Hard Disk Performance Check

Here is the great tool the check hard disk performance and benchmarking. It is DiskTT (Disk Throughput Tester) . DiskTT is freely available to download and is very easy to use. I have used it and also corrected the system configuration of one computer by replacing the slow hard disk.

http://www.objectso.nl/Software/DiskTT.exe

http://www.objectso.nl/ 

DiskTT (Disk Throughput Tester) measures the performance of your harddrive`s read and write function. You can select a folder or drive to test and the program performs a real-time test on the selected disk.

http://www.freewarefiles.com/Disk-Throughput-Tester-DiskTT_program_23527.html

Open Source Alternatives

Here is the best place to search open source alternatives. This site is huge library of open source alternative softwares. If you are seeking open source software than this is the best website for it.

http://www.osalt.com

Osalt is one of the best guides for open source softwares.

Open Stock Photography Images

Here is the free open stock photo and media library from wiki media - it has free images, sounds and even video clips.

Wikimedia Commons is a media file repository making available public domain and freely-licensed educational media content (images, sound and video clips) to everyone, in their own language.

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page

http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Main_Page

Wikimedia Commons uses the same wiki-technology as Wikipedia and everyone can edit it. Unlike media files uploaded to other projects, files uploaded to Wikimedia Commons can be embedded on pages of all Wikimedia projects without the need to separately upload them there.

Open Source Icons Library

Here is the open source icon library which you can use for your web development projects, graphic designs, presentations, interface development. They are free to use and you can also contribute your icons to the library

http://openiconlibrary.sourceforge.net/

http://openiconlibrary.sourceforge.net/developers.html

http://openiconlibrary.sourceforge.net/LICENSES.html

http://openiconlibrary.sourceforge.net/sources.html

Data Recovery

http://www.jufsoft.com/badcopy/

I have used the trial version of BadCopy Pro to recover the deleted data from pen drive. It exactly recover all the deleted data from the pen drive. But to save the recovered data you need to buy the full version. It can even recover the data from external hard disk or from system hard drive. It is easy to use and works perfectly even in old computers.

Old Versions

I am using the below websites for a long time to get the old versions of softwares. I have find that many software developers make new applications much heavier than older versions. The new applications from Nero and Adobe are much heavier so I have switched to Burn Aware for CD/DVD burning and GIMP is the better alternative to Adobe.

http://www.oldversion.com/

http://www.oldapps.com/

http://www.old-versions.org/

http://old-versions.net/

http://www.versiondownload.com/

Word Press Templates

I have finally completed my website www.manikantkujur.com
I was planning my website for the past 3 years and done lot of thinking about it. I tried Joomla and installed several dozen times on my server to experiment with. Then I have then tried wordpress several dozen times on my server and after looking for hundreds of themes I find this one on www.themeforest.net.

The theme comes with 4 sections - but I have added 2 more sections 'tutorials' and 'documentaries'.
I like the theme because it has a brownish color look just like the color of wooden frames used for framing the paintings. The theme has images which are related with Art Galleries -  red rope barrier in front of the painting, art bench image in the gallery section as benches have their own importance in art galleries, Art Stands in profile section to show various technologies or medium of art. I have later added 'documentaries' and 'tutorials' sections on my website.
The website is in word press. My website is a actually a Javascript, CSS & PHP based website. The sliding animation & gallery display is through JavaScript.

What Steve Jobs have done with "iphone" and "apple application store" - www.themeforest.net is doing the same thing with "internet" and "web development". They are providing templates with very low cost and selling everything which helps you to develop a website. Themeforest.net have a network of more than 2 dozens of websites connected with each other making a huge network of Market for web developers and computer graphics. It is growing very rapidly. They even provide long term support with full documentation for their templates. Through wordpress is used for blogging but they are using word press to create website and this is next level of wordpress, that wordpress websites are very much competitive to the Flash based websites. I find wordpress websites more easy to maintain than Joomla website.

What The Font

http://new.myfonts.com/WhatTheFont/

This is one of the best thing I have ever found on internet. Many time we usually come across the situation where we have picture of the font but we don't know what font it is exactly. When we don't know the name of the font so often it takes several hours or days or even weeks to know the exact font just by the picture. But "What The Font" is proving the free facility to know the exact fonts just by uploading the font picture on their website. In most cases, you will be able to know exact font, or if not, then it will show the similar font options for you.
What the font is really time saving with impressive facility to know the font.

Alternative Software Resources

www.alternativeto.net

Alternative To is the best of internet to search for the alternate to any existing software you are using. I have searched many photoshop alternatives and downloaded many open source software for free and using it. many alternate software are much better than I am currently using for image editing and designing. It is the new approach of moving toward a better software and also useful if you are searching for open source softwares.

Free Web Hosting without advertisements

Many people seeks free web hosting for their purpose. Many needs free hosting in urgency and many seeks for it because they don't want to pay for it. There are many free web hosting on internet which are freely available but they comes with advertisements.
But there are few free web hostings that comes with basic web hosting features and no advertisements.

www.globalihosting.net : Globalihosting.net provides free webhosting with basic features. Without advertisement

www.freehostia.com : It also provides free hosting with some better features. No Advertisement.

www.doteasy.com : Dot Easy also have attractive free web hosting without advertisement.

www.limedomains.com : Free hosting is available only if you purchase a domain from limedomains.com - but one can get all the basic features to run a website completely free.

As per my experiences with free hostings - free hosting have more downtime as compared to paid hostings and paid hosting always have better customer support with faster response time.

Fashion and You

The website www.fashionandyou.com is providing luxury branded items for sale at 80% discount. One of my friends got a watch with a huge discount. They are really selling luxury items at big discounts. Fashion and You is a member of Brand Alliance, formed by major Private Sales Companies in Brazil, India, Russia and Switzerland. They guarantee 100% authenticity of every luxury product that they sell online.

www.fashionandyou.com

Internet Archive

www.archive.org

Internet Archive is the digital internet library with huge database of billions of webpages. It is in fact, contains the overall history of internet. It is the universal access to all knowledge.
If you have your website for the past 10 years then this Internet Archive will have the past records of your website. I use Internet Archive for getting the history of any website for doing SEO and to recover the lost website data. Internet Archives useful for many purposes.