Image Resizer

The Software presented here  is an Image Resizer software utility for windows operating system users. Apart from resizing single or multiple image files, this Image Resizer can be used to convert image files to jpg, gif or png file formats. This single screen software can be really easy to use and understand and can be used to resize files in a batch altogether or even by selecting a single file. Have a look at the screenshot below which displays the Image Resizer in initial format.

Download & try out Image Resizer for Free

Whether you are using Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7 or even Windows 8, this image resizer can be really a handy tool and works good on all windows operating systems. You can download & try out this Image Resizer for free now. In order to resize a single image file, click on the Browse button of the software, select an image file and click on the Convert button. You can also specify the new file format by selecting either of JPG, PNG or GIF file formats. Input to the Image Resizer can be in any file format including jpg, jpeg, gif, png or even a .bmp file format.

In case you would like to resize and convert multiple files easily and quickly, open up the source folder in windows explorer. Select all the files you wish to resize and convert them into the desired file format. Drag the selected files from Windows Explorer and Drop the files on the user interface of the Image Resizer. Once you drop single or multiple files onto the main interface of the software, the software will automatically start converting and resizing the selected files to the desired file formats. Once the image conversion and resizing is complete, the folder where the new files are present will be opened automatically by the software.

In order to resize selected image files to multiple resolution files, all you need to do is just add the desired image resolution in the width and height edit boxes and click on Add. When you start the software first time, you will notice an image resolution of 800 by 600 already added to the Image Resizer target image resolution list. This Image Resolution list stores the desired new sizes of the converted images,  is an editable list and gets saved automatically. You can open up the folder containing the resized and converted images by clicking on the Open Folder button which is at the bottom right corner of Image Resizer. Yes this software works well on 32 bit and 64 bit versions of Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows Vista and even on older operating systems such as Windows XP, etc. For quick and easy image resizing, launch the software and pin it to the taskbar of Windows 7 or Windows 8, in other versions you can launch this software from the programs menu or with a desktop shortcut. This Image Resizer software is provided on a free to download and try basis. The Software will not ask you to enter your email id or fill any complicated forms and during the trial the software will be fully functional and will not display you any popup or reminder to buy the software. Multiple input file formats, multiple output image resolutions, single image resize option, multiple images resize with easy to use drag and drop and selectable output file format makes this free to download Image Resizer a must to have software utility for Windows 7, Windows 8, XP, Vista and other Microsoft Operating Systems.

Screen Resolution

Now you can easily find out what is the Screen Resolution of your Windows Computer with the Screen Resolution Software Utility. The Software Utility is a tiny application and is free to download and use. Given below screenshot displays Screen Resolution utility in action displaying resolution of a Windows 7 computer running on 1 monitor and with a resolution of 1920 X 1080 . Knowing Screen Resolution can be really handy in many cases. Let’s say you want to download a wallpaper from internet and the site allows you to download wallpaper of many screen resolutions, then in case you do know of your screen resolution, then you can select the best wallpaper accordingly and download and use the wallpaper.

Screen Resolution Utility for Single or Multiple Monitor Windows Computer

Whether you are running single or multiple monitor windows computer, this screen resolution software will tell you the total width and height of your virtual desktop area available. In case you are using dual or multiple monitors, then the Active Monitors field of the software will tell your how many monitors are actively connected in extended mode. However if you are using dual or multiple monitors in clone mode on a windows computer, the Active Monitor field will display only 1 and will not display how many physical monitors are connected in clone mode. The same applies when you are using multiple monitors using a KVM switch, the Screen Resolution Software Utility will report only the number of monitors that are actively connected in extended mode to the CPU.

This Screen Resolution Software Application is totally free to use and download. There are no trial limitations or any reminder pop ups in the software and can be used as long as you want to use it. Download and find out the Screen Resolution of your Windows Computer now. In case you do change Screen Resolution or enable / disable monitors while this software utility is running, it will automatically display you the effective screen resolution and number of monitors connected to your windows computer. In case you are using Dual Monitors or even Multiple Monitors connected to your Windows Computer, then MurGeeMon Software utility might be of interest to you which allows fine control over connected monitors and other attributes of desktop and running applications.

Configurable Desktop Clock

Clock on Desktop can be really useful and handy to keep track of time. With changing needs having multiple clocks to track date / time of different locations in the world can be really handy. In case you are using Dual or Multiple Monitors in extended mode, you will have plenty of space on your desktop to place multiple clocks and keep track of multiple locations easily. A Big Monitor with a good resolution also provides plenty of space for various applications and desktop. This post presents a configurable desktop clock that can be used to keep track of date / time of any location in the world and is works on Windows 8, Windows 7, XP, Vista, etc.

