Killer Tech Tips

Software, Websites, Hacks You can Use

Download Gmail Notifier for Windows 7

without comments

Gmail Notifier for Windows 7 is an awesome application that works from the system taskbar (dubbed superbar) to inform you of any new mails in your Gmail inbox.
Read the rest of this entry »

Written by Shankar Ganesh

June 1st, 2009 at 7:09 pm

Posted in software tools

Tagged with , ,

Navigate Amazon.com Quickly With Firefox Addon

without comments

Moving around amazon.com is a bit of a time consuming activity. Admit it.

Amazon Hot! Stuff addon for Firefox places a button in your Firefox toolbar which you can click to go to the most accessed pages in Amazon.
Read the rest of this entry »

Written by Shankar Ganesh

May 31st, 2009 at 9:28 am

Posted in firefox

Tagged with ,

Tweak Windows 7 and Make it Faster With EnhanceMySe7en

without comments

Previously, we featured Windows 7 Little Tweaker that can tweak settings in Windows 7 and make it better. This time around, we’ve got another tweaking software by the name EnhanceMySe7en to write about.

Read the rest of this entry »

Written by Shankar Ganesh

May 31st, 2009 at 8:27 am

Posted in software tools

Tagged with ,

Download SnagIt 7.2.5 For Free

with 2 comments

SnagIt is one of the best screencasting software ever created. Way back in 2007, TechSmith offered SnagIt 7.2.5 free of cost for everyone to download. Lots of people downloaded and tried the screencasting application for free and the offer expired quite soon. This time again, TechSmith has offered the same version (SnagIt 7.2.5) for free download from their servers.

Read the rest of this entry »

Written by Shankar Ganesh

May 30th, 2009 at 1:43 pm

Fix Error Loading: C:\Windows\System32\Shell32.dll Access Is Denied Problem

with 2 comments

Recently, my computer started behaving weird. Some tasks never started and launching any Control Panel applet brought this weird error dialog that displayed: “Error Loading: C:\WINDOWS\system32\shell32.dll Access is Denied”.
Read the rest of this entry »

Written by Shankar Ganesh

May 25th, 2009 at 1:33 pm

View and Recover Windows 7 Product Key

with 3 comments

If you’re looking for an easy way to view and recover your Windows 7 Product Key, look no further than WinGuggle. This little freeware for Windows 7 is just around 300 KB and can be used to retrieve your Windows 7 Product key quickly.

Read the rest of this entry »

Written by Shankar Ganesh

May 25th, 2009 at 8:15 am

Posted in software tools

Tagged with ,

Windows 7 Little Tweaker

with 6 comments

Windows 7 Little Tweaker is a simple windows utility that tweaks Windows 7 settings and adds a few additional features to Windows 7 menus. Windows 7 Tweaker can disable low disk space warnings, the UAC, speed up Exporer navigation, and do a lot more.

Read the rest of this entry »

Written by Shankar Ganesh

May 23rd, 2009 at 11:46 am

Posted in software tools

Tagged with ,

Sweeter.be: Another Facebook Phishing Scam On The Loose. Beware!

with one comment

Seems like a lot of Facebook Phishing Scams are happening these days. This time around, I got a message from a friend (whose account apparently got hacked) telling me to visit a site that goes by the URL sweeter.be that asks my Facebook login details. Make sure you don’t provide any!

Sweeter Facebook Phishing

Let’s wait for Facebook to block the URL.

Written by Shankar Ganesh

May 22nd, 2009 at 2:29 pm

Make Firefox Leverage Windows 7’s Jumplists

without comments

Windows 7 has a neat jumplist feature that allows programs to create links to application-specific tasks from the right click menu that appears when you click on the minimized window button in the taskbar.

Read the rest of this entry »

Written by Shankar Ganesh

May 21st, 2009 at 8:01 pm

Posted in firefox

Tagged with , ,

Put Your Latest Tweet In Your Google Talk Status Message

with 3 comments

If you’re looking for a way to set your twitter updates as your status message on Google Talk, look no further than Twitter2Gtalk. All you need to do is login to your Google account, specify your twitter username and check the ‘Active’ button. Twitter2Gtalk will then push your tweets to your Google Talk status in about 5-20 minutes. Twitter @replies aren’t sent to your Google Talk status, though.
Read the rest of this entry »

Written by Shankar Ganesh

May 21st, 2009 at 6:51 pm

Posted in how to

Tagged with , ,