Gmail now supports third party outbound servers to send mail

Gmail has added suport for third party outbound servers to send emails. So, if your other email provider supports POP and/or IMAP access, you can choose Gmail to send your messages. To switch to this new method, go to the Accounts page under Settings, and click "edit info" from the "Send mail as" section. Then choose the option to "Use your other email provider's SMTP servers."

Find more details at Official Gmail Blog:

Send mail from another address without "on behalf of"

Personal Finance Software for Windows

iFreeBudget is free personal finance and budgeting application. It is designed for home and small business users with simple interface and fast user interaction. It is safe and secure with password based encryption for storing all financial data.

Features of iFreeBudget :

• Intuitive and easy to use
• Manage multiple profiles with different set of accounts in each profile
• Cross platform, will run on any computer with Java virtual machine installed
• Online banking support for credit card and bank accounts.
• Manage expenses and track account balances
• Password based encrypted data for security
• Generate reports
• Create and save complex filters to search transaction history.
• Charts and graphs for assets, liabilities, daily networth tracking
• View stock prices/quotes. Graphs tracking historical prices
• Address book. Store contacts, email, phone numbers
• Import OFX data for banks and credit cards. Supports latest quicken format
• Import outlook contacts. Import contacts from Yahoo, gmail etc.
• Multi language support (English, German, Dutch)

Download iFreeBudget - Personal Finance Software for Windows

Partition Software for Windows XP, Vista and Windows 7

Partition Wizard Home Edition is a free partition manager designed by MT Solution Ltd. It supports 32/64 bit Windows Operating System including Windows XP, Vista and Windows 7. Home users can perform complicated partition operations by using this powerful but free partition manager.

Features of Partition Wizard:

• Support Windows 2000/XP/Vista/Windows7 (32 bit & 64 bit) operating system.
• Support RAID.
• Extend system partition to improve computer performance to maximum.
• Manage the hard disk to get the best performance of computer.
• Create , Delete and Format partitions with simple steps.
• Disk Copy to protect or transfer data.
• Support disk and partition size larger than 2 TB.
• Convert partition format from FAT to NTFS.
• Partition Copy: Copy the entire hard disk to another one.
• Copy Disk Wizard: Copy the entire hard disk to another one without windows reinstalling.
• Disk Map - Visually demonstrate your disk/partition configuration; preview the changes before applying.
• Hide/unhide partition, set active partition, etc. - Change partition properties.
• Explore FAT/NTFS partition.

Download Partition Manager Software for Windows XP, Vista and Windows 7

Scientific Calculator for Nokia 5800, N97

Touch Calc 60 is a full screen java based scientific calculator software which works nicely with touchscreen phones like Nokia 5800 and N97.

Feature of Touch Calc 60 :

• Standard operations: *,/,+,-
• Trigonometric Functions: sin,cos,tan,asin,acos,atan
• Degree and Radian mode
• Natural and Base 10 logarithm: log, ln, e^x
• Power Functions: x^2,y^x
• Hyperbolic functions 
• sinh,cosh,tanh,asinh,acosh,atanh
• Ans key: last operation result
• Exponential Notation
• Display: 6 + 1 lines

Download Scientific Calculator for Nokia 5800, N97

Play Google Books Game and Win Sony Reader

You can win a Sony Reader by playing “10 Days in Google Books Game“.  You need to find the answers  for 10 Days in Google Books game. Each day, Google will ask you five trivia questions on a different theme. Search Google Books to find the answers with hints to help you along the way. After you answer each day's questions, you can enter a contest to win a Sony Reader.

 

Find more details at Official Google Blog
10 Days in Google Books game

Free Nokia 5800, N97 Software - Chords

Chord is a free Guitar Chord finder application for Symbian 5th edition phones. Guitar chord finder can play 336 chords visually with fingering style.

This application supports English, Northern European and Southern European notation style.

Download Chords - Free Nokia 5800, N97 Software

Free Nokia 5800 Game – Tic Tac Toe

Here is another old classic Tic Tac Toe Game game for Nokia 5800. I don’t think I need to mention how to play this game. Its a widget based game and works in horizontal mode. It should also work fine with Nokia N97.

** Due to a bug in Nokia browser you won't be able to download this game on your Nokia 5800 mobile directly. First download it to your PC and then transfer it to mobile.

