EasyReader - best reading companion for chrome browser

Internet is the best information source now-a-days. So, we have to spend most of our time spending in reading/collecting information from the websites.
But free content doesn't come pretty. There will be ads and some unwanted things that makes our reading in browsers an unpleasant experience.

Fear not, EasyReader is a great extension for Chrome.
This simple extension turns any <div> content (most (readable) web contents are defined within <div> tags) into a readable pop-up within the page.
There are a variety of customizing options (right-click the extension icon and select options) available including:

1. Font color for content, headings.
2. Font family(Ex: Arial, Segoe UI).
3. Background color.
4. Text background color.
5. Link color.
6. Text align.
7. Line height(space between lines).
8. Shortcut key.(I am using Ctrl+Q, as Ctrl+1 is used for tab switching).

You can resize the pop-up by clicking and dragging the right side edge.

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Create a bootable Linux USB flash drive in puppy Linux manually without any app like UNetbootin

The Linux version of UNetbootin won't
run in Puppy because of missing
dependencies. But it is sometimes
possible to do the manual equivalent of
UNetbootin to convert a Linux distro's
ISO file into a bootable flash drive. Here
are the steps:
1. Mount the flash drive and delete
everything on it.
2. Unmount the flash drive but leave it
plugged in.
3. Determine the device name of your
flash drive. It may be sdb1 .
4. Open a terminal and type:
Code:
syslinux /dev/sdXY
where XY is your flash drive. Make sure
you get this right!
5. Mount the flash drive. You should see the file ldlinux.sys on it.
6. Click on the distro's ISO file to mount
it. Copy everything off the ISO onto the
flash drive. There may be some hidden
files, so use the ROX eyeball icon to see
them.
7. Does the ISO contain a folder named
isolinux ? It may be inside another folder
named boot. If so, copy all the files in
the isolinux folder to the root of the
flash drive.
8. You should now see a file named
isolinux.cfg at the root of the flash
drive. Rename it to syslinux.cfg .
9. If you cannot find an isolinux.cfg file
anywhere in the ISO, it may be using a
different bootloader. In that case, your
best bet is to manually create a file
named syslinux.cfg with the following
line
Code:
default /boot/vmlinuz
initrd=/boot/initrd.gz
vga=normal
10. Unmount everything and reboot off
the flash drive.

If it won't boot, here are some trouble-
shooting questions.
Do you know for sure that your machine
supports USB bootability? Many older
machines (and some newer ones) don't.
The best scenario is where the BIOS
detects the flash drive as a secondary
hard drive.
Have you modified your BIOS boot
priority list to enable USB booting?
Have you set the boot flag on the flash
drive partition? Check this with Gparted.
Does the MBR of your flash drive contain
the standard DOS/WIn boot code? If not,
you can manually update the code as
follows:
1. Locate the file mbr.bin in the folder /
usr/lib/syslinux .
2. Write this file onto the MBR of your
flash drive using a command like:
Code:
dd if=mbr.bin of=/dev/
sdb
Note that this command uses sdb and
not sdb1.

Source:
www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=413412#413412

PathSync Compares and Syncs Files In Specific Remote or Local Folders

http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/lifehacker/vip/~3/McDnBO-026M/pathsync-compares-and-syncs-files-in-specific-remote-or-1452077866

Add Password-Protected Vault To Your USB Drive With Granite Portable

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Backup and Restore windows drivers using Double Driver

When it comes to system restore are reinstall, the first thing that resembles as a huge work is installing drivers.
You have to install one by one from Disc or you have to wait until they are downloaded to get updated drivers.
With this software, this process will become nothing but a single step for all drivers to be installed.
Double Driver makes it easy to backup currently installed drivers in windows.

You should run it as Administrator.

