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Save web pages into PDF for easy reading and printing

pdhanako — Mon, 25 Apr 2011 18:14:15 +0000

While browsing in the internet you would come across some interesting article, which you would like to take a copy and read it later. Adding the webpage URL to your bookmarks helps you a lot to come back and read at anytime. But you need to be online every time you open the link. The other option is to take a print of the page. The standard printing option available in the browser would not help you to avoid all the annoying sidebars, images or advertisements that are included in the web page you wanted to print. Here is a simple online solution to address this problem…Joliprint. Using this online tool you can generate a clean and neatly aligned PDF document out of the web page link.

How do I create a PDF?

All you have to do is to copy the URL of the web page that you want to print

Go to Joliprint website

Paste the copied URL in the field provided

Click jolipirnt it button

A new popup page opens with a button to download the PDF

Click on the Download your PDF button to download the newly generated PDF file. That’s it, you have now a clean and clear PDF ready for printing or further reading. You can also share the PDF online either by Twitter or Facebook or Email or using the link provided there under.

Alternatively, you can also install the bookmarklet in your browser for a quick click & convert option. Click on the Install Now button and follow the simple instruction to set up.

Here is an example of a web page from The New York Times.

This is how it looks when you use the standard printing option available in Firefox browser:

Here is the PDF generated by Joliprint for the same web page:

It looks great and better isn’t it?

Joliprint is very fast and extremely easy to use, but on the other side the PDF generated is not customizable. You have to take whatever it provides as output.

Go ahead and convert your favorite web articles in to readable and distraction free PDF. It is recommended to convert your favorite web pages in to PDF for future reference. You can store this file in your computer, share easily with your friends, import to your e-book reader instead of printing them and wasting paper and ink.

Check it out at http://joliprint.com/

Happy New Year!!!

pdhanako — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 09:03:18 +0000

Merry Christmas!

pdhanako — Fri, 25 Dec 2009 05:54:42 +0000

Music Player: Songbird

pdhanako — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 19:09:19 +0000

Songbird is an open-source customizable music player that’s under active development. It is a non-proprietary, cross platform, extensible tool that will help enable new ways to playback, manage, and discover music. Some its features includes:

GStreamer
Media Importing / Exporting
Library Files Organization
Web Browser
Watch Folders
Smart Playlists
Album Artwork
Gapless Playback & Replay Gain

It is integrated with these Web 2.0 services: mashTape, SHOUTcast Radio, Last.fm Scrobbling, and Songkick concert tickets. You can enhance Songbird with community-contributed plugins like Media Flow.

Songbird is powered by Firefox.

LATEST VERSION: 1.2

LICENSE: Open Source

DOWNLOAD: http://getsongbird.com/download/

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Clipboard Manager – ClipX

pdhanako — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 18:42:48 +0000

ClipX is a tiny clipboard manager. It is very useful in cases where we need to use multiple copy and paste at one point of time. It is very easy to configure and supports various plugins that can be found on its home page.

It is sweet, it is free, use it.

LATEST VERSION: 1.0.3.8

LICENSE: Freeware

DOWNLOAD:http://bluemars.org/clipx/

System Cleaning – CCleaner

pdhanako — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 15:55:46 +0000

ABOUT

CCleaner (formerly Crap Cleaner) is a freeware system optimization and privacy tool. It removes unused and temporary files from your system – allowing Windows to run faster, more efficiently and giving you more hard disk space. The best part is that it’s fast! (normally taking less than a second to run) and Free.
Cleans the following:

Internet Explorer Cache, History, Cookies, Index.dat.
Recycle Bin, Temporary files and Log files.
Recently opened URLs and files.
Third-party application temp files and recent file lists (MRUs).
Including: Firefox, Opera, Media Player, eMule, Kazaa, Google Toolbar, Netscape, Office XP, Nero, Adobe Acrobat, WinRAR, WinAce, WinZip and more…
Advanced Registry scanner and cleaner to remove unused and old entries.
Including File Extensions, ActiveX Controls, ClassIDs, ProgIDs, Uninstallers, Shared DLLs, Fonts, Help Files, Application Paths, Icons, Invalid Shortcuts and more… Backup for registry clean.
Windows Startup tool.

