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Whenever I took photos with my digital camera. I find it hard to include additional details (metadata) such as description of the picture, where I captured the photos and etc. Recently, I found a free tool that allows me to modify metadata on my photos with ease.

Photo Info from Microsoft is a utility to modify metadata on digital photos. Once installed, you can access Photo Info by right-click on the photo or multiple photos (to be edited as collection) that you want to edit and select Photo Info option.

You can even generate copyright notice automatically and access loads of features. Place your mouse over any digital photo and a tooltip detailing photo information will be display on screen.

This is certainly a great tool for anyone how needs a free tool to modify their photos details.

Download Microsoft Photo Info

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When writing a long-winding post, it is best to break it down to a few pages to improve readability and page navigation.

To break a long post or page, just insert following tag in between each break:

<!–nextpage–>

The page break will look as below:

Try it out yourself.

In today’s post, I will show you step by step how to create your own extractor file and share with friends.

You can create your own extractor using iexpress program pre-installed with Windows operating system.

Guide to Create Extractor

1. Go to Start->Run
2. Type in iexpress and hit enter to execute IExpress Wizard as shown below. Select Create new Self Extraction Directive file and click Next.
3. Follow the wizard and you will be able to create your own extractor as shown below.
   

Now that GMail has offered storage more than 3GB and counting, you can store more files and emails without worrying running out of space.

Bjarke, has creatively developed a drive extension called GMail Drive Extension that will create a virtual directory on your desktop and allow you to utilize your GMail storage space. Since it uses your GMail account directly, that means you need to have Internet connection on before can access your virtual directory.

Accessing the virtual directory is easy. Once installed, you can see a new drive created on your My Computer screen.

To access your Gmail virtual directory, you just need to specify your GMail account settings and once connected, you will be able to start using your new virtual storage.

Visit Gmail Drive Extension

WiXi, currently still in beta mode, is a new social-networking site that offers users to store and share all media files in one place, a desktop-like interface.

You can manage videos, audios, and images all at one place.  You can even share your files with friends or only made your files available only to your friends. There’s even a search function for you to search any public files available in Wixi community.

Media files are viewed using embedded Flash player and you need a broadband connection in order to view media files without disruption. User interface is sleek and can categorized all media into different folders for easy retrieval.

A free account allows user to upload up to 3GB of storage. However, if you want unlimited space and an ad-free account, just sign up the for premium account.

Wixi is definitely a great way to share media files with friends. Since it’s easy to share files with friends, the risk of sharing pirated or copyrighted material is very high. At this point of writing, there is a pirated copy of Fantastic Four movie available there too.

Currently, it is still on beta and by invitation only.  However, I will be giving free invites to you too! Want a free invite? Please leave comment below. 

Visit Wixi for more.

Getting digged is one of the few things that most bloggers could wish for for their blogs. Generally, they will get instant hits if make to the top page and can attracts lots of traffic. How do you know if your site being digged?

Digital Inspiration has a quick tip on keeping track if user submitted your site to Digg.

Read more on Digital Inspiration.

Most of you may not aware that there are great tools and utilities that’s given free from Microsoft or better known as PowerToys. Below are a few software I personally use them and want to share with you guys out there.

TweakUI

TweakUI  is a tiny program that allows user to modify system settings that is not easily accessible on normal operation. Most settings can be configured easily using this tool such as configuring logon settings, applets to display on Control Panel window, modify Internet Explorer settings, mouse settings, taskbar settings, Explorer settings and etc.

It is a great tool for system administrator to configure system settings according to type of user. For example, hiding user account applets in Control Panel. User who likes to take control of the system instead of the default settings will find this useful as well.

Download TweakUI

Open Command Window Here

If you are like me who uses command prompt quite often, it is troublesome whenever you need to access certain directories. If the directory you want to access is a few level deep, then it’s worse.

However, using Open Command Window Here tool, user can simply right-click on which folder they want to access in command prompt from Explorer window and select Open Command Window Here option, saving much time on typing if were to do it the old way. Once selected, the command prompt will directly point to the selected folder and you are good to do whatever you want to in no time.

Download

Open Command Window Here

Resize Picture

Resize Pictures is a small utility that enable resizing pictures or photos directly from Explorer window in different sizes.

Using this tool is easy and straightforward. You just select the pictures/photos that you want to resize, right click and select Resize Pictures. Then you select the size you want to resize to. There are other settings available such as file replacement and others. You can also resize multiple photos at any one time.

Now, you don’t need to pay software just to resize your photos to share with relatives and friends.

Download Resize Pictures

ClearType Tuner

ClearType is a technology from Microsoft that will improves readability on LCD screen. You can adjust the sharpness of the text to suit your preference. You really need this utility if you face computer most of the time.

Download ClearType Tuner

All software mention above are part  of Microsoft PowerToys for Windows XP. Other software includes :

• Power Calculator
• Alt-Tab Replacement
• HTML SlideShow Wizard
• others

More details from Microsoft PowerToys

If you download lots of files from RapidShare or other similar free share services, you probably like RapGet.

RapGet, weighing less than 500KB, is a freeware that allows user to download files from free share services, bypassing verification process and support simultaneous downloads as well.

What you need to do is copy and paste the download link to RapGet and it will do the rest for you. Downloading files from  could never been easier with RapGet. Get a copy below.

Go to RapGet Homepage

You misplace your Visual Studio 2005 serial key? Don’t worry. As long as you already have it installed in your PC, you can retrieve the key yourself.

You can retrieved the installed Visual Studio 2005 serial key in Windows Registry. Follow the instruction below:

1. Open registry window. (Start-> Run -> Regedit)
2. Go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\VisualStudio\8.0\Registration
3. Look for PIDKEY value
4. The value is the serial key string. Just add a ‘-’ on every 5 characters and you will get your full serial key which you can use later.

By the way, if you are looking for a cracked serial key, sorry, you came to the wrong place.

“Error 25007.Error occurred while initializing fusion. Setup could not load fusion with LoadLibraryShim(). The handle is invalid.”

When you encountered this error, you cannot continue to install Microsoft .Net Framework 2.0. Even if you tried to uninstall .Net Framework 2.0, it won’t allow you too! Now, you found yourself stuck in the situation and thinking of reformat your PC for a clean fresh installation.

Don’t do that just yet. There is one simple solution to this problem. Just remove the following folder

%windir\WinSXS\Policies

where %windir is your Windows directory and reinstall .Net Framework 2.0.

Now, you should be able to get the Framework installed.

Updated :
Below are links to other method to solve the same issue. Will keep on updating if I found any new workaround.

1) MSDN