Tips & Tricks

We have shared tips on receiving free full version legal license to two of the most popular PC optimization suites iolo System Mechanic 6 and Advanced WindowsCare Professional, Here is yet another chance to grab your very own personal free legal registration code for the latest version of System Mechanic 8.

System Mechanic 8 software suite consists of several windows optimization tools allowing users to automatically repair common PC errors, minimize file and registry fragmentation, cleaning out clutter, and tuning up their PC's so that it runs smoothly, reliably, and faster.

Megaupload is probably the most popular one-click file hosting service provider after Rapidshare (Alexa Comparison) and like all other similar services imposes downloading restrictions for free users, apart from the 45 second wait-timer, Megaupload also restrict users from non-english speaking countries from downloading files at peak hours with error:

All download slots assigned to your country are currently in use. Please try again in a few hours or install the Megaupload Toolbar for immediate access - with the toolbar installed, there are no more slot limitations for you!

However, megaupload's alexa toolbar is classified as SPYWARE by various security softwares and many users do not prefer to install the toolbar. Their exist several megaupload download hacks to bypass these restrictions but majority of them are outdated and do not work now.

Megaupload Downloader 2008 is a new free utility to bypass restrictions imposed by Megaupload allowing anyone to download unlimited files, the software is easy to use and works similar to your existing browser. You can also search for files on megaupload using the in-built file-search options.

If you are an fairly advanced computer user, at times you may need to boot from devices other then the default hard-disk, mainly to troubleshoot virus infections and other critical operating-system related issues, I had shared tips on how to make bootable cd for performing advance system tasks on windows. Today I will share few utilities enabling you to create bootable USB pen drives with ease, you need to have Motherboard/BIOS with USB boot support for this to work.

MakeBootable is an free and simple-to-use utility to make your Pen Drive act as a boot-up disk without erasing any data on the device. It consists of a single executable file and requires no installation, However the utility will only work on USB device's using Phison’s chip solution and FAT file-system only (you can re-format your drives to FAT easily).

Tally is the most widely used accounting software in India, and data corruption is a common problem mainly caused due to power failure, unexpected system shutdown, virus attacks, media corruption, OS corruption, or hard drive crashes, Since, Accounting data is very important for its users, Tally being the leading accounting software company of India incorporates many inbuilt protections to protect the data from getting corrupted, however data can still get corrupted and Tally provides easy options to recover it.

If you use an Symbian S60 3rd edition based mobile phone (Nokia N-Series phones like N73, N95, N80, N91, N80 and E-Series phones use Symbian S60v3 as OS) you must have encountered the very common certificate errors like 'Certificate Expired' or 'Certificate Error. Contact Application Supplier' while installing themes or softwares on your phone.

GTalk2VOIP has been written about on this blog earlier as an radio, VOIP and SMS service provider via Gtalk and other popular IM networks, now GTalk2VOIP in collaboration with Talkster is offering simple, fast and free international calls to more then 30 countries worldover.

Unlike most of the other free voip service providers Gtalk2Voip requires no registration or login, using the service is very simple as it integrates into your existing instant messenger service allowing you to make call from anywhere with ease. This ad-supported service offers unlimited free calls to any phone, landline or mobile in more then 30+ major countries.

Firefox 3 is released but most of the extensions are still not compatible with the new browser, here is a little hack to get your must have extensions work with the new browser, but before proceeding do keep in mind that this can be risky and may render your browser insecure, so proceed on your own risk, I tried it myself and everything works fine, All of my favorite addons like - Linkify, Rapidshare Link Finder, Remove Cookies etc. are working perfectly.

PDF authors often restrict their files using PDF security features preventing users from copying, editing or printing the contents, and like every other protection this can also be easily bypassed, there exist several methods to crack or unlock PDF files, but if you are looking for a simple and fast way to just bypass the copying & printing restrictions of the PDF file Ensode online PDF Unlock Utility will be the best option, You just need to upload the file and the unlocked version of the PDF without printing or copying/pasting restrictions will be displayed in a new browser window in your default PDF application, Similarly you can use "Ensode Free Excel Spreadsheet Unlock Online Utility" to unlock Microsoft Excel spreadsheet passwords.

One the most useful feature of Opera is Speed Dial, in earlier versions of Opera it was not possible to add additional speed dial slots but with the latest version this is achievable using a simple hack, just follow the instructions below to implement the hack.

Earlier when YouTube was testing high resolution videos, we posted a hack to view YouTube videos in high quality by simply appending a parameter to the existing url, but there is no need for such hack now as YouTube provides option to view the high quality version of the video, However, YouTube still does not provide any method to let users embed high quality version of the video on there blog or website, but using the hack below you will be able to embed high resolution Youtube videos.

For the hack to work you will need to append &ap=%2526fmt%3D18 to the end of video clip’s URL's specified in “param” and “embed” tags in the default embed code provided by YouTube. For Example: