Remove Identical Music Files from Pc and Free up Disk Space

We usually download songs from various websites and may not be aware of downloading the same song once again on our computer. Duplicate or similar files are in most cases redundant and unnecessary, so keeping them is merely a waste of valuable hard disk space.


Is your hard drive full of extra copies of audio files waiting to be removed ? Then all you need is Similarity tool.

Similarity will help you reclaim your valuable disk space and organize your music collection. Similarity is a free tool which helps you to find music files which have similar music tags or file content. It not only scans the music file based on the music tag or file content, It actually scans the file based on the similar sound content. You can also adjust the sensitivity of searching criteria to find exact or similar files.

How does it find the similar music files ? What is the technology behind it ?
Similarity tool finds the duplicate music files using the sound content comparison. Then what is File content comparison ?

File content (Byte to Byte comparison), comparison that made bit by bit, two files identical if all bits in them are identical. This method of comparison useless in music duplicates finding, because, usually, duplicates have different sample rate, different bit rate or information tags, ie. different characteristics (which incompatible with byte to byte comparison).

Sound content comparison (which uses Similarity) is different, first sound decoded to raw sound waves and after used in different mathematical calculations to get unique sound estimation (hash). What estimation used in comparison with other sound estimations. This method of comparison give much better results than simple byte to byte comparison or tag comparison.



Features of Similarity tool :

1. Support lossy formats: MP3, MP2, OGG, WMA, ASF, FLAC, APE, WF, WMA.
2. Tag editor and tag, file renaming tool.
3. Very fast sound content scanning. (approx 100 songs in 30 secs)
4. Three powerful comparing algorithms (content based, tags based and experimental).
5. Works with removable media devices like USB, etc.
6. Functionality of scanning multiple folders or disks.

Similarity tool - Download | Homepage | Screenshots

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Throw away your iTunes and Transfer Music to iPod from PC

Most of them have an iPod and knows about iTunes (used for transfering music from PC to iPod), its the sickest application from Apple. We like OS X and Netbook but when it comes to music players, Apple's is one of the worst. Moreover new users find it very difficult to use iTunes to transfer music and also it offers only one way synchornization of music from PC to iPod.



For all iTunes haters here is a freeware called Sharepod to overcome all the restrictions and transfer data iPod from PC and vice versa. even you can backup all your music. Here are some features about Sharepod -



# You can Add Music, Videos and Backup photos from your iPod.
# Add remove album art and edit playlists.
# Copy music ,videos and playlists from your iPod to PC.
# Import music/videos into your iTunes library, including playlists and ratings.
# Drag n Drop feature with simple and clean interface.
# Mainly Quick to load, Light weight and use with no complicated features.



Sharepod - Download | Screenshots | Homepage

SharePod is completely free!

This is an good alternative to iTunes and I loved it :)

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Reverse your Image Search using TinEye

Normally we tend to search images and the result is the search engine searches in the database and displays the images that are related to that search term entered by the user. but this TinEye (reverse image search engine) on the otherhand starts with a image and can find out where an image came from. It allows you to search for images that are visually similar to an image you submit to TinEye.



TinEye is a reverse image search engine. You can submit an image to TinEye to find out where it came from, how it is being used, if modified versions of the image exist, or to find higher resolution versions. TinEye is the first image search engine on the web to use image identification technology rather than keywords, metadata or watermarks. This is useful if you have an image, but you don't remember what it depicts or if you want to find a higher-quality version of an image.



You can upload images to TinEye in two ways. 1) From your local computer 2) You can give url of an image or to point it to a website. Pointing it to a website will retrieve all images located on that website giving the user the choice to select any of them. After uploading the images the TinEye will display the number of related images that it found in its database which is currently containing 1.04 billion entries.

All you need to do is upload an image and it craws it's index seeking a near match and presents it. It's in beta and has about a billion images. It even detects images that are slightly modified.

Why it is useful ?

1. You can find out the image where it originally came from.
2. If you want to find a higher resolutions of the same image.
3. If you like to check if the images or photos are used on other websites.
4. It can find partial matches, including images that have been resized or edited, it cannot locate similar images based on subject matter.

