Best softwares to download complete websites and webpages

I am writing this post on public demand on the request of some of my old readers who suggested me to write something about website grabbing or downloading. Well this hack or softwares work only with the websites and webpages which are not password protected or you if have password of HTTP and FTP servers. But this is very helpful for sites like wikipedia. Lets see how to do it.



Best softwares to download complete websites and webpages along with images, FLV files, flash, etc.


1. SurfOffline :

SurfOffline is a fast and convenient website download software. SurfOffline allows you to download entire websites and download web pages to your local hard drive. SurfOffline combines powerful features and a convenient interface. The SurfOffline wizard will allow you to quickly specify the website download settings. After the website has been downloaded, you can use SurfOffline as an offline browser and view downloaded web pages in it. In case you prefer viewing downloaded webpages in another browser, use the Export Wizard. Also the Surf Offline Export Wizard allows you to copy downloaded websites to other computers in order to view them later and prepares websites for burning them to a CD or DVD. You can download up to 400000 files in one project and entire websites (including images, video, audio, etc.).


2. Internet Download Manager :

I know most of you use IDM for downloading songs, videos, movies, softwares, etc. but you can also use IDM for downloading a website. IDM includes web site spider and grabber which allows you to do so. IDM downloads all required files that are specified with filters from
web sites, for example all pictures from a web site, or subsets of websites, or complete web sites for offline browsing. It's possible to schedule multiple grabber projects to run them once at a specified time, stop them at a specified time, or run periodically to synchronize changes.
To start IDM Website Grabber go to Tasks -> Run Site Grabber.

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Best ebooks and documents library organizer softwares for windows platform

Pdf, doc, chm, txt and ppt files have become a very integrated part of any computer user whether its his professional as well as personal life which he share with him PC. Every user has hundreds if not thousands of above listed files in the form of ebooks, documents, presentations, notes, help files and in many other forms. But to organize such a huge file base and to one particular file amongst a mess of thousands is really a tough task. Well this kind of hectic work can be eliminated by using ebook and documents managers. I am giving small list of some popular ebook documents managers and organizers.

List of Best ebook document library managers/organizers for windows :

1. Adobe Digital Editions :

Adobe Digital Editions is ebook reader software from Adobe Systems built using Adobe Flash. It is used for acquiring, managing and reading eBooks, digital newspapers, and other digital publications. The software supports PDF, XHTML (through the nonproprietary .epub file type specification), and Flash-based content. It implements a proprietary scheme of Digital Rights Management, which allows document sharing between multiple computers and user authentication through Adobe ID. Adobe Digital Editions software offers an engaging way to view and manage eBooks and other digital publications.

2. eBook Organizer :

eBook Organizer manages eBook files on your computer as well as your hard copy books. eBook Organizer allows you to manage eBook files (i.e. PDF, DOC, RTF, TXT, CHM, MP3, LIT, EBO, and any user-defined file types), support unlimited user-defined eBook document file types, scan computer for existing eBooks documents, support unlimited user-defined categories, support unlimited number of books in each category, support same book in multiple categories, monitor computer for new eBooks downloaded or created and add new eBooks to your library automatically, download book information (e.g. title, author, cover image, ISBN, publisher, publish date, etc.), search for books in library by key words.


3. eLib :

eLib is a new FREE tool which helps you categorize, view, catalog your ebook collection. It runs on Windows XP and Windows Vista.
Here is an overview of the eLib features:
- performs a scan of your folders and files with pre-defined or choosen extensions
- you can create as many collections as you wish, and even create subcollections
- you can drag/drop your collections
- generates the thumbnails for PDF, and some MsOffice files (XLS, DOC, PPT)
- you can manage several databases of your collections, create backups etc ...
- you can view PDF, XLS, DOC, TXT and some other files directly in the integrated viewer

For eLib to work with all its features MsOffice and Adobe Viewer must be installed.


