Convert PDF To DOC, Text & Several Image Formats

Many times we need some PDF manipulation tools to convert PDF to Word, text or any other file format. I have also posted some PDF converter tools in this blog. This time, i am going to post about a nice PDF manipulation tool, First PDF. This is a free windows application that allows users to convert any PDF document to DOC, text or different image formats, namely PNG, JPEG, TIFF, BMP, GIF and Multi TIFF. 

The output file formats are grouped and also shows preview before conversion. It has two tabs. One is PDF to Word and other is PDF to Imaegs. To perform PDF to DOC conversion, select Word option inside the PDF to Word tab, and then drag the files that you want to convert over the List with PDF files section. You will find it at the left side of the tool window. It will also provide you with a preview of the selected file. Now, click Browse to select your output directory as well as output file name, and click GO button to start the conversion process.

Similar process can be applied to convert PDF to any image format, but on the other tab.

This is really a nice tool but it takes time in conversion. If you are converting a high quality PDF file with many pages, it takes enough time to convert the PDF.

system requirements for PDF To WORD Converter?

• Microsoft Windows 7, Windows Vista, Windows 8, Windows XP, Windows 2003, Windows 2000, or Windows ME.
• Pentium III Processor or better, Pentium 4 or higher recommended.
• 256MB RAM or more, 512MB RAM is recommended.
• 100MB Hard disk space for install.

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Add Applications to Firewall Blocklist via Drag and Drop With Firewall App Blocker

Windows Firewall is a special security feature of windows operating system which allow users to create packet filtering and protect system from malicious external resurces. Main function of windows firewall is restrict applications from sending or receiving unauthorize requests.


But this feature is usually ignored by users as it is hard to properly configure. Most of the users do not know what this feature do and how to use it. In windows 7, you can block a program in Firewall by following these steps:


1. Click the Windows orb and open the Control Panel 
2. Select System and Security
3. In the Windows Firewall section, select Allow a program through Windows Firewall
4. If the program you wish to block or unblock is not listed, you can click the Allow another program… button to add it.


I do not think that these steps are userfriendly.


But There is a tool called, Firewall App Blocker which allows users to add and remove application to Windows firewall block list just by drag and drop. This process is not only user-friendly, it also takes less time to manage block programs. When you want to block a program, drag this to the main interface of the tool. To unblock the program, select and delete.

The Advanced button brings up the Windows Firewall with Advanced Security window that allows you to apply Firewall policies and helps you configure Inbound Rules and Outbound Rules.


One more think to note that this tool does not provide any extra layer of security. It only allow users to access windows Firewall options easily. 


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How to Increase Browsing Speed in Opera Browser

Opera is not so famous web browser for computer systems, still it has millions of internet users and shares 1.5% in browser share. Although this browser is not so famous, but it comes with many nice features. Opera browser also have an advantage for those users who work on low internet connection.

If you are the Opera user and facing problem of low connectivity, you can make your browsing fast with these tricks and tweaks.

For Broadband Users:

Increase total connections:

1. Open opera Browser and type about:config in the address bar ot it.

2. Now search for connection

3. Change the value of Max Connections Total from the default 16 to the number between 32 to 65 (Depends  on your connection speed).

4. Keep the Max Connections Server as the default

5. Now click save then restart your browser.

For Dial up Users

Enable Opera Turbo

Opera Turbo is a unique feature of opera browser that speed up browsing on slow networks. Opera Turbo uses compression technology that boosts your webpage download speed on limited-bandwidth connections. This is the main advantage of using opera browser. For all those users who are using slow dial-up connection, this is the best option to access fast internet. Follow these steps to enable Opera Turbo.

1. Go to Tools and then Preferences.

2. Select Web Pages tab and Turn on opera turbo.

You can also turn on Opera Turbo by clicking on the turbo icon located at the left side of status bar. When you click on this, it will turn to green.


Comment below and tell us your view about Opera browser.

How to Block SMS from Gmail

Few days, back i wrote about sending free SMS from Gmail. Anyone having you in contact list in Gmail can send Free SMS in your mobile phone from Gmail if you are using supported operator mobile phone. In india, only few mobile operator supports Gmail SMS. See list of operators.


If you are receiving SMS from Gmail from your mobile phone and do not want to receive those SMS, Gmail have easy options to block SMS.


If you have recevied SMS and want to block future messages from the sender. Just reply to the message with the world 'BLOCK'. After this, you will never receive any kind of Gmail SMS from that sender.


If you have changed your mind and want to unblock the sender, just send the phrase 'UNBLOCK' to the phone number from which the message was sent .

