Recently, Google has just released a beta of Picasa 3, which is one of the best photo mangers. There are a lot of new features and functions included with this new version, and these are five useful and remarkable functions.

Show Duplicates Files:
This will help to find and remove duplicated files to save disk space and reduce the upload time. To use this function: select Tools > Experimental > Show Duplicates Files.

Search For Color:
This is an interesting function helps you to find photo with color. To use this function: select Tools > Experimental > Search for… and choose a color.

Save Search Result:
Picasa allows you to save search results in order to avoid wasting time for search again. To active this function: select Tools > Experimental > Save search results… and then name your search.

Show Tag As Album:
When Picase load images from camera, it automatically add photos to different tags depend on the name of photo. Therefore, you can show photo by tag. To use this function: select Tools > Experimental > Show tag as album… and type the tag to show.

Do you know all tweaks and function supplied by Microsoft Word? There are many functions not in the menu but in hidden selections. These are useful functions will help you much when using this powerful word processor.

Make A New Line Without Index:
If your paragraph is using Bullet and Numbering and you press Enter, Microsoft Word will automatically make a new line and a new index. If you do not want Word to do that job, just press Shift + Enter when make a new line.

Add More Options To Menu File:
Hold Shift while click on menu File, you will see Save All and Close All options added.

Making Use Of Smart Tags:

To active this function: select Tools > AutoCorrect Options > Smart Tags. When pasting data from any Microsoft Office applications, you will see a Smart Tags icon appears beside with many formats for data:

• Match Destination Formatting: convert the source data to destination format
• Keep Source Formatting: keep the format of source data.
• Keep Text Only: only keep the text of source data.

Compare Parts Of Document:
If you document is hundreds of page and you want to compare parts of your document such as the opening and the conclusion, Split will help you to solve this.
Select Windows > Split. Your mouse cursor will become horizontal line for you to identify the space to split your screen into two smaller windows. Now you just choose a right place to split then you scroll to find the right paragraph to compare in each separate window.
To remove Split, select Windows > Remove Split.

Compare Different Documents:

With two nearly identical documents and you want to find different parts of those documents, Track Changes is a right function to do this job. Instead of manually check line by line, you choose Tools > Track Changes > Compare documents (in Microsoft Word 2000). When the dialog box appears, you just choose the documents to compare and Word will tell you which is different between documents.

In Microsoft XP and Microsoft Word 2003, you choose Tools > Compare and Merge Documents. And a dialog appear, tick Legal blackline option to active comparison function and choose documents to find different things in those documents.

If you usually watch videos from sites stream like YouTube, MetaCafe etc. and want to get these videos faster and smoother, SpeedBit Video Accelerator should be the first name you think of.

System Requirements

• OS: Windows 2000 / XP / 2003 / Vista – Proxy Mode, (MAC version - Coming soon)
• Browser: Internet Explorer, FireFox, Opera, Maxthon, Mozilla, Netscape, Flock, AOL.
  

You can download this free video accelerator from http://www.videoaccelerator.com/

Mention about disk partition, all we will think of Partition Magic because it is so popular software to partition. However, Partition Magic just supports disks with capacity up to 300GB. This was not a big problem before. Now with the development of data storage technology, disk’s capacity now can be up to 1TB or more. Therefore, Partition Magic now can not help us much.

Therefore, this is a good time to find another partition tool can solve this problem. One of the competitors is EASEUS Partition Manager. This software has the same features to Partition Magic and support disks with capacity up to 1TB.

This is the key features of EASEUS Partition Manager

• Support hardware RAID.
• Resize and move partitions without losing data.
• Create, delete and format partitions with simple step.
• Label partitions - assigned to a partition for easier recognition.
• View Disk/Partition property of each partition.
• Hide and unhide partitions - protect important data from unauthorized or casual access.
• Set an active partition - specify one partition to be the boot partition.
• Powerful safety features protect you against system failures while partitioning.
• Step-by-step wizard walks you through partitioning process.
• Preview any partitioning tasks before completing it.
• Change cluster size automatically and manually.
• Undo feature any partition step.
• Support hard disks from 2 GB to 1 TB.
• User-friendly interface.
  

You can download free EASEUS Partition Manager Home Edition or find more information about this Partition manager at EASEUS Partition Manager

I am sure you are so familiar with the Profile service of Yahoo, which helps you to store personal information in Yahoo. Recently, this big guy has release an upgrade of this service with more features: Yahoo! Profile beta.

With Yahoo! Profile, you can update, manage your personal information, activities, favorites, and of course all connections to others.

Yahoo! Profile especially emphasize on the ability of connection. It helps you to connect people the easiest way, update information from your friends quickly:

• Yahoo! 360
• Yahoo! Avatars
• Yahoo! Buzz
• Yahoo! Shine
• Personals Info etc.

To use this Yahoo! Profile, visit http://profiles.yahoo.com, sign in with you Yahoo ID and enjoy, discover a new service from Yahoo.

Sign Out Yahoo Messenger Quickly:

As usual, to sign out Yahoo! Messenger you right click on the icon in the taskbar and choose Sign out; or in the main menu: Messenger > Sign Out.

There is a faster way: double click on the icon Yahoo! Messenger and press Ctrl + D.

Send A Message To Multiple Nicknames In Other Groups:

To do this, just hold Ctrl and click on the nickname you want to send the message. After choosing, right click on a nickname you have chose and choose Send an Instant message from the popup menu. Then you just type the content of the message you want to send.

