Archive for September, 2008
Create Universal Keyboard Shortcuts for iTunes
If you’re a power user and use iTunes at least occasionally, you might find the lack of universal keyboard shortcuts in iTunes a big annoyance. You just can’t control iTunes from other applications using keyboard shortcuts.
iTunesKeys comes to the rescue though, and lets you create custom universal keyboard shortcuts to control iTunes playback. The app also displays song info including artwork near the system tray every time a new song is played, just like Winamp does.
Free Dialup Internet Connections in India from BSNL
As I learned from The Hindu yesterday, BSNL, India’s biggest phone and internet services provider, is offering free dial up internet access for all its landline customers till the end of October 2008. Any BSNL landline user can get access to the free dial up connection from BSNL by using the following credentials, after connecting his telephone line to the computer:
Free MP3 Music Player Widget for your blog
This little site up at Muzicons.com lets you upload your favourite song in MP3 format, and create a widget that can stream it over to your blog’s visitors. Just upload your MP3 song, customize the looks of the MP3 widget and choose an icon to portray your emotion or feelings. That’s about it. Not much of a productivity thing really, but it’s a little tool to add some fun and emotion to your personal blog or website. Visit Muzicons
Free Kaspersky Internet Security 2009 Key
A few months ago, Kaspersky Switzerland offered a free trial key for Kaspersky Internet Security 2009 valid for six months. Now that the key has expired, people were looking for more offers. Luckily, Sizlopedia has found one such way to get a free Kaspersky Internet Security 2009 license although it works only for 100 days.
How to remove or delete an application from your Facebook account?
Since they revamped the Facebook user interface some time ago, everything looks a bit different and I had a tough time navigating around the site. It was also tedious to remove an application from my profile and it took me some time to figure out the option that does the same.
So I thought of writing this up so that in case anyone finds navigating the site wearisome, they can refer to this and get the application removed quickly from their profiles.
Download VLC Player 0.9.2 for Windows XP
Version 0.9.2 of the very versatile and open source media player, VLC Player has been released for everyone to download. VLC Player 0.9.2 was developed for over two years and sports a very cool and redesigned user interface, as you can see from the screenshot below:
Google Android: The Next Generation OS for Mobiles
Guest post by Praval who is a freelance writer/blogger and works for Uswaretech, a Django Consulting shop as Web Evangelist and Online Marketer.
Android, Google’s open source platform for mobile phones is now available for developers to download and to unleash its power to develop wonderful applications. With Android, Google has expanded his market to new horizons. Till now, Microsoft has built a strong up-hold with its Windows Operating System for mobiles and it would be very interesting to watch how Google penetrates the current market for the same.
