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100 great Freeware/Open Source Tools and Applications for Windows

By Pranav Prakash on September 12, 2009 6:40 PM

Many people are unaware of fact that there are many freeware and open source tools and applications out there on internet which they can use for their day to day work without shelling out extra bucks. I have compiled a...

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How to create a custom IE8 Accelerator

By Pranav Prakash on June 29, 2009 9:36 PM

Microsoft has introduced a new feature in Internet Explorer 8 called "Accelerators". These accelerators help you quickly perform your everyday browsing tasks without navigating to other websites to get things done. Simply highlight text from any webpage, and then click...

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Add "Open with Notepad" to the Context Menu for All Files

By Pranav Prakash on February 20, 2009 2:54 PM

I often use Notepad to open plain text files. If the extension of file is of unknown type then I have to browse a list of applications to open that file which is quite painful. Here is a small registry...

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Switch between different JDK versions in Windows

By Pranav Prakash on December 14, 2008 12:06 AM

Being a Java developer, I always compile and test my code on different Java versions. But switching between them is a huge problem. So finally I found an easy method to do this. You have to create following batch files...

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