4. My Ebook Library :

My Ebook Library is a free desktop application for organising and cataloguing your electronic book collection. It supports the most popular Ebook extensions: PDF, CHM, LIT, DOC, HTM, HTML, RTF, TXT, DJV, DJVU, PDB, PRC. It can catalogues Ebooks stored in multiple folder locations on your system. It uses an online book database that allows you to quickly download book information and cover-art for the books in your collection. It supports both 10 and 13 digit format ISBNs. It prevents duplicate Ebooks existing on disk, based upon the ISBN. You can create your own custom Ebook collections to group books by your current learning objectives. You can search the Ebook library by title to quickly locate matching entries. Auto-collection functionality displays the last read, most popular, and newest additions to the library.Ebooks can be removed from the library without being removed from disk. Can comfortably handle libraries of up to 5000 Ebooks.


5. Alfa Ebooks Manager :

Alfa Ebooks Manager allows you quickly scan your computer to find ebooks. You can select specific folders on your PC and file types. AlfaEbooks will automatically detect books, extract ISBN and create a book list that you can check, update and save to the database. It will also find duplicates if found file already exists in the database. You can also use this powerful tool to actualize your e-library when you move books to another drive or DVD. Update your books information with one click using world most popular Web Book Stores: Google Books, Amazon, Barnes&Noble, Oreilly etc. Moreover, our software will help you to compare and combine information from different sources, so that you can select the most comprehensive result.

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Ping major search engines and RSS feed & blog directories together after updating blog

I have been told my a lot of bloggers that there posts do not get indexed by major search engines like google and by major blog directories like technorati for a lot of days and sometimes even for weeks. Well for those who really face this problem this post can really help them to ping the search engines, blog directories and RSS feed directories all at once and hence to index their blog updates.



How to ping major search engines and blog directories and RSS feed directories together after updating your blog ?

1) Visit Feed Shark and Ping-o-matic pinging services.

2) Now enter your blog title, blog's homepage URL, and RSS URL . Entering RSS URL is optional but I always include it to ping RSS feed directories as shown in the screenshot below :



To ping up services which accept RSS feeds try to include RSS feed URL too.

3) Select the services you want to ping i.e. where you want your blog to get indexed. I prefer to select all the services as it increases the exposure of the blog posts.

4) Send the pings and your blog will get indexed all around the net within a day or two.

This problem of indexing occurs with new blogs or those blogs which are not regularly updated. But now you have a solution for it too.

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Use Google Talk as an online English to Hindi Dictionary

I have been using Google Talk for years now but never thought to use it in such a different and useful way until now. I saw one of my friends using Gtalk as a english to hindi dictionary and decided to share it with my blog readers. It really can help those who try to find out relation between words of the two languages or use hindi as a primary language.



How to use Google Talk as an online English to Hindi Dictionary Translator ?

1) Sign in to your Google talk IM.

2) Click 'Add' button in the lower part of the Gtalk as shown in the screenshot below :

3) Now enter the following address en2hi@bot.talk.google.com in the contact box and click next as shown in the screenshot below :





4) Now a bot will be added into your Gtalk friendlist just like your real friends. Whenever you type a word in english it will automatically reply back to return its meaning in hindi.
The screenshot below shows how the meaning of an english word is shown back in hindi instantaneously.

You may say it translation too but sometimes it really help especially in group chats that we are not explaining here now. You can also use different gtalk bots to translate more languages.

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Track the keywords searched on your site using Google Analytics

Its very important to track the taste of your site's visitors so that you can make out what you should write to make them more satisfied with your content and to make them to visit your site again. A tracking of the keywords searched by your visitors on your site using your site's search box can also provide enough idea about the taste of your visitors and what they search most on your blog or site. Now you can track all those searched keywords by using google analytics. Here is how..


How to track the keywords searched on your site or blog in detail using Google Analytics ?

1) Login to your Google Analytics account.