Backup:
Click Backup button to see available drivers.
If nothing is shown, click Scan Current System button to show every installed drivers.
Selecct the drivers you want to backup and click Backup Now button.
Choose the folder you want to store the backup contents and click OK.
It will take few minutes to finish.
After progress completed, the drivers are successfully backedup.
(You can also choose all drivers to be a single backup executable file).

Restore:
Click on the Restore button.
Select the backup folder.
All available packages will be shown.
Select the needed drivers and click Restore Now button.
After progress completion, you may have to restart the system for the changes to take effect.

This is by far, the easiest way to backup and restore our drivers.

Changing double finger tap action and more in Windows 8

Changing double finger tap action and more in Windows 8:
If you have a multitouch supported touchpad in your laptop and windows 8, you can do much customization.
Just make sure that your Synaptics driver version is 16.3.x.
In registry editor:

Open resitry editor (Run>regedit)

Goto HKEY_CURRENT_USER>Software>Synaptics>SynTP>TouchPadPS2
There will be many keys like 2FingerTapAction, 3FingerTapAction,..
If you want to use 2 finger tap as right click,
then edit 2FingerTapAction and give it the value 2
Values   Actions
   1       Left Click
   2       Right Click
   3       Middle Click
   0       No Action(Disable)
   4       Lock cursor position.
you can change any value to any.Just restart to make them effective.
Using Synaptics settings:
Goto mouse properties from control panel or Run>main.cpl

Choose Device Settings Tab and then Settings.

In Synaptics settings, you can choose whatever you want.

Most options have settings icon by which, you can see elaborated settings.

There will be an animation for every option, so it won't be hard to learn.

My personal setting is Disabling reverse scrolling direction.

Better download for slower speeds.

Better download for slower speeds:
Did you know that torrents download slower than normal downloads?
That's because torrents simultaneously upload(seeding) the downloads while downloading.
That's ~20% slower than your normal speed.
I have been using a different method to download torrents(less than 1GB).
Using online torrent managers(zbigz.com, bytebx.com), you can download torrents to cloud.
Then you can download individual files or whole torrent as a zip archieve.
(Note:Use a download manager like DownThemAll for firefox to download with good speed
and also to resume paused downloads without downloading whole file again and again, if something goes wrong)

Stop Opera from Auto updating

Stop Opera from Auto update. Steps:
1.Just goto the installed directory(default is C:\Program Files\Opera).
2.Open the folder with the version number of Opera(something like 15.0.1147.153 or 16.0.x.x.x).
3.Delete or rename the file named opera_auto_update.exe.
4.Restart and it won't bother you again.

Fastest browser for Windows

I've been experimenting with browsers for Windows.
Opera is the fastest one.
2.Firefox
3.Chrome
4.Slim browser
5.Maxthon

Update:
Opera 16 is faster than Opera 17

Enjoying Opera browser in Windows 8

Opera is equal to chrome, but light weight.
You can really see the change in resources used by using Opera.
Best part is you can use chrome extensions in Opera. Using this: Add this Add-on to Opera : Download Chrome Extension for Opera Then go to Chrome store and just add whatever you want. The store won't give you any exceptions.

LeDimmer - screen dimmer

LeDimmer - Concentrate on what you are doing by dimming whatever on the background with this portable simple app. No clutter, easy to use.

FastStone Maxview - best picture viewer for windows

FastStone Maxview - Feature rich image viewer for windows.
Key features:
* Light weight (so faster(3times than picassa, 2 times than wpv).
*Slideshow with selective audio background play.
*Navigate by scrolling, clicking on lower part of images.
*Zoom in by just clicking, etc.

LiceCap - GIF screen recorder for windows

LiceCap - record the windows activities to a GIF animation. Screenshots are best things to show other people how to do something than explaining it for hours. But animation is a bit more useful to show the full activity step by step.

AIMp3 - best music player for windows

AIMP3 - I never thought a music player would this cool. Playlist is best for me. Light weight, customizable, contains tag editor, library. The theme I am using cln white found in deviantart.