Some Cool Typing Tutors for learning Keyboard Typing

We all like typing on computer keyboards faster than others, don’t we? For someone who has started working on computers might face difficulty in typing. We know many users who type with one finger, something that takes lot of time and effort in typing.


If you wish to learn typing and don’t like to wait years in learning by use of computers, then you should definitely go for the Typing Tutors. Typing Tutors are the programs designed to make users habitual of typing and also let you know the best practises of using the keyboard. They also tell you the exact mapping of your finger with the keyboard button.

There are many typing tutors available on internet. Moreover you can also use these online and don’t need to install one on your system. Here are two tutors that I liked the most with their features:

1- Tipp 10

TIPP10 is a free touch typing tutor for Windows, Mac OS and Linux. The software is easy to use and features a clear user interface. This is one great typing tutor that anyone including children or aged people can use easily.


The tool includes intelligent practice sessions, support functions and progress trackers. You can also change the text font, color and other things to adapt it to your needs. A status bar displays the fingers that should be used and tallies errors and characters per minute.

The results displayed are also detailed and tracks your progress in a graphical manner. You can even customize the tool according to your needs.

2. Keyboard Training


This is an open source, small and free program written in VB that allows you to learn keyboard typing in a playful manner. You can choose from AZERTY and QWERTY keyboards.

When you use this program you see that you are given some seconds to press the key that is being highlighted. The game has few difficulty levels to choose from, higher the difficulty lower the time to press the keys.

This is a free tool that can help you learn keyboard typing in a playful manner.

Re-enable Services and Windows Features Disabled by Virus Instantly

If you have been working on a Windows machine for some time now, you must have come across many computer virus attacks till now. Also you might be knowing what the system status is, after each attack. There are many different kind of computer virus and malware, each having their own type of adverse effect on the computer. Even if you have successfully removed the virus from your system, your computer might be struggling.


Most of these viruses affects computer and disables many Windows programs like Folder Options, Registry Editor, cmd and other features. Even if you have removed the virus from your system, these features are disabled and need to be re-enabled back before they can be used again. But a normal computer user can’t re-enable them back as these involve complex registry operations, even there is no surety that it would get fixed.

I came across one tool that can help you in this regard called Tangosoft’s Re-Enable II (or Re-Enable 2.0). As the name of the tool suggests, this tool can re-enable many windows functionalities and services in just one single click. You just need to make sure that the virus has been removed else the changes might not take effect. Also it is worth noting that, if the changes are undone then your system still have some traces of virus left.


With one click Re-enable will repair the following windows features:

•Safe Mode
•Registry Editor
•Command console “cmd”
•System restore
•Start menu Run command
•Task manager
•Task scheduler
•Safe mode
•Right click context menu
•My computer properties
•Folder options
•Windows explorer search
•start menu search
•Reset file and folder attributes
•Ms Config
•Restore explorer registry key
•Re-enable will also edit hosts file
•Scan and delete Autorun.inf files

The tool is free to use for personal use and requires .Net Framework 3.5 or above. You can also try the portable version of Re-Enable 2 but it would be of larger size as it already contains the required .Net Framework.

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Find and Delete Empty Folders on your Computer Easily

We have lots of data in our system which comprises of files and folders. A folder hierarchy can go upto many levels thereby making difficult for us to scan them for data. We also tend of have lot of empty folders in our machines, although unwillingly but we do have it.


Say for instance, you have moved some data or a file from a folder to a new location but it can happen that you forget to delete the parent folder thereby creating an empty folder adding to the system clutter. Although empty folder does not affect us but it degrades the system performance by creating disk fragmentation and adding the file clutter.

Therefore we advise you to scan your system for empty folders and delete them but if you plan to do this process manually then you are going to end up wasting lot of precious time of yours. Here is a simple tool called Fast Empty Folder Finder (FEFF) that is specifically designed for this purpose of scanning the system for empty folders up to any level of hierarchy and presenting you with a choice to delete them in one go.

FEFF is very simple to use too, you just need to download this executable file and run it to get the interface. Now you can either drag and drop the folder or specify a location to search for the empty folders. After scanning your system, it will present a list of all the empty folders before you, clicking which you can have a preview and selecting which you can either delete them temporarily or permanently.

Moreover you can also export this list as .csv or as .feff and also import the same to have a track of the folders that you have in your computer. You can stop the scan in between and also start a new scan with new set of filters to search for the empty folders.

The tool is compatible with Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7 and Windows 8. You can download it from the link below.

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Remove Olympic Malware with BitDefender Olympic Malware Removal Tool

To add to the vulnerability of the computer users, hackers from all over the globe try to take advantage of any ongoing event. It was when the London Olympics were ongoing couple of weeks ago that the internet security saw a new malware reaching out to the public and affecting their computers.


In case you are also one of those who have received some email stating that you have won air tickets to London for the Olympic Games and by chance you have downloaded the attachment, then it may be possible that your system is infected with this London Olympics Malware.

