Loading ...A Tiny Little Milestone for Inspired Geek
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This technology related blog Inspired Geek has achieved a little milestone of its own on March 31st, as it crossed 100 feed subscribers for the first time. I made this blog live on January 14th, so it took me about two and a half months to reach here. I am thankful to each and everyone who has contributed in any role and most of all to my readers. You people has encouraged me to continue to devote time and effort to this site.
Actually, it is much more time than I initially expected to reach here, probably because technology related blogs segment is already too crowded. One of the other reasons I think is that blog promotion/marketing and social networking are my weak points for now. But hopefully things will improve over the time. It is still pretty good result I think, considering that at the end of the first month I was still standing at mere 18(despite all my efforts) which was very heart breaking. But now this count has started to increase despite the fact that I was not able to give enough time in last 10-12 days.
Some of you may have noticed that my posting frequency has dropped over a week or so. This is because I have to leave for the Sweden to pursue my PhD studies at KTH( already too late on this) and still there are many pending things for me to do in a short time other than blogging. This trend will likely continue for a week or two but after that things will hopefully settle down and I will be more regular in my posting frequency. BTW, be rest assured that as before I will not rush anything out for the sake of increasing my posting frequency. I will only put forward something if it is worth it or brings some value to the readers(in my opinion) rather than to concentrate on publishing X number of posts in a given week or a day. Rushing new articles out of the window without putting effort before publishing it is not the objective of this site.
Once again, I am extremely thankful to all of you for your support. I hope that you will continue to do so in the future as well, as I continue to dig deeper in to this wonderful world, that we call blogging.
Tags: blog, feed, inspired geek, milestone, personal, rss, subscribers
Use FastStone Capture for All of your Screen Capturing Needs
Screen capturing may be small but a very useful feature that we use on almost daily basis for a variety of purposes, for example to capture snapshots of an installed software for documentation, blog postings or for illustration purposes. Windows users can use the Print Screen feature to capture a snapshot of the current activity on the computer screen. But this minimalistic option do not offer much flexibility, for example what if you want to capture a screen region, a window or a scrolling window? Print Screen will not offer you such options and you will have to resort to some third-party software to fulfill these needs.
There are a number of third-party freeware applications available that can serve the purpose for most of the users but some of these applications are standouts, either in terms of features or usability. Today, I am going to recommend you such a utility that offers all the essentials such screen capturing, window capturing, region capturing and also some extra features that are really useful. This application I am referring to is called FastStone Capture. It has the perfect combination of features and ease of use. It is fast and responsive to load and use, has light memory footprint and no feature bloat as almost all the provided features are really useful.
All the screen capturing features can be accessed from the floating toolbar(control panel) or you can control screen capturing functionality using the hotkeys.
Tags: capturing, screen, screen capturing, Software, Windows
Gesture Mania - 5 Best Mouse Gesturing Extensions for Firefox
You may feel that Inspired Geek is going through Firefox extension mania as I have another list of useful Firefox extensions ready for your reading pleasure. But instead of tiny extensions as in the previous list today I will bring you the list of mouse gesturing extensions for Firefox that you can use to perform a variety of tasks in Firefox without ever touching the keyboard or clicking on any button or menu option but only through mouse gestures.
There is a great variety of mouse gesturing extensions available for Firefox that you can choose from to suite your needs. Here I am listing the five most useful extensions that will come handy for all the Firefox users that want to control everything with the little magic of a mouse and impress their friends or colleagues with the control they have got over that little input device called a “mouse”. As usual, I will highlight the pros and cons of each of the extensions, but the final decision of course rests with you to pick the one’s that best suite you needs.
1. All-in-One Gestures
This is a very popular choice among Firefox users. Supports standard mouse gestures (inherits code from the Mouse Gesture extension listed below but probably from an older version of it), rocker gestures, mouse wheel gestures, scroll wheel navigation and auto scrolling. It do not supports defining gestures with diagonal mouse movements. Development seems to be ceased on this one for quite some time now.
Tags: action, drag&drop, execute, extensions, Firefox, gestures, mouse, pie menu, Software, Top Countdown
A Quick Tip for Windows Live Writer 2008 Users
Windows Live Writer 2008 has gained a lot of popularity in a short time as the blogging client of choice for many bloggers and even I am using it now to post all the articles here. I know there are still some limitations when compared to the integrated editor such as the one provided by WordPress but the convenience WLR provides for daily use is unbeatable and is the deciding factor for me to pick it for my daily blogging needs.
One of the things in WLR that always bugged me was the fact that whenever I press Enter when compiling a post it starts a new paragraph by inserting a blank line in between. But there are cases when you just want to start witting on a new-line rather than to start a new paragraph. I have found a tip to force the later behavior by pressing Shift + Enter instead of just Enter. Some of you may already know about it but incase someone don’t know it can prove to be really useful because it can provide a lot of convenience when formatting a post. I am not sure why I was not aware of such a simple thing earlier.
See the difference below as I have pressed Enter after Point1 and Shift + Enter after Point 2.
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Point number 1 to note.
Point number 2 to note.
Point number 3 to note.
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Also I have tried it in WordPress built-in editor and it works there as well, so it should work in most other WYSIWYG editors as well such as Microsoft Word.
Source: Windows Live Writer Plugins
Tags: blog, blogging, microsoft, Software, Windows, windows live writer, WLR, writing, WYSIWYG
Fastest Way to Download and Convert Multiple FLV Files from YouTube and other Video-Sharing Sites
I have already written in detail that how you can quickly download streaming media from a variety of websites using the Grab++ module of Orbit Downloader but now I have found another option that allows to quickly download multiple video files from many famous video sharing sites such as YouTube, MetaCafe, Dailymotion and many others.
This software I am referring to is called Free FLV Converter and as it’s name implies is available for free. It will allows to download streaming video files from most of the famous video sharing sites. It has a built-in search module that will allow to search and list all the related video files according to your search string. Number of search results can also be adjusted. By default search results are presented in detailed view mode and can be sorted on a number of parameters such as date added, no. of views, video name, duration etc. A thumbnail mode is also provided to have a visual clue of the video files. Some people may actually prefer the thumbnail mode. In any case a video can also be previewed by clicking on the Play button available on the left side. To download the desired files just checkmark them and press the Download button and all the selected video files be added to the download queue in the Turbo downloader tab(second tab).
Tags: conversion, flv, format, Software, video sharing, Websites, Windows, youtube