Have you ever accidentally left an important USB drive sticking out of the back of your work computer or friend’s computer? Here’s an easy way to make sure you never forget again. USB Guard is a standalone tool that will alert you in case a flash drive (or another external drive) is attached during the shutdown or log off process.
If you are an iPhone, Android or Nokia phone user, you may have familiar with Swype keyboard. Swype is a QWERTY keyboard for touchscreens that can greatly speed up the text typing process – only need to move (swype) your fingers or stylus across virtual letters to form text. Swype keyboard currently not available for Windows 8 Tablet PCs, however, you can enable Swype like keyboard feature in Windows 8 with InScribe.
CloudShot is a little, but comprehensive screen capturing tool for Windows that allows you to capture screenshot of your computer screen and save it on your computer as well as on your Dropbox folder. The Dropbox cloud storage integration makes this a unique tool, as this makes you quickly share your screenshot with your friends remotely and access them from anywhere on any device.
It is said that a well-crafted presentation can have much more impact than a really good blog post, thesis or a good article. Therefore, still it has greater importance in many fields like businesses, classroom lecturing, etc. For creating presentations, people are generally depending on Microsoft PowerPoint. To make your presentations even more exciting, here is a plug-in for PowerPoint called VisualBee.
Snaplr is an intuitive, very simple to use screen-capturing application designed to easily capture and annotate your desktop’s activity. This Adobe Air application can be useful, if for example, to quickly capture something show on your desktop and share it with your friends via email or other means.
The read and write speed of USB flash drives vary between make and model. If you are planning to buy a new USB flash drive, it is very useful to know its read/write speed. In addition, if you know the read/write speed of your USB flash drive, you will get an idea how much time it would take to complete a file transfer between USB drive and a PC.