Another way, you have to group the nicknames you want to send that message into a group. Then right click on the group name, choose Send Instant Message to All in Group from the popup menu.

Note: You can download the latest version of Yahoo Messenger free here. Moreover, to use this software and other services from Yahoo such as Yahoo Calendar, Yahoo Mail, Yahoo Profile, you are required to have a Yahoo ID. But all are free, so don’t hesitate to register an ID today.

Concise Oxford English Dictionary is a very advantage dictionary. The dictionary contains more than 240,000 words, phrases, and meanings, of which almost 2,000 are new to this edition. Besides, there are nearly 140,000 words with pronunciation.

The setup package contains two options:

• Without pronunciation
• Sound with Pronunciation (170MB).

The feature of this dictionary has two main panels:

• Left panel contains words
• Right panel is the description of the word in left panel.
• The textbox for entering keyword is above left panel.

You can also print or copy words by Copy/Print in the main menu.
Beside, to make it easier to look up word in clipboard, click Options > Watch Clipboard and respond to double clicks. Then every time you copy an English word from anywhere in desktop, the dictionary will look up that word and tell you the description.
To relax after studying, you can play mini games include the dictionary. They are helpful to relax and increase the skill of guessing words.
Visit AskOxford for more information or buy it from Amazon

Yahoo! Calendar is a Web-based calendar service from Yahoo! Released ten years ago, but until Oct 7, 2008, Yahoo has just released an update for Yahoo! Calendar (also a beta) with new features: using Ajax, support drag and drop etc.

Yahoo Calendar offers an effective calendar includes:

• Advantage schedule
• To-do lists
• Send remind to messages to numerous sources:
• Email
• Mobile devices
• Yahoo Messenger
• Share schedule between users
• Integrate and republish public events syndicated from Eventful, Upcoming and other common sites automatically.
• Synchronize your calendar with calendars of Palm devices, Microsoft Office Outlook

Note: you are required to have a Yahoo! ID in order to use this Calendar and other Yahoo services. Nevertheless, all are free, so do not hesitate to register now.

There are so many third party softwares to maintain and optimize Windows Vista. Recently (Oct 14, 2008), Microsoft have released their own tool to maintain and optimize Window Vista: Microsoft PC Advisor. Moreover, this tool is free for all Windows Vista users.

Microsoft PC Advisor is an application only for MS’s spiritual child – Windows Vista so that the ability to tweak and fix errors, maintain and optimize the system more than other third party tools. It is easy to understand why; they know what they wrote more clearly than others. In addition, this tool helps to:

• Speed up the system
• Increase the speed of connecting Internet
• Update the latest drivers for all devices
• Update patches
• Clean up the system
• Real Time Monitoring protect the system 24/24.

You can download Microsoft PC Advisor at Microsoft Download Center or at Softpedia.

This is the last post about How to use multiple Gmail at the same time. In this post, I tell you another way to check multiple Gmail at the same time: use IE Tab Add-on.

This is not only helpful for using multiple Gmail, but also helpful for other Google services such as Youtube, Blogger, PicasaWeb etc. IE Tab is an extension from Taiwan. It embeds Internet Explorer in tabs of Firefox and other browsers base on Mozilla like Flock, K-Meleon etc.

Now follow these steps to use this powerful add-on:

• Download and install this add-on at https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1419
• Open a new tab, right click on the blank space in that tab, choose View Page in IE tab. Wait seconds, and type the homepage of Gmail. Then sign in and check mail. Everything is so easy now.

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This is the third post about How to use multiple Gmail at the same time. In this post, I tell you another way to check multiple Gmail at the same time: use Gmail Manager Add-on.

To manage multiple Gmail account without signing in, Gmail Manager is your right choice. Now follow these steps to use this effective add-on:

• First, download it at https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1320
• Second, install it in your Firefox
• Then right click on this add-on icon, choose Preferences…
• And press Add, fill your email address and password, and OK.
  

After adding all Gmail accounts you need to manage, click on the Gmail Manager Icon, and Login all accounts. You will know exactly how many emails in Inbox, how many unread mails. To sign in and read mail of an account, just double click on that account.

Everything seems easy? Yes, let’s enjoy this Gmail Manager Add-on.

This is the second post about How to use multiple Gmail at the same time. In this post, I tell you another effective way to use multiple Gmail at the same time: Prevent saving cookie.

The method of preventing open multiple Gmail at the same is browser has saved cookie. So that when you open a new account and then return to the previous account, it is automatically switch to new account. If you want to use many accounts at the same time, you should use CookiePie (/). After download this extension, drag it to Firefox and install, and then restart your Firefox.

Then, whenever you open a Gmail account (Google account as well such as Youtube, Picasa, Blogger etc.) you just need to open a new tab, right click on that tab and choose Toggle On/Off CookiePie. A new icon will appear on the tab meaning CookiePie is running. Then sign in Gmail account on that tab to check mail. Now you can use multiple accounts at the same time.

Note: this way eats a lot of your PC’s resource.

This is the first post about how to use multiple Gmail at the same time. You can read other way to use multiple Gmail at the same time here.

This is the most simple and easiest way. How much Gmail accounts you want to use? Just install as many browsers as my Gmail accounts and use each browser for each Gmail.

Here is a list of popular browsers:

• Firefox
• Opera
• Safari
• Flock
• Avant
• Google Chrome
• K-Meleon
• Maxthon
• Netscape
• Seamonkey