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Adobe Air is a runtime environment to build rich internet applications that can be deployed to the desktop application and run across operating systems. AIR applications can run offline, and then activate other functionalities or upload data when an internet connection becomes available. An example is eBay Desktop which allows sellers to complete a listing offline and then upload it when an internet connection established.

Snippely: Snippely is a basic text and code organizational tool. Instead of storing bits of code, quick notes, and memos in text files all over your hard drive, this application will let you save and organize “snippets” in one convenient location. A snippet is a collection of one or more pieces of code and notes. Snippets are stored in groups for organization and quick retrieval.

Web Snapshot: The easiest way to take screenshot of a website. Enter the Url and Press Snap. Or Drag&Drop it from your browser. Click on the Thumnails to Save.

Icon Generator: Icon Generator is a little application that lets you generate a CS3 or Web 2.0 style icon, only 3 step. Pick color, type characters, and save it. Just create 4 different sizes of the icon.

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Blaze media pro software is one of the most powerful conversion software available on the net. You are able to convert DVD to AVI, MPG, WMV but this is only one feature which is outclassed by the vast amount of other features available within the software. A second feature is the audio conversion which can convert;

CD MP3, WAV, WMA, OGG, MPEG-4, AIFF, M4A, AAC, AC3, FLAC, and ALAC, and two-way conversions among MPEG-1, MPEG-2, AVI, WMV, ASF, Flash (SWF and FLV), iPod, PSP, 3GP, and MOV are available for video. MPEG options are available for VCD, SVCD, and DVD compliant output. All into an audio format, this is perfect if you have a lecture or audio book in a mpeg format when you need it in a mp3 format for your iPod or CD to play throughout the day.

Not only is there a high amount of converting systems but also strong, reliable and easy to use burning features, for example, the CD burning software along with the DVD burning software removes the need to use multiple programmes for each type. Both burning software’s come with a multitude of features that allow you not only to increase the length of video time by changing a few setting but also feature an easy drag and drop style system which makes adding the files you wish to burn even easier.

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Traditional way to write an article for your blog is to connect admin area and then to open web editor. The rest is just write your article. Once it is completed, you can save it as draft or publish by hitting the publish button.

Not much people concern the wasted time while going write an article from the web interface of their blogs. But, more or less, due to waiting blogger dashboard to load on their web browsers and even sometimes to lose of internet connection (yes, just like on dial-up times, it still happens sometimes) causes incomplete article that would be reasoning loss of time and data.

Common hardware upgrades are adding a larger hard disks, installing additional or bigger memory (RAM), replacing CPUs, motherboards or graphics cards, and installing new versions of software, although many other type of upgrades are possible as well. All these things are parallel to a better performance. But what, if your hardware is slow due to some other installed softwares? Here I have listed few softwares those are most probably installed to many hardwares and their replacements that would work more efficiently.

There is a worst part of every job that we don’t even want to get close to it. What is the worst part designing a website? I don’t know you but It is for sure, cross browser check is the most frustrating exercise for me while designing a website. We all know how important it is to check a web page with multiple browsers, especially when it is a new website. In that manner, browsershots is my favorite online tool, to check the layout look in different browsers.

But today I came across (thank you to stumbleupon toolbar) a website, and found out a great tool that allows us to install multiple Internet Explorer (brrrrr) versions. All we need to do is. to download setup file and to choice the versions that we would like to be installed. Supported version are IE 3.0, 4.01, 5.01, 5.5 and 6.0.

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It’s that time again folks, the weekend is right ahead and I’m looking forward to have some fun. Regular readers of gabfire have probably noticed that I don’t post much on weekends. But what about you? Do you keep posting or you only prefer to put an eye and check if everything is alright on weekends?

Here in this post you will find 4 applications that might be very useful those are Xenu’s Link Sleuth, Bodocus (a comprehensive lis of online doc movies), eSnailer and SkreemR

RocketDock is an application launcher (for Windows 2000 and higher) that provides a dock similar to that in the Mac OS X Aqua GUI. It has very nice interface to drop shortcuts on for easier access and organize. The dock is also compatible with Windows Vista, and is able to show live updates for the windows that are minimized, like in Mac OS X, and live thumbnail updates on the task bar in Vista.

It is compatible with MobyDock, ObjectDock, RK Launcher, and Y’z Dock skins. RocketDock is compatible with and borrows from Stardock ObjectDock’s publicly published Docklet API.

From the official site, this is a list of features

Minimize windows to the dock
Real-time window previews in Vista
Running application indicators
Simple drag-n-drop interface
Multi-monitor support
Supports alpha-blended PNG and ICO icons
Icons zoom and transition smoothly
Auto-hide and Popup on mouse over
Positioning and layering options
Fully customizable
Completely Portable
ObjectDock Docklet support
Compatible with MobyDock, ObjectDock, RK Launcher, and Y’z Dock skins
Runs great on slower computers
Unicode compliant
Supports many languages and can easily be translated
A friendly user base
Its FREE!

Source: Wikipedia