Save On Paper and Ink usage in your Printer with GreenPrint World

GreenPrint world is a free software which reduces the usage of paper and Ink there by saving Money as well as the Environment.



GreenPrint highlights and removes unwanted features like adds, Banners and free spaces which consume lot of Ink as well as space by analyzing the pages. You can easily select and block images and blocks of text that you don't need in print or save the documents directly to PDF's after you have removed all the unwanted material.



It also has a Interesting reporting feature which keeps count of how many papers that have been saved and as a result the amount of money and green house gases saved.


Watch a Tutorial/ Screen Cast of Green Print.

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Saving the Environment has never been so easy.

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Get a Preview of your Google/Yahoo Search Results with GooglePreview Firefox Addon

Google Preview is a Firefox Add-on which provides a snapshot of web pages beside the search results in Google and yahoo search, making it easier to find relevant web pages and to decide wether to visit a certain link or not.

The delay in the display of the search results due to the images is negligible, You can Toggle this feature On or Off by clicking the icon located on the lower right corner of your browser window {marked by the red arrow in the image above).

Right clicking on this Icon will give you access to the GooglePreview options window where you can configure the Maximum number of images per page if you have a customized Google search results page.

 

Get GooglePreview 3.11 here.

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Firefox Browser Link Association Issue

After upgrading to Firefox 3 RC 1 recently ,I have Decided to uninstall Firefox 2 from my machine as most of my favourite addon's are now available for Firefox 3.

The Issue: After Uninstalling Firefox 2 I was unable to open URL links from other programs like Thunderbird and Google Talk in the browser.

The OS(operating system)  was still pointing to Firefox 2 as the default browser which is now Uninstalled.

The Resolution: Well It's simple we need to get the OS to point to Firefox 3 as the default browser.

Here's how it's done:

Go to Start-> Set Program Access and Defaults

If you don't see Set Program Access and Defaults in your Start Menu than go to

Start-> Control Panel -> Add or Remove Programs -> Set Program Access and Defaults

Expand Custom and click on the Mozilla Firefox radio button

Click on OK at the bottom and it's done.

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Comparision of the best free Antiviruses available

There are quite a number of free antivirus software's available on the web,I have always wondered which is the best free antivirus out there, so I scouted around the web reading reviews from a good number of sites and forums and comparing their results and these are the Finalist's That I zeroed onto


So The Best of the free Antivirus software's available are:

Avira Personal Edition. (Formerly known as AntiVir)

Avast Home Edition.

Grisoft's AVG Free Edition.

All the three antiviruse software's are on a equal footing but each has it's Pro's and Con's,

So here's what I think about them:

1.Avira Personal Edition

Avira formerly known as Antivir is my choice of the best free antivirus software's.

This no frill's software has a simple and easy to use user Interface, it's quiet low on the usage of system resources and has a good outbreak response time for new Infections at 4-6 hours and has regular updates the every other day.
My Personal experience using this software has been quite good and I am impressed by it's detection capabilities.

2.Avast Home Edition

Avast antivirus has a hip looking media player style user interface, it takes a little bit of getting used to, to locate all the settings available and to use it efficiently, you can use a number of different skins on the user interface panel which is a cool option but this would effect the system resource usage which is quite high for this antivirus software, use it only if you want the extra bells and whistles this antivirus offers like the sounding of a siren alarm when a virus is found and if you have enough system resources to spare, has a out break response time of 8-10 hours.


3.AVG Free Edition

Avg is improving day by day, it has an easy to use user Interface, is low on the system resource usage but has some issues with other security products like zone alarm firewall,which have been rectified in the newer versions though, has a outbreak response time of 8-10 hours.
My personal experience with it has been not so good, always had issues with it's virus detection capabilities.


I have used these programs on my computers for a while now and find them no way inferior to the Commercial antivirus softwares when it comes to their core capabilities.

What is the Antivirus software that you are using, let me know about your experience with it below.

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Google's Earth Day Doodles

Here's a collection of all the Earth day Doodles Google has ever posted.

