Tag Archives: Windows

Pazera Free Audio Extractor Rips Audio from Any Video

By Prithvi Mandava | Published: September 26, 2008
Windows only: Pazera Free Audio Extractor extracts audio from virtually any video file and outputs it to MP3, AAC, AC3, WMA, or WAV formats.
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Cool Timer Helps You Stay on Task

By Prithvi Mandava | Published: September 26, 2008
Windows only: Stop wondering where the time went and start using a timer to be more productive. Cool Timer is a small timer application with three modes: countdown, stopwatch and alarm clock.
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How to remove Antivirus XP 2008

By Prithvi Mandava | Published: September 16, 2008
Antivirus XP 2008 is back, unfortunately. It’s not an antivirus app, but a cleverly disguised rogue security application that tries to get you to buy the non-existent “security” it’s selling. Advertised using the common tricks of Trojans and faux security alerts, this nasty piece of malware can take over your desktop settings to mimic safe [...]
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Fix ‘COM surrogate has stopped working’ error in Windows Vista

By Prithvi Mandava | Published: September 12, 2008
A recent and annoying ‘bug’ in Windows Vista (both 32- and 64-bit versions) is the ‘COM surrogate has stopped working’ error. This happens almost whenever you browse a folder containing media files like mp3, avi, wav etc. A lot of people have attributed this to the presence of non Vista-compatible codecs installed on the computer. [...]
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