Pick color Hex codes from Website to Clipboard in Chrome

Sometimes we see a website with attractive theme and nice color scheme and wish to have same set of colors for our web projects. But it is hard to guess exactly same color as we do not know the hash code of colors used in that website. For such cases, we wish to have a color picker that makes our work easy. For chrome users, there is a nice extension; Accupix is available which adds a color picker tool on the chrome. This color picker allows users to identify and copy the color of the website on your screen through a zoomed in preview of an image area and a virtual dropper.

This dropper tool allows users to select and copy color of any part of the website. When user puts this dropper to any part of the website, it copies the hex value of the color to clipboard. This extension also supports some shortcuts to make the work easy.

These are the keyboard shortcuts

• ·         Ctrl+Mouse - down to Zoom In preview
• ·         Ctrl+Shift+Mouse - down to Zoom out Preview
• ·         Arrow - move the cursor to precisely match the required pixel
• ·         Enter - picks the pixel
• ·         Esc - closes the picker

When you install this extension in your chrome browser, it adds a button in Chrome's tool bar. Clicking on this button will show a preview box, which can be dragged around the web page to retrieve HEX codes of anything that comes below the preview box. To copy the HEX value of the color on clipboard, click on that part of the website. You may also hit Enter to pick particular pixels, or use Esc to close the picker.

This is really a nice tool for web designer who want to know the exact color of other website to use in their web projects. This nice Google Chrome tool quickly lets them grab HEX and RGB codes for any color on any website.

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Some Common Keyboard shortcuts that works in all browsers

These are some keyboard shortcuts that works on all browsers and works same.

Common Browsers Keyboard shortcuts

Ctrl+1-8 – Switch to the specified tab, counting from the left.
Ctrl+9 – Switch to the last tab.
Ctrl+Tab – Switch to the next tab – in other words, the tab on the right. (Ctrl+Page Up also works, but not in Internet Explorer.)
Ctrl+Shift+Tab – Switch to the previous tab – in other words, the tab on the left. (Ctrl+Page Down also works, but not in Internet Explorer.)
Ctrl+W, Ctrl+F4 – Close the current tab.
Ctrl+Shift+T – Reopen the last closed tab.
Ctrl+T – Open a new tab.
Ctrl+N – Open a new browser window.
Alt+F4 – Close the current window. (Works in all applications.)
Middle Click a Tab – Close the tab.
Ctrl+Left Click, Middle Click – Open a link in a background tab.
Shift+Left Click – Open a link in a new browser window.
Ctrl+Shift+Left Click – Open a link in a foreground tab.
Alt+Left Arrow, Backspace – Back.
Alt+Right Arrow, Shift+Backspace – Forward.
F5 – Reload.
Shift+F5 – Reload and skip the cache, re-downloading the entire website.
Escape – Stop.
Alt+Home – Open homepage.
Ctrl and +, Ctrl+Mousewheel Up – Zoom in.
Ctrl and -, Ctrl+Mousewheel Down — Zoom out.
Ctrl+0 – Default zoom level.
F11 – Full-screen mode.
Space, Page Down – Scroll down a frame.
Page Up – Scroll up a frame.
Home – Top of page.
End – Bottom of page.
Middle Click – Scroll with the mouse.
Ctrl+L, Alt+D, F6 – Focus the address bar so you can begin typing.
Ctrl+Enter – Prefix www. and append .com to the text in the address bar, and then load the website. For xample, type howtogeek into the address bar and press Ctrl+Enter to open www.howtogeek.com.
Alt+Enter – Open the location in the address bar in a new tab.
Search
trl+K, Ctrl+E – Focus the browser’s built-in search box or focus the address bar if the browser doesn’t have  dedicated search box. (Ctrl+K doesn’t work in IE, Ctrl+E does.)
Alt+Enter – Perform a search from the search box in a new tab.
Ctrl+F, F3 – Open the in-page search box to search on the current page.
Ctrl+G, F3 – Find the next match of the searched text on the page.
Ctrl+Shift+G, Shift+F3 – Find the previous match of the searched text on the page.
Ctrl+H – Open the browsing history.
Ctrl+J – Open the download history.
Ctrl+D – Bookmark the current website.
Ctrl+Shift+Del – Open the Clear Browsing History window.
Ctrl+P – Print the current page.
Ctrl+S – Save the current page to your computer.
Ctrl+O – Open a file from your computer.
Ctrl+U – Open the current page’s source code. (Not in IE.)
F12 – Open Developer Tools. (Not in Firefox.)

How to Import Bookmarks in Google Chrome from Other Browsers

Google Chrome is a nice web browser and just reach to the top position as most used browser on the internet. If you have just installed Google Chrome, you can also import your bookmarks added in other browser in your system. Google Chrome allows users to import bookmarks but this feature is not available on Chrome OS.