Configurable Desktop Clock

Configure Date / Time in the Desktop Clock

The above screenshot displays what all settings can be configured for the desktop clock. The above screenshot has been taken on Windows 7, 64 bit. Yes it works on 32 bit version of Windows Operating Systems as well. As it is completely free to try out, you can download the trial version of the Desktop Clock right now and give it a try on your desktop or have a look about few of the salient features of this Desktop Clock below.

  • Free to try and download, no registration required for trial download.
  • Works on Windows 8, Windows 7, Windows Vista, Windows XP, Windows 2000, etc.
  • Works on 64 bit and 32 bit versions of Windows.
  • The Desktop Clock can be configured using Settings option.
  • System Tray Icon of the Clock can be right clicked to view the Settings available to configure and Exit the Desktop Clock.
  • The Clock Remembers it’s Location, Size, Styles, Date / Time Offset as configured, Font of the Clock, Format of the Desktop Clock, Font Color, background Color of the Desktop Clock and all other parameters configurable from the Settings of the Desktop Clock as displayed above.
The Desktop Clock presented above is a small software utility that can be used to display a small digital desktop clock. The Clock remembers its attributes and can be launched from a Desktop Shortcut or Programs Menu. A System Tray Menu is displayed when the Clock is running. Desktop Clock for Windows can be launched multiple times and can have multiple instances and all of them remember their attributes. Yes the Software Applications presented work fine on Windows 8 apart from current Windows versions such as Windows 7, Vista, etc and are free to try out.

Windows 8 Trial Download Free from Microsoft

Wanna try out Windows 8 in trial mode ? Yes you can download Windows 8 directly from Microsoft website. In order to try out the latest features of Windows 8, you would need a good internet connection to download around 3 to 5 GB of data, DVD or USB Drive in case you would like to install Windows 8 on some other computer. The Free Windows 8 download offered by Microsoft comes in many flavours. As of this writing the free trial you can download is termed as Windows 8 Developer Preview. This time limited operating system is targeted for software and website developers so that they can make sure that their websites / software applications do work good on Windows 8.

In order to start the free download of Windows 8, open up your search engine and search for Download Windows 8 Developer Preview. In case all goes well, you should get the page titled Windows Dev Center. Yes as said previously this free download of Windows 8 is intended to be used by any one who would like to try out Windows 8 right now including software developers, software testers, website designers and other people. Once you get into the Windows Dev Center, select the bit version of either 32 bit or 64 bit and start the download.

The Windows 8 download will be in a .iso file which can be burnt onto a DVD or USB drive using the ISO to USB / DVD Tool or you can use software utilities like slysoft to mount the iso file as a drive on your computer to view the contents of the iso file. Windows 8 is providing native support for .iso files as well, so .iso files are going to be really easy to use as are .zip files currently. After this Windows 8 release, Microsoft will provide other releases of Windows 8 like Windows 8 Beta version and then finally Microsoft would launch Windows 8 in 2012 and will provide trial download of windows 8. Microsoft offered 90 days trial of Windows Vista and Windows 7 and both of the operating systems were really popular and successful, similarly Microsoft will provide free trial of Windows 8 for 90 days. The Trial Version of Windows 8 (This version of Windows 8 will be fully functional with all the features enabled but limited to be used at max for 90 days) will be there for anybody to download and try. In case you are wondering how to extend the trial of Windows 8, we do have already a post to cover that and provide you a step by step method to extend the trial of Windows 8. Yes there are some assumptions in saying that the trial version of Windows 8 will be extend able as the same method worked for Windows Vista and Windows 7, so there are good chances that Windows 8 will be the same.

Print Website to PDF Free

PDF documents are really easy to use and the free adobe reader allows to easily transport the printed document to email or any other storage device. Now you can print any document in a website to pdf for free. Google Chrome has a inbuilt pdf driver which can be used to print a webpage of a website to pdf. This can be really useful when you do not have a printer attached to your computer and you want to print the document on some other computer attached with printer.

This free printer driver of google chrome comes inbuilt into google chrome and you only need to download the browser, view the page in it, issue the print command and select the pdf option in the printer settings and you can save the printed document in pdf file format. In order to view or print the pdf file you would need free adobe reader and nothing else. When you issue a print command in google chrome, you would have the options to select landscape or portrait mode of printing , you can even specify whether to include date / time and url of webpage being printed.

With this free printer tool, you would not need to download any other software in order to print webpage(s). This printing option will not be available in other browsers such as internet explorer, safari, firefox, etc, as this is powered by google and is there in the browser itself. Google Chrome also allows to print the document in xps file format which is as good as a virtual printer file and can be used on Windows 8, Windows 7, etc to print the document(s) in the xps files. Pdf files are much more popular and now with this free option to print webpage(s) of website(s), you will get total flexibility to view the printed document or to print the document(s) onto physical paper really easily.

