PC Tools Password Generator Helps to make Strong and Secure Passwords

Internet and computers made our life easier but it also made it easier for hackers to loot your account online. They use a variety of methods to do this like by spreading spywares, hacking you PC, via Brut-force attack to reveal account passwords etc. In addition to using a layered computer security system, there is no alternative of making a strong and secure password. Only these can make the life of hackers tougher. Earlier I wrote about Password Generator which can create passwords based on the options you choose. PC Tools Password Generator is a nice online service that does similar thing. It is available both as a normal and a SSL secured version.

Use Scientific Calculator Online in Google Search and in Alternatives

Although Windows and most recent operating systems comes with a In-Built Scientific Calculator, for persons like me who-hate-to-use-offline-apps-if-found-online, Google have recently launched a Scientific Calculator in its search engine. This news had been spread like an epidemic and most of your must be already know. Still I am writing this because I want to inform you about a problems in Google's new calculator and about some other online alternatives.

Google includes Web History into Search Suggestion

Google is the best search engine till date and they are always thriving to make it better and more better. If you have Web History enabled in your Google Account, you must have seen a new feature in Google Search Suggestion that shows your latest Google Search at the Top of other results.

New Relevant Result in Google Search

Google is without doubt the best search engine till date and they haven't finished yet. New features are being cooked every day. The latest feature that caught my eye is that now Google shows relevant information while searching on some topic. I found such relevant information while searching about Wikipedia, Blogger, Atom, Paracetamol etc.

ImageShareIt : Quickly Upload Photos For Sharing - A Review

Entertainment makes life happier to live. Going out for a trip, playing basketball, watching a movie, chatting on Facebook relieves the stress that a week long job load creates. With the availability and ease of use of Digital Cameras, taking a picture of memorable or fun moments is a common job we all do. Uploading those images in social media would be a fun way to share those pictures with your away friends and relatives. Facebook and most other social media sites offer easy image uploading options. Most of us are on multiple social networks and its a pain to go to each site and upload a single image. So, here comes the need of a software like ImageShareIt which automates the process a bit by uploading that picture in its server and then use Add-This sharing widget for sharing that picture in multiple social sites like Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn. Bebo, FriendFeed etc. ImageShareIt is from PCWinSoft. According to the developer, this software

Eliminate the need to browse for images on your computer to share on Facebook, Twitter and social networks. With ImageShareIt you simply drag, drop and share. ImageShareIt is available for PCs and Macs. ImageShareIt is free.

Download Songs from in.com Online

If you are a music lover, you must be aware of in.com. This site has gained popularity because of its email service, news and mainly by its excellent music collection. Even Google shows in.com results in music search along with saregama.com and saavn.com.

Recently this site has changed the approach towards Indian music by introducing albums of popular artists comprising of nicely selected playlists.

Unfortunately in.com do not provide download links for avoiding possible copyright issues. We also respect copyright policies but for educational inquires I would like to assure you that there is an easy way to download songs from in.com without having to download any software.

Download Music from Mixcloud as Mp3 and Other Formats Online

Recently I have been writing a number of posts on downloading music from SoundCloud. This is mainly because SoundCloud has become very popular as an audio distribution platform. But I have got some reports that many DJs are now quitting SoundCloud for their strict policy and have moved to alternatives. I am not going to criticize SoundCloud because I know that every service has its right to be perfect in its own way. Mixcloud has become a common choice for DJs who have left SoundCloud. Downloading music from Mixcloud is thus a popular demand in recent times. Today I will tell you about two online services that can assist you in downloading music from Mixcloud.

Google Changes Display of Conversion Queries

Today I found that Google changes the display of conversion queries to a much better and attractive design. Previously for a query like Bit to Byte it showed 1 Bit = 0.125 Byte, but now it shows the category of conversion, available units in that category and desired results e.g. 25 Bit = 3.125 Byte.

Online Services to Download Music from SoundCloud

Popularity of SoundCloud as a music sharing site is growing day by day. Since SoundCloud offers only limited number of musics as publicly downloadable, the need of software or online service that helps in downloading music from SoundCloud is also increasing. Previously I wrote about two software that helps downloading music from SoundCloud as MP3 and AAC format. Today I will write on available online services that can help in downloading music from SoundCloud, without having to download and install another software.

Crop, Resize, Rotate and Add Effects to Images in picresize.com

When I am on a public PC and don't have the USB with my favorite portable tools in it, I depend on online services for sufficing my needs. Today, since my main computer have stopped working, I once again have felt the importance of online services. Editing pictures is one of the common things, geeky people and bloggers like me deal with every time. Today I used an online service called pic resize for cropping and resizing a logo. That service also has options to rotate and add effects to images. It can also resize images in batch.

Convert Pdf to Microsoft Office Document with PDFConverter.com

While PDF is probably the most commonly used document format for carrying, reading and distributing, still Microsoft Office documents, like Microsoft Office Word, Excel and PowerPoint hold major importance for ease of editing. So, it is very much desirable to have a tool to inter convert Microsoft Office Documents and PDF. If you haven't read already, I wrote a post on PDFMate which is a desktop application for converting PDF to Text files, EPUB Ebooks, common images in formats of JPG, PNG, etc, HTML files, and SWF. But I haven't found any free software that converts PDF to Microsoft Office Documents. But, no worries, PDFConverter.com offers a decent online tool for converting PDF to Microsoft Office Documents and from all document formats to PDF. So, if you are online you can have it for FREE.