Starting with this year's Doodle

 

Earth Day - April 22, 2008

Earth Day - April 22, 2007

 

 

Earth Day - April 22, 2006

 

 

Earth Day - April 22, 2005

 

Earth Day - April 22, 2004

 

Earth Day - April 22, 2003

 

Earth Day - April 22, 2002

 

The following is a Image that Google had on it's site for the World Water Day.

World Water Day - March 22, 2005

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Upload images from the web to Flickr and Picasa web albums with this simple trick

Let's say you have seen an Interesting image on the web and want to save it to your picasa web album or your flickr account so that you can share it  with your friends easily or post it to your blog , your normal work flow would be to :

Save the Image to the computer--> open your picasa/flickr account --> upload the image to your account.

 

Instead of saving the images to your computer and then uploading  you can directly upload the images from the web to your account by pasting the URL of the image that you want in place of the file name and upload.

This would download the image from the web to the browsers cache and upload it saving you from some extra steps and from the clutter on your hard disk.

Happy Browsing.

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How Ecologically Sustainable is your lifestyle?

Take this simple test to find out how sustainable your daily life style is when compared to people of 14 other countries.




National Geographic society commissioned a survey of 14,000 people in 14 countries about their housing, transportation, food and consumer choices. Consumers in Brazil and India tied for the top spot for practising the most environmentally sustainable behaviour, while the U.S. came in last.

Answer some simple questions and find out where you stand and read the important finds of the survey.

Take the test.


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Firefox 3 RC1 (Release Candidate) is out

Firefox 3 the wait is over well almost, it's only a step away from the final release and this is very much how you would find the final release candidate to be if there aren't any fatal bug finds.

Here's a simple Graphic that shows the stages of testing and development through which a software goes through before being released to the public.

The Rss Bug in the previous version 3.5 beta has been fixed.

Firefox 3 RC1 get it here

Happy Browsing.

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1. Browse Easy With the Following Firefox Shortcuts

2. All About The Middle Mouse Button

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Google helps me Exercise my Taste Buds.

I am a big foody and like Practicing my culinary skills often by cooking recipes that I find online, to Tickle my taste buds and escape from the tasteless stuff that I eat daily.

One of the problems that I usually face while doing this is Identifying the Ingredients in my mother tongue ,as they are in English and I have a big difficulty with that (Damn).

You might have already guessed by now as of what I was on to. (see the Image above)

Do you also uses Google for such unusual stuff, Share them with me in the comments below.

Relevant Posts:

Search Like a Pro

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How To Add Orkut's App's to your Profile Page: For Non Indian Users.

Google's Social media site Orkut has recently launched a cool new feature called" apps" short for applications similar to facebooks applications,
these apps let you add some cool new features to your profile but as of now this feature is only available to Indian users, orkut has promised to roll out this feature to all orkut users soon.

If you are one of those non Indian users and can't wait to try out this cool new feature on your profile page there's a work around available.



Log into Orkut and go to the edit profile page or just click on the link below and change your Location to India and click on update at the bottom and your Done.
Home > My profile > Edit profile



You will now be able to add all the cool apps to your profile page through a new addition to the Control Panel on the left "add apps".



Thanks to Lebu san (◕‿◕)for the tip.
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8 Simple ways to Make your stay at the Office more Eco Friendly.

Here's a List of 8 Simple things that you can do at the office with little effort to lend a hand to the Environment.

Copy and print on both sides of paper and if Possible use Two up or four up to print two or four pages on a single side.

Use the Print Preview option and remove any pages or large blocks of text that are not required, the few extra seconds are worth it.

Reuse items like envelopes, folders and paper clips, Use discarded paper for scrap paper.

Use e-mail & Instant messaging instead of paper correspondence as much as possible.

Get yourself a ceramic coffee mug instead of using the disposable cups at the coffee machine.

Use a Hand Kerchief or a napkin Instead of the Paper Towels in the washroom.

Lowering your computers brightness and using the inbuilt power management tool will reduce the power consumption considerably.

Make sure to Shutdown your computer and switch it off at the Power socket before you leave for the day, leaving them in stand by mode will keep drawing power even after shutting down (the monitor keeps drawing).


Share these simple steps with your friends and colleagues and Convince them to join you.
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