Worthy Tips

Seamless Texture Creator: Tool to create texture from still photographs

Arafat Hossain Piyada — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 17:10:55 +0000

How many time you thought a still photograph is great as a texture if you manage to give it little tweak? How many times you thought some part of an image will look great as texture? No matter how many time that is but you don’t need to scratch your head for a perfect tool as Seamless Texture Creator is here to help you.

Seamless Texture Creator is a free utility that can easily turn still photographs and other images into seamless texture images for tiled backgrounds on web pages, desktops, presentations as well as for texturing in 3D video and PC games, etc. The interesting part of this tool that you can change the angle after selecting a portion of an image to tweak it.

After Selection:

After Angel Tweak:

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Download UpdateStar Premium Edition With Free 6 Month License Key

Arafat Hossain Piyada — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 15:32:41 +0000

Updated softwares are less vulnerable because it come with lot of bug fixes, also updated software give better user experience. However due to lack of time or proper instinct we usually fail to update our installed software and always love to have a program that can do the updating job for us. That’s where UpdateStar comes. It has both free and paid version. Where free version checks for update weekly, paid version always ping with update servers.

This utility able to check 309,000 programs for updates and paid version also featured with complete software maintenance, security advisory, frequent minor upgrade versions, Pack exports and imports, 24×7 scheduling and more.

The premium edition usually costs you $29.95(USD) but as a promotional offer, you can get it absolutely free for 6 month. All you need to do, follow the below instructions:

Step 1: Visit UpdateStar Premium Edition promotional page

Step 2: Fill the given field with working email id.

Step 3: Very soon you will get an email with confirmation link and with store login instruction.

Step 4: Login to UpdateStar and copy the free license into notepad for future use.

Step 5: Download UpdateStar Premium Edition and register it with saved serial key or license key.

That’s it! Enjoy!

How to arrange open windows in tab like browsers on Windows OS?

Arafat Hossain Piyada — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 14:42:42 +0000

If you already using recent version of Internet Explorer or other tab enable browser like Firefox, Opera and Chrome then you already experience the productivity of tab browsing. Tab browsing actually save your taskbar space and also give user access to any window faster than non-tab browsing. However, this feature only available on browser not in Windows until now there was no tool which can enable tab browsing on active windows.

Window Tabifier is a tool that can push that browser base tab feature on all windows and help you to arrange all windows in tab for better browsing experience. It sits on system tray and work only when you make a right click or double click on its system tray icon. Double click opens an option screen from where you can make necessary change where single click show a context menu which user can use for tab browsing.

There are two type of tab managing available on Window Tabifier – Tab Windows & Tab All Windows.

Tab Windows allow you select open windows which you want to arrange in Tab.

Where Tab All Windows automatically arrange all open windows in tab.

Download Window Tabifier

Why should Facebook support Greenpeace and use 100% renewable energy?

Arafat Hossain Piyada — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 02:27:32 +0000

Everything is ok there until Facebook announced that it is building its own gigantic data center in Oregon and unlike Google and Microsoft which both use hydroelectric power, Facebook will use dirty cool and that’s the most problematic zone.

According to EIA (Energy Information Administration) the resulting ratio of coal reserves to production is approximately 130 years. However, the rate of coal consumption is annually increasing at 2-3% per year and, setting the growth rate to 2.5% yields an exponential depletion time of 56 years (in 2065). At the current global total energy consumption of 15.7 terawatts, there is enough coal to provide the entire planet with all of its energy for 37 years (assuming 0% growth in demand and ignoring transportation’s need for liquid fuels).

As the stat show we have to reserve coal for our future humanity and the best way is asking big companies to do that and create an iconic face of energy savvy to inspire others to follow their path.

Facebook definitely taking reverse way where Google, eBay, and a number of others are taking the energy savvy direction. Last time change.org tried their best to give Facebook signal on this by starting a petition called “Stop Facebook from Switching to Dirty Coal”. However, unfortunately most of the Facebook users was unaware about this and the petition only able to manage 2,753 signature where Facebook has over 400+ millions users.

But this time Greenpeace take different approach and instead of petition they create a group which is definitely better than previous method to alert other Facebook users and this way they already manage over 151000 members.

Greenpeace really take a decent approach to make environment little more cleaner and better for future humanity. As a human being we all have to join that group and try to force Facebook to think about renewable energy.

If Greenpeace movement will win then that will be iconic and may be will encourage many more company follow the same path as Facebook is really a buzz zone for people, for business.

Join Greenpeace movement

Resource:

1. Coal Reserves Current and Back Issues

2. Coal – Wikipedia

3. Change.org

4. All Facebook

Download Last.fm Album Covers with customized size using Cover Fetcher

Arafat Hossain Piyada — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 16:13:58 +0000

Last.fm is a popular Internet radio site and largest people-powered music catalogue online. You can find thousand of music to satisfy your need. As this is an online music hub, you can easily find tons of music of some popular bands and peoples and may be you want to collect those albums cover images for collection purpose. Cover Fetcher helps you here.

