normal download manager like multi-task downloads, browser integration, drop basket, stop/resume capability, batch download or link generator, auto-shutdown and auto anti-virus scan option when download completes and limiting bandwidth but the additional features (see below) are things that make it tick.
How to handle URL expiry of downloads?
June 19th, 2008
Expire URLs: To decrease the load on web servers from download managers web administrators use this technique where the URL of the download file is randomly generated for each HTTP request for download. These URLs expire after a period of time specified by the web admin.
I solve this problem with Gigaget Download Manager. This feature saves a lot of time for me with not only expire URLs but also network connection problem and power problem.
Assuming you are using Gigaget Download Manager then when a download URL expires do the following:
- Get a secondary download URL (You can usually get this by again clicking on the original download link)
- Go to Gigaget DM and pause the download. Then Right Click on the download file. You should get the following popup:
- Select View Download Properties… (at the bottom) then paste the secondary URL in URL textfiled and press OK.
You can also use a URL from another site but make sure the file name and file size are same. Note: If they are different Gigaget will restart the download without even prompting a warning/error.
I didn’t find this feature in any other download manager. Hope this tip is useful for you.