2) Click 'Edit' in the Website Profiles summary box for the profile you would like to enable Site Search for. As shown in the screenshot below :

3) Click 'Edit' from the 'Main Website Profile Information' section of the Profile Settings page. As shown in the screenshot below :





4) Select the 'Do Track Site Search' radio button in the Site Search section of the Edit Profile Information page. As shown in the screenshot below :

5) Enter your 'Query Parameter' in the field provided. Please enter only the word or words that designate an internal query parameter such as "term,search,query". Sometimes the word is just a letter, such as "s" or "q". You may provide up to five parameters, separated by a comma.
I would suggest to enter "term,search,query,s,q" as the five parameters. But also check your site's search parameter as it may be different from these five. As shown in the screenshot below :





6) Select whether or not you want Google Analytics to strip out the query parameter from your URL. Please note that this will only strip out the parameters you provided, and not any other parameters in the same URL. This has the same functionality as excluding URL Query Parameters in your Main Profile - if you strip the query parameters from your Site Search Profile, you don't have to exclude them again from your Main Profile.

A screenshot showing the details of keywords searched by my blog visitors using my site's search box :

7) Save the changes made and start tracking your the keywords searched by your site's visitors.

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Share your favourite webpages, videos and photos with one click

Whenever we find some nice news article, video or photo; the first thought that comes to our mind is to share it with our friends. But most of us couldn't do it because you have to open up your email or sign in to a social networking site and it takes time and effort. But now you can share your favourite discoveries on web with a single click among your friends on their favourite social networking and social bookmarking sites and through email.


How to share your favourite webpages, videos and photos among your friends with one click ?

Well this thing which I am going to show you is actually for the mozilla firefox users.

1) Go to Add This addon page on mozilla firefox's addons site.

2) Then click the Add to Firefox button; install the addon and click restart.

3) Now you will see a Add This button as shown below near your firefox's address bar.

4) Select the services you often use from a list of services given under the preferences option under the Add This button as shown below.

Now whenever you find a nice article, video, picture or anything that you liked on the web you just share it by a single click by clicking on the service icon under the add this button. So common share this article using the Addthis addon and tell about this addon to your friends so that they can also tell you about more wonderful things that they discover on the web and can share them easily.

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How to choose the best digital camera ? : Buying Guide

Digital Cameras are the best and latest ways to capture the best of our life times into pictures. But whenever we think of buying a digital camera a lot of things comes in our mind regarding the company, colours, type and features. We take advices from friends and camera users and then make a decision about a digital camera. Well now you don't need to do all this as I am introducing you to a camera buying guide here...


How to choose, select and buy the best digital camera as per your needs and budget ?

You can buy the best digital camera as per your needs if you follow the following steps carefully.

1) Budget : Decide the amount of money you want to spent i.e. first decide a budget for your digital camera. Deciding the money before can really help as it will keep you focused and don't eyes run behind everything it sees in the shop.

2) Purpose : Define the usages in which you want to use your camera for. Choose from the following options : travelling, young children or pets, low light, action, interiors or wildlife.

3) Features : Choose the features that you want to have in your camera. Remember that sometimes a camera feature which is even worthless for our use can increase the camera price significantly. So choose those features which are essential for the purpose you want to use the camera for.

4) Now after deciding the budget, purpose or usage and features you want in your camera, just write them down and move forward to Best Digital Camera Guide and select and enter the price, purpose and features you have already decided.

5) After you have entered everything, just click the View Recommendations button and it will show you the list of cameras along with its range of prices and best buy price. Choose the camera you like most in the recommendation list.

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See how a webpage looked at a particular time in the past

I have been wondering for long time to see how Google's homepage would have looked 6 or 7 years back. And finally I found just what i was looking for a long time. Before that I tried google's cache but they keep the most latest of the webpages, so stopped looking there. I have never expected that there would be someone else who would be doing something like storing webpages according to the months and years in their archives. The web is full of surprises.


Here is how you can see how a webpage looked at a particular time in the past ?

1) Go to Way Back Machine .

2) Enter the web address (URL) of the page and click Take me Back! button.