Download Free Software Applications & take precaution

In case you want to download software applications from internet & use them on your computer, there are few precautions that you must take. Software applications for Windows are normally provided in a form of setup file. This setup file is named as setup.exe many times and is a special application which will do many things on your windows computer. Since it is a setup, it would need admin rights to your computer and with admin rights it can do anything on your computer, yes it can install keyloggers, add viruses to your computer, add malware, hijack your browser search results and tons of other things.

There are really less number of chances that the setup provided by the author of the software will have any sort of malware or virus, etc. A setup for an application program provided by the author of the software typically asks for admin rights, presents the licence agreement and once you accept it can do additional steps like asking you the location where to install the software, create the shortcuts, launch the related help website and others. To summarize the first precaution you must take is to download any free or free to try software application directly from the author website so that you do get the latest version of the software and you do get a virus/ malware  free software.

The second precaution about downloading and running a software from a website is to scan it with antivirus. Yes in case you do have an antivirus installed on your windows computer, then your antivirus should do the software scanning automatically. You can also scan the downloaded file using a AntiVirus Software which can be used on Windows 8, Windows 7, Windows Vista, XP, Windows NT, Windows 2000, etc. In case you are using Windows 8, there are good chances that no antivirus software will work on your windows computer as all the virus software developers will be busy in testing their software on Windows 8 and deliver the finished product or may be beta version as soon as possible. The Anti Virus Software presented in this paragraph will work on Windows 8, Yes it will work on Windows 8 as it does not scans the files on your computer and instead uploads the software downloads to internet and another remote computer scans it with around 40 latest version antivirus software application.

Extend Trial of Windows 8, Windows 7, or Vista

You can extend trial of Windows versions using a simple and easy to follow method. This method of extending trial works on Windows 7 and Windows Vista and will work for Windows 8 as well. Microsoft provides multiple variants of their Windows versions and provides trial operating system as well so that people can evaluate the operating system and then upgrade to the new operating system in case they do like it and feel that spending money to get an upgrade would be useful for them.

This method of extending the trial is not a hack or crack and does not requires you to enter any serial key or registration key and works seamlessly for trial operating systems. In case you have downloaded a 90 day free trial of Windows Vista or Windows 7 from Microsoft website of either 32 bit or 64 bit variant then this method can be really useful for you and give you more number of days to evaluate the operating system. As the same trial extension method works the same way on Windows Vista and for Windows 7, the author assumes that method will work fine for extending the trial of Windows 8 as well.

Given below figure displays the first step to be followed to extend free trial of Microsoft Windows 8, Windows 7 or Vista. The first step to extend the trial is to open up command prompt as Administrator. Command prompt is a black colored application with file name cmd.exe and is used by system administrators or software developers / testers to execute window commands and view the output in the same command window. Yes you would need Admin rights of the Windows Computer of which you want to extend the trial. This given below screenshot has been taken on Windows 7 by right clicking on the cmd.exe shortcut and a similar way can be followed for Windows 8 or Windows Vista as well.

First step in extending Windows Trial

First step to extend free trial of Windows 8, Windows 7 and Vista

Once you have opened the command prompt window, it should open up as displayed below. This window will provide you the way to extend the trial of your free trial windows operating system. There is only one more step required to be performed and you will get your trial extended after doing a restart of your windows operating system. Note that you should perform this step only when either your trial period of the operating system has expired or is about to expire in a couple of days. This method is going to provide you another 30 days to evaluate free trial of windows operating system.

First Step to extend trial of Windows

Open Command Prompt as Administrator

Now type in slmgr -rearm and press enter in the command prompt. After a couple of seconds, you will get a message box displaying that the command was successful and in order for changes to take effect, you must restart your windows computer.

Extend Free Trial of Windows without any Software Download

Type in slmgr -rearm and press enter

Once you Restart your computer, you will be having your free trial extended. This method of extending trial period of Windows Free Trial Downloads has been created by Microsoft and hence you do not need to download any software or crack on your windows computer to keep your windows version working for another 30 days after the trial usages have been completed. Every trial version of Windows displays a warning message at the bottom right corner of the last monitor connected to the windows computer. This method works fine on Windows 7 and this was the same method to extend the trial of Windows Vista. Yes this method should work fine on Windows 8 free trial editions as well. In case of Windows 7, Microsoft provided free trial of Windows 7 Enterprise Edition on which this method of extending the trial worked fine.

Block Websites without Software in all Browsers and Applications

Yes you can block access to a specific website for all browsers including Microsoft Internet Explorer, Google Chrome, Firefox, Safari and even all applications trying to access website(s) on internet using simple method displayed below. The method displayed in this post blocks access to configured website for all users and hence requires to have admin access. This Method of blocking websites on a Windows computer uses the Microsoft provided way to block access to websites using the hosts file.

