How To Get Search Results Instantly In Windows

From Windows 98 to Windows 7, the searching in Windows has always been slower. But the indexing feature in Windows Vista and 7 speeds the searching process somewhat but is not up to the mark. There are many alternatives which allows you to search faster in Windows, one such free tool is Everything. A very light tool, both in size and load, Everything gives search results instantly while you type. It just takes some seconds to make and load its database and then you are ready to perform your search.

Features Of Everything :

1. Very small in size (Just 272 Kb when compressed).

2. Takes very less memory and CPU load.

3. Simple and easy to use with a clean interface.

4. Creates database in seconds. So you can start searching instantly even after installation

5. Files are updated and added in real time.

6. You can also exclude some folders and perform your search to refine the results.

7. Also you can search in particular drive or even a particular folder including the sub folders. Like you can search for “Notepad” in “C: > Windows” using  the string “c:Windows Notepad“.

                   

Everything is compatible with Windows 2000, Windows XP, 2003, Vista and Windows 7.

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Control Windows Media Player With Hand Gestures Using Flutter

                                       

Ever thought if you could play/pause the video being played on your system by just raising your hand? If yes, then this is possible with Flutter. Flutter is an  application for both Mac And Windows that allows you to control your Windows Music Player, Winamp, VLC, iTunes, Spotify, etc. through hand gestures. The technique takes benefit of your webcam to sense your hand.



                            

What You Require To Use Flutter :

1. PC with Windows or Macintosh installed. 

2. A webcam, either external or the Laptop’s internal webcam.

3. A supported media player, full list is given on the official website.

Technique Behind Flutter :

A webcam attached to your system monitors you all the time when the Flutter app is opened. The Flutter app always watch for a signal from your webcam that shows your open hand, that is more precisely a signal we uses to stop. Whenever this app notices your hand is up in the air it sends a signal to the CPU to start/stop the play.

See the below image to see what exactly happens 

How To Use Flutter :

1. Just install the Flutter app from their official site.

2. Run the app and start an audio or a video file in any one of the supported media player.

3. Make sure your webcam is working properly and just raise your hand in front of your webcam.

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Join YouTube Feather Beta For Clean And a Faster YouTube

 If you need a faster and a clean YouTube than you will be glad to know that YouTube has released a new design called ” YouTube Feather ” beta. This design removes some of the feature from YouTube, making it fast and robust. If your video keeps on buffering then this features will be quite helpful.

Changes In YouTube Feather :

1. The expandable share boxes are removed.

2. Less number of related videos on the right side of the page. The related videos that are shown are fixed to 5 in numbers.

3. The collapsible comments are also removed. Instead first few comments are now fixed. Also now you can not upvote and downvote them. Most of us don’t really use this feature.

4. All the interactive elements like the pop-out menus and slide opening frames are also nowhere to be seen.

                                    

In all the YouTube Feather program makes YouTube less cluttered and fast, better for those who focus on watching videos without distractions. The program is free and you can opt-out any time. It’s worth a shot.

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Download Website For Offline Reading

There are many ways of downloading a webpage on your local drive. But what if you want to download an entire website for any reason. There are many free applications that can do this. In this article, we will talk about all of them in detail.

How To Download Website For Offline Reading

There are three applications which can perform many different functions.

1. You can download a website completely with all the HTML, CSS, JavaScript and the other files.

2. Give a link depth and the application will scan and download pages only up to that depth.

3. You can specify the type of files you want to download, like mp3, PNG, JPEG, and the tool will download only that type of files from the given site.

Download Entire Website With HTTrack Website Copier

HTTrack Website Copier is a very advanced and full-fledged application that can download complete websites with all the HTML, Images, CSS files and all the other content. The application gives all the internal links a relative structure which makes it possible to navigate the website offline. HTTrack allows a great control on the size of the files that it downloads, which is very essential for people on a limited bandwidth plan. The application allows you to pause the download process, this proves its use when you download a huge website. It can also update the website if new pages or content is added to the website. You can control the link depth and many advanced options too. The website it downloads can be viewed in any web browser installed on your machine.

LINK: HTTrack Website Copier

PageNest Offline Browser

PageNest Offline Browser is an application that has a multithreaded downloading engine and can download any website at a faster rate. It downloads multiple files at once and thus speeds up the website download process. It has a built in web browser and you can browse the downloaded website in the application itself. The application downloads all the files as they are and arranges them giving the links the relative paths. This makes sure that the website you download is navigable even if you move the root folder. You can anytime pause and resume the download process too.

You can also define the size of the files that you want to download. If you are on a metered connection then downloading large files can incur huge costs. You can set the type of files and their largest size in the “File Types” tab when adding a new website to download.

LINK: PageNest Offline Browser

Download Any Website With Internet Download Manager

Most of us use Internet Download Manager (IDM), but are unaware of IDM Grabber, a built-in tool that allows you to download complete websites or any individual type of content (images, audio, etc). The major benefit of using IDM Grabber is that you don’t need to define the file types or anything else, it shows the options on the first page itself. You can download a complete website or download only the images/audio/video files from it. You also get the options to add your own file types to give you more control over the files you wish to download.

Download any website or any type of content from it using IDM

LINK: Internet Download Manager

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AutoWinRarZip Extracts zip and rar file automatically after being downloaded

Whenever we download zip or rar files from the internet we need to extract them from the archives to folders . What if they automatically get extracted. AutoWinRarZip does exactly the same. No need of any software like WinRar or 7zip or any other.

