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Automatically Mute Windows Sound on Lock

Mute on Lock is a free application that lets you automatically mute Windows sound on lock. The sound is automatically unmuted when you unlock your computer. It stays on the system tray during its operation.

Additionally, the program also provides a customizable shortcut keys to mute/unmute speaker sound in case you want to do it manually in certain situations like when someone is calling you. Another shortcut key, that you can also change, is used to close the program.

Read also: Mute Windows Sound Automatically on Log Off, Suspend and Shutdown

Depending on your configuration, the app lets you enable/disable effect, mute/unmute sound, or show Options when you double-click the program’s icon on the tray. You can also configure it to launch automatically on Windows startup.

Mute on Lock works with Windows operating system which includes Windows XP, Windows 2003 Server, Windows Vista, Windows 2008 Server, and Windows 7. It supports both 64-bit and 32-bit editions. There is also a portable version in addition to the installer.

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Send Twitter Contacts to Google Buzz

This free online service, Tw2Buzz, allows you to import your Twitter contacts to your Google Buzz account easily. You can find out right away which ones of your Twitter contacts that also have Google account and select anyone that you want to follow.

To start using the app, just sign in with your Twitter login information. Let it scans your Twitter contacts and you’ll have a list of people having a Google account. Then you can start selecting which of the people that you consider deserve more of your attention. Tw2Buzz doesn’t require registration. You can instantly use the app once you visit the site.

Visit Tw2Buzz to get twitter contacts in your Google Buzz

Tags: google buzz tools, twitter tools

How to Read RSS Feed in Email

There are some feed reader applications to read feeds and one of the popular readers is Google Reader, but you can also read rss feed in your email if you want to and it isn’t hard to do so. It is Blogtrottr that provides such a service.

Whenever you find a cool blog that you want to read the feed in your email instead of a feed reader, copy the feed URL, visit Blogtrottr and paste the URL, enter your email address for the feed to be sent to, and hit the “Feed Me” button. Then check your email to confirm the subscription. More »

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Automatically Create New Folders Based on the Name of the Files that are Moved

FiletoFolder is a free Windows application to move your files to new folders, but before it does the move, it creates new folders whose names are taken from the files. You can move as many as you want, and the app will create new folders accordingly.

So, when you move, for instance, “myfile.pdf” using this app, it creates a new folder with the exact same name, which is “myfile”. More »

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EasyUploader: Upload Multiple Files to Easy-Share from Your Desktop

Some of you might use easy-share.com to host some files in addition to Rapidshare or Megaupload. You might also have used it since a long time ago and thus is familiar with this uploader tool already. But for some newbies, they might not know about the existence of such a tool. EasyUploader is a tool that’s officially released by easy-share.com, letting you upload files right from your desktop. It’s free and provides an army of features that will ease your upload activities.

Without even opening the site, EasyUploader allows you to upload multiple files at once. Upload as many as you need and restart broken uploads if there is any. If you have too many files to be uploaded all at once, there is a built-in scheduler that can schedule file uploads. Not only you can automatically start the uploads based on a schedule, you can also automatically stop the upload process once it is out of the scheduled time. Another nice feature is the ability to autostart the process of the paused uploads on program startup. More »

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