It happened with my colleague who was working on Word and then saved the file (similar to what all we do) but very next day when she went to take a print of the Word documents, the file was corrupted saying The name or file path is invalid.
And it’s very common to happen, isn’t it? But for these situations (desperate if any) are tools to retrieve the texts of broken files when saved.
Repair My Word is a very light of software that can save them in moments of anguish and sweat. It is completely free, and may resolve some common errors such as:
The name or file path is invalid.
Word can not open the document.
Word can not open the document: user does not have access privileges.
Word Document contains unreadable characters.
I hope it will help you and solve the problems with these file types.
New Year celebrations are already midway through. With the end of year 2012 its also time to get a new calendar for 2013. With the January 2013 calendar theme you will be bundled with 10 beautiful high quality wallpapers. These cover areas like adventure, wild life, and natural scenic beauty. All the background wallpapers are refreshing, probably the best way to give your PC a New Year look. All these backgrounds are having 1920 x 1200 pixels resolution.
The total theme package is of 11 MB which is totally worthy as the wallpapers are awesome. After you have finished downloading the Themepack file, just click on it to apply. Bing Daily wallpaper pack is also worth trying if you love fresh wallpapers rotating your desktop.
Microsoft Corporation is said to be the creator of a lot of document formats including .docx, .pptx, .xps, etc. All of these document formats are meant to be opened by their respective viewer, but we know better that we can view and edit almost all of the office supported formats in free software like Open Office. The thing is not many people uses all of these document formats. So people tend to move towards file format converters like the ones I’m going to share.
Like I said, not many people view files in XPS(Open XML Paper Specification) viewer nor do they really use this document format, but we do need XPS viewer and editor if we are working on a fixed structured/layout document based on XML(Extensive Markup Language). When we talk about converting file formats just for the aspect of viewing we generally tend to convert file formats to PDF(Portable Document Format).
I’ll give the names of some online and offline tools that converts XPS file format to PDF format for free.
As the name suggests, Convert.Files lets you convert any document file in any format to your desired format. All you have to do is upload your file from the browse option. In the input format choose XPS and in the Output format choose PDF and then click Convert.
XPS To PDF is another online XPS to PDF converter, which lets you convert XPS documents to PDF documents online for free. It even shows you how to convert XPS to PDF using XPS Viewer and Bullzip PDF printer.
CheckPrixa XPS To PDF converter is one of the widely used converters because of it’s batch conversion support. All you have to do is install this free application from their website and choose your file for conversion. You can even convert multiple files at once. It is a very handy tool.
To combine more than one Word Documents into one, what we do is copy and paste. In case we want to merge multiple documents into one quickly, MS Word itself provides a feature to do that. It works in Microsoft Word 2007, 2010 and also inMS Office 2013.
How To Combine Multiple Word Documents in MS Office
Open the document where you want everything to be combined
Place the cursor in the location where you want the material to be added
Click the Insert tab
Open the drop-down menu for “Object”
Choose “Text from file”.
A dialog will open, where you can choose the file that you wish to combine with the presently open file.
Click the button “Insert”
Merge Documents in OpenOffice / LibreOffice
Open the document where you want everything to be combined.
Place the cursor in the location where you want the material to be added.
Click “Insert” from the menu bar.
Click “File”.
Select the file to combine, then OPEN to insert.
Pretty easy huh! Instead of installing some 3rd party application to merge multiple Word Documents.
Microsoft Office in its version 2013 is completely revamped; not just in terms of visual appearance but also some new features integrated to make work easier.
Metro-fied interface, Cloud integration, suitable for Tablets and Touch screen interface and many more. Let’s have a look at new features which came up with MS Office 2013 products.
Microsoft Word 2013 New Features
Open and Edit PDF documents: Word 2013 brings capability of opening PDF Documents as well as offer Editing like it is a Word Document. No Formatting loss in document, even images and tables appear as it is.
Insert Images From Online Sources: Not just Local Disk, but you can directly search for images on Bing, Flickr or from SkyDrive without leaving MS Word application.
Inbuilt Screen Capture Tool: Use the screen capturing tool to insert window screenshot or clipping.
Insert Videos and Embed: Like Images, you can look out for videos on web. Maybe on Bing search, Youtube or directly paste embed video code to insert video in Word Document.
