BEST WEBSITES TO DOWNLOAD E-BOOKS for FREE

                          All geeks prefer to read EBooks rather than going for printed books, they do it because of various benefits which EBook offers, like you can easily get them online, customize them, they are portable and you can share with your friends easily. There are many reasons why we choose to read EBooks but when it comes to downloading, we are never sure from which website we should download EBooks free and legally.

I have gathered 10 websites from where you can search and download EBooks, where you don’t have to spend your money and can download the books of your interest. Here is the list of 10 websites to download EBooks:

1) Free- EBooks:

                           To access Free- EBooks, you need to get registered on it and it is free to register. You can browse the EBooks or magazines by author’s name or categories. You can even upload your EBooks to Free- EBook.

2) GetFreeEBooks:

                             This is again a website which allows you to download free legal books with different categories like fictions, computers, music and lots more. You just name the category and you will get it on GetFreeEBooks.

3) FreeTechBooks:

                         This website is especially for all Tech lovers. You will only get technology related books, this is best website for the ones who only like to read computer related books and don’t want to waste time in searching from other categories.

4) OnlineFreeEBooks:

                          OnlineFreeEBooks provides you less categories to choose from but I think it’s more than enough rather than messing up with lots of categories. Categories include Engineering, Gadgets, Programming/ Technology, health etc.

5) SnipFiles:

                             I like the layout of this website, it’s neat and clear. It allows you to download all kind of EBooks, apart from EBooks you can also download screensavers and softwares. You can even download SnipFiles Firefox plugin to make it handy and easy to use.

 6) EBooks Directory:

                         This is great place to upload and download EBooks, lectures and notes. You can browse the categories easily to download the books and also promote your EBooks or notes on EBooks Directory. Best website for students who want to share notes or EBooks.

7) PDFoo:

                          PDFoo is a cool website which offers you to download books with the statistics about how much EBooks yet downloaded , which will help you to get an idea about the popularity of EBooks. PDFoo is best place to search for any kind of PDF books from lots of categories.

8) EBook Share:

                              EBook share allows you to download EBooks in the form of Torrent formats. You can choose either for torrent download or direct download. You will easily get all kind of EBooks here because it is more like a sharing portal.

9) FreeEBookSpot:

                            Free EBook Spot provides you a huge list of categories to choose EBooks . There are around 96 categories and you don’t require any kind of registration before download. Thus, if you want to download any EBook quickly, just use Free EBook Spot.

10) PlanetEBook:

                         This website is purely for the ones who like to read free Classic Literature. You will get huge collection of free classic literature and Planet EBook also allows you to share with your friends.

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HOW TO START VIDEO CHAT VIA GTALK

                             Gtalk is also allows you to make real time video call chat via its new voice and video chat feature. Instead of communicating via texts which sometimes might cause some confusion, you can make video chat via Gtalk when you sign in to your Gtalk or Gmail account.

                       With the basic hardware accessories such as head phone, speaker, etc ready, you just need to do some simple set up to start making your video chat on Gtalk. The voice and video chat feature in Gtalk supports Firefox 2.0+, Internet Explorer 6.0+, Safari 3.0+, and Google Chrome browsers. To make video chat on Gtalk, you just need to do some simple setting following the process below:

    * Go to Gtalk Voice and Video Chat feature site (Click here).
    * Download the Voice and Video Chat Plug in.
    * Close all open browser windows and then install the Voice and Video Chat Plug-In.
    * Sign in to Gmail, iGoogle or orkut and the setting up is done.

 

                   Upon installation, you can start chatting and video talking with friends in their contact list. Of course the recipient must have a web-cam, headphone and other necessary accessories ready. Besides, they need to install the Gtalk Voice and Video Chat Plug-In as well.

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HOW TO UNDO NEVER SAVE PASSWORD FOR THIS SITE CLICK IN GOOGLE CHROME

                          When logging in to a website by entering a user name and password credentials in Google Chrome, the web browser will prompt for options on whether users want Google Chrome to save the password. Options that available are either save password, or never for this site. If the user click on “Never for this site” button, intentionally or accidentally, Google Chrome will not prompt and ask users whether to save the password for automatic future login anymore.

                         To undo clicking of never save and remember password for this site so that Google Chrome can prompt for saving of password again upon entering of login credentials, follow these steps:

1. In Google Chrome, click on Wrench (Customize and control Google Chrome)  icon.
2. Click on Options.
3. Go to Personal Stuff tab.
4. Click on Show saved passwords button under “Passwords” section. 

    5. Go to Exceptions tab.

    6. Select to high the sites in which you want Chrome to prompt to save password again, and click on Remove button. 

  

                               Alternatively, click on Remove All button to reset and clear the whole exceptions list so that all websites will be opened for chance to have password remembered by Chrome again. 