Cover Fetcher let you download album cover on customized size. All you need to input Artist name and album name and the size you want from drop down menu. That’s it. It will then show the cover and ask you to save it in your system. Pretty easy, isn’t it?

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Uberstaller – Perfect software uninstaller with better user interface

Arafat Hossain Piyada — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 15:36:55 +0000

Sometime back we shared two very worthy utility Ashampoo Uninstaller 2010 and Revo Uninstaller and both are good alternatives of Windows build in software uninstaller and here I’m going to share another similar tool Uberstaller which perhaps have better user interface and much more option than other two already mentioned.

In the first tab, you will see installed software names with fruitful information like publisher name, program size, installed date, uninstaller string etc.

The next tab(File Shredder) allow us to delete a file or folder securely using drag and drop method.

Preferences is the third tab which allows us to change theme along with other useful setting options.

The forth tab shares developer information about this useful tool.

Some key features:

No-nonsense uninstaller packed with essential features.
Provides full information about installed packages.
Contains no spyware, adware, or any other forms of malware
Ultra fast filtering allows to locate programs quickly.
Engine is fully optimized to take advantage of .NET Framework.
Heuristic scanner removes traces of partially uninstalled applications. It’s safe – everything will be deleted to the recycle bin.
Drop-down and context menus for convenient navigation.
Built-in shredding tool for secure erasing of files and folders
Configurable layout, visual appearance, and other options

As you see, the user interface is awesome and presentation of function is lot better than any other similar tool we have in the market, I encourage you to use this as an alternative of Windows buildin uninstaller.

Download Uberstaller

North America has most internet users, Asian are on top ethnicity(infographic)

Arafat Hossain Piyada — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 03:14:56 +0000

Ever wonder how internet effect our daily life or how we use this communication medium? Do you know an average US person spend 66 hours per month on internet and out of which 7 hours are invested on Facebook which is more than combined uses of Google, Yahoo, Youtube, Bing, Wikipedia and Amazon! Do you know 20 hours of video uploaded on Youtube every minute and people spend an average of 3 hours daily to watch those videos but still fail to beat the monthly views of TV which is 153 hours per month! You may be interested to know that 210 billions of email send daily and out of which 80% are spam.

Online School designed a good informative graph with all those interesting stat that you may always want to know. Check it out below:

Recover Windows Live Messenger lost passwords with MSN Password Hacker

Arafat Hossain Piyada — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 02:18:28 +0000

In past we show you how to recover all your messenger password using MessenPass free utility, here we going to share another more specific tool MSN Password Hacker that help you to recover Windows Live Messenger password by decrypting system save information.

This tool only work when you already saved your password in your system at least once. Notable thing is, along with recovered password it tell the strength of that password that help you to know your password security.

Download MSN Password Hacker

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2 Free Email Tracking Technique To Get Notified When Recipient Read Your Email

Arafat Hossain Piyada — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 00:49:11 +0000

Ever have a wish to know if the recipient read your email or not. Sometime you run an important campaign and you wish all your recipient should read your email but how will you know if they read it or not? There are two ways to know this – either by asking a feedback or by injecting a tracking technique.

Here I’m going to discuss about injecting a tracking technique. There are two types of technique we can use – one is by inputting tracking image and another by inputting tracking url.

Here are 3 websites that help you to track email reading by injecting tracking image:

1. whoreadme.com

2. getnotify.com

3. spypig.com

The problem with this technique is, it can’t always show you satisfying result as it depend on image. If recipient won’t download the image, for example gmail by default block image unless you ask gmail to unblock it, the service unable to show the result even your recipient read that mail.

Now talk about another technique but this technique need a little skill. You have to write the email in a way that encourage recipient to click on your given link. First you need to sign up with a url tracking website and then you need to convert a website link into a tracking link via that service. Now send a email with that tracking url and if the recipient click on that link, that mean s/he already read that. Not satisfying but still worth your attention. Here are some websites that allow you to track a link:

1. Bit.ly

2. Cli.gs

3. Tr.im

4. Kl.am

If you know some other technique then please share it in comment section.

Give Gmail a CRM(Customer relationship management) capability with Rapportive

Arafat Hossain Piyada — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 15:01:29 +0000

If you are in PR industry then you may always want to know more about your email sender before going to interact with the sender. That not only help you to show your professionalism but also give you a chance to create a better presentation. Most of us this day use Gmail, due to its simple and professional interface with so much more capability which come absolutely free. Now using Rapportive plugin you can give Gmail a CRM capability.

After installing the plugin in your browser ( currently support only Firefox & Chrome), whenever you open a email, the right-hand will display information about the sender. In this way you can easily figure out if you actually know the sender or not, and also help you to choice whether or not the industry he is employed in, has anything to do with yours.

However, this is a social plugin and need your help to build their database. When you first use this plugin it will ask you some details about you and that the way the database build up. There may be other ways that they trying to build the database but currently they have few data and that’s why you may not get CRM details each time.

However, this is a must have plugin after all something is better than nothing.

Visit Rapportive.com to install the plugin in your browser