Just go to TinEye Cool Searches page - Here. You can find the real power of this reverse search engine.



Good Example - Click here

How does it work ?

When you submit an image to be searched, TinEye creates a unique and compact digital signature or 'fingerprint' for it, then compares this fingerprint to every other image in our index to retrieve matches.

There are also browser plugins for Firefox and Internet Explorer which allow a simple right-click to quickly and easily launch a "Search Image on TinEye" option.

For Firefox you have the Addon - TinEye Reverse Image Search 0.6



Download - TinEye Firefox Add-on

Same like TinEye Google has Similar images search at Google Labs. It allows you to search for images using pictures rather than words. Have a look here - Google Similar Images Search

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Top 10 Useful Source Code Editors

Even if your a Master in Programming or Markup it is difficult to make up to the task without a code editor dedicated to the work. Especially when your dealing with edits to HTML, CSS, JavaScript or large files at once you obviously need a good editor to quickly open, edit and save it. I have this need on a regular basis and went on the hunt for an editor and now im ended up with top 10 for you readers !!



1. Notepad ++ -
One of my favourite Editor for Windows which supports several programming languages.Its a freeware and considered as an advanced yet simple text-editor which is extremly customizable. Its an WYSIWYG, User syntax highlighting, Auto completion, Drag n drop supported, Multi language enviornment supported feature. I hope you enjoy Notepad++ as much as I enjoy coding it.



Notepad++ - Download

2. Textpad -
It also has a customizable tools menu, and integral file compare and search commands, with hypertext jumps from the matched text to the corresponding line in the source file (ideal for integrating compilers). The spelling checker has dictionaries for 10 languages. In-context help is available for all commands, and in-context menus pop-up with the right mouse button. Supports Universal Naming Convention (UNC) style names, and long file names with spaces.



Textpad - Download

3. PSPad -
One of the Best freeware programmer's editor for Microsoft Windows OS. Best features are you can save desktop sessions to later reopen all session files , FTP client - edit files directly from the web , macro recorder to record, save and load macros, installation contains templates for HTML, PHP, Pascal, JScript, VBScript, MySQL, MS-Dos, Perl, Intelligent internal HTML preview using IE and Mozilla , full HEX editor, internal web browser with APACHE support.



PSPad - Download

4. E-texteditor -
E is a new text editor for Windows, with powerful editing features and quite a few unique abilities. It makes manipulating text fast and easy, and lets you focus on your writing by automating all the manual work. You can extend it in any language, and by supporting TextMate bundles, it allows you to tap into a huge and active community.

E-Texteditor - Download

5. Eclipse -
It is an open-source Java-based integrated development environment (IDE). Originally, Eclipse was meant to be used by Java developers, however, since users can extend its capabilities by installing numerous plug-ins, Eclipse is widely used by professional developers of all kind. For instance, plug-ins for C and C++ (CDT-project), Perl, PHP, ColdFusion, Ruby, Python and C# are available.



Eclipse - Download

6. Aptana -
Aptana Studio is the leading IDE for Today's Web offering integrated language support for HTML, DOM, JavaScript and CSS. Debugging, errors and warning assistance are available as well. You can also use a number of Aptana plugins which offer comfortable tools for developing with Ruby on Rails, PHP, Adobe AIR, and Apple iPhone. Aptana has some pre-included popular Javascript libraries (Adobe Spry, Prototype, MochiKit, YUI, Mootools, Dojo Toolkit, JQuery, Scriptaculous) as well as a JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) Editor. The editor can definitely be considered as a professional and powerful source code editor.



Aptana Studio - Download

7. Komodo Edit -
Being a multi language editor it support HTML, CSS, JavaScript as well as Perl, PHP, Ruby, RHTML, Django and many more. It also includes auto-complete, calltips, syntax checking and coloring as well as Vi emulation and Emacs keybindings. More advanced features are HTML live preview, code snippet storing, code folding, multi document editing as well as project management features.