HOW TO KEEP A COMPUTER RUNNING FAST

                          When you first buy a new computer, it runs very smooth and fast. But later on we notice that it has become slow and freezes. Let me share my personal experience . One month ago, my PC was working all fine. After that I had to install many new software for some reason. Then, I realised that Windows startup took way too much time. So I decided to search what may be the cause.

                            It’s because of the temporary files and garbage registry values added to the system through various ways like installing new software, adding and deleting files from hard disk, downloading items from internet.

                           So here, I am sharing 5 basic steps to get your PC running faster and smoother.

1. Remove unwanted software

• Go to control panel.
• Then add/remove programs.
• Now uninstall the software which you don’t need.

2. Update Antivirus Software

• Update the antivirus software you have on your PC regularly.
• Then perform a full system scan so as to remove all the malware from your system.

3. Delete Temporary files

• Go to start->run.
  Then enter “%temp%” (without quotes) and hit enter.
  A windows comes up. Select and delete all the files in it. (I had around 150 files in it).

4. Delete Prefetch files

                   Then enter “prefetch” (without quotes) and hit enter.
                    Now select all files and delete them.(I deleted all my45 files).

5. Deal with Registry Errors

• Download CCleaner software from http://www.ccleaner.com/ or click the following link CCLEANER to download.
•  Install CCleaner in your computer.
• Now open CCleaner and go to registry.

CCLEANER

Then click on “scan for issues”. Wait till the scanning is complete.

• A list of many registry errors will come up.
• Select all the issues. Now click on “fix selected issues”.
  and then confirm it.

                    So now our registry garbage is also cleaned.
                    Finally, restart your PC and notice the changes in terms of speed yourself.
                    I noticed a tremendous change following these steps. Now, my PC is much faster than before.
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HOW TO SPLIT AND JOIN MP3 FILES

                           There could be many reasons why you would want to join mp3 files. Like, you might want to listen the same songs in the same order over and again, or, there are different sections of a long podcast/interview you want to join.

                           MakeItOneMP3 is a free and efficient tool that can easily join several mp3 files and create a single file out of them. You could join mp3 tracks, podcast files etc using this tool. And later if you want to split the joined files, you could do that easily too.

                            After installing it, open the tool and you will see “Add File” and “Add Folder” button. You can add files or folders both with the help of them. For example I clicked on “Add file” button.

                             Now you have to select files from anywhere on your computer. Here in the example I selected two files, i.e. Kites01 and Kites 02.

                             You can see these two songs in the interface (in the screenshot given below). You could also drag and drop files to the interface.

                             You can easily edit the tags associated with the song by filling the fields such as artist name, album name, album prefix, album suffix etc. Select the folder where you want to save your file by clicking on “destination folder” button.

                              Click “Go” to join the files. It will take a few seconds to join depending upon size of the files.

How to split joined MP3 files

                        You can reverse the above mentioned process by unpacking the MP3 files.

                         Go to the tab “Unpack Album” at the top. Click on “Open album” to select the joined file.

                          Browse the folder and select the file which has created by MakeItOneMP3 in previous steps.

After you select the joined file, it shows all the mp3 files consisting inside it. For example here I selected a file “Hrithik Kites” which is the combination of “Kites 01” and “Kites 02” because I joined them in previous steps.

Click on  “Go” to unpack the files.

               That’s how you join and split mp3 files using this tool.

               Download MakeItOneMP3 to join mp3 files.

How to Close All Open Program Windows In One Click

                           If you’ve got a huge number of applications open and you want to close all of them for some reason, then doing that one by one would be time consuming. Of course you could just log off or shut down, but that’s not the point. There should be a way to quickly get rid of all the open program windows and start afresh.

                           CloseAll is a smart utility which lets you close all the open programs and windows in one click. It’s just 9KB in size and portable i.e you don’t need to install it.

Just double click on Closeall.exe after extracting it from the zip file and it will start working. Yes, it is that simple.

Smart ways to use CloseAll

Here are two nice tricks to use this program effectively.

1) Add to quick launch or taskbar in Windows 7

                           Add the program to quick launch area so that you don’t need to search it anywhere else on your computer. Right click on the CloseAll.exe file and select the option “Add to quick launch”. You can also pin it to the start menu by selecting option “Pin to start menu”. (The screenshots are for Vista. For Windows 7, you could pin it in a similar way to the taskbar)

 You will see the icon in quick launch area.

2) Keyboard shortcut

                      One other way to launch this application is by assigning it a keyboard shortcut. You can assign keyboard shortcuts to any Windows application by following these steps.

Right click on the CloseAll.exe file, from the context menu select Send to -> Desktop(create shortcut).

 

                          You will see a desktop shortcut for the application. Now right click on it and select “Properties” from the menu.

