TechnoPhillia!!

Edit images, create mind-blowing effects, design logos, find colors, collaborate, and more. All you need is a web browser! Its Free!

Aviary is a company developed by a large number of people and by the developers of worth1000.com.

This site is having a number of tools (all free) (still in beta) to create and even edit your images online. It includes “Peacock” effects editor, “Raven” Vector Editor, “Toucan” colout swatches and more.. (there are more to develop soon)

Peacock can be used as a Photoshop alternative and Raven as illustrator alternative. They both support all of the features including custom fonts, filters, pen tool and much more.

Having a large tutorial database and a good community, this site attracts many users and that’s why they are developing more free tools. Probably, there next tool can be a 3D image editor (still in development).

The above image is also developed by their own online software peackock.

There is no limit on how you make and how much time you take so be creative and start creating some beautiful art.

Link: Aviary

If you are Windows user then you might have seen something like below in past:

There are other similar error alerts like…

• Cannot delete file: Access is denied
• The source or destination file may be in use.
• The file is in use by another program or user.
• Make sure the disk is not full or write-protected and that the file is not currently in use.
• etc…

Most of the times files/folders are locked by some applications you may not know. So even closing application in doubt doesn’t solves problem.

I often get this error so was wondering if there any way to unlock the file/folder I want to move/delete. Thanks to Google, I found this nice application named Unlocker…

#How-To Use

0. Click here to download Unlocker (size: 190KB). Setup is simple and quick. After installing…

1. Just right click on file/folder and select Unlocker from context menu as shown in following screenshot…

2. A window with list of applications having lock on file/folder will appear

3. Select Unlock All or any other option. Its your choice!

More info, FAQ and a comparison chart with other similar softwares is on official Unlocker webpage!

Hope you will find this useful at some point in time…

Unlocker Links: Download | Homepage

To delete a stubborn, “undeletable” file from your computer, here are some of the things that you could try…

Method 1:

• Open a Command Prompt Window and leave it open.
• Close all open programs.
• Click Start > Run and enter TASKMGR.EXE
• Go to the Processes tab and End Process on Explorer.exe.
• Leave Task Manager open.
• Go back to the Command Prompt Window and change to the directory the AVI (or other undeletable files) is located in.
• At the command prompt type: DEL where is the file you wish to delete.
• Go back to Task Manager, Click on File > New Task and enter EXPLORER.EXE to restart the GUI shell.
• Close Task Manager.

Method 2:

• Open Notepad.exe
• Click File >Save As…
• Locate the folder where your undeletable file is
• Choose ‘All files’ from the file type box
• Click once on the file you wish to delete so its name appears in the ‘filename’ box
• Put a ” at the start and end of the filename
  (the filename should have the extension of the undeletable file so it will overwrite it)
• Click save
• It should ask you to overwrite the existing file. Choose “yes” and you can delete it as normal.

Method 3:

Here’s a manual way of doing it.

• Start
• Run
• Type: command
• To move into a directory type: cd C:\*** (The stars stand for your folder)
• If you cannot access the folder because it has spaces for example Program Files or Kazaa Lite folder, you have to do the following. Instead of typing in the full folder name, only take the first 6 letters, then put a ~ and followed by 1 without spaces. Example: cd c:\progra~1\kazaal~1
• Once you are in the folder of the non-deletable file, type in ‘dir’ - and a list will come up with everything inside.
• Now, to delete the file, type in del ***.bmp, txt, jpg, avi, etc. If the file name has spaces you would use the special 1st 6 letters followed by a ~ and a 1 rule. Example: if your file name was bad file.bmp, you would type once in the specific folder through command, del badfil~1.bmp and your file should be gone. Make sure to type in the correct extension.

Zortom Mp3 Media Studio is an all in one Mp3 application suite using which includes like Mp3 organizer, tag editor, CD Ripper, Mp3/Wav converter, Lyrics finder, cover finder and a playlist manager. It even has an Auto Tag feature using which you can tag your Mp3 files automatically with cover arts, artists, lyrics, year etc. All the information is looked online at the Zortom database.

You can also catalogue your collection manually by editing the tags your self. It can also rename the Mp3s based on tag data. The program also includes a CD Ripper with CDDB support that allows you to rip tracks from audio CDs and save them as Mp3 files. It also includes a Converter which can convert between Mp3/Wav and Wav to Mp3. You can also use it to add Karaoke files to your Mp3. All these features also support Batch processing and allow you to work with multiple files simultaneously. It has a nice Duplicate finder which helps you in finding duplicate Mp3 files. Some of its other features include a Normaliser, playlist manager, lyrics and Cover art search etc.

The program is a freeware and offers a lot of useful utilities. It works on Windows.

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