Read Mode: New View mode is introduced especially for reading ease on Tablet PCs. In this mode, reading becomes a horizontal experience suited to tablets and swiping, rather than a vertical experience suited to PCs and mouse scrolling. Draft mode of previous version is however excluded.
Auto bookmark: When you stop reading or editing a document, a bookmark is automatically placed in the last location you scrolled to, even if your cursor wasn’t there. The next time you open the document, you’re asked if you want to jump to the place where you left off.
Microsoft PowerPoint 2013 New Features
New Template View: Just when you begin with creating new presentation, template viewer now gives the exact idea about- How Presentation will look when you finish it up.
Embed Clipart, Images and Videos from Web: Finding the right clipart for your presentation has become more easier with integrated clipart search feature. Also, Images and Videos can be searched and inserted right from PowerPoint window.
Presenter View: In the new Presenter view, You can see a preview of the next slide, and your presenter notes. The audience sees only the current slide you’re presenting. There’s also a new zoom feature that lets you zoom into and out of diagrams, charts and graphics while giving a presentation.
Microsoft Excel 2013 New Features
Quick Analysis tool: Highlight data that you’ve input into a spreadsheet and a small icon appears next to it. Click the icon and Excel offers suggestions, based on the data, about what you might want to do with it.
Chart Advisor: If you do need to edit a chart, the contextual tools that pop up make it faster and easier; you can preview different designs and checkboxes add and remove chart elements or sections of data interactively.
Timeline slicer: Organizes data by date so you can filter down to a specific period or jump through figures month by month to see the differences.
Flash Fill: Flash Fill recognizes any patterns you start to make with your data functions and will then auto-complete the rest of sheet including formula, macros and all.
Well, I have included only 3 products which are popularly used but MS Office 2013 complete package consist of:
Microsoft Access
Microsoft Excel
Microsoft Infopath
Microsoft Lync
Microsoft Onenote
Microsoft Outlook
Microsoft PowerPoint
Microsoft Publisher
Microsoft Visio Viewer
Microsoft Word
Download MS Office 2013 Offline Installer Direct Link
At the moment, Preview version is out and you can download it for free by signing up on Microsoft Office 2013 Costumer Preview page. Or install by downloading offline installer using the links given below:
Whenever you download a Pirated software, it generally comes with a NFO or DIZ file. Thought it doesn’t have directly to do with cracking your software but question arises- What is it and How to Open NFO file or read DIZ file? What is NFO File Well, NFO is an acronym for Info or Information. It is a Text file which contains information about the cracker who is responsible for making keygen of a software or crack it to make it usable for free. It was first used in the late 1980s by a cracking group named The Humble Guys (THG).
Information consist of the symbol/signature and contact details of the Pirate/Warez group who cracked the software and released it. This is generally in ASCII art.
One of the example could be: Signature of popular TSRh piracy group.
Apart from Signature, NFO contains notes and information about the software it was bundled it. How to crack, Notes, etc are generally included in it. What is FILE_ID DIZ
According to Wikipedia, FILE_ID stands for “file identification”. DIZ stands for Description In Zipfile. In addition, when written in lowercase and rotated 180 degrees, the ‘diz’ file extension looks like ‘zip’.
FILE_ID DIZ also contains same information and it is a plain text file similar to NFO. Unable to Open NFO / FILE_ID DIZ
When you double click on NFO to open and read contents, you get error: System Information cannot open this NFO file. It might be corrupted or an unrecognized version.
This happens because Windows hasn’t associated that filetype correctly. It is considering NFO as System Information file and hence opens System Properties window.
FILE_ID DIZ however remains unrecognized by operating system so you can double click on it and then choose Notepad as program to open. How to Open it / NFO viewer
As I said, it is a text file, you can open it in Notepad (for windows) or any text editor for other operating systems. Right click on NFO file and select open with.. followed by Notepad.
If you still want a dedicated application as NFO reader to open and view NFO files then you may try following programs: Download NFO Reader / DIZ Viewer
For Windows: NFOpad / Microsoft Notepad / For Mac: Apple Text Edit For Linux: NFO Viewer Online NFO Viewer: NFOmation
Some NFO viewer are capable of viewing DIZ file too like DIZzy and GetDIZ.