What this Olympic.Games malware does is that (after it has been downloaded by you from the spam email), it connects to the internet and acts as a malware downloaded which in turn downloads more malwares from the internet. It also tends to infect your installed software like MS Office and also sends out your information to the hacker making you to lose your secret information.

To curb this malware and stop it from spreading, the famous AntiVirus company BitDefender had come up with the removal tool that specifically removes this Olympic.Games malware called as Olympic Malware Removal Tool. This malware removal tool comes free and can be used easily to scan your system.

You just need to download this Olympic Malware Removal Tool, scan your PC and clean out Olympic Games malware if detected in your system. It is interesting to note here that this Olympic Malware Removal Tool detects and remove only the Olympic.Games malware and you may not be able to find any other malware with this tool. However you can go for Mbam to search and delete other malwares.

Olympic Malware Removal Tool

Download High Definition Windows 8 Themes for Windows 7

Microsoft’s latest OS release called Windows 8 is available through different official channels and if you are one of those who like Windows 8 much, then am sure you are going to love this new theme too. New themes and wallpapers always look better on screen as they tend to make you feel good and help you in relaxing.


7tutorials have released one Windows 8 Inspired Theme which is a combination of three themes which you can use on your Windows 7 OS. Using this Windows 8 Inspired Theme you can get the feeling of working on Windows 8, right on your Windows 7 system.

The theme not only includes the default Windows 8 wallpaper but some more new and fresh looking wallpapers. The theme now comes as a combination of 3 themes namely Flowers, Earth and Lock Screen. The Flowers theme includes some new and lively flower images that are bundled in the Windows 8 for you to enjoy on your Win 7 machine.

The second theme named Earth is a combination of 6 images that show scenic beauty of the world.

The final theme known as Lock Screen includes all those images that are used by the Windows 8 OS as Lock wallpapers.

Thus in case you are unable to switch to Windows 8 but would still like to enjoy the themes and wallpapers then you can visit the link below and download it on your system. If in case you are working on system other than Win 7 then you can download and extract the pack and select the wallpaper to enjoy it.

Download Themes

Unsubscribe from Junk Emails and Mailing Lists easily

We all like receiving promotional and offer emails to our email inbox regularly, don’t we? Whether it is the websites that we daily visit, asking us to enter email address so that we can receive the newsletters or it is the serials of some software, we are required to provide our email address. I also receive lot of spam and junk useless emails in the inbox, checking and deleting which takes lot of time. This implies that we need to be careful while providing our personal info.


For all these emails that we receive, we can choose to unsubscribe from them but it is a manual process and will consume lot of time of ours. It would have been good if there is some automatic way of unsubscribing from these promotional or junk emails with just a click. Well this is possible with the help of some free services that enables us to automatically unsubscribe from these mailing lists easily.

Here are two such free services that you can make use of:

Swizzle

Formerly known as Unsubscribr, this free service helps you remove your subscription from the emails that you receive in your mailbox. What you just need to do is just visit this website, enter your email address (currently limited to some email providers only), allow this service to scan your emails and click the Unsubscribe button.


The service is safe to use, and produces a list of the websites where you are subscribed. You can now select the websites to unsubscribe. This will automatically send an email to them and remove you from the list.

Unroll.me

Another great service that can be used to unsubscribe from the mailing lists automatically and easily. Similar to Swizzle, you need to provide your email address (this one is safe too), scan your mailbox and unsubscribe from the lists.


This service also provides before you, the list of the mailing lists as scanned in your mailbox and allows you to unsubscribe from them with just a click. However the only limitation with this is that it currently supports Gmail only.
So no more wasting of your precious time on deleting the useless emails that you receive daily, just use these services and get yourself unsubscribed from the mailing lists that you wish.

D7: Windows Repair Tool for Advanced Users

In our quest to make your computer problem free and so that you have a comfortable experience while using your computer, we are reviewing here one tool that can help you in solving most of your system issues. However we advise you to use this tool only if you know most things about the computer and are an Advance User unlike basic user.


This is a not-so-simple yet powerful tool called D7 which can help you in most of the things you can do on your computer. With system maintenance, malware removal to system repair and tweaks, this tool is capable of doing lot of things. You just need to download and run this utility and see whole lot of options for yourself

As you can see there are lots of links in the program window, like System Info, Maintenance, Malware removal, Windows repair, tweaks and data restore etc. You can use any of these links. System Info link provides you with complete system information, Maintenance provides you with options like deleting temp files, updating system time, system restore etc.

There are lots of options in every link, which means you can do lot of things from this single tool only. However if you are not sure of on how to use this thing, then we will advise you to stay away from this tool as this could even make your system go worse if not used properly.

You can also go through the video on how to use the D7 tool.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uDiCk3Czl8s&hl=en&hd=1

This tool is meant for experienced PC technicians only, not for basic users. If you feel that you can handle so much of options, then go ahead and download this tool.