If you like and use this software then it is polite to make a donation to the author.

LATEST VERSION: Ver. 2.17

LICENSE: Freeware (Piriform)

DOWNLOAD: www.ccleaner.com

Technorati Tags: ccleaner,system cleaning,system tweaking

Desktop Recording – CamStudio

pdhanako — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 17:24:46 +0000

ABOUT
CamStudio is able to record all screen and audio activity on your computer and create industry-standard AVI video files and using its built-in SWF Producer can turn those AVIs into lean, mean, bandwidth-friendly Streaming Flash videos (SWFs)
CamStudio can also add high-quality, anti-aliased (no jagged edges) screen captions to your recordings in seconds and with the unique Video Annotation feature you can even personalize your videos by including a webcam movie of yourself “picture-in-picture” over your desktop.

Here are just a few ways you can use this software:

You can use it to create demonstration videos for any software program.
Or how about creating a set of videos answering your most frequently asked questions?
You can create video tutorials for school or college class.
You can use it to record a recurring problem with your computer so you can show technical support people.
You can use it to create video-based information products you can sell
You can even use it to record new tricks and techniques you discover on your favorite software program, before you forget them .

LATEST VERSION
Ver. 2.5

LICENSE
GNU General Public License

DOWNLOAD
camstudio.org

Web Browser – Firefox

pdhanako — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 17:39:18 +0000

ABOUT
The award-winning Web browser is better than ever. Browse the Web with confidence. Firefox protects you from viruses, spyware and pop-ups.

Enjoy improvements to performance, ease of use and privacy. It’s easy to import your favorites and settings and get started.

The latest version delivers easier navigation for everyone, including those who are visually or motor-impaired. Firefox is the first browser to support DHTML accessibility, which, when enabled by Web authors, allows rich Web applications to be read aloud. Users may navigate with keystrokes rather than mouse clicks, reducing the tabbing required to navigate documents such as spreadsheets. Firefox is also the first browser to meet US federal government requirements that software be easily accessible to users with physical impairments.

LATEST VERSION
Ver. 3.01

LICENSE
MPL and Others

DOWNLOAD
www.mozilla.com

CD/DVD Tools – CDBurnerXP

pdhanako — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 12:49:25 +0000

ABOUT
CDBurnerXP is a free application to burn CDs and DVDs, including Blu-Ray and HD-DVDs. It also includes the feature to burn and create ISOs, as well as a multilanguage interface. Everyone, even companies, can use it for free. It does not include adware or similar malicious components.

Key Features

    * burn all kinds of discs
    * audio-CDs with or without gaps between tracks
    * burn and create ISO files
    * data verification after burning process
    * create bootable discs
    * multi-language interface
    * bin/nrg ? ISO converter, simple cover printing and much more!
    * Operating Systems: Windows 2000/XP/2003 Server/Vista

LATEST VERSION
Ver. 4.1.2.678

LICENSE
Freeware

DOWNLOAD
http://cdburnerxp.se/en/download?latest

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Source Code Editor – Notepad++

pdhanako — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 19:13:52 +0000

ABOUT

Notepad++ is a free (free as in “free speech”, but also as in “free beer”) source code editor and Notepad replacement, which supports several programming languages, running under the MS Windows environment.

This project, based on the Scintilla edit component (a very powerful editor component), written in C++ with pure win32 api and STL (that ensures the higher execution speed and smaller size of the program), is under the GPL Licence.

Some of the main features are:

Syntax Highlighting and Syntax Folding
User Defined Syntax Highlighting
Auto-completion
Multi-Document
Multi-View
Regular Expression Search/Replace supported
Full Drag ‘N’ Drop supported

LATEST VERSION

Ver. 5.0

LICENSE

GNU General Public License (GPL)

DOWNLOAD

http://notepad-plus.sourceforge.net

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