TuneUp Utilities is one of the most popular multi featured package utility for automated system maintenance. Latest version Tuneup Utilities 2013 is now out in market. Is it really a big jump from previous version? Lets take a look on the new features included in TuneUp Utilities 2013 Review.
I have been using TuneUp Utilities for a long time now. Every new version has been a big change visually and performance wise. What so ever, this time it has broken many of my expectations. Visually you will not be finding much difference and regarding features there are very few to make an impact.
TuneUp 2013 new Features
They haven’t added totally different features. New inclusions are just a small extension of the already present features in TuneUp 2012. Now, let’s go through the listed feature inclusions.
TuneUp Disk Cleaner 2013: Cleans up system-clogging clutter from 150 programs and Windows
TuneUp Browser Cleaner 2013: Removes data traces from 25 browsers
TuneUp Live Optimization 2.0: Stops performance-sapping programs
Future-proof: Fully compatible with Windows 8
TuneUp Computer Cleaner 2013
The cleanup section has major changes unlike TuneUp 2012 where we had a common cleanup section which included all options. Now its more detailed and separate options like Windows and program cleaner, browser cleaner, broken Shortcut Cleaner and windows Functionality Disable.
TuneUp Claims that TuneUp 2013 cleans 6 times better than any of the previous versions as it includes more programs to remove temporary data.
TuneUp Browser Cleaner 2013
Separate browser cleaner is a good inclusion for people worried about privacy. It clears all your private data and additionally you can also manually block cookies from certain sites by adding them to blacklist. Browser cleaner is also included in One Click maintenance.
Hence, all your browsing secrets will be wiped out automatically once the maintenance starts. You have to be careful in case you do not want your browser data cleaned up, disable the function in one click maintenance. This was a bitter experience when I did not pay attention to Advance System Care auto maintenance which had this feature from a long time. Till date, I was using CCleaner for this purpose.
TuneUp says, it supports 25 browsers. Well, I haven’t used so many of them yet in my lifetime. I guess every one uses at max 2-3 browsers at a time.
TuneUp Live Optimization 2.0
The new live optimization feature will also allow you to specify applications that wont be pushed down the priority level if you are starting new applications. This new feature will be helpful when you are using applications like Photoshop, Camstasia etc and then opening new applications like Firefox browser, video player etc.
Future-proof
Well, TuneUp 2013 is fully compatible with Windows 8. I was looking out for one live tile which was expected rather I am bombarded with all the shortcuts on the metro Home screen. You may find it convenient to open up any TuneUp feature, on the other hand if you do not like to have so many apps on home screen, just batch select them by right click and remove them.
Conclusion
More than new feature inclusions like from TuneUp 2010 to Tuneup 2011/ 2012, the main focus this time was on improving the present functionality. If you were planning to buy TuneUp 2013 for the first time then go ahead. In case you are already using TuneUp 2012 and were thinking whether to upgrade or not, in my opinion its better to halt now. Before buying it, try TuneUp 2013 free for 15 days
Hard Disks aren’t passé yet mainly because of its low cost compared to SSDs. But Problem with these HDs is the speed which is usually related to the mechanical components of Hard Drive used for reading and writing data on disk sectors.
Performance degrades day by day, since the other PC items depend on the data stored on the HD. Of course, this slowing down is much more aggravating for the most demanding applications and games. To circumvent the problem, here are some quick tips to accelerate performance of Hard Drives.
Setup and Physical Maintenance of Hard Disk
Check if disk is properly screwed and installed source provides sufficient power to run.
Make Sure there are no Jumper misconfiguration. It is recommended to set the Hard Disk as Master.
If your motherboard is compatible with SATA drives, please use the latest standard supported and make sure the HD is not configured to operate in compatibility mode.
Enter the BIOS and see if the configuration is correct. Make Sure that the option “Block Mode” is enabled.
Before Installing Linux
If you are performing a new installation of Linux, create theswap partition before the root. Follow the recommendations of the distribution you are installing. The Penguin operating system needs blocks of the first hard drive to work with temporary files. This speeds up your computer performance considerably.
Windows Setup
At the time of installing Windows, you should do it in a separate partition. So, before you begin the process, partition your hard disk, leaving considerable space for the system essential programs and temporary files.
Let’s take an example: if your drive has 500 GB, 100 GB worth leaving for the installation of Windows. The remaining nearly 400 GB should make the secondary partition, which will serve to store your documents and prevent data loss in situations that need to reinstall the operating system.