Hosts file to block access to websites

Edit Hosts file to block websites on your computer

The location of hosts file is as displayed above and is located at C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc or D:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc, etc depending on on which hard disk partition your operating system is installed. You can use any text editor like notepad to view and edit the contents of the hosts file. You must have be having admin rights to your computer in order to save changes to this hosts file in order to block websites. A sample hosts file is as displayed below and similarly you can add your own selected websites to block.

Block Websites on a Windows Computer

Hosts file to block websites on a Windows Computer

There are many benefits of blocking websites using hosts files. The first one is that you do not need to download any software or application to block websites. This method blocks access to the configured website in all browsers and this method works on Windows 8, Windows 7, Windows 2000, Windows Vista, Windows XP and any other Windows Operating system that is not mentioned here. Once you block a website using this method, you can be rest assured that any other user configured on this windows computer will automatically get access to the website(s) blocked.

Once you edit the hosts files, you would need to log off and sign in again to see the changes in effect. Block Website Software provides way to add and edit the hosts file and once you save the changes using the software, you do not need to log off and log on to your computer again. The Block Website Software initiates the required commands automatically. In case you would like to block jholu.com, add two entries into the hosts file named www.jholu.com 127.0.0.1 and  jholu.com 127.0.0.1 . This method is effective, easy to use and as it is provided by Microsoft itself, it works without failure every time.

How to Navigate in a Software using Keyboard

Keyboard & Mouse provide quick & easy ways to navigate to various controls of a software application. Using Mouse Cursor can be really easy to click onto various controls and move the application window around. Keyboard can also be useful to navigate to various control of a software and interact with various controls of a software application.

  • Tab Key can be used to navigate to various controls in the graphical user interface of a software application.
  • SpaceBar can be used to simulate mouse click on a control , once it has the focus.
  • Menu of a Software Applications can be invoked using Alt + any configured Mnemonic , e.g. File Menu of most applications can be brought up by pressing Alt + F.
  • Esc Key and / or Alt + F4 can be used to close a window in most of the software applications.
  • Alt + SpaceBar can be used to to invoke System Menu which normally contain options to minimize, maximize and close software applications.
  • Using any Shortcut Keys provided by the software. Normally Menu Items of a Software application do list the keyboard shortcut to invoke specific command in an application.
These Keyboard Shortcuts can be really useful when interacting with software applications which provide mouse automation or keyboard automation features. Interacting with Software Applications in Windows 8, 7, Vista, XP, 2000, or any other version of Windows can be really easy once you do understand what all options you have to interact with the graphical user interface of a software application, utility or even with inbuilt windows features.

Multiple Clicks with one Mouse Click

Now it is really easy to simulate multiple mouse clicks with a single mouse click. The Software presented here can be be used to simulate or automate multiple mouse clicks with a single click of configured type. You can use this software to click left click, right click or even simulate middle click.  The Number of mouse clicks , delay between clicks and other parameters of the software can be controlled with a simple user interface. The Software presented here is MurGee Auto Clicker and a screenshot displaying the main interface of the software is as displayed below.

Automate Multiple Mouse Clicks with a single click

Middle Click configured to simulate Multiple Left Mouse Clicks

The Software displayed above has been configured to simulate 1000 Left Mouse Clicks with delay of 10 milliseconds in between the mouse clicks. The Left Clicks can be simulated by either pressing the Start Clicking Button or by clicking the Middle Mouse Button one time. The Controller Mouse Click can be either of Left, Right or Middle Button Mouse Clicks.

Other ways to start the mouse clicks is by clicking on the Start Clicking Button or by defining a system wide keyboard shortcut. You can use this software to simulate multiple mouse clicks of any type including left button , middle button or right button click of mouse. The Click type to Simulate can be selected from the drop down list box next to the Stop Clicking Button. By default the Left Click is configured to be simulated whenever the mouse clicks are started.

In order to assign a Keyboard Shortcut key to Start and Stop the Mouse Clicks, you need click on the white edit box which reads None and then press on the Assign Button one time. Once you have assigned the Keyboard Shortcut to Start / Stop the Mouse Clicks, you can either minimize the software or click on the Hide to System Tray button to hide the software. Even when in System tray, the software will allow you to simulate the selected type of mouse clicks using any of the start / stop ways provided by the software.

In order to simulate Multiple Mouse Clicks with a single click, you would need to define type types of clicks. First you would need to define what type of clicks you want to be simulated and then you would need to define which mouse click should simulate multiple mouse clicks. The Sample Screenshot displayed above has been configured to simulate Left Clicks whenever the Middle Mouse button is clicked manually on the physical mouse.