Follow these steps to import bookmarks in Google Chrome:


Import bookmarks from Firefox or Internet Explorer

• Click the wrench icon on the browser toolbar located at the top right corner of the browser.
• Take mouse over Bookmarks.
• Select Import Bookmarks and Settings.
• Select the application that contains the settings you'd like to import.
  
• Make sure that only the checkboxes for items you want to import are selected.
• Click Import.

After that you will see all the imported bookmarks in the Google Chrome's bookmark list. If you do not have any bookmark in your Google Chrome, all new bookmarks  will show up directly on the bookmark bar. In case you have some bookmarks, all new bookmarks will be added inside a folder called "Imported from Firefox" or "Imported from IE," located at the end of the bar.

Import bookmarks from Any Other Browser

• Export bookmarks from any browser as a HTML file and save the file to your computer.
• Click the wrench icon on the browser toolbar in Google Chrome.
• Select Bookmark manager.
• Click the Organize menu in the manager.
• Select Import bookmarks.
• Open your saved HTML file.

Same case will also apply in this method. If you do not have any existing bookmark, bookmarks will be added in bookmark bar. If you already have some bookmarks, new imported bookmarks will be added in a new folder in bookmark bar.

Yahoo enters browser market with Axis browser

Yahoo has also jumped into the browser's market with its new mobile browser Axis. This mobile browser is available for iPhone and iPad from Apple App Store. For desktops, it is available as a plug-in for IE, Safari, Chrome and Firefox. 


According to Ethan Batraski, head of product for the Search Innovation Group at Yahoo, this mobile browser is not only a browser. It is a seach tool with in-built browser. This search tool is different from the search engine. It does not shows the results in the form of links. When you will search something with this, 80 perecent of time you will 80 percent of time, you will see horizontal display of Web page thumbnails. Other 20 percent of time  you get text boxes with results in them. By showing results in the form of thumbnails, it aims to improve user experience and make the surfing fast.


This browser also took social sharing seriously and added a feature to share web pages with friends. Users can share any web page with their friends on Twitter, email or Pinterest. But there is no option to share pages on Facebook which seems something srange with the browser.
This time the browser is only available for iOS platform, but company is working on Android, windows phone and metro version of the browser. Metro version of the browser will be used in the windows phone 8 mobile operating system.


Mobile browser is not a new concept, but the way it is trying to change the search is different step in the search market. This new concept makes it a strong mobile product with new concept of search.


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How to Enable Instant Search In Google Chrome

Google Chrome is a nice web browser and just crossed Internet Explorer to become the number one web browser of the world. It allows various smart feature to make the web browsing easy. We know that we can search the web from the address bar of the Google Chrome. But very few knows that Google Chrome also allows instant search from the address bar.


Instant search is the faster way of searching introduced by Google for Google search. In instant search, Google fetches  dynamic results whenever you search from the address bar at the top of the browser window. If you are not getting the results you want, just keep on typing search terms and see the results dynamically update.


Enable or disable Instant search in Google Chrome


These are the steps which you can follow to enable or disbale instant search. These instructions apply to Google Chrome on Windows, Mac, Linux, and Chrome OS.

• Click the wrench icon  on the browser toolbar. You will find it at the top right corner of the browser.
• Click on Settings.
• In the “Search” section, use the “Enable Instant for faster searching” checkbox to enable or disable the Instant feature. Mark it to enable instant search and unmark to disable.

How to Use Instant search


Instant search is just like ordinary search with dynamic updating search results. You only need to type search query in th address bar of the browser. And you will see updating search result on each character you typed in the browsers address bar.


Note: Instant search is not available in the incognito mode of Google Chrome web browser.

Download YouTube Videos in Any Format and bitrate [firefox]

There are so many online services and tools are available which allow users to download or convert YouTube videos. Every tool has some specific feature. Some allows only downloading in MP4, some only in flv and some only in MP3. Most of these tools redirect users to some third party websites. But YouTube MP3 Podcaster, an add-on for Firefox, offers you everything. It allows users to download YouTube video in any format without redirecting users to any kind of third party service.

YouTube MP3 Podcaster add-on also allow users to change the quality, remove unwanted introductions and download videos in various video and audio formats (MP3, MP4, FLV) and resolutions (HD and Full HD), in only a few clicks. It also supports other popular video websites including Daily Motion and Blip.tv.

After installing this add-on to your firefox web browser, visit YouTube and play any video. You will notice a slider with a scissor icon is added to the bottom-right of the video. Above this slider you will find multiple formats and resolutions, such as MP3, MP4, FLV, HD and FULL HD. Move the slider to see all available formats of videos. Click on the format which you want to download and then save the video.

If you want to remove unwanted introductions from the videos, click on scissors icon and clip it. Once you’ve clipped a video, downloading will start as soon as you pause it.

This tool support for Bit-Rates up to 224 kbps.

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