Downlod Nokia 5800 Game – Tic Tac Toe

Notes Application for Nokia 5800, N97

ScratchPad is free application for taking notes on Nokia Phones. It is a java based application with full touchscren and stylus support. It also supports multipage notes. I am using it on my Nokia 5800 and it should run fine with N97 too.

Download Scratchpad for Nokia 5800, N97

Easily Unscribe from Mailing Lists / Newsletters

Unsubscribing from mailing lists and newsletters you subscribed to a while back but no longer want to receive should be just as easy. Searching through individual messages for little unsubscribe links is too big a pain —you should be able to unsubscribe with a single click.

Gmail has added something that makes this all work better, both for Gmail users and big email senders. Now, when you report spam on a legitimate newsletter or mailing list, Gmail will help you unsubscribe.

Find more details at Official Gmail Blog

Official Gmail Blog: Unsubscribing made easy

Dual Monitor Screen Capture

PicPick Tools is a collection of multi-purpose tools for developers and designers. Apart from screen capture it can also take screenshots from dual monitor systems.

Features of PickPick Tools:

• Captures
     - Full Screen (Support for Dual Monitors)
     - Active Window
     - Window Control (Scroll a page automatically)
     - Region, Fixed Region
     - FreeHand
     - Repeat Last Capture
• Image Editor
     - It's very similar to Microsoft Paint, but you can do more.
     - It provides an effect like selection opacity, blur, sharpen, brightness, contrast, hue, saturation, flip, rotate and etc.
• Color Picker
• Color Palette
• Magnifier
• Pixel Ruler
• Protractor
• Crosshair
• Whiteboard

Download PicPick Tools

Convert Measurements Program / Software

Quad-Lock Unit Converter is a freeware tool that can take care of all your unit conversions even when offline. It contains more than 1000 units of measurement commonly encountered while solving engineering or everyday conversion problems. Its features include a function to quickly find units, support for adding custom units, and a smart input box that evaluates calculations & complex expressions.

Features of Quad-Lock Unit Converter :

• Simple, clean and user-friendly interface makes the learning curve non-existent, even for inexperienced computer users.
• Fast and time efficient. There is no need for an installation package, no splash screen, and no buttons to push. The program is launched in less than a second, and conversions are performed instantly while you type the input. A Find function lets you search for your units within seconds.
• Small file size (252 kB) compared to the norm of 5-10 MB setup packages. The smaller file size makes it easy to distribute among friends and co-workers.
• The program can be run from a USB drive as a completely portable application, without leaving any personal data or registry settings behind.

Download Quad-Lock Unit Converter

Remap Keyboard Keys on Windows

Keytweak is a free keyboard re-mapper software for Windows which lets you re map keyboard keys as per your choice. For example, if you have an old keyboard in which Windows keys are not present. You can use this utility to map any unused keys(ex. scroll lock)  to work it as Windows Keys. It also allows you  to remap special buttons  (ex. Volume Buttons).

Download Keytweak – Software to Remap Keys on Windows

Screen Ruler for Windows

“A Ruler for Windows” is a free is a free on-screen pixel ruler for windows based systems. It provides you your choice between a rich woodgrain ruler, or at the touch of a button, a clear see-through plastic ruler.

Special 2x, 3x, and 4x modes allow you to take a snapshot of your primary screen and magnify it to more easily measure between very fine points. The ruler can be flipped horizontally or vertically, resized to an exact length or resized by dragging it to a desired length.

Download A Ruler for WIndows – Screen Ruler Software

Generate Thumbnails from Video

Video Thumbnails Maker is a free software which allows you to create thumbnails /previews of video files. This software can be used for video cataloging or network video sharing. You will require Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 to run this software.

Features of Video Thumbnails Maker:

• Supports of the batch processing of videofiles.
• Supports of practically any videos-formats (even MOV, QT, FLV, SWF, RM if you have appropriate codecs). If the file can be normally played in your video-player (Windows Media Player or BSPlayer), it can be processed by the program.
• You can pause/continue or stop active job at any moment.
• Possibility to save each shot in separate file.
• Import and export options presets.
• Options preset file format (*.vtm). After you run the preset, the program is automatically opened with the imported tuning. Very useful.
• 5 interface languages (English, Belarusian, Russian, Ukranian, German).
• 5 customizable "base"-presets.
• Statistics of the progress of the program (F1 window).
• If you support the project, you can receive an email stating the amount you have donated, and a special activation key for the program. The key allows you to personalize the program, and depending on the amount you donated you will receive special status (silver, gold, platinum).
• Watermarks (alpha-channels and transparency are supported). Make your own style.
• Ability to use your images as background images for preview.
• Autoadjustment of height of a shot option.

