If you want to download some music or even movie files playing in Embedded objects like Flash player or Quicktime player, here is  a trick for you. Embedded objects is a Firefox add-ons allow you to download any media files (mp3, flv, avi, wav, wmv, mov) from the web page content. The little green arrow icon will appear lower right corner of Firefox browser when it found media files. You just need to click on it and select the files from its Download dialog window.

Inbox2 a desktop client application for combining all your Emails and Social messaging in one place. It can fetch all the mails from Gmail, Hotmail, Yahoo, AOL, MS Exchange mail servers, IMAP and POP3 account as well. Not only that It can receive and update to your Facebook, Twitter, Yammer and LinkedIn updates and messages.

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In Photoshop, Photoshop actions are the collection of adjustment steps which may contain adjusting color and situation, gradient mapping, adjusting color balance, etc. It is really useful and save you a lot of time when you’re editing bunch of photos to get the same effect. I am falling in love with retro and vintage photos especially low situated and soft color tone. Sometimes, my friends asked me how to create those kind of effect for photos in Photoshop. Well, there are lot of actions and tutorials, even online generator on internet. Today, I created one Photoshop action set contains three actions that can make your photos retro and vintage look with low situated and soft color tone. read more …

PicPick is not just a screen capturing tool. It has everything you need from screen capturing to measuring pixel distance on the screen. Simple interface and easy to use its tools from Windows system tray. Built-in Image Editor allows you to do all the basic operations. If you are looking for something like this, PicPick is your answer. Well, It is FREE too. only for Windows.

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I have been using Flickr to share my photos with my friends for a while. After upgrading to Pro account on Flickr and I saw that I have uploaded more than 300 photos in my Flickr account. I always upload the photos in original size and some of the photos I uploaded in Flickr weren’t not found back in my machine. I have been searching for a tool that can backup photos in Flickr in original format. I even decided to write an application to download the photos from Flickr using Flickr API if I can’t find app.

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I’m addicted in blogging and of course, I read many other blogs every day. I can’t visit all the blogs I read. I just simply subscribe their feeds in my favorite RSS reader, Google Reader. I can read the recently updated blog posts in rss reader just like I’m reading emails.

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If you have experienced with Adobe Lightroom software photo editing software, you’ll feel that the interface of the Flickroom is very similar to Lightroom. Flickroom is an Adobe AIR based application provides almost everything that you can do in Flickr.

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Snippage an adobe AIR application turns any parts of the web pages into widget with its simple crop tool. So that you can put and move around them on your desktop like the way you’re doing  with Windows Sidebar widget or Google Desktop. It is pretty simple, just download Snippage AIR from Snippage and install it (your system must have Adobe AIR run time installed, if you don’t have you can grab from Adobe for FREE). After you installed Snippage, open it and type the web address on browser, drag and size the snipmarks where you can to capture and click scissor button. That’s!

Every photographers want to know camera’s shutter count which is the number of shots has been taken with their camera stored in a photo’s EXIF data information. Or some people want to know before they buy used camera because they knew that shutter has its limit (don’t worry, you can change with new one). If you’re using NIKON SLR camera, Opanda IEXIF is ready for you. Opanda IEXIF is a free EXIF reader program that can read all the information from a photo taken by Nikon SLR cameras. To read EXIF data, click Open menu and select the photo you just taken now. It will show all the EXIF information like, Camera model, shutter speed, aperture, flash fired or not, etc. To find Number of shots, see “Total Number of Shutter Releases for Camera“. Here mine is 15,377 :).

Foto-Mosaik-Edda is a free software for creating stunning, impressive mosaics photos. To use Foto-Mosaik-Edda, you need lot of source images (the bigger the better, the more the better) , as they recommended is 2000 or more, to create a mosaic database. When you first create mosaic database, it takes time because it scans through your photos and create a base set of “titles” for your mosiac. Once you have done create a mosaic set, creating mosaic photo is straight forward. Just pick up a photo and generate. The software is available for Windows only.

Fences is a free program allows you to organize icons from your Desktop into labeled groups so that your desktop doesn’t look messy. Fences comes with built-in predefined layouts for new users who don’t want to configure. Fences groups are resizeable and movable and you can hide it by double clicking your desktop and get it back by click twice again on your Desktop. Fences is free software and you can download at Stardock.

Co-workers in your office might think that you’re extremely busy with spreadsheets. Spreadtweet is an Adobe AIR application looks a lot like spreadsheet that you can retrieve and sent your tweets from it. You can choose layout from Office OSX to Office 2003 and Office 2007. To use Spreadtweet you must have Adobe AIR installed in your machine.

There are so many free file hosting services that let you upload files from your computer. iOJ is one of these. iOJ allows you to upload files from your PC and Mac and share with your friends easily. It supports not only single file uploading but also multiple files uploading as well as screen casting (A feature from iOJ that captures up to 4 min and convert into .flv format). You can also upload your files to Rapidshare, MegaUpload, Sendspace and TinyPic from iOJ interface.

Google released its Google Sitemap Generator at Google code licensed under Apache License 2.0. Sitemaps are very useful for webmaster to tell the search engines about the pages of the sites which are available for crawling. This Google Sitemap Generator supports for both Apache server on Linux and Windows IIS versions. Installation guide is very useful and of course installation on your own server is easy.

Microsoft released windows 7 for testing purpose only on last January 9th, 2009. I am one of them who downloaded it. I tried to install on both of my PC and laptop but with no luck. I had problems on both that Windows 7 did not start properly (blank black screen) after successfully installation. Successfully installation? huh. Those problems solved when I install Windows 7 on VmWare. Surprised? It comes with few applications since it released as testing purpose. I don’t have plan to use Windows 7 right now. Thinking of why they released Vista? Now I’m happy with oldie XP and Vista. This is the snapshot from Windows 7 in VMWare.

You can download Windows 7 from Windows 7 official site. Remember that Microsoft limits download to 2.5 millions downloads.