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Remove Temp Files and Free up Disk Space on iPhone/iPad/iTouch

We have been using iPhone for so long and love it for its features, don’t we? However there is some limitation to it too like the limited storage capacity of the iPhone which can’t be expanded using a memory card. Even there is no possibility that Apple will introduce some memory expansion feature in the model in near future.

Thus it is the low memory problem that we come across on our iOS devices. Whether it is about freeing the disk space or deleting the useless files that consume the phone memory, we need to run some scan on it to make the device memory healthy. So if you are worried about your iPhone getting slow or the iPad running out of disk space, we have a solution for you.

With the help of this free utility called PhoneClean, you can get rid of all these memory problems. You just need to download and install this utility on your computer, connect the iOS device which will be detected easily, run the scan on it, analyze the files consuming memory and clean up to claim the memory back.

You can even stop the scan in between without any adverse effect on your device. After the scan has been done, it shows you the amount of memory that will be freed when you clean up the device. So you can check and uncheck any file that you wish to keep and delete.


PhoneClean is a great tool to free up some space on your iOS device including iPhone, iPad and iTouch. This tool also helps you in making the device run faster. The tool works great on Windows XP, Vista, 7 and 8 both 32 and 64 bit versions.

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Delete Folders and Files from Any Location at Once with Deletist

Our computer has so many files and folders that we can’t even think of organizing them. In fact there are some duplicate folders and files and are consuming extra space from the hard disk which can be avoided. But organizing them is very difficult and a time consuming process. What if you decide to delete some folders, you will have to go and scan the system manually, isn’t it?


Consider a situation where you are asked to delete some folders and files placed at different locations in your system, what shall you do? Deleting these files and folders manually will take you ages (if the count is huge) and is a time wasting process. Here is a tool that can help you in this situation called as Deletist.

With the help of tool Deletist, you can delete any number of files and folders from anywhere inside the computer simultaneously without visiting the actual location. All you have to do is just feed in a text file having the location of the files and folders to be deleted, and clicking the Delete button will erase them at once.

When you drag and drop this text file on to the program window, the locations will get auto populate and in case there are some spaces in the text file, then clicking the Warning symbol (yellow triangular one) will remove all those so that the deletion process goes smooth. Moreover if you don’t want to take any risk while deleting the data, then you can select the option of “Delete to Recycle Bin” as now the files will go to Recycle Bin instead of permanent deletion.

You can use the tool on Windows and being a portable tool, it can be used in a USB drive too. Download it from the link provided below.

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File Manager for iPhone: View all Files on your iPhone

Our smartphones are capable of doing so many things that expecting it to view files would not be wrong. With so many features provided in our smartphones, we should make full use of these. All smartphones including iPhone is capable of reading various file formats (apart from the normal image, audio and video formats) like word docs, excel files and PDF.


The only limitation that I feel here is that to be able to view all these files we need to download and run different third party apps on it. There should be some app that can read and display all the files in the phone right at the same place without the need of going to different apps. This task can be easily done with the help of some file manager app that can manage all the files present in the phone and display them.

Well if you have iPhone or iPad, here is some good news. With the help of this app called File Manager, you can not only see the complete list of files present in your iPhone but also read them right at one place without the need to go anywhere else. You can add any file to the app via iTunes just by dragging and dropping the file in the app folder in iTunes.

There are 3 more ways of adding files into the app that is via Dropbox, Browser and Image Gallery. If you have a Dropbox account, you can download files from there and read them. If you know download link of some file, you can download it right into the app using the browser in the app and you can view images using the Image Gallery option of the app.

Moreover there are some other actions that you can perform on the files present, like renaming them, deleting, archiving or zipping them. So in case you wish to try out the app, visit the link below (however the app is paid currently).

File Manager for iPhone

Add Cool Effects to your Video Chats with WebCamEffects

For those who like to travel places either for work or for leisure, communicating with the dear ones can be bit difficult and expensive. The best thing that comes to our rescue here is the video chat which is the cheapest way to communicate to anyone and anywhere. You can make use of any video chat tool like Skype, Google Video, Facebook video chat etc for this purpose.

Moreover if you are video chatting with someone you would not like them to see the cluttered background at your place (this goes especially for the bachelors) . Also if you feel that video chat is bit boring and want to add some cool effects to the way you look, then you can do that using a tool called WebCamEffects.

WebCamEffects is a free tool that has lots and lots of effects to choose from, from the UI menu. You can select any effect, add it your chat screen and customize the way you look to the other person. Moreover the tool also allows you to record and save the video chat session, and you can also either upload it youtube directly or just save it on your hard disk.

You can customize your chat screen for color, contrast, brightness and other normal features of course but apart from these you can change whole of your look and also the background. With the presets present by default, you can select any preset and change your look completely (as shown in the screenshot).

The application is more of a fun application that can add some cool effects to your chat so that you don’t feel bored again while chatting with some friend of yours. The app is free and is supported on Windows XP, Vista, 7 and 8.

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