Download Video Thumbnails Maker

Free Game for Nokia 5800 – 15 Puzzle

Here is my first game 15 Puzzle for Nokia 5800. This game is based on WRT technology.

I have tested it on my Nokia 5800 and it should work with N97 too. You can download it from below url.

** Due to a bug in Nokia browser you won't be able to download this game on your Nokia 5800 mobile directly. First download it to your PC and then transfer it to mobile.

Download 15 Puzzle - Free Game for Nokia 5800

Spreadsheet Software For Blackberry

GridMagic Community Edition is the a free spreadsheet software for BlackBerry. GridMagic is designed with ease-of-use and simplicity in mind. It is carefully designed by considering the BlackBerry user experience, so to make BlackBerry smartphone users feel at home.

Download GridMagic - Spreadsheet Software For Blackberry

Puzzle Game for Nokia 5800 , N97

Match’em is a higly addictive game where you have to remove the similar colored blocks. It is a widget based game based on an old game named SameGame.

Download Match'em - Puzzle Game for Nokia 5800 , N97

Google Voice mobile app for Blackberry and Android-powered phones

Google Voice for mobile allows you to make calls and send texts from your Google voice number, voicemail transcriptions with karaoke playback, cheap international calls and a whole bevy of fun feat. Find more details at Video released by Google Mobile Team

Google Voice Blog: Introducing the Google Voice mobile app

Metacafe Video Download Tool

Metacafe Video Downloader is a free software which can be used to download Metacafe videos to your PC, iPod, iPhone, PSP, Mobile Phone easily. You do not need any video players to play flash video, you can just play it on the default media player classic and no extra codec or players needed.

Download Free Metacafe Video Downloader Software

N97 Nokia 5800 Spreadsheet Software Like Excel

MicroCalc is a java based Spreadsheet software which works pretty well with Nokia 5800 and should work with N97 too. It provides many Excel-like functions, but still retains a compact size. Spreadsheets can be imported and exported from Excel via email.

To run the application in full screen mode go to settings –> Application Manager –> Installed Apps –> MicroCalc –> Options –> Suite Settings and here turn of the On-Screen Keyboard.

Download MicroCalc – Nokia 5800 N97 Spreadsheet Software Like Excel

Improved Task Management Feature In Gmail

Task Management is now out of Gmail Labs. Probably the most useful feature in the Labs has been placed as a permanent item in Gmail Sidebar. You need not to turn it on from the Labs tab anymore. Since beta labs lots of improvements have been made to this feature like multiple viwes (including mobile), better task editing, suport for multiple languages and more.

Official Gmail Blog: Tasks graduates from Gmail Labs

Free Nokia 5800 , N97 Software - Calculator

Not sure why such a basic application is not available for Nokia 5800 and its siblings. Calc is free calculator application for Nokia 50800 and N97 phones with touchscreen support.

Download Calc – Calculator Software for N97 and Nokia 5800

Extra protection for Gmail inboxes from spam and phishing

Another important feature from Gmail labs which helps you to identify Authenticity of the mail sender. To activate this feature Turn on "Authentication icon for verified senders" from the Labs tab under Settings. You'll see a key icon next to verified emails that are super-trustworthy.

Official Gmail Blog: New in Labs: The super-trustworthy, anti-phishing key

Free Invoice Software For Mac

Express Invoice is a free invoice software which allows you to create re-occurring invoices for ongoing services and link to credit card gateways to easily process payments for goods and services. Express Invoicing also includes a number of standard reports such as unpaid accounts, payments, sales person, accounting reports and more.

Features of Express Invoice

• Create invoices, quotes and orders.
• Send invoices by email or fax directly from the application.
• Manage multiple company profiles within the application.
• Schedule re-occuring invoices.
• Weblet allows others users within the organisation to access data and create invoices.
• MAPI or SMTP email send settings include Secure Socket Layer (SSL).
• Includes standard reports such as accounting, sales person, unpaid invoices and more.
• Allows you to set up to three tax rates to select from when creating invoices.
• Regional format settings include currency symbol, decimal point display and paper size.
• Automatically send statements to customers with overdue payments.
• Integrated backup of data.
• Configure the layout of invoices including the invoice title, alignment, font size and foot comment. ~Save or send invoices as PDF files.

