Windows only - If you deal with folders and files everyday in Windows then there are chances that you’ve got 2-3 very important folders which you open and close on a frequent basis. So don’t you think it would be convenient if you’ve got a keyboard shortcut assigned to that important folder which you open every 20 mins or so ? That’ll save a lot of time for sure.

So here are the steps to do it :-

1. First, you need to create a shortcut to that folder on the desktop. This can be done by right clicking on it and then Send To - > Desktop.

Clicky is a web analytics tool which I use everyday apart from using Google Analytics. The primary reason behind using Clicky is that it offers some cool features which even Google Analytics doesn’t offer ( not directly at least ).

Clicky has a nice interface and a neat customizable dashboard which can include a lot of information about the traffic to your website. Moreover, as I will talk about it in features, the dashboard gets updated every few mins to include real time data.

Osalt - short for open source alternatives, is a comprehensive directory of open source alternatives to commercial software. It covers categories like communications, graphic applications, multimedia & audio and web development.

To find an open source alternative to a commercial software, you can either search for that or browse through the directory. You can also subscribe to the site to stay up-to-date on the latest and best open source software.

Gooifier is a cool and easy photo distortion tool which lets you add some hilarious effects to images easily and without the need of using Photoshop.

It doesn’t require registration unless you’d like to create an album of such images. You can just upload a photo and start distorting it. Here’s a distortion of Google co-founder Sergey Brin found in the Public Gallery.

Just after 4 days of publishing the post - 3 Apps To Make Things ‘ Tiny ‘ For You , we find that the immensely useful TinyURL has added another feature to add more flavour to its url shortening service.

Google is our favorite search engine and it continues to help us everyday in searching through the internet. And if you ask Google for some fun, it won’t disappoint you either. Here are 5 weird and hilarious Google search results which I am sure you’re gonna enjoy !!

Note: The searches were performed on the google.com domain and not on regional Google domains like google.co.in

1. Who is a failure ?

Just type in ” who is a failure ? ” in the Google search box and hit enter. And the first result is…well..see it for yourself.

Here are 3 apps which help you in sharing things easily by making them short and tiny.

1. TinyUrl

I’m sure almost all of you reading this know about TinyUrl. It’s a url shortening service and it shot into fame  recently when it became an extremely useful way to share links in Twitter. There’s also a nice bookmarklet which you can add to your browser toolbar and it lets you shorten the urls in 2 clicks.

2. TinyPaste