Shrink Pic

Do you frequently upload photos to blogs and web galleries or send pictures through email (web based email providers or MS Outlook) or share photos through Skype / MSN Messenger? Then Shrink Pic is the image resizing application you’ve always wanted.

Shrink Pic is a free software which automates the entire task of reducing the size of images and allows you to send dozens of photos as email attachments - quickly and with no effort at all!

All you need to do is install Shrink Pic. It automatically detects when you're sending large photo files and compresses them in the background.

How does it work?

1. It runs silently in the background

1. When you are sending a photo, it will automatically detect and resize the photo and store it in a temporary area and send that resized photo. It gives you a message on the compression status.

1. You can control on the compression ratio of the photos via the settings.

1. If you need to send full sized pics for any reasons, you can disable the program from the taskbar.

It works perfectly on Windows XP / 2000 / 2003 / Vista & 7 and supports Vista Mail, Outlook, Thunderbird, Eudora, Poco Mail, Incredimail as email clients and Skype & MSN Messenger as IM clients.

You can also copy the program to your flash drive and add it to your portable list of softwares. You can download this incredible freeware from here

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Windows 7

It’s been about 6 hours since I started the process of installing Windows 7 Beta on my Dell XPS M1330 laptop. Installation was a breeze and so was the remaining configuration. Apart from the classic look & feel, am completely hooked onto the new taskbar. It’s absolutely amazing. Windows Search is lightning. Since am a ardent user of free softwares, in the process of installing everything again since I took a call of doing a complete fresh install instead of upgrading from Vista. My installation steps

1. Backup of the entire laptop using DriveImage XML onto an external USB drive

2. Download Windows 7 Beta. Ensure that while downloading PC does not sleep or go into a standby and then resume the download. It happened with me and when I tried to install, I got the error

STOP: c0000221 Unknown hard error

\systemroot\system32\ntdll.dll

Downloaded the whole setup again this time it went ahead.

3. Scrapped all the partitions and started afresh and installation completed.

4. My laptop give a blue dump after submitting the user account creation in the initial setup. When I restarted, it again came back to the same setup screen but the earlier account was already created so had to create a new account.

5. All set to go!

6. Installed DriveImage XML

7. Restoring all my old data.

Have installed this on my primary laptop (which is against the MS recommendations btw). For all those who are eager to try the new OS, will recommend to feel the experience first hand. It’s awsome.

Will keep posting if I come across anything in Windows 7 over here. Happy installing & all the best, for all those who are trying out the new OS!

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