Download Express Invoice - Free Invoice Software For Mac

Personal Finance Software for Mac OS X

Buddi is a personal finance and budgeting program, aimed at those who have little or no financial background. In making this software, Buddi is to make things as simple as possible, while still retaining enough functions to satisfy most home users.

Buddi will run on almost any computer which has a Java virtual machine installed. This can include Windows, Macintosh OS X, Linux, and many other operating systems.

Download Buddi - Personal Finance Software for Mac OS X

Google lists Google accounts on Twitter

Now get more frequent Google updates using Twitter. Google Blog has listed their Official twitter accounts as below:

twitter.com/Google - our central account
twitter.com/Blogger - for Blogger fans
twitter.com/GoogleCalendar - user tips & updates
twitter.com/GoogleImages - news, tips, tricks on our visual image search
twitter.com/GoogleNews - latest headlines via Google News
twitter.com/GoogleReader - from our feed reader team
twitter.com/iGoogle - news & notes from Google's personalized homepage
twitter.com/GoogleStudents - news of interest to students using Google
twitter.com/YouTube - for YouTube fans
twitter.com/YouTubeES - en Espanol
twitter.com/GoogleAtWork - solutions for IT and workplace productivity
Geo-related
twitter.com/SketchUp - Google SketchUp news
twitter.com/3DWH - SketchUp's 3D Warehouse
twitter.com/Modelyourtown - 3D modeling to build your favorite places
twitter.com/EarthOutreach - Earth & Maps tools for nonprofits & orgs
twitter.com/GoogleMaps - uses, tips, mashups
twitter.com/GoogleSkyMap -Android app for the night sky
Ads-related
twitter.com/AdSense - for online publishers
twitter.com/AdWordsHelper - looking out for AdWords questions and tech issues
twitter.com/AdWordsProSarah - Google Guide for AdWords Help Forum
twitter.com/GoogleAnalytics - insights for website effectiveness
twitter.com/GoogleAdBuilder - re building display ads
twitter.com/GoogleRetail - for retail advertisers
twitter.com/TechnologyUK - for U.K. tech advertisers
twitter.com/InsideAdWordsDE - for German AdWords customers
twitter.com/GoogleAgencyDE - for German ad agencies
twitter.com/AdSensePT - info for Portuguese-language publishers
twitter.com/AdWordsRussia - AdWords news & tips in Russian
twitter.com/DentroDeAdWords - Spanish updates from the Inside AdWords blog
twitter.com/AdWordsAPI - AdWords API tips
Developer & technical
twitter.com/GoogleResearch - from our research scientists
twitter.com/GoogleWMC - Google Webmaster Central
twitter.com/GoogleCode - latest updates for Google developer products
twitter.com/GoogleData - Data APIs provide a standard protocol for reading and writing web data
twitter.com/app_engine - web apps run on Google infrastructure
twitter.com/DataLiberation - our initiative for complete import/export of all data
twitter.com/GoogleMapsAPI - about using Google Maps embedded in websites
twitter.com/GoogleIO - Google's largest annual developer event
Culture, People
twitter.com/googletalks - notes from our @Google speaker series
twitter.com/googlejobs - the voice of Google recruiters
Country or Region
twitter.com/googlearabia - news from the Google Arabia Blog*

twitter.com/googledownunder - Google activities in Australia & New Zealand
twitter.com/GoogleDE - Google in Germany
twitter.com/GoogleLatAm - Latin America (en Espanol)
twitter.com/GooglePolicyIt - Notes on Google policy issues in Italy

Restore Recycle Bin on Windows XP or Vista

Sometimes Recycle Bin on Windows XP or Vista may go missing from the desktop. Because of this you cannot use the Recycle Bin to do such tasks as restoring a file that was deleted.

Microsoft has release a free utility which can be used to fix this issue without knowing the technical details. This utility can be downloaded by clicking of Fix It button below.

Google Improves Location Based Searches

Now, when you search for locations using Google Search, you may see pictures from that place alongside a map. You can click on any of those images to go to the photos layer on Google Maps where you can browse many more geo-tagged photos.

