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Many times you would be in a situation where you have accidentally closed a application and regret of doing that owing to the fact that you cannot recover them unless you reopen them manually. If you reopen them manually then there are chances that you have lost the unsaved data. There is a small freeware program called GoneIn60s that can help you out this situation but the name reminds of the Nicolas Cage movie “Gone in 60 seconds”. This application does this by not allowing the application that you closed completely by delaying it as per the timeout that is specified by you, the default value is 60 seconds.

How to Recover Your Closed Applications in Windows

1. Download the program GoneIn60s from here.

2. Put the program in a folder and run it. It is recommend that you put this program in folder and run as it creates a *.ini file for storing your settings and by creating a folder you can prevent the accidental deletion of the settings file.

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Polaroid has launched a portable DVD player in which you can dock your 5th generation iPod. This would be particularly useful if you feel that the iPod screen is very small for you. The portable DVD player weighs around 1.1 kgs and occupies 238 x 173 x 40mm of space. This gadget is expected to set you back by USD $250.

Features of Polaroid portable DVD player DPJ-08580B:

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You may be using many multimedia applications regularly for listening music, watching movies , for making VOIP calls and etc but sometimes you feel if you could control them all these applications volume from place. So here is how you can do this.

How to Individually Control Applications Volume to Speakers in Windows Vista

1. Right Click on the Volume control icon in your system tray

2. Now in the menu that pops up click the “Open Volume Mixer”

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Shivaranjan.com presents the Best of Blogosphere for Week 44 2007

• Outlook Tip: How to Avoid Sending Emails by Mistake by Nirmal
• How to track, locate and recover stolen gadgets or devices (laptops, cameras, etc) by Aseem
• Sofware crack means Security crack by Ashfame
• Awaken the Writer Inside! by Monika
• Open Letter From TorrentFreak To Brein by Ernesto
• 10 Reasons Why Learning Swimming is Necessary by OldSailor
• 16 Things To Do After Starting A New WordPress Blog by JohnTP
• How to remove “Orkut is banned” virus by Madhur
• Watermark Your Images For Free by Keith
• Automatic restarting problem with Nokia 3110c mobile phone by Shankar

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Windows Vista has got a neat feature where it displays graphically the amount of free space in your drives icon. Windows XP lacks this feature but the good news is that this can be done in Windows XP if you install the freeware application called Vista Drive Icon.

Once you install this software then you will be able to see the icons in Windows XP to be like Vista.

This software can be installed on the ancient Windows 95/98/NT as well

Get Vista Drive Icons from here.

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ThinkGeek have launched a T-shirt that has Wi-Fi detector built-in owing the popularity of Wi-Fi hotspots these days.

Features of Wi-Fi T-Shirt:

• Glowing animated shirt dynamically displays the current wi-fi signal strength.
• Shows signal strength for 802.11b or 802.11g
• Black 100% Cotton T-Shirt
• Animated Decal is Removable (with hook and loop fasteners) for Easy Washing
• Battery Pack is Concealed in a Small Pocket Sewn Inside the Shirt
• Runs for hours off three AAA Batteries

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If you plan to setup a dual boot computer comprising of Windows XP and Windows Vista then Vista get set as the default operating system in the boot option. But some readers wanted Windows XP to be their default operating system. So in this post let us discuss this.

How to Set Windows XP as default Operating System from Windows Vista

1. Open Control Panel of Vista by using the path Start Menu > Settings > Control Panel

2. In Control Panel select the “System”.

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Windows Vista comes with built in calendar application which you can use to keep track of events and appointments. So if you are using Google calendar application then you can view it Windows Vista’s calendar. Let us discuss how to do this.

How to View Google Calendar in Windows Calendar

1. Login to your Google calendar account. Now go to Settings > Calendars

2. Now click on the calendar that you wish to see in Windows calendar. In the bottom of the screen you should see a menu called “Private Address”, click on the button called “ICAL”.

3. Now you should see a window that would be showing your private Google calendar URL make a note of this URL and keep it handy, we will need it in next step. (Never disclose this URL to anybody)

4. Open Windows calendar by following the path Start Menu > Programs > Windows Calendar. Select the Subscribe button or navigate Share > Subscribe

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