If you’ve used Windows Vista before, you might be aware of the built-in partitioning feature in the Windows Vista Disk Management utility. Windows 7 is no different. Windows 7 also has the option to resize, add or delete partitions and is called shrink or extend partitions in the in-built Disk Management utility. This means you don’t need third party applications as before to do this.

To add/remove/modify your partitions, go to the Start Menu and open Control Panel. On the top right, you will find the very efficient Windows search bar. Type ‘partitions’ and click on ‘Create and Format Hard Disk Partitions‘ under ‘Administrative Tools’ as you can see in the screenshot below.

You’ll see the Disk Management Utility of Windows 7 as shown below.

Shrinking a volume with Windows 7 Disk Management Utility: Right click on the desired volume and select ‘Shrink Volume‘. The Shrink Volume window will now open. Here, you have to specify the amount of space you want to shrink in the chosen volume.

Extending a volume with Windows 7 Disk Management Utility: Right click on the drive that you want to extend and select ‘Extend Volume‘. In the next step you need to specify the amount of space by which you want to extend the volume.

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If for some reason you cannot install Ubuntu on it’s own partition, or you just want to try it out, installing it on a separate hard drive might be overkill.

Portable Ubuntu brings out the best of both worlds – Ubuntu’s applications and package manager right inside your Windows installation.

How does Portable Ubuntu work?

Portable Ubuntu installs an image of Ubuntu right inside your existing Windows install as an application.
So just by double-clicking a shortcut on your desktop, you can launch Ubuntu!

Portable Ubuntu is based on CoLinux.

The panel appears on the top of your Windows desktop, and you can use it just like you would on a regular Ubuntu installation.

Opening an application will run it just like a native Windows app – making the experience completely seamless.

Download and more information

You can download Portable Ubuntu from here.

There is a wealth of information on the Wiki, which has a FAQ.

If anyone has tried it out, we’d love to know of your experiences in the comments!

BillMonk is a free online application that lets you easily keep track of your finances.
You can track your borrowed and lent money, as well as easily split bills.

All you have to do is set up your account on the BillMonk website.

Setting up a BillMonk account

Setting up a BillMonk account is simple.
Head over to the website and click the “Sign Up” button.

You’ll be asked to fill in your name, email address and a password.
Click the “I agree! Create my account!” link at the bottom of the form.

You’ll now be directed to a welcome page and asked to fill out some information, your email address, phone number and your profile.

Once you’ve finished with it, head to the BillMonk homepage.

Using BillMonk

Once you log in to BillMonk you’ll see a summary of your transactions:

Also, there is a sidebar to the left that lets you quickly navigate through the service.

To get started, you’ll have to add friends to your BillMonk account. You can do that by clicking the “Add friends now” link that appears on the homepage the first time you login.

Now it’s all a matter of entering your expenses into BillMonk each time you spend.
You can do it very easily over your mobile phone.

Check out the BillMonk tour for further details, or read the TechCrunch review.

If you want to create a collage of your photographs quickly and easily online, we’ve found the right service for you.

With Photovisi, you can create free collages of you and your friends, your family photos, or your vacation snaps.
Use it as your wallpaper or share it on Facebook – it’s quick, easy and free.

Using Photovisi

First, head to the Photovisi site, and click the large button that says “Click here to start”.

Next, choose a template. This will decide the layout of the photos in your collage. Choose whichever appeals to you the most.

Now you’ll be thrown into the collage editor.

Click on the “Add Photos” button to add photos from your computer. Once you add them, they’re immediately displayed on your screen.

You can now play with the images – drag them around, rotate them, crop them, or delete them. You can even set a background image for the collage, or just set a background colour.

There is a limit of 21 photos. But that’s alright, because more than that will clutter up your screen so much it would lose meaning, anyway

Once you’re done designing your collage, you can click the “Save” button. Doing this will upload your images to the site, process them and give you a download link that you can use to save the file on your computer.

This may take a while, depending on the number of photos you added and the speed of your connection.

Now you can download your collage and share it with your friends and family!

If you’re fed up with the fact that you’re friends are always borrowing your things and not returning them, and that you’re forgetting about it too, fret no more.

Introducing WhoHasMy.net.

From the site itself,

If you ever let people borrow your things, you know how hard it is to remember who has what and how long they’ve had it for. Easily add, search, and loan items; add and edit friends; and remind them about the things they’ve borrowed. Don’t ever say, “who has my Holy Grail?” again!

It was written originally for the Django Dash (a website development “competition”). It’s been improved a bit now and is  rather good to use.

Featuring a simple, intuitive design and an extremely simple registration, WhoHasMy is a breeze to work with.

The simple box on the side allows you add and search for items or friends:

If you enter an ISBN, UPC or ASIN, it finds the item on Amazon and fills in the relevant details. I’m not sure if it works if you enter a description, it didn’t work for me.

WhoHasMy makes it extremely simple to search for an item you have already entered, and even lets you record the condition it was returned to you in!

Overall, a nicely designed and extremely practical webapp for managing your loaned items. (and really good considering it was written in less than 48 hours, for the competition )

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So you’ve designed that killing website, but it gets killed when viewed in a different resolution. You are in a fix and are thinking of altering your screen resolution and going through the painful process of testing. Stop right there!

Here is an AJAX/PHP based website which will let you test what how your website looks like in different screen resolutions:

ViewLikeUs

• Loads of resolutions to try from. Sample this

• You can also try your website on an iPhone and Nintendo Wii Browser(We tried our on an iPhone)

ViewLikeUs is a nifty tool and you can really make use of it sometimes. Try ViewLikeUs here.