Just install the software . Specify the directory for which you want to automatically extract the files. You can also specify if you want to automatically delete the archive or not. Like in above case any zip or rar file downloaded to or put into C: will automatically be extracted to the folder named as the file name . Isn’t that cool. Leave your comments . Works with Windows XP , Vista and Windows 7.

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Setting Google DNS Server For a Faster Web Experience

The Domain Name System or the DNS converts the domain names and the host name to their corresponding IP addresses. This is done because IP addresses are in the form of (x.x.x.x), where each x can have a value between 0-255, and hence are very difficult to remember. So DNS takes the pain of converting the easily memorable domain names to the IP addresses which the network understands.

                               

Usually the DNS servers are set-up by network administrators or the ISPs, but there are many providers who have set-up free public DNS servers that can be used by anyone around the world, one of which is the Google Public DNS which provides the fastest web experience and side by side maintains reliability.

Setting up Google DNS Server on Windows Machine

The screenshots and the steps are for Windows 8. They are almost the same in Windows 7 and Windows Vista. Users of earlier versions of Windows can face some difficulty, but the steps are almost the same, only the names may be different at some places.

1. Go to the “Control Panel” and select “Network and Sharing Center”. If you can’t find it, then at the top select the “Large icons” option in the “View by:” menu.

2. Now in the left hand pane click on “Change adapter settings”.

3. Right click on the adapter you want to setup Google DNS Server on, and select “Properties” from the context menu.

4. Now select “Internet Protocol Version 4(TCP/IPv4)” and click on “Properties”.

5. Now check the “Use the following DNS server addresses:” option and fill in the Google DNS server addresses given below.

Preferred and Alternate DNS	Google DNS Server Address
Preferred DNS server	8.8.8.8
Alternative DNS server	8.8.4.4

6. If your network supports IPv6 then the Google DNS server addresses are as follows. These can be used by choosing the “Internet Protocol Version 6(TCP/IPv6)” in step 4.

Preferred and Alternate DNS	Google DNS Server Address
Preferred DNS server	2001:4860:4860::8888
Alternative DNS server	2001:4860:4860::8844

7. Click OK and restart the adapter you chose in step 3.

8. Restart your browser and experience a faster web with Google Public DNS.

TIP Repeat all the above steps for all the adapters you want to use Google DNS on.

VERDICT

Google DNS server has many advantages over the DNS server that is used by our ISP. This is because Google is working with the CDNs or Content Delivery Networks to serve you files from the server nearest to you. But if you use your ISP’s DNS server, it might not fetch files from the closest server.

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Increase Download Speed in Firefox With firedownload.

If you browse the web using Mozilla Firefox and you have not installed any download manager then you must be lacking a great part of your download speed because Firefox itself does not speed up the downloads very efficiently. firedownload, a Firefox add-on, makes your download much faster. You just have to install the extension and download your files as you generally do, firedownload will do its work silently and will boost up your download speed.

                                 

Steps To Increase Download Speed In Firefox

1. Open Mozilla Firefox browser.

2. Open the OFFICIAL WEBSITE to download firedownload.

3. Click on “Install for Windows” under firedownload.

4. Restart your browser and then try to download some files. You will notice a great increase in the download speed.

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Download Pattern Lock For PC

If you use or have used a touch-screen phone, you would have used the pattern lock. A pattern lock is a type of screen lock where you see 9 dots on the screen, arranged in 3 rows and 3 columns. You need to match the dots in the same pattern as you did while setting up the lock. The pattern is almost impossible to guess and hence is reliable to be used as your computer’s locking system.

Eusing Maze Lock

Eusing Maze Lock is a free application that allows you to have pattern locking in Windows. The program works on all Windows machines running Windows XP or later. You can customize the lock in many ways. The default grid is a 3×3, which can be changed to 4×4 and 5×5 for increasing security. See below for full set of features and the customizations it allows.

Features at a Glance

1. Auto lock the screen when the computer starts up

2. Lock if the computer is idle for a specific duration

3. Grid size can be chosen from 3×3, 4×4 and 5×5

4. It can also disable the internet connection when the computer is locked

5. You can easily lock the PC by pressing the Hotkey or by clicking the icon in the taskbar

NOTE See the default pattern carefully when you first start the application.

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Speed Up Your PC With Free FileLab Windows Cleaner

You must have used many of the free and paid applications for cleaning junk and temporary files from your computer, also some applications to remove invalid registry entries. What if all this can be done without installing any program on your computer ? FileLab, a website that provides free web applications has come with a free web application that just installs a small plugin into your computer and the application can then remove invalid registry entries, clean junk files, remove broken shortcuts, empty the recycle bin and also scans and deletes corrupted applications.

How To Use FileLab Windows Cleaner :

1. Go to the FileLab’s Windows Cleaner App.

2. The website will inform you that the FileLab plugin is not installed and will give you a link to download the plugin. The plugin is just 1 MB in size. Download and install the plugin.

3. Now the page will start initializing the application. After completion you will have a menu to select what actions you want the application to perform. After selecting the tasks click on “Scan Your PC”.

4. After analysis it displays you the number of problems it found on your PC for each category. If you want to see a detailed information and the file names, go ahead and press the details button.

5. After selecting the files you want to remove, just click on “Clean Your PC”. You will be asked to login through Facebook, Yahoo or a Google account. This is safe and they do not store your private info or login details.

In all this is the best application that you can use to cleanup your computer. This deletes any temporary or junk file that are not required by the system, making more space on your hard drive. Makes your PC faster by deleting invalid registry entries and removing broken shortcut. Moreover unlike other applications that come for a huge price, this application is free and does its job quite well. Do comment with your experience with this application

LINK: FileLab’s Windows Cleaner App

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