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Free Animated Christmas Tree for Your Desktop

Christmas is just around the corner and its time to pep-up your desktop with some Christmas goodies. So here comes an animated Christmas tree to adorn your desktop. You can choose and download several animated Christmas trees for your desktop. Download and unzip the zipped files and double click on the executable for a Christmas tree to appear on your desktop. There is no need to install any cumbersome software. Its fast, easy and sweet! What can you do with this animated Christmas...

What is a ODS file?

ODS is the spreadsheet format for spreadsheet software that follow the Open Office Document Format. .ODS is the default spreadsheet format for the OpenOffice.org Calc. These can be opened with any OpenOffice-compatible program, including NeoOffice (Mac), AbiWord (Mac & Windows), and KWord (Unix) and can also be imported into Google Docs. ODS files are based on the OpenDocument format (ODF), which became the native format for electronic office documents such as spreadsheets, charts,...

Free Browser Security Handbook by Google

Google Code has released the Browser Security Handbook which discusses several hundred security characteristics of popular browsers namely Microsoft Internet Explorer(Version 6 and 7), Mozilla Firefox(Version 2 and 3), Apple Safari, Opera, Google Chrome(of course!) and Android embedded browser. Open source test cases have been provided along with this handbook to quickly implement and evaluate these characteristics. This book will be immensely useful for Web developers, browser...

How to change language of in-line spell check in Opera 10

Opera 10 alpha built is here and it brings with it some amazing features, the new Presto 2.2 engine, a 100/100 in the Acid3 test, support for SVG Web fonts, CSS RGBA and HSLA colour values, the W3C selectors API, and more. Understanding the need of quality communication, Opera 10 also incorporates an inline spell check option for checking misspellings as you type. So no need to worry about making dreadful spelling mistakes on your corporate forum, Facebook Wall or even your...

What is a ODT file?

ODT is the word processing document format for text document created using word processors that follow the Open Office Document Format. .ODT is the default document format for the OpenOffice.org Writer. These can be opened with any OpenOffice-compatible program, including NeoOffice (Mac), AbiWord (Mac & Windows), and KWord (Unix) and can also be imported into Google Docs. ODT files are based on the OpenDocument format (ODF), which became the native format for electronic office documents...

How to Check if a Website is serving Malware

SEO is the buzzword today and if you have been linking left and right, accepting inbounds links to your site and linking to other websites to increase your rankings, halt! Google stresses upon the fact that though linking is important but links from bad neighbourhoods can cause a dent in your rankings rather than boosting them. There is nothing as frustrating than getting lower ranks just because the site you linked to or got linked from, is flagged for malicious spyware or suspicious...

Sunday Weekend Summary – 8th Dec 2008 to 13th Dec 2008

In case you have missed any of our Daily Tips, here’s the list. December 8, 2008: Now Pirates Attack Amazon! Free Gmail Stickers Anyone? What is Invisible Web or Deep Web? December 9, 2008: Back Up Your Gmail Account With Gmail Backup Truphone: Turn Your iPod Touch Into A Free Phone What is a Xlsx File? December 10, 2008: What is a Docx file? Convert YouTube videos to MP3 for FREE Textorizer: Create Vector Images Made of Words December 11, 2008: Create Unique...

What is a Pptx file?

Pptx is a new presentation format that was introduced by Microsoft in Microsoft Office 2007. It replaced .Ppt as the standard format of Microsoft PowerPoint Presentations. Pptx is based on the new standard for Office files(spreadsheets, word processing documents, presentations etc) called Office Open XML, which replaced the previous binary and 2003 XML formats. Pptx files cannot be opened in older versions of Microsoft Office without prior conversion to Ppt format. Related: What is a...

Lazarus: Recover lost data in forms easily

Imagine this! You just typed a page-long comment and hit the submit button - and you were greeted with a server time-out error! The page-long comment vanished without a trace, all your efforts to choose the balanced words gone down the drain. If you were a victim of such an atrocity, time to get hold of Lazarus - a magnificent Firefox form recovery tool.   What Lazarus does? Lazarus is a free add-on for the Firefox browser which backups the data you've entered into web forms. It then...

How to delete auto-complete saved form entries in Firefox

Firefox is nice, so nice that it saves all entries you made to a form field. But it only does this when you check the 'Remember what I enter in forms and search bar' check box in Tools>Options>Privacy tab. Once you check this box, Firefox remembers all entries you made to a form field and the next time you type, it mentions all older entries as recommendation. But this nice gesture becomes very frustrating when Firefox also remembers all the wrong entries you made(due to typos or...