Change your network connection settings with a shortcut on your desktop

If you are a laptop user like me, who needs to configure network
settings every now and then to connect to your internet at your home
place and at your office, you will definitely love this application
called net profiles

Net Profiles is a freeware which help you configure the internet
connection with a single mouse click, it allows you to switch in
between the various network profiles you create through the
application.

Net Profiles saves your network settings as profiles,you can easily
activate different profiles to change the network connection settings.

As shown in the image above you can create a network profile, after
selecting your network card you need to specify IP Settings and click
Save button.

Automatically change your profile via program shortcuts,

Some other features includes:

specify mapped drive which you can connect on a particular profile,
change your default printer
change the default homepage for internet explorer, Firefox, Opera etc
Proxy settings for Internet Explorer, Firefox, and Opera.
Run a user-defined list of programs when a profile is activated.
Maintain separate desktop wallpaper for each profile.
Change screen resolutions and color quality when profiles are activated.
Can be easily translated into other languages using the enclosed XML
language file.

You can also place the shortcuts for different profiles you have
created on your desktop with which you can directly activate the
network profile by clicking the shortcuts.

[ Download Net Profiles | Application HomePage ]

Make your pen drive bootable with MakeBootable

Many times, when you are facing a critical windows problem and you need the bootable cd urgently to repair your windows but some how you don't get it.

MakeBootable is a free software which lets you convert your pen drive into a  bootable media, After making your pen drive bootable with makebootable you can use your pen drive like a windows xp bootable cd.

Makebootable is so easy to use, as it make your normal USB pen drive a bootable media in one click.

But there is a limitation, you will need to format your pen drive with fat file system in order to make your device bootable.

Convert to FAT and use MakeBootable

1. Backup the existing files on the drive.

2. Perform a FAT format

3. Now Run Makebootable.exe to make your USB portable device bootable.

After making your pen drive bootable, go to your BIOS and select USB Device as First Boot device in the boot device priority

We hope you like this small trick, Let us know your idea trough comments.

[ Download MakeBootable | Application HomePage ]

File Recovery with Undelete My Files

File Recovery tools are flooding the software market these days and it takes more than to provide a way to recover files to stick out of the masses. Undelete My Files offers several features that make it at least an interesting application to try. The file recovery is obviously the dominating component of the software. Hard Disks can be scanned which usually does not take longer than a few seconds - depending on the size of the hard drive - and the results are displayed afterward. One interesting aspect of this procedure is that multiple hard disks can be selected at once. Most other tools scan hard disks on a per disk basis only.

Another interesting aspect of that scan for deleted files is the option to preview items before they are recovered. Every file can be marked and a click on the preview button opens the file in the default viewer. It becomes pretty obvious if a file can be recovered, chances are slim if the default viewer cannot open it. If the file displays fine on the other hand chances are good that it can be recovered without difficulties.

Undelete My Files provides access to two specialized recovery operations: Media and Mail Recovery. Both target specific files and try to recover them. The advantage of using Media Recovery is that it specifically targets multimedia files offering a preview pane for quick file previews.

Mail Rescue tries to recover Microsoft Outlook Express, MS Outlook, Eudora and Netscape mails. The software automatically tries to locate the installation folders and proposes a system scan if none can be found.

Another function provided by Undelete My Files is the Advanced File Search. That's a nice function if you know what you are looking for. You can pinpoint the tool to search specific folders, look for certain names and file types, sizes and attributes. Pretty convenient if you want to recover specific files.

The last two functions are not related to file recovery. The first is a disk wiper that deleted existing files on the disk securely so that they cannot be recovered by normal means. The other the creation of a Emergency Disk Image which creates a snapshot of a disk to work with later on. That's actually a great idea to prevent that deleted files are overwritten by new files and the same way professionals are handling this issue.

Email Large Documents with Docstoc OneClick

Docstoc OneClick is an easy way to email large documents without attaching the files. Instead of sending the files, you can send the link to the document, where it can be viewed or downloaded. OneClick is an application by which you can instantly send files to any email, without having the pain of uploading the document.

How to send large documents

1. Download Docstoc OneClick and create a profile on Docstoc.
2. Now select the documents you want to send as email. You can select document with formats like .doc, .pdf, .xls etc. The size of the attactment can be a maximum of 50MB.
3. Right click on the selected files and select "Email as Private" or "Email as Public" option. The difference between these two option is that Email as Private will not show your uploaded documents in Docstoc to public.

4. An email is generated with the links to download the files. The default email client is used to generate the email.
5. The documents will be uploaded automatically by the application in the background.

You can access all your uploaded documents in "My Documents" section in Docstoc.

Docstoc OneClick