SPEED UP YOUR PHOTO DOWNLOADS

Download Facebook photos faster

Backing up your Facebook photos protects them against hacking and loss, but if you've got lots of them it can take hours. Save yourself time and trouble by installing fbDownloader (fbdownloader.com), which can grab hundreds of pictures from the social network in a matter of minutes.

Install the program, making sure you decline each of the unwanted extras, then enter your Facebook login details and grant it access to your account. You can choose to allow 'Only me' to view fbDownloader's activity and to prevent it from posting on your behalf. Decline whether you want to download all your Facebook photo albums or one of your friend's collections and click 'Download album'. you can also download all the pictures in which you're tagged. Remember that, because Facebook resizes photos, the downloaded images will be smaller than the originals.

Download Flickr photos faster

You can download Flickr photos manually by right-clicking them, selecting a size and then right-clicking again to choose 'Save image as' (although only Flickr Pro users can access their original files). But if you want to download lots of photos at once, it's much faster to use a batch downloader such as the brilliant Bulkr (clipyourphotos.com/bulkr). This Adobe AIR-based Desktop app lets you browse all the images from Flickr photostream, choose the images you want to download and select the size at which to save them. You can also browse and download other people's photos.

Download Picasa and Google+ albums

Picasa Web Albums and Google+ Photos make downloading your pictures much easier than rival services and let you save them at full size. You can speedily back up whole albums at once by clicking the Actions menu in Picasa Web Albums and choosing 'Download to Picasa'. In Google+, click the More menu and choose 'Download album' to save all your photos in a compressed (zipped) folder.

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Chat in real-time in Thunderbird

The new version of Thunderbird, Mozilla's email program, lets you chat to people in real time using its new Chat tool. It also has a Do Not Track option, which stops sites tracking you when, for example, you open an email that contains images that have to be loaded directly from the web.

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How to make a quick list of installed Programs via CCleaner?

Suppose you want to update or re-install your operating system. So, in order to install the same software you are used to working with, it's useful to have a list of the softwares you had installed on your old system.

One of the best way to make a list of all programs installed on your PC can be done using CCleaner with one click of the button. CCleaner is the best freeware utitlity tool for Windows, so there's a good chance that you have it installed, or wouldn't mind installing it.

Here is the guide:

1. Open CCleaner. Click on the Tools icon.

2. In the Uninstall screen, you'll find a button called 'Save to text file' on the right bottom.

3. Click on the button and save the text file. Make sure to change the name so you can remember it(the default is install.txt).

You can easily backup this little text file as the email attachments in case if you are going to completely format you System. If you found this technique helpful, then share your thoughts below in comments!!!

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How to kill your mouse?

How to kill your PC mouse? Does it sounds weird to you? May be it is, but that's what the chrome extension DeadMouse does for us. It is a fun way to kill you mouse. Suppose you want to navigate through the web page links without using a mouse, how you gonna do this?

DeadMouse is a unique Chrome extension that enables you to type any keyword you wish to explore. It is actually detects the typed keyword and searches it on the active page in Chrome. As soon as a match occurs, the respective link text starts wiggling. Hit ENTER and you're good to go. It also include the features like fuzzy-matching on link text, Shift+Enter hotkey to open a new tab. In case of multiple matching occurs on page you can use TAB key to cycle through it.

DeadMouse is a Chrome extension available, free of cost. It tracks your activity online and then uses that information to make life easier for you. If it doesn’t work, try restarting Google Chrome and in case of failure, go to the Extensions option in the Tools menu of the browser to enable the app. Consider yourself in a situation where the system mouse is not working, DeadMouse presents a quick solution. Moreover, this particular app is useful in a multi-monitor setup where you require instant access to an active window.

How to use it?

Once the webpage loads, type a keyword and the relevant link with the matching results starts to wiggle. (For example, type 'Oracle' or just the letter 'o'&'r' in the context of the snapshot and the link starts dancing. Checkout the snapshot below.) As soon as the match occur press 'Enter', the link will open in the same window. To open the respective link in a new tab, use the Shift+Enter key combination. Use 'backspace' or 'esc' key to erase a virtual result and begin typing again. You can go down to page using the usual key Spacebar or the down arrow key. If the extension is unable to find a keyword, it cleans the entered letters from memory paving the way for a new search.

This Chrome app is sure to attract your attention enabling you to enjoy in the short-term. Of course there is no alternatives to the mouse or touchpad but you can use this extension for faster webpage navigation.

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Capture Desktop Screenshots with Snaplr

Snaplr is a freeware using which you can quickly take screenshots of your desktop activity. The program doesn’t offer much features as many other similar programs, but it is still a good option for those who are looking for some basic functionality.

The program is quite simple to use. You can specify the area of the screen that you want to capture. The program also allows you to add some annotations to the image. You can add text, arrow, rectangle, circle, pencil etc if you want to highlight some specific portion of the screenshot. The modified image can then be copied on to the clipboard or saved to the computer as a PNG file. You can also paste the screenshot as an outlook attachment.

The program is a freeware and runs on Windows XP, Vista, Windows 7 and Mac OSX. It also requires Adobe AIR.

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