                          Go to Shortcut tab. Under Shortcut key area, you will find “None” in the box next to it. Click on the box and press any letter on the keyboard. If you press letter “C” then a keyboard shortcut Ctrl+Alt+C will get assigned to the application. Click OK button.

                           Now you can close all the running application windows by pressing “Ctrl+Alt+C” on the keyboard.

                          Download CloseAll to quickly close all the open app windows. Now I am using this software. Give me comments.

FoxVox Add-on to Firefox Browser to Read Out Web Contents

                          Browsing the net for your research may produce so much information that you may not have the time to read it all. It would be helpful to have a software application which can read out text as you browse for information. This will save a lot of time and reduce the strain on your overworked eyes. It could also be a useful tool for the visually impaired as they can access information more easily. FoxVox is a text to voice plugin for Firefox which can function like a faithful assistance to read aloud text for you from your screen.

                        FoxVox can be easily added to the Firefox browser and acts as a spokesperson for users. Once this plugin is installed, users will see a few new items added to the shortcut menu when users right click their mouse, e.g. Speak Selected Text, Stop Speech and FoxVox. To let the FoxVox read the content for you, users just need to highlight a particular sentence, paragraph or the whole page and right click to select: Speak Selected Text. The application will start reading the highlighted texts in the typical digitalized tone. The reading is pretty clear and the pronunciation is easy to understand.

To download FoxVox click the following link : FoxVox Add-on. 

Press Accept and Install button to install it. 

                              Besides converting text to voice and reading aloud for users, FoxVox also allows users to convert highlighted texts to voice and save them into audio files. There are three different formats which users can save the audio files: wave, mp3 and ogg. With this feature, users can easily save some interesting articles, blog posts and other web contents into audio formats and share with others especially those who are visually impaired.

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SAVE CONTACTS FROM TWITTER AND GMAIL WITH MOZILLA

                                 Long are the days gone when all your online contacts were just Email addresses which could be downloaded on your computer thanks to a Email client. Today we have Email friends, Facebook contacts and most importantly the people you follow on Twitter.
                                 Mozilla Contacts is a extension which is still in Mozilla Labs and allows for downloading and storing your email, twitter, Gravtaar contacts. The idea behind this browser extension is to allow a better comprehensive database of your contacts.

About Mozilla Contacts

• Mozilla Contacts is a great Firefox add-on which helps your save up and backup all your contacts on Gmail, twitter and Address Book on local computer along with Gravatar Images.
• These contacts are available on now on Firefox and can be used for various things like searching up for contacts and email address of people you have saved. For instance you might have saved someones email address but use it on another email service you do not have to import the contacts but just use them from Mozilla contacts.
• Also there is the auto-complete for email address which is very valuable when it comes to filling in forms on websites.

                           This is still a test tool and hence there are further plans by Mozilla to improve on it and make it truly a great browser experience. This will include things linking up various contacts of the same person automatically. So this way you can see someones Twitter Id, Email address and other details under one name or identity, but these features are not rolled out as yet.

                            Do try out this extension and let me know if you liked it and what you liked about it. Do drop in your comments.

Link: Mozilla Contacts

HOW TO DELETE ALL EVENTS FROM GOOGLE CALENDAR

                         If your Google Calendar is full of events, looks cluttered and you want to clean all of them then you could do that easily. It’s not that obvious though and that’s why we are writing about it.

                         Here are the step by step instructions to delete all events from your calendar and start from scratch.

1.Sign in to Google Calendar.

2. Click on “Settings” link on the top right.

3. Click on “Calendars” tab.

4. Under “Calendar” tab you will find “Delete” link on the extreme right of your calendar name. Click on it.

5. A small delete window will pop up asking you to confirm the deletion of all events from your primary calendar. Click on the “Delete” button.

                         That’s it. All the events created by you earlier will be deleted. When you return to Google Calendar, you will find it clear. Now you can create new events and share them.

GAMIL INTRODUCED DRAG AND DROP FEATURE TO QUICKLY ATTACH FILE INTO EMAIL

                    It’s been almost fortnight that Google added file transfer feature in Gmail chat and now today Gmail launched a new feature for Google Chrome and Firefox browser. This new feature “Drag and Drop” will let you quickly drag and file into your Gmail account.

Here is a screenshot of this new feature :

Why is this feature important?

• I know you might think that this feature is just another feature but actually when you think about it, it makes a lot of sense. Many people usually store their important and very accessible files on the desktop. This means most times people attach files from the desktop, so drag and drop feature will be very handy.
• I guess this sort of interface was needed considering Gmail will look to be more relevant to tablet pcs like iPad and others that will soon hit the markets. Drag and drop interface with touch screen is a must I guess.
• Finally it also might end up hitting another nail in the coffin in which lies a software called Email client.

                              I like this new feature from Gmail team as now I don’t have to browse for files and folders to attach. I can now simply drag and drop file to attach into an Email.