Windows virtual memory
Microsoft’s system stores temporary files in a paging file. If your computer has at least 8 GB of RAM, you can disable this feature. However, if not, then follow the steps below to set PageFile configuration:
Go to Start Menu >> Properties of Computer
On Windows System Properties, click on “Advanced Settings” on left pane.
In Advanced Tab, Click on “Settings” button in Performance.
Again, under Advance Tab, Click on “Change” Button under Virtual Memory Options.
Uncheck “Automatically manage Paging File size” and select “Custom Size”
In the “Initial Size“, enter at least 1024 MB for the system to unload the kernel in an emergency. In “Maximum Size“, enter 1.5 Times the amount of RAM installed. For example: I have 4GB of RAM on my system so, for me it will be 4×1.5=6GB i.e. 6144
Preventive Maintenance
Having installed the drive correctly and configured the system to use it optimally, you just have to do the occasional defragmentation. This process helps to organize the data from the HD, which facilitates procedures for reading and writing.
Does Defragmenting Shorten HDDs Life?
Windows does have an inbuilt Defragment tool but there are some better tools out there which does the same job in more optimized manner. Check out Best Defragment Tools for Windows and decide which one to go with.
Useful Tips to Buy a New HardDisk
Over time, the hard drive may have problems or do not offer enough space for your data. If this is the case, purchase of a new component can be interesting. However, buying a HD should be planned, because every little detail makes a difference in time to perform robust software. Pay attention to the following factors:
Memory cache: choose a model with 32 or 64 MB;
RPM: 7200 rpm disks are faster;
Average access time: choose a HD at the lowest possible value;
Technology: prefer a component with more advanced features and search for information on what each manufacturer offers;
Interface: find a disk with the most current standard. (Though, SATA 3.0 is latest however 2.0 is enough)
Storage space: purchase a product with the largest size possible, because the trend is significantly increasing the size of files and programs.
Of course, all these tips can result in small improvements, but we can not guarantee that your computer will be much faster because hard disks are no longer so quick. It seems that the evolution to the SSD will be inevitable, at least with regard to speed. And already we are seeing that most of the users are using SSDs as Primary / OS Drive while HDs are used for rest of the storage.
Instagram needs no Introduction, it magically transforms any photo on Smartphones and shares it on the go. But Wait.. There is more you can do with instagrammed photos thanks to 3rd party Web Services.
Backup Download Instagram Photos to Computer
Instagram doesn’t allow to download or save your photos by default. Fortunately there is an service callInstaport.me which can be used to backup and download all your photos from Instagram account to Computer.
Complete Backup of Photos is archived and can be downloaded as single ZIP file. You can then use it in combination with Google+, Facebook or any other (photo) application.
For Android Users, there is an app called SaveGram which can download all publicly shared images in one go.
Instagram Web Interface and Search
Instagram, being mobile application only has mobile interface and doesn’t allows to open anywhere except Cellphone.
If you want to find photos that contain a particular hash tag, then go for Webstagram. This photo viewer allows you to see your feed in either a grid or list format. Webstagram also helps you to find photos, sort, tag, follow and comment on other people’s photos.
Create Instagram PDFs and Slideshows
Convert Pictures from Instagram account into high quality PDF and slideshow thereby using Instagram2PDF Service. You just have to Login to Instagram, Select Photos, select PDF options and Download hige quality PDF Document contain your Instagram photos.
Make Mirror Site of Instagram Web Stream
In case, you don’t just want a local backup copy of photos but also have a shadow copy running on web at same time, then, use Parallel-Ogram. It is a simple web app to create an archive of your Instragram photos (and likes) and to make that archive a living, breathing website of its own.
Send Real Post Card of Instagram Picture
Postagram app will turn your Instagram image into a real postcard, add your custom message, and send it in the snail mail to whatever address you enter.
The app is free but each postcard costs $1. You’re not limited to sending Instagram images—you can choose any shot from your Photo Album.
There are many Instagram Tools floating on web but I sorted out only the most essential Instagram Tools as from my point of view. They are enough to manipulate with Instagram Photos and play with your account.
Attachments.me brings all your content from cloud storage folder like Dropbox, Box, SkyDrive and Google Drive to Gmail. It makes possible to send Gmail attachments to Cloud Folder without downloading on computer.