It will automatically show you its archive sorted according to the dates at which a screenshot of that webpage have been taken. I have taken some screenshots of google's homepage using wayback machine archives. I am sharing them with you. Here :









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One IM client for Gtalk, Yahoo, Facebook Chat, MSN, AIM, Jabber, ICQ

I have been asked by some chatty users how to use yahoo messenger and Google Talk using a same client at the same time. I really appreciate it as this is really useful for someone who has friends on different platforms such as Google, Yahoo, Facebook, MSN, AIM etc. Well good news for everyone of you as you can now login and use all of these Instant messengers (IM) at the same time by using a single client.


How to access Gtalk, Yahoo, Facebook Chat, MSN, AIM, Jabber, ICQ using only one Instant Messenger(IM) client ?

Well you can access all of these Instant Messengers along with Twitter, Myspace, LinkedIn, Gmail, AOL mail, MSN mail and Yahoo mail all by one client called Digsby .
Digsby is really a very cool and very useful application. It allows all kind of customizations as well as provides a wide range of applications as I have already mentioned.

Digsby is completely free to use application and can be downloaded from Digsby download page . It is available for Windows, MAC and Linux as well. So there is no need to worry if it will work on your computer just select your OS and download Digsby.

To add an IM account to digsby desktop client just follow the following steps :

1) Create a Digsby account; login to digsby desktop client.

2) In the top menu: select Tools -> Preferences or just press Ctrl + P as shown below :

3) Then select the Accounts tab, an click Add IM Account button and choose the IM you want to use as shown in the screenshot below:

If you want you can add all of them and even add two of the same accounts. I mean you can even add two Gtalks for different google accounts.

4) Now just enter that IM account's username and password and you are good to go.

Now you can use Gtalk, Yahoo, Facebook Chat, MSN, AIM, Jabber or ICQ chat all at once. For any query on digsby just type your query in the comment box below.

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How to add an email signature within all outgoing emails in gmail ?

For those who don't know, an email signature is a block of text appended to the end of an email message often containing the sender's name, address, phone number, disclaimer or other contact information. Email signatures are very useful if you are a blogger or own a website, just add your blog or website's address and this really can bring some good, genuine and loyal traffic to your site.


How to add or attach an email signature within emails in gmail ?

1) Go to Gmail ; sign in with your gmail id.

2) Now go to the settings tab , and search for signature (use Ctrl + F to make the search fast)

3) Now when the signature is found, just select the button in front of the textbox in front of signature instead of No Signature (default) as shown below.

4) In the textbox write your email signature that you want to append at the end of every outgoing email from your gmail account as shown in the screenshot below :



You can type text or links in the textbox as your signature. For bloggers I would suggest to attach a link to their blogs so as to fetch more traffic to their blogs. You can also attach a link to your social media profiles such as twitter, facebook, myspace, orkut, youtube, etc and even a link to your RSS feeds.

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How to install or add a Favicon in a blog or website : Full Tutorial

A favicon (short for favorites icon), also known as a website icon, shortcut icon, url icon, or bookmark icon is a 16x16 pixel square icon associated with a particular website, blog or webpage. Some of my friends asked about installing or adding a favicon to their blogs and stuff related to it. I have tried to include every point related to favicon in this post. So here it is ..



What is a Favicon ?

As I have already mentioned the definition but still the following pictures will make it more clear.

The icons marked in the screenshot above are known as Favicon. The image shows favicon of Blogger. These favicon are shown inside the address bar and on the tabbar whenever a site is shown in the browser.


How to create a favicon for your blog or website ?

There are two ways to create a favicon either you can convert an already existing image to a favicon or you can create a favicon directly.

If you want to create a favicon directly you can use Favicon.cc , it allows you to design a favicon using your imagination. It also allows animation to be included into your favicon.

If you want to create a favicon using a pre existing image, you can use these images to icon services , to create a 16 x 16 icon file which can be used as a favicon.


How to install or add a Favicon(16x16 icon) in a blog or website ?

Now that you have created your favicon, you have to install it in your blog or website. To install or add a favicon you have to include a code in the your blog or website. Before installing the code you should upload the 16 x 16 favicon that you already created. You can use these services to upload your favicon for free. Upload the favicon.

