For any website, uptime is of utmost importance in today’s rapid growth of web and business opportunities. Enter Montastic. Montastic is a free website monitoring service. It lets you know if any of your websites is down or not.

With Montastic, you can actually watch up to 100 of your websites for free and it will tell you if any of them is down before your customer or your boss tells you. You can easily monitor your websites and watch them change color from green to red if they go down.

The monitoring of the websites is also offered as an RSS feed which is updated every 10 minutes. If you are not an RSS user, you can download the Yahoo widget for the service which will let you know about the updates very efficiently.

Of course it doesn’t offers as many features as many of the others paid website monitoring services such as Dot-Com Monitor, but if you only want to know if your website is up or down, then you can’t miss this tool.

Everyone needs a good file converter, for example if you got that file via email in a .gz format and you thought why don’t they send it in a zip format, or that important document that was sent in PDF format and you wanted it to be in a doc format in short it good to have a file converter.

I have just got the perfect web-app for you it can convert almost any given file format to another, Best of all its FREE to use and you don’t need to install anything on your computer to use it!

This online app can convert video, music, documents, pictures, compressed files etc… you name it and this application should be able to convert the file into the format you want, say hello to http://www.youconvertit.com/

As I have mentioned earlier this is an web application so you don’t need to install anything on your computer, just go to youconvertit.com and using the simple interface enter the file and select the format that you want it to be converted to, enter your email address, the app sends the converted file link to your email address for you to download, after the conversion is completed. The converted file stays on the server for 7 days after conversion.

Conclusion: I have personally used this app and it works 90% of the time in converting the file, it just failed me once in one video conversion. I wanted to convert a swf video file to fla, it converted the file but it had only audio in it the video was missing, overall a great web-application to have in your bookmarks for file conversions.

If you’re an early adopter who got burned by Blu-Ray’s victory over HD DVD, Wired’s How-To Wiki details how to convert your old-and-busted HD DVDs to the victorious Blu-Ray format. The catch is that the process, from start to finish, is a major pain, and you’ll need both an HD DVD drive and a Blu-Ray burner on your PC. In all the conversion is probably more of a hassle and just as expensive as re-purchasing your HD DVDs in Blu-Ray or buying a dual-format player, so if you’re really considering going through this process, you may want to take that into account that before diving in. If you were stung by the demise of the HD DVD, let’s hear how you plan to cope in the comments.

Sometimes, when you want to open a file in notepad and find there is no direct solution, and going through the whole procedure of opening up notepad first, then selectively opening the file from there takes some serious time if you do it frequently. What if you could open any file with notepad, wordpad or just about any other text editor just by right clicking on it? Yes, you can.

To open any file from Notepad, do this:

• Start Run. (Start->Run)
• Type “sendto”.
• The sendto folder will be opened.
• Now create a shortcut of the text editor you want to use.
• For example, to use notepad, simply create a shortcut of notepad in this folder.

Now, you can right click on any file, go to the send to menu, and send the file to notepad to have it opened in notepad. And it works for any kind of file which you have on your system.

Besides notepad, you can also create shortcuts of any other text editor such as Wordpad, Metapad, etc. and have the file opened in them. Just make a new shortcut of them in the sendto folder.

Note: This tweak works in a per user basis in Windows, which means if this is done by user A on a system, it will not work for user B on the same system.