Utilities

How to Play VIDEO_TS files in Windows, Mac or Linux?

By Chris Martin at 5 January, 2009, 9:24 am

Most of us download DVD movies directly from torrents. Recently I downloaded a file from a torrent and it had following types of files in it -
VIDEO_TS\VIDEO_TS.BUP
VIDEO_TS\VIDEO_TS.IFO
VIDEO_TS\VIDEO_TS.VOB
VIDEO_TS\VTS_01_0.BUP
VIDEO_TS\VTS_01_0.VUP
VIDEO_TS\VTS_01_0.IFO
VIDEO_TS\VTS_01_1.VOB

What are VIDEO_TS.IFO, VIDEO_TS.BUP, and VIDEO_TS.VOB Files?
The .IFO file is an information file that contains menus and other information about the video and audio. [...]

How to transfer or upload photos from iPhoto to Flickr

By Chris Martin at 2 January, 2009, 10:13 am

If you are looking for a tool that uploads multiple photos from iPhoto to Flickr, then your search ends here. Earlier I used to export photos from iPhoto to a folder on Mac machine and then uploaded to Flickr account one by one which is very annoying and time consuming activity.

FFXporter is a free iPhoto [...]

How to get Read Receipt notification email from Gmail, Yahoo, Hotmail, AOL and other email clients

By Chris Martin at 2 January, 2009, 7:00 am

Gmail is one of the popular email clients with the best spam filter. But the limitation for Gmail is that it does not send you an email read receipt as soon as the recipient opens and reads your email unlike in rediffmail.com. If you want to find out when your email (composed in Outlook, Eudora, [...]

Smart XL-Send bulk SMS directly from Microsoft Excel

By Chris Martin at 29 December, 2008, 5:51 pm

There may be certain circumstances wherein you want to contact large numbers of people in seconds to convey critical information. Sending SMS via phone to large number of people is not an intelligent way to convey message as it is time consuming and annoying. There is an Excel plugin using which you can send out [...]

Search and Verify RapidShare Links - Firefox Addon

By Chris Martin at 26 December, 2008, 12:18 pm

RapidShare is a popular free unlimited file hosting service. There are thousand of dead rapidshare links spread all over the internet. If you want to get rid of invalid or dead rapidshare then you must try out unofficial Rapidshare tool firefox add-on.

Whenever you visit any webpage that display the rapidshare links, unofficial Rapidshare automatically or [...]

Create custom Screensavers or Flash slideshows - Free Download

By Chris Martin at 12 December, 2008, 7:35 am

Screensaver is good way of saving computer power and of course your electricity bill. The default screensavers that comes along with windows pack are not very attractive. But you can create your own screensaver with few clicks without knowing any computer language. Flickr downloader allows you to download photos from Flickr and create Flash slideshow [...]

Raptor-Multiple Rapidshare Files Downloader for Mac and Windows

By Chris Martin at 5 December, 2008, 8:46 am

Raptor is a free download manager for a rapidshare. There is no need to look for a correct button or follow link or wait parts to download. Just add the links and select the folder to save these files. It will automatically download the files. The default language set to the tool is Russian which [...]

CSV File Splitter - Divide large CSV file into multiple files of smaller size

By Chris Martin at 2 December, 2008, 6:50 am

A Comma separated values (CSV) file is a data file that is used to store the data in a table form in a structured way. Each line in the CSV file corresponds to a row in the table. Within a line, fields are separated by commas, each field belonging to one table column. CSV files [...]