Looking for a simple way to capture and save images from Google map on your computer for future use? Map2Pic is a simple online tool that allows you to search and save the map in PNG or JPG image format.

Many times, you want to open a number of applications simultaneously on your PC. Manually moving each application window is a time consuming process, however, if you have a larger, high-resolution monitor, you can auto tile each window for quick access. Here is how you can do that with a free application Plumb.

Though, Windows has its own built-in tools and methods to keep the computer fast and stable, most users don’t know how to use them properly. The ultimate Windows Speedup Guide from Auslogics explains everything in plain English and helps you bring your aged computer back to life.

You may have several reasons to stop browser from storing your browsing activities on your computer. Private browsing mode (In Chrome, it is Incognito Mode) of browser helps you in that. Wish you could open some websites always in Private browsing mode without any extra effort? Here is how you can do that in Google Chrome with Ghost Incognito extension.

Though there are several solutions for extracting text from an image file (for example you can use Google Docs, Microsoft OneNote, and free tools like GImage Reader, for that), Abbyy Fine Reader is one of the best and feature rich OCR (optical character recognition) software available today. Abbyy Fine Reader has launched an online OCR service with multi-lingual support.

Unlike Windows’ taskbar, Mac’s dock is more productive and aesthetically excel. The dock allows you instantly access frequently used applications without the hassle of going through the clutter of desktop shortcuts or the slow Start menu as in Windows. If you like to replace your Windows’ taskbar with Mac like dock, here is how you can do that with Winstep’s Nexus.

Windows has several built-in tools for optimizing, managing and customizing it, but, all are located at different places like control panel, start menu, etc. This makes bit difficult to access a tool when you really need it. To solve this issue, here is a simple tool called Windows Utilities Launcher that brings some of the most needed native Windows tools in a single place.

In Private browsing mode, your browser won't keep any identification of your browsing activities (search history, download history, web form history, cookies, or temporary internet files) in your computer. However, though you can quickly switch to private browsing mode in Firefox (Ctrl + Shift + P) there is no option to switch individual link in private browsing mode. Here is how you can do that.

There are two main benefits for ripping a DVD movie to your hard drive. First one is you can play your favorite DVD titles on any device you like and the second one is, as optical media is highly prone to scratches after extensive use; you can keep copy of your precious DVD titles on your hard drive. WinX DVD Ripper Platinum is a best tool for this job and now you can get it free as a thanksgiving gifts from Digiarty Software.

If the underlying hard disk has some serious flow or fault, usual system clean ups like deleting temporary files, defragmenting the hard drive, etc will not always improve your computer’s performance. Moreover, the latest hard disk built with AF technology requires right alignment to get best performance.

If you are a Microsoft’s OneNote user and often want to copy and paste contents from web pages to OneNote, you may like the Bring to OneNote for Chrome app. It will let you send text, pictures and other items directly to OneNote from Google Chrome.

I think one of the most useful features of Windows context menu is ‘Send to’ option. You can move a file or folder from one location to another location very easily by just right clicking on it. However, by default, Windows offers only a few locations to move a file, you need to click and hold Shift key to get extra entries. Here is how to enable all context menu entries permanently in Windows 7 and Vista.

One feature that is long been missing from Gmail is the ability to preview messages without opening them. It is already available in other email services like Hotmail and this feature makes mail reading faster. Though currently not available by default, you can now add this preview pane option in Gmail. Here is how you can do that.

Sign in your email account (or any account) from a public computer is always risky. Anyone can steal your login details if you forgot to erase the details before leaving the computer. Moreover, if you are accessing the Internet on an unsecured public Wi-Fi hotspot, anyone who is interested can see what you are doing on the network. Microsoft has introduced a new feature to Hotmail that enable users sign in from a public computer using a one-time temporary password.

In certain situations you may want to start your laptop quietly, for example when you take part in a conference or public meetings and there you need to use your laptop. There are several similar situations there you want to start your laptop silently. Of course, you can change sound scheme settings and disable annoying sounds, but turn them off and on is not an easy task.

Opswat Malware Scanner is a multi-engine malware scanner that scans your computer’s actively running processes and memory modules using five well-known malware scanning engine simultaneously. If your PC has infected with viruses, rootkits and other malware, 99.99% of its presence can be found in running processes and memory.

For several reasons, you may want to prevent inserting pen drives or any USB drive into your computer, for example to prevent copying content from your computer or to prevent execution of malware, which may come into the system through the USB drives. If you are looking for an easy solution for controlling access to removable drives, here is how you can do all that with Wenovo USB Disks Access Manager for Windows.

WinUSB Maker is a portable, freeware tool that helps you make any USB Device as bootable with Windows Setup. It is quite easy to use and compatible with Windows 7, Windows 8 and Windows Server 2008 (32bit/64bit). With this tool, you can make bootable USB drive from Windows Setup DVD, Setup Folder or ISO Image file.

A common problem that many people have been making into while saving a file is ignoring the file saving location. They just click ‘Save’ option or use CTRL + S keys to save a file without bothering to see where the actual file is being saved. As a result, many people, especially new computer users, find it hard to locate the file they just saved. Here is a quick way to find the files that were saved recently in Windows.