Convert Document using PDFConverter.com

Download Music from SoundCloud as MP3 with Portable Free SoundCloud Downloader

SoundCloud is a social music sharing platform where the users can share personalized audio recordings and other genuinely free music files. It is currently the major rival of MySpace which also features similar thing along with social networking platform.

Unlike YouTube, SoundCloud allows users to download some audio files for free, but up to a certain download limit per day. Also, it offers to download music files in the same format as uploaded which sometimes take unnecessary disk space in case of downloading in WAV format.
Free SoundCloud Downloader from Minimalite offers an easy to use platform to break all such restrictions. You can continue downloading music on-the-go from SoundCloud as MP3 without any restrictions with this portable software.

Check the Percentage of Copied Content in a text in Plagtracker.com

Few days back I wrote about Plagiarisma.Net service and its free Desktop Application. Recently I got to know about a new online service PlagTracker that does the same basic job i.e. checks text for copied content.

6 Online Services to find Websites with Similar Content

Often you may want to keep a list of sites having similar type of content like HTML Tutorials, Mac news, online Radio, Live Cricket news etc. Google is as always the old and good guide for this purpose but inexperienced user may mess up by improper use of Google Search. So, there are some online services that are specially designed to catalog websites with similar content. Today I will tell you about 6 similar online services listed in the order of my likings. You are free to suggest any similar service that I have missed.

Desktop Plagiarism Checker Checks the Uniqueness of your Write Up

We, the humans learn to speak by imitating the expressions of our parents. We learn to think and decide by seeing our parents and teachers or idols. Imitation is thus a human nature. But since 18th Century, Close Imitation or Plagiarism is considered as a dishonesty in some genre, "prominently in the sectors of academia and journalism, where plagiarism is now considered academic dishonesty and a breach of journalistic ethics, subject to sanctions like expulsion and other severe career damage." Conversely if your article is copied in another place or website or journal, there is a huge chance that the demand of the original article will decrease resulting in severe economical damage of the original contributor.

Often Plagiarism happens unintentionally. I have found that some expressions in my blog are the guilty of Plagiarism while I haven't copied anything from others. This is mainly because I have similar way of expressing things as many others. But I can get the same penalty as others who did things intentionally. So, checking an article for Plagiarism before publishing is a must if you don't want to get any kind of copyright infringement notice from any company or organization.

Plagiarisma.Net is a Online Plagiarism Checker that:

".... helps to scan documents of any type for plagiarism, and you really owe it to yourself to run your documents through it before you submit them, if you’re a student, blogger, writer or grade them in case you’re a teacher. It also may benefit you as a business owner when you order content, and pay money for it, to make sure whether the content you ordered is 100% original. 
 ...... will check your document in depth, as it includes database of millions upon millions of papers, assignments, and articles. It also cross references your document against both live and cached copies of documents on the Internet, including message boards, public PDFs, forums, blogs, and all of that is done automatically and in real time."

It also provides a Plagiarism Software which helps in doing everything without the need to open a browser window.

Online Services to learn about Common Abbreviations

In our daily life we use a number of terms to express our feelings (LOL, ROFL, FTW, AFAIK, ASAP etc.) or to describe something (FIR, FIFA, USB, SATA, HDD etc.). But those who are not so accustomed with this terms may find it difficult to catch the meaning. So today I will inform you about four Online Services to to quickly find these information.

CCFinder: A desktop application to easily search Images with Creative Commons License

If you want to share any image or video without the risk of infringing copyright, you should definitely use Creative Commons Search (CC Search).

According to them their goal is

...give everyone from individual creators to large companies and institutions a simple, standardized way to keep their copyright while allowing certain uses of their work — a “some rights reserved” approach to copyright — which makes their creative, educational, and scientific content instantly more compatible with the full potential of the internet.

 CC Search is not a search engine "but rather offers convenient access to search services provided by other independent organizations".

German company Abelssoft has taken the initiative to integrate CC Search in a desktop application through their tool CCFinder to find images with Creative Commons License.

Edit Images Online and Offline using Splashup and Splashup Light

Irrespective of whether you are a professional photographer or an ordinary person, you must have some time experienced the need for editing your photo collection. So, if you need a sophisticated but easy to use free photo editing tool, Splashup is worth a try.

Online services to compress PDF

Like I said in my previous post, PDF is the most used document format now-a-days and online services for editing/viewing/optimizing PDF is useful at times.
Often we have PDF files contains high quality graphics and have a large size. These PDF file sizes can be reduced with the use of PDF compressors that uses the technology to actually compress the images within it. PDFs containing only text can't of course be compressed with any PDF compressors. There are not many online services that compress PDF files. I have found only two such services.

Online services to resize PDF

PDF is the most popular document format these days. In addition to a number of Free and Paid softwares to create, edit and customize PDF there are online services that do the same without the hassle of installing the software. Of course online services have limitations like size limit of upload, batch processing etc.
Anyway, PDFs have two important properties, page size and page orientation that limits how a PDF will look like. Depending on the purpose you may like to change the size and orientations of PDFs. There are not much online services that do this. I have been able to find only two such service.