After uploading, copy the URL of the icon file you have uploaded and paste it somewhere, it will be used further in the process.

Copy the following code and paste it between <head> and </head> tags.

<link href='YOUR-ICON-URL' rel='shortcut icon'/>

NOTE: Don't forget to replace the YOUR-ICON-URL with the URL of uploaded icon file. Thats all you have installed a favicon in your blog or website.

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Embed Picasa album pictures as slideshow in a blog or website

Well embedding your photo album as a slideshow in blogs is preferable over uploading photos individually due to many reasons such as it avoids others to copy or download your photos, its easy and fast to embedd a slideshow than uploading photos individually and it provides more functionality to your blog or website. Here is how to embedd a picasa album slideshow in a blog or website.


How to embed Picasa album pictures' as slideshow in a blog or website ?

1) Go to Picasa Web Albums ; login with your Google account.

2) Once login to picasa web albums, go to My Photos ; choose an album you want to embed in blog or website. Open the album.

3) Now in the right navigation area, click Link to this album.

4) After clicking the link, a list of options will open up, one of them saying Embed Slideshow. Click the Embed Slideshow and a popup window will open up.

5) In the pop-up window choose the size of the slideshow you want to embed; select or deselect the autoplay option. After customizing the slideshow, copy the embed code given in the same pop-up window.

6) Paste the copied code in your blog or website where you want to show up the slideshow. I have embedded the following slideshow (600 x 400) using my picasa album just like that.




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Google Wave preview with presentation, demo and features explained - FULL VIDEO

Google Wave is a new tool for communication and collaboration on the web, coming later this year. A "wave" is equal parts conversation and document, where people can communicate and work together with richly formatted text, photos, videos, maps, and more. Google Wave was revealed before a developer community and developers are really motivated and looking forward to develop more applications for Google Wave. Google Wave will change the way we interact with people atleast a little bit.


Here's how it works: In Google Wave you create a wave and add people to it. Everyone on your wave can use richly formatted text, photos, gadgets, and even feeds from other sources on the web. They can insert a reply or edit the wave directly.

It's concurrent rich-text editing, where you see on your screen nearly instantly what your fellow collaborators are typing in your wave. That means Google Wave is just as well suited for quick messages as for persistent content — it allows for both collaboration and communication. You can also use "playback" to rewind the wave and see how it evolved. Watch the video to learn more about Google wave.

Google Wave was presented and explained by Lars Rasmussen, Jens Rasmussen and Stephanie Hannon, the lead product manager for Google Wave.

This is a full preview and demo video of Google wave with presentation, features and APIs explained :



If you'd like to be notified when Google Wave will be launched as a public product, you can sign up at Google Wave. Google don't have a specific timeframe for public release, but they are planning to continue working on Google Wave for a number of months more as a developer preview. I am really looking forward to it.

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Reduce the booting time of your computer : Windows XP & Vista

Today's post is very important for those who are just fed up with the time that windows XP takes when booting up the computer. I have seen computers having Windows XP which takes more than 1 or 2 minute to boot up. I can't hold myself that long. So here I am sharing a tip to reduce the booting time of your computer which can reduce system's booting time to almost half that it used to take before.


I must tell you that this trick works only on multicore processeors. The idea is that by default windows XP uses only one core of your processor, we are just going to change the settings to let it use all cores. I have tried it on dual core processor, it works fine and boots up really fast. So here we go:

How to reduce the booting time of your computer with Windows XP ?

1) Go to Start -> RUN ; or just press Ctrl + R. Type MSCONFIG in it and press enter as shown in the screenshot below :

This will open up the System Configuration Utility window.


2) In the System Configuration Utility window, choose the BOOT.INI tab and click Advanced Options as shown in the screenshot below:





3) On clicking Advanced Options, the BOOT.INI Advanced Options window will pop-up. In this window choose the /NUMPROC = 2 as shown in the screenshot below :

4) Click OK ; Restart the system and see the change in the booting time of your system.

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