Get the best price for Books

1. Get the ISBN number (The International Standard Book Number (ISBN) is a unique numeric commercial book identifier) of the book from any of the online book stores or through a search on google.

2. Type isbn.net.in/"the isbn number"

3. This would automatically search from 15 online sites and give you the price at each site for the same book.

4. Buy from the site giving you the least price.

Warning: But, it doesn't seem to be working for all the books. Anyway, a one min work can save you a hundred or so.

Mail merge in gmail

Use email to convert files into different formats

http://www.labnol.org/internet/convert-files-by-email/20824/

Scheduling emails

If you are unavailable and cannot access internet for a few days and yet want to send a pre-meditated email to someone (liking wishing someone on their birthday/anniversary) through Gmail, there is a solution at hand. Though gmail is yet to provide this functionality, there is atleast one chrome/firefox app that enables you to do this.

http://www.boomeranggmail.com/download.html

Its simple and fast. I wish the various email providers introduces this feature soon.

Improving your Personal IT productivity

1. Customise and refine your gmail account:

http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/quickiearticleshow/8094947.cms

2. Install wordweb software for offline instant access for dictionary meanings and alternative words while writing documents

3. Install Adobe Flash plugin, Quicktime and Microsoft Silverlight plugins for non-prohibitive access to all webpages.

4. Preset webpages to be loaded when you open a new browser using the settings in the browser.

5. Block pop-ups from the browser settings with exceptions to certain sites.

6. Have a handy searchbox (google/bing/yahoo) in the browser.

Sharing files

In case you want to transfer files over the internet without having to upload anything, here are a couple of softwares (I have not transferred anything yet though)

www.kkloud.com - enables people to send files directly from your browser.

www.dushare.com - Real time peer to peer file transfers

Uses of Internet Explorer

Utility Softwares

Have you ever wondered where are that hard disk space vanished? Hundreds of GBs?

If so, try this freeware, called "JDiskReport" to find how your space is distributed folder wise, type of files wise and even the top 50 biggest files and then take appropriate action to delete some files and recover space.

http://download.cnet.com/JDiskReport/3000-2248_4-10330941.html

Want a new net connection? Or do you want  to save money by optimising your net plan by going fo rthe right one based on usage? Dont know how much usage do you have in a month? Try this software called "Networx" to find out today's downloads, uploads and total as well as weekly, monthly and total till today.

http://majorgeeks.com/Networx_d2528.html

Want to chat with your friends. But they are in different countries. Cant meet up? Well, how about a multi party video conference to see everyone and also hear them?

Go to http://www.videochat-software.com

Register, confirm the identity with the email and login and go to the lobby and tell your friends to do the same.

How Google Used Microsoft to Make Chrome

http://www.businesspundit.com/how-google-used-microsoft-to-make-chrome/

Now Picture your dreams and show it

From this to that? Wow!

http://www.businesspundit.com/photosketch-lets-you-realize-your-wildest-photographs/

IP address locator

Ip address locator

http://www.ip-adress.com/whois/

Best softwares

There are a few softwares that are just excellent in their time and even after years, they are the best for the function. One such software is winamp. This free software came about sometime in 1990s and I still consider it the best mp3 player there is. I dislike the later bulky versions of 3.0 and 5.0, but love the 2.0 and the compact 5.0 series ones. It is compact, can be pulled to your flexibility, simple controls and even keyboard controls to start, pause, next song and stop. I am currently using the 5.05 version and also have some nice skins which I initially collected. Those were the days when winamp skins were distributed free with the computer magazines like 'Digit'. I dont think they still give out free winamp skins in those DVDs now.

The other very useful software is vlc player. This one came at an age of the mature software player industry and took the market by storm. It was everyone's dream come true. It played a simple minimalistic look and played anything you threw at it. Wow!

The other beautiful piece of software I really admire is Windows 98 version 2. This always had all the OS software I ever needed. On it, I could install office xp and have its latest version. Run winamp or vlc player and enjoy all the best softwares on the pretty stable operating system.

Looking forward to see and use the hopefully light and minimalistic Google chrome OS.