Komodo Edit- Download

8. Scriptly -
Webocton - Scriptly is a comprehensive source freeware editor on writing HTML and programming scripts in PHP and designed. In addition to an extensive search and replace function, the program has syntax highlighting for seven different scripting languages and file types. Furthermore you can easily and quickly Snippets and complex tables and more.



Scriptly - Download

9. Programmers Notepad -
You can see the features of Programmers Notepad here.



Programmers Notepad - Download

10. EditPlus -
EditPlus supports powerful and customizable syntax highlighting for HTML, CSS, PHP, ASP, Perl, C/C++, Java, JavaScript and VBScript by default. Also, you can create your own syntax file to support other programming languages. For more summary features go here.



EditPlus - Download

11. jEdit -
jEdit is a mature programmer's text editor with hundreds (counting the time developing plugins) of person-years of development behind it. Written in Java, so it runs on Mac OS X, OS/2, Unix, VMS and Windows. Built-in macro language; extensible plugin architecture. Dozens of macros and plugins available. Plugins can be downloaded and installed from within jEdit using the "plugin manager" feature. Auto indent, and syntax highlighting for more than 130 languages.

jEdit - Download | Screenshots

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Get Notified When your Website is Down

When your websites go down, shouldn't you be the first to know ?? Your users shouldn't be the ones letting you know your website is not working properly. Howsthe dot com is a website monitoring service which monitors your website and provides you with status notification when your website is down so that you can do something to remedy it.



Howsthe dot com is will monitor your websites or web services using the HTTP protocol and provides you with notifications when your website is down. For eg : Say you have started a website to inform people something important, In any case you dont want your site which you worked hard to be unreachable. Best Example is e-commerce store, because every minute the site is down they are losing sales.



Services like this one will better equip you and let you take the necessary measures at any given time. All you need to do is sign up for free and start monitoring your website!



Some of the features include :
# Notification to multiple locations via your preferred method (e-mail and SMS are fully supported)
# You can check your website every 5, 10, 15, 30, 60 minutes depending on your plan.



# It can also search the page content for keywords and notify you if they're not found.
# You can set a wait period till the next notification, this way you are not overwhelmed with notifications that your website is not running properly.
# It allows you to monitor many websites and web services, this is limited depending on which plan are signed up for.

If you want to have a try go to the homepage here

Howsthe dot com - Homepage



There are thousands of sites notifying when your websites are down. In the row, here is another one which i found to be useful. so sharing it

- Are my sites up ? - Homepage

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Best Online and Desktop Image Editing Tools

Salaam Alekum! pronounced as (sulam ulakume) don't be wondering what is that, I greeted all my readers in Arabic language. so today when i was talking to my friend through Gtalk he asked me to suggest some image editing tools for his blogging use, decided why shouldn't I write something on that ?



Now I have some two divisions: Online and Desktop Image Editing tools, First ill share Desktop Image Editing tools which i use it and recommend personally.

1. Photoscape :
Photoscape is a cute photo viewing and editing software with different features. It has viewer, built-in Flickr option so that you can view the random Flickr images, batch editor , Merge images, Animated gif maker, Print, Splitter, Screen Capture, color picker, Renamer , Raw converter. I use only Photoscape for cropping and Merging images. The above picture(Obama and stuff's) is done using Photoscape and it only took 3 mins for me because it contains all ready made icons :)



Photoscape - Download | Homepage | Screenshots

2. Paint.NET :
Paint.NET is free image and photo editing software for computers that run Windows. It features an innovative user interface with support for layers, unlimited undo, special effects, and a wide variety of useful and powerful tools. This is one of the best alternative for Photoshop which is less than 2MB and supports plugins. You won’t find a better one than this!



Paint.NET - Download | Homepage

3. IrfanView :
IrfanView is another great tool that lets you view and convert images. You can do more advanced things like creating slideshows, batch processing, and playing sounds and movies. You can view any file format with IrfanView. Plus, it also supports plugins and even has different toolbar skins so that you can change the look of your toolbar. Though IrfanView has less emphasis on image editing and more on image viewing, it’s still one of the best!



IrfanView - Download | Homepage | Plugins | Toolbar skins

4. Picasa :
As you all know Picasa is one of Google's products. Its helps you to easily upload your images to web from your computer in easy steps. It also provides powerful editing tools. Then use Picasa Web Albums to share those photos online with family, friends, and the world.

Picasa - Download | Homepage

5. Fotografix :
Its one of the best alternative for Photoshop, it allows you to adjust and add filters to images as well as retouching photos.You can also use layers so that you can even create basic graphic designs and transparent backgrounds. Since the file size is so small and doesn’t require installation, Fotografix can be run from a USB drive. There is support for a large range of different image formats. Fotografix also allows you to use scripts which automate frequently repeated tasks.



Fotografix - Download

6. GIMP :
GIMP is an acronym for GNU Image Manipulation Program. It is a freely distributed program for such tasks as photo retouching, image composition and image authoring.
One of my favorites!



GIMP - Download | Homepage | Screenshots

If you have any problem in using these tools, use comments section or mail me :)
Feel free to use the comments section and share your Image editing tools with us :)

Now i'll share some Online Image Editing Tools :

Online editing tools provide you a good platform where you can work with images anywhere on the web. Here is list of some best online image editing tools which are very powerful and very near to Photoshop and other desktop based image editing tools.

1. Pixlr - Link
Pixlr is a online image editor, that means that you can upload your images and edit them in your browser.

2. SUMO Paint - Link
SUMO Paint is a free image editing software that gives you the opportunity to create, edit and comment images online with powerful tools and layer support.

3. Aviary - Link
Aviary Edit images, create mind-blowing effects, design logos, find colors, collaborate and more. All you need is a web browser. Try it completely free!

4. Picnik - Link
Picnik is online image editing tool with connecting to your favorite social networking and photo-sharing sites.

5. FotoFlexer - Link
FotoFlexer is the world’s most advanced online digital photo editor. It performs advanced effects previously only available to professionals using expensive software.

6. flauntR - Link
flauntR is online photo editing Tool. Its Easy and free, Store unlimited photos for free, 1000s of free photo designs, 100s of free fonts and shapes, Dozens of editing effects.

7. Pixenate - Link
Pixenate is the photo editor of choice for photo printing and photo sharing businesses.

8. Snipshot - Link
Snipshot is one more online image editing tool also Snipshot Pro version available it coast $9 per month.

9. Facebomb - Link
Facebomb is is online photo editing Tool with good photo designs and large number of effects. You can also write text on pictures. I'm loving it!

10. Photobucket - Link
As you know Photobucket provides you a image editing tool, which is good with more effects.

You can find millions of online editing tools but i personally perfer these above one's. You can also share your tools through comments section.

Don't forget to read how to copy text from images and How to search images in private secret directories!

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Quick Tools for Google Apps

Quick Tools for Google Apps is a software that integrates some of Google applications (Gmail, Google Docs and Google Calendar) and resides in the taskbar to notify you when new mail or a new event has arrived.

With Quick Tools for Google Apps, you can quickly perform tasks such as adding appointments to your calendar, transfer files and folders to Google Docs or check new messages on your Gmail account.



It supports :

1. Google Mail Integration :
* Automatically retrieves new emails and Notifies you with a popup window when new email arrives.



* You can always view a list of new and recent email even when you are offline.

2. Google Docs Integration :
* Uploading documents to Google Docs can be a bit of a nightmare, especially if you need to upload multiple documents or even whole folders.





* Drag and drop files and folders to the Quick Tools upload window to upload documents.



3. Google Calendar Integration :
* Automatically retrieves calendar events from all your Google accounts.



* You can always list todays or tomorrows appointments even when you are offline.



* You can quickly add a new appointment to your calendar without having to first open a browser and navigate to your calendar.



4. Options & Multiple Accounts :
* You select one account as the default account, but new mail and calendar reminders are still popping up for all accounts.



* You always upload documents and add new appointments to your selected default account.



* You can set a range of different options for each of your added accounts, and you can choose which Google applications are relevant for each of your accounts.