Not just download but it also makes it possible to send file attachments to email recipient right from Cloud folder. In this way, the file size restriction of Email service (maximum 25MB in Gmail) is overridden.
Yes, it possible to send File of even 1GB as Gmail attachment thanks to Attachments.me.
How to Increase Gmail Attachment Size
Download Attachments.me Addon/Extension for Firefox / Chrome.
You will have to authorize this service to access Gmail account. Do not worry about your password as they are not stored and bank level encryption is implemented.
Once Gmail authorization is done, you have to choose from Cloud services to integrate which further requires authorization.
After successful integration of cloud account, you will be able to send attachments from those folder and also save file attachments there.
How To Send Big File Attachment From Gmail
I assume that you have an account on any of the Cloud service: Box, Dropbox, Google Drive or Skydrive. And files to be shared is saved on these cloud storage.
From now on, whenever you compose new email, you will notice “Share From Skydrive” button. (Skydrive in my case but can differ in your case according to cloud folder you choose)
Instead of clicking on “Attach File”, click on Share From button which opens dialog box showing files from cloud folder. Choose file and click insert.
File from cloud storage is now added and link to that attachment is in email content.
How To Save Email attachments to Cloud Storage
Whenever an email arrives with attachment in inbox, Attachments.me detects automatically and shown on right sidebar. Click on “Send to” button and cloud folder will open in new dialog box. Select folder to save this file in cloud.
How To Automate Saving Email Attachments To Cloud Storage
If you want to save all Telephone bills received in email every month to a specific folder in Cloud storage. Then, it can be easiy configured using a feature called Automatic Filing rule. Paper clip button at the top offers an option of “Automatic Filing rules”.
You can set “Which Type of File” received “From Whom” to be sent in “Which Folder” of “Which Cloud Storage”.
Connect Multiple Cloud Storage To make Big Space and Manage from One window
Bottomline
Attachments.me hence can be used to manage Cloud Storage from Gmail account and not just increasing Gmail attachment size. If you find this solution lengthy then go for freeservices to share large files over web without registration.
The default configuration of uTorrent does not establish limits to the speed of uploading files, which can compromise the throughput of downloads. The more “clever” ones will leave this value to least, but this causes the program to identify you as a peer bad, lowering its priority in time to receive files from other people. To avoid this, just leave a median value.
In Options > Setup Guide, click the down arrow next to “Your upload speed” and choose an amount equivalent to 80% of the maximum upload speed of your connection (use SpeedTest to find it). Click “Save & Close” to exit. Make Sure you Set the Results in Kbit instead pf Mbit.
How to Increase Upload Ratio of Torrent Trackers
Change Maximum Number of Peers and Connections
Now it’s time to change the program preferences. Go to Options > Preferences > Bandwidth control : at the bottom of the window, change the maximum number of connections to “450″ ??and the maximum number of peers per torrent connect it to “200″.
Enable Protocol Encryption
In the menu “BitTorrent”, find the field “Protocol Encryption” and change the output value to “Enabled”.
Some Advanced Tweaks
In the advanced settings of uTorrent, change the values of following parameters to “80″
bt.auto_dl_sample_average
bt.auto_dl_sample_window
bt.ban_threshold
bt.connect_speed
net.max_halfopen.
rss.update_interval
Add Windows Firewall Exception
Generally, it is done while installing itself but in case you forgot to add exception, you can go toPreferences > Connection, check the “Add Windows Firewall Exception” to avoid problems like the program is unable to perform downloads.
Force Start Torrent
When a download is in progress, right-click on it, select “Force Start” (only in torrents to various sources) and Bandwidth Allocation > High.
How to Control uTorrent Remotely from Mobile Device
In these settings, it is always interesting to watch the number of seeds (people sharing) and Leechers (people downloading) a torrent. When the number of people wanting to download is larger than just those who are distributing a file, the download speed tends to be very low.
The same happens when the torrent is very new, because there are few people who have the entire file to share.
So when doing a search on torrent sites, always arrange the results by number of seeders : the larger it is, the better your chances of getting higher download speed.
The total theme package is of 13.12 MB and with really eye catching wallpapers. After you have finished downloading the Themepack, just click on it to apply. You can also try out Bing Daily wallpaper pack to have new wallpapers rotate on your desktop automatically, when you have a active internet connection.
