Techno Life @ tothepc

Vista to Windows7 upgrade, free or not ?

All Windows Vista users looking for free Windows7 upgrade, here is good and bad news. Yes, Windows Vista users will be eligible for FREE Windows7 upgrade but only limited users. Here are few possible features of upcoming 'Vista to Windows7' upgrade process. Preinstalled Windows Vista PCs

Switch & change default web browser via right click

If you have more than one web browser (like Internet Explorer, Firefox, Opera) installed on the computer - this can confuse Windows and you need to specify the default web browser. Ideally you can set default web browser by going to browser settings and options. If Firefox is set asÂ default web

Windows Fun by showing joke, pranky error messages

We have already seen cool way to create fake and funny error message boxes. Well, checkout Dr Windows that can save you from dying of humor - does it? On the face of it, this program will behave as if it is protecting your computer from something (not sure what). This will actually popup really

3D object Juggle screensaver, exercise your eyes

Looks like season of staying healthy 'techno wise'. We just saw how to use Google talk to calculate calorie count of any food item and here is more. Checkout 3D Juggle Saver that show a figure juggling number of objects. Juggling animation is very smooth with number of variations and different

Get Calorie count of any food item on GTalk

Are you eating too much and getting fat sitting in front of computer? Well, your computer can help you check that calorie intake using gtalk (Google talk) on your computer. Google talk can be used for more than just chatting: like listening to FM radio! Here is another cool way to use Gtalk by

Create free fonts online from your Handwriting

Are you tired of seeing usual fonts like Times, Arial, Verdana etc? Well, add personal touch and create font from your own handwriting in few simple mouse clicks. YourFonts.com is a free online online font generation service. This involves 7 steps explicitly explained to complete theÂ font creation

Access Messenger at Work in office, webuzz

We already know cool and clever way to download files while at work in office. There are similar web ways to access instant messenger in office without any need to download any software. You can try any of multi IM supported web based messengers. Meebo rules the list but since its so popular -

Relish Fab 5 Windows7 features in Vista / XP

Windows7 official release will still take sometime to mature. Incase you want to tryout new Windows7 features on your Windows Vista or XP computer, then following is for you. Checkout utilities and software to get Windows7 features in Vista / XP. 1. Aero Shake - Just shake any opened window,

Download Picasa for Mac (beta)

Picasa from Google is one cool piece of software to view and manage photos with ease. Till now, it was available for Windows based computer -Â Picasa for Mac is now out with beta tag. Being an initial release number of features are missingÂ including: webcam capture, geotagging, online print

Redirect old Blog URL with a WordPress theme

There are number of ways to redirect one URL to another. We have already seen Wordpress plugin for redirection when you change URL permalink structure. Using a plugin on Multi-blogging system like Wordpres MU can make things complicated. Wordpress theme 'redirectr' should come more than handy in