Quick Tools for Google Apps requires Microsoft. NET Framework 2.0 to run.

Quick Tools for Google Apps - Download

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Share Files directly from your PC using Gmail Account

With Gmail, the maximum size of attachments you can send and receive is only up to 25 megabytes (MB) in size. g2Peer is a program that can be helpful to share files with anyone you want through Gmail. If you use a web-based file sharing service for sharing files with your friends, its a time consuming process.



g2Peer is a freeware that simplifies sharing of file by allowing you to share files directly from your computer using Gmail account. g2Peer treats each Gmail address as an IP address for all computers that have installed g2Peer.



To work with g2Peer, it should be installed on both PC and configured to work with an unique Gmail address through Gmail POP3 or IMAP. (or) If you use command line [ ?_list and ?_download ] it is not necessary to install g2Peer on both the PC.

For more detailed Tutorial with Screenshots Go here - Link

g2Peer runs under Windows 2000/XP/Vista operation systems. No special hardware requirements. Copy/download the installation file in a temporary directory and run it. The installation wizard will do the rest.

Once the installation program has completed, you may run the program from the Start menu: Start->Programs->g2Peer->g2Peer 1.0.

Download g2Peer - Link

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Extract the Exact Color codes From Websites or Blogs

Have you ever wanted to extract color from a designer's website? and u have no idea how to ?? Then , this is for you ..



Like Your Colors is a free online tool that extracts the colors of any website or blog. It actually reads the website’s stylesheet(style.css file) to find the colors and the end results are surprisingly accurate. Just enter the URL of any website or blog at the bottom and click Get colors. and in few seconds you will get the colors.



Like Your Colors - Link



If your a Die-hard Firefox user , then this Add-on is specially for you - Install colorzilla a Firefox add-on that allow you to hover with your mouse on any colors in the page and i’ll give the the color code you want.

If you need to know the General color codes then 4096 color wheel helps to chose the Web smart colors.

4096 color wheel - link

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How to charge USB based devices without a Computer

We all have so many USB based devices which can be charged only via USB ports, like portable music players, digital cameras…etc. But when we go out for a trip or a long tour, it’s gonna be a huge problem to keep them charged all the time. Offcourse you can’t carry a laptop or PC to just charge them!



Here is a solution for that! You can buy a Universal USB Charger which is been sold by many merchants on eBay over here. You can plug this adapter to normal AC 230 volts points. Adapter simply steps down the 230V AC into 5 volts DC which is the voltage USB ports provide. These adapters are available for around Rs.200 on eBay

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How to charge USB based devices without a Computer

We all have so many USB based devices which can be charged only via USB ports, like portable music players, digital cameras…etc. But when we go out for a trip or a long tour, it’s gonna be a huge problem to keep them charged all the time. Offcourse you can’t carry a laptop or PC to just charge them!



Here is a solution for that! You can buy a Universal USB Charger which is been sold by many merchants on eBay over here. You can plug this adapter to normal AC 230 volts points. Adapter simply steps down the 230V AC into 5 volts DC which is the voltage USB ports provide. These adapters are available for around Rs.200 on eBay

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Change Your Keyboard Keys with SharpKeys

How many times a day do you accidentally hit cAPS lOCK BY MISTAKE AND END UP HAVING TO GO BAck and retype stuff? For me it was at least once an hour. So ,Here's what we all need.



SharpKeys is a very small application which does an excellent job in customizing all the keys in your keyboard according to your requirement. Like change "CapsLock" to "Shift" keys.

You can even disable them or you can also play Pranks with your friends things which i like to do most :))

How to use it ??

* It is very simple, install the application then click Add.



* You will see a window like this, Now can see the list of keys you can change, you can even type your own key which you feel is easy.



* Just click "Type Key" button in the "From Key" section and hit the keys which they want to convert.

* Then again click on "Type Key" button in the "To Key" section and press the key which they want to assign to the selected key.

* After you are satisfied click ok and write to registry.

* Restart your pc to take effect ! That's it.

This Registry Hack works on Windows XP, 2000 , Server 2003 and Vista.

Download SharpKeys - Link

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