Find more at Official Google Blog:

Official Google Blog: Seeing the world with improved Google Search results

Use Google Analytics To Impove Your Website - Video Tutorial

Avinash Kaushik shares ideas for online publishers to use Google Analytics to find opportunities to improve their websites. Speeding Up in a Slowdown is a five-week educational series on Adsense

Find more details at Official Google Analytics Blog:

Inside AdSense: Speeding up: the basics and Analytics

Windows Vista Hibernate Missing - How to Fix

You may experience missing Hibernate options at Start Menu Power Options or Shut Down Windows Dialog.

You can fix this problem automatically by running a free utility from Microsoft. Click Fix It button below to download the utility software.

Now Google Chrome OS Is On The Way

Google Chrome OS is an open source, lightweight operating system that will initially be targeted at netbooks. Google Chrome OS will be available for consumers in the second half of 2010. Find more details about Google Chrome OS at Official Google Website:

Official Google Blog: Introducing the Google Chrome OS

Free Maths Software With Graph Plotting Feature

Chasys Math is a suite of math utilities including a calculator featuring graph-plotting, complex numbers and visually-perfect algebraic method (Chasys Math Calculator), and a matrix equation solver that can handle systems of equations as large as 32 by 32 (Chasys Math Matrix). Like other John Paul Chacha's Lab "Chasys" suites, it is Vista UAC aware, lightweight and clean.

Download Chasys Math

Adsense Blogger Template – Technology Blogger

My latest Blogger Template “Technology Blogger” with full adsense support is available for download. There is no special configurations required. You will simply need to load the template and change the menu and ad links(to right). Post comments if you see any error or have suggestions.

Features : SEO Optimized, 3 Column, Round Corners

Live Demo
Download Adsense Blogger Template

Wireless Network Scanner For Windows Vista and Windows 7

Vistumbler is a wireless network scanner for Supporting Windows Vista and Windows 7.

Features of Vistumbles :

• Supports Windows Vista and Windows 7
• Find Wireless access points - Uses the Vista command 'netsh wlan show networks mode=bssid' to get wireless information
• GPS Support
• Export/Import access points from Vistumbler TXT/VS1/VSZ or Netstumbler TXT/Text NS1
• Export access point GPS locations to a google earth kml file or GPX(GPS eXchange format)
• Live Google Earth Tracking - Auto KML automatically shows access points in google earth.
• Speaks Signal Strength using sound files, windows sound api, or MIDI
• Open Source ( AutoIt Scripting Language - http://www.autoitscript.com )

Download Vistumbler

Attracting More Visitors - Tips from wikiHow.com Jack Herrick

Jack Herrick, the founder of wikiHow.com shares his favorite tips for attracting more visitors to wikiHow in the third part of the five part Speeding Up in a Slowdown series.

Using Google Analytics and Website Optimizer - Video

Selecting which pages to test in Google Website Optimizer can be made simple by using Google Analytics. A 60 seconds video walk through which reports to focus on first.

Create Textures and Wallpapers With Free Graphics Software

Imagelys Picture Styles is a way of creating an unlimited number of beautiful graphic images in a minimal amount of time. You can create seamless backgrounds for your desktop or your web page, original wallpapers, textures for 3D modelling, and much much more.

You don't have to be an expert designer to be able to produce truly amazing results. It generates seamless textures using mathematical formulae and works with ready-to-use effects.

Features of Imagelys:

• Offers unlimited compositing possibilities;
• Seamless texture rendering;
• Smart random image creation;
• More than 700 Seamless Textures predefined and customizable;
• Opens a various range of image formats like: bmp,jpeg,jpg,gif,png,jng,mng,emf,wmf,ico;
• Save images to a number of image formats like : bmp,jpeg,jpg,gif,png,jng;
• Opens and saves custom project files;
• Add your favorite custom textures or effects into the ToolPalette;
• Standard retouching tools and image manipulation tools;
• Multiple layers from bitmaps, clipboard;
• Create/edit masks to apply various transparency effects;
• Bitmap alpha blending;
• Multiple customizable easy-to-use overlay layers;
• Variety of resampling filters to resample images to various sizes;
• Multiple Undo/Redo;
• Web export function;
• Make seamless image from whatever photos;

Download Imagelys

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