Zip archives are commonly in use while downloading images and documents from internet. At times it is noticed that the downloaded zip files gets corrupted. This can happen due to incomplete download which windows shows as complete or the source zip file is corrupt itself. These zip files cannot be extracted using any application such as WinRAR. Hence we lose significant amount of time and bandwidth after these files. The only way to work around this problem is to extract the undamaged files from the damaged zip archive. For this purpose Zip2Fix is a handy tool.

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WinZip and WinRAR are two of the best file archiver available in the market. But both these software are not free. And sometimes you might want to save some bucks which could be spend on a bigger software. So, do you have an option of a good, free and open source file archiver? Let’s find out in this article. (more…)

Meta tag is the sole important thing based on which all the media players categorises or arrange their files. So meta tagging is very crucial if any one wants a clean and meaningful library of tracks. But it often happens that meta tags that we get incorporated along with the files that we download are often very random or done in such a way that the when a media player wants to organize it the result becomes more haphazard. So normally people with huge music collection do not like to use any player for this reason, but as expected their entire collection gets messed up in the end and finding the right track becomes like finding a needle in a hay stack. (more…)

Many of us watch the missed episodes of TV serials by downloading them on our system. Some of us have some specific favorites and we search them on Internet for download links. Others may want to know what’s new coming up. Yet others may want to download any kind of featured serials that catch their fancy. (more…)

When it comes to books, most of us prefer to go for reading eBooks as it’s far more convenient to access from any part of the world and we need not carry them physically. Also more number of books can be stored electronically. In this world as the popularity of eBook is increasing people are using e-readers, smart phones, desktops, laptops, tablets to read them. But the problem arises when we need to keep them organized especially if someone is in constant habit of downloading and reading. The books in our system get messed up and hence very difficult to manage and store. People generally go for Kindle store. (more…)

Most of us are satisfied with what settings we have in our system. Especially we don’t bother about the Start Menu. But some would like to make some changes in it. This simply makes their work much more convenient. The people concerned may be those who use Windows file manager frequently or wants fast access to device manager, printers or network connections. It will be very useful if we can have links of our most visited places on the Windows explorer. (more…)

Few days back, 3 days to be precise, Mozilla released the Release Candidate 2 of the popular web browser Firefox 4. This was the reason that everyone was anticipating the final version of the browser soon, and just now Mozilla has launched the final version of Firefox 4. (more…)

Some of us do a lot of work online each day and may be on the same websites. Usually such people are likely to work with the help of number of sites. This often makes them open all these sites at the same time on their system. The result is that a number of tabs are lined up on their browser. When this happens we can observe that to distinguish one tab from the other only the website’s favicon and the first letters of the page title is there. Only thing that is displayed is the currently opened tab on which we are working. (more…)

Duplicate files are often a serious nuisance to most of us. They can be documents, images, etc. and are a burden on your hard drive space. So what all of us tend to do is to find them and erase them from the system. To do this most of us rely on conventional duplicate removers. But there is a serious problem with these types of remover. Normally windows create many self generated files which it uses in many occasions. And these removers erase all such kind of files also, hence a huge problem arise when running the system. So it is required that we select a remover wisely looking into its ability. (more…)

Considering portability and protection, we all prefer PDF files. Let us see what the advantages of a PDF format files are for us. Firstly PDF is a very simple format that can be handled by most of the system. Then compared to a PPT this format’s file is lesser in file size. PDF can be easily compressed and also be sent from one place to the other easily. Another very important feature of a PDF is that it can be password locked, this is a very big advantage for those how wishes to keep their documents safe. You can also compress it and put password and then send it over any network without having to worry about its security or size of upload. (more…)