 

HOW TO TRANSFORM MOZILLA FIREFOX INTO GOOGLE CHROME

                               Google Chrome is one of the best browsers I have used till now after Firefox. The browsing experience, the security and interface is excellent in Google Chrome but the only problem is that it crashes when you sometimes when you open too many tabs. And when it comes to handling tabs, Firefox is the best option. But I simply loved Google Chrome interface and wanted to find something that can change the look of Firefox into Chrome.

                              You can change the interface in Firefox to just like Google Chrome. I found an add-on, Chromifox Extreme, which transforms Firefox into Google Chrome. Just follow the steps below and you will be able to transform Firefox into Google Chrome.

HOW TO OPEN MULTIPLE LINKS AT ONCE IN FIREFOX and CHROME

                             Suppose you find a webpage having too many links and you want to open few of them in new tabs. The time-taking way is to click them one by one to open them. But there is a solution for the problem.

How to Open Multiple Links at Once in Firefox

                          In Firefox, there are two main add-ons for the purpose – Snaplinks and Multilink. Here’s the process of using them.

METHOD I:

Snaplinks

                              Snaplinks for Firefox is a useful addon which lets you open multiple links at once. You can also copy the links to clipboard or bookmark them.

             1. Download and install this extension. Restart your browser.

         2. Now go to any webpage and select the area containing multiple links by dragging the mouse pointer using the right button. A rectangle with green border will appear by this action. The links that fall inside this green rectangle are highlighted with a red border.

When you leave the mouse button, all the links will open in new tabs. Given below is the screenshot of my Twitter stream. Check the red rectangles, these are the links that were included in the selected area .

                  The user can move the selection area by holding the Alt key while moving the mouse. The Esc key will cancel the selection area. This extension is also available as a Google Chrome extension too.

METHOD II

Multilink

                        Multilink is a more advanced than Snaplinks because it comes with some extra features. The process for selecting the links is same as we did in Snaplinks i.e. by holding the right mouse button and drawing a rectangle around the links.

                     If you want to cancel the selection, just press the esc key of your keyboard or press the left mouse button.

                       You can go to Tools-> Addons-> Multilink to open the preferences panel. Here you can tweak with many settings. You can customize the look and feel of Multi links by selecting colors, link color, box style, border styles and more.

How to Open Multiple Links at Once in Chrome

             I already mentioned that Snaplinks is available for Google Chrome browser. Another useful extension which is helpful in opening multiple links in Chrome is Linky.

Linky extension

               Linky extension is a simple and easy to use add-on for Chrome. To use it, download and install it on your browser. A small linky icon will appear on the extension bar.

              Now go to any page. Highlight the area containing links with the help of left mouse button.

Now click on the linky icon present on the extension bar.

All the links will open in a new tabs of chrome.

That’s how you can open multiple links at once in Firefox and Google Chrome.

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INCREASE THE COPYING SPEED OF YOUR COMPUTER WITH TERA COPY

                            Once, I was supposed to copy a large amount of data within  a short time. But I failed to copy within the time. Then I asked this about my friends. One of my friends said me about 'Tera Copy'.

                       So I searched Tera Copy in internet. I have downloaded that and installed it. The speed of the Tera Copy is more than 35 MB/Sec.

                          Tera Copy is taking only a few seconds to copy a large amount of data. In the above picture you can see that the copying rate is 38 MB/Sec., and it will take only 4 seconds to copy the remaining 155 MB data.

                    Now I am using Tera Copy and enjoying the speed. If you also want to increase the speed then try Tera Copy.

      Click the following link to download Tera Copy.

Link:  Tera Copy

HOW TO DRAW AND WRITE ON GOOGLE MAPS WITH SCRIBBLE MAPS

                           Once, my friend came from Chennai, wants to come to my house. But I was not having any idea to give him to come to my house. While searching on internet about this problem, I found about scribble maps. Have you ever tried explaining someone how to reach a particular place in your city? Maybe, one of your friends will visit the town where you live and you want to give him a rough idea on the places that are worth visiting.

                           Google Maps is one of the best tools in such situations, but paired with Scribblemaps, it’s even better. The site lets you draw directions and add text in any Google Map, and you can add arrows, shapes and other markers. This helps in adding more information to the map, and once it’s ready, you can save the map for later viewing.

                            Using Scribblemaps is quite simple, just head over to the homepage and zoom into a location in Google maps. Then use the menu bar to add text, arrows, shapes and directions.

 

                              Once you have added all the directions and markers, save the map, and you will be provided a unique ID of your customized map.

                       Then, you have to choose a password so that you can edit the map at a later time.

                           Hit “Save” button and you are finished it. You will be shown a link to your customized Google map, which can then be shared via email or other social networking sites (example John's House). You can also embed the customized map in your blog or website.