Software Tricks – Bust A TECH

OverlayFrame – Easily Mark Your Live Streaming & Recording Area

2025-08-13 by bustatech

Why I created OverlayFrame

I recently started using OBS Studio to record and share only part of my screen during video calls. It’s an amazing free tool — you can learn more and download it here: https://obsproject.com.

This setup is especially useful for my large 43-inch 4K monitor. Sharing the entire 4K screen makes text too small for viewers, while sharing only one application window means constant switching when using multiple windows.

However, I ran into one problem — it’s difficult to know exactly which part of the screen is being captured or shared. I searched through OBS settings and online guides but couldn’t find a way to display a simple border marking the capture area.

That’s when I decided to create OverlayFrame — a lightweight tool that displays a configurable on-screen frame, clearly showing the exact area being recorded or streamed. You can easily adjust and save the frame’s position, size, color, and border thickness to match your workflow.

Example use case on 43-inch 4K monitor

Free Upgrade to Windows 10, Still

2016-12-23 by bustatech

I recently purchased a second hand PC, that it came with Windows 7 preinstalled. I have already upgrade the OS in my laptop from Windows 8 to Windows 10 and I am quite used to Windows 10 features, especially the mouse scroll feature that doesn’t require the windows to be on focus. This feature is not available in Windows 7 which really bother me dealing with multi windows.

Microsoft did offer Windows 10 free upgrade for Windows 7 and Windows 8/8.1 user but I missed that window that ended on 29th July 2016. Searching for alternative way for Windows 10 free upgrade, it brought me to a few page saying that the free upgrade is still possible now (end Dec 2016) by accessing this page (link)

Bluetooth Keyboard on Dual Boot Windows and Ubuntu

2015-06-24 by bustatech

I’ve recently started to use Apple Wireless (bluetooth) keyboard and it is really a very great keyboard (more info here). I felt like I can type faster and more accurate using this keyboard. The only downside of this keyboard is the lack of dedicated Delete key. To execute a Delete, I will need to press fn + delete key.

Other than that, the main problem of using Bluetooth keyboard and having dual boot Windows 7 and Ubuntu 14.04 is that I will need to re-pair the bluetooth keyboard everytime I switch from one OS to another. The reason behind this is that the device actually create a unique key (store in both the OS and the Keyboard) every time it pair with an OS, but when the OS is being switch to another one, the unique key doesn’t match because the stored unique key on the keyboard is meant for the previous OS.

Some Trick to Try out on Windows

2012-01-01 by bustatech

These is share by a friend on facebook. Some of them are quite interesting:

Things that MICROSOFT Could not Explain!

MAGIC #1
Found that nobody can create a FOLDER anywhere on the Computer which can be named as “CON”. This is something funny and inexplicable? At Microsoft the whole Team, couldn’t answer why this happened! TRY IT NOW, IT WILL NOT CREATE A “CON” FOLDER

MAGIC #2
For those of you using Windows, do the following:
1.) Open an empty notepad file
2.) Type “Bush hid the facts” (without the quotes)
3.) Save it as whatever you want.
4.) Close it, and re-open it.
Noticed the weird bug? No one can explain!

MAGIC #3
Again this is something funny and can’t be explained?
At Microsoft the whole Team, including Bill Gates, couldn’t answer why this happened!
It was discovered by a Brazilian. Try it out yourself?
Open Microsoft Word and type
=rand (200, 99)
And then press ENTER And see the magic?..!

Magic #4
Did you know that a flight number from one of the planes that hit one of the two WTC towers on 9/11 was Q33N. In Notepad / WordPad or MS Word, type that flight number i.e Q33N. Increase the font size to 72. Change the font to Wingdings. ….. u will be amazed by the findings!!!

Have a try!

Control iTunes using Multimedia Key on Your PC

2011-08-13 by bustatech

I am not sure if you use iTunes as the MP3 player on your PC or Mac, but since my Windows Media Player loss all my MP3 libraries and failed to add new MP3 to it, I start using iTunes, and I am kind of love it over Windows Media Player. You can download iTunes for PC from http://www.apple.com/itunes/download/. The print screen of my iTunes:

Run Multiple Dropbox on Your PC at The Same Time

2011-04-08 by bustatech

Dropbox is an useful application that automatically sync your files on multiple PCs and even your handphone. More info about dropbox here. You can create your Dropbox account and get the Dropbox installer for free from http://www.dropbox.com. For free account user like me, you are only allowed to put maximum 2GB of file into your Dropbox. To get larger space, you can either pay for Pro account or you can run multiple 2GB free account on your PC. I will shows the step by step on how to have multiple Dropbox running on your PC at the same time.

The first step is to visit http://nionsoftware.com/dbpahk/ and download the latest DropboxPortableAHK from the page, or you can get the download link at the end of this article.

Nice software for Print Screen – Gadwin PrintScreen

2010-11-22 by bustatech

I am not sure how much you are dealing with print screen, and maybe some even never touch the print screen key for a long time. Anyway, I would like to introduce an application/software, called Gadwin PrintScreen that helps and reduces work for those who use a lot of print screen. The homepage of the software http://www.gadwin.com/printscreen/.

Nice desktop application – HTC Home

2010-10-26 by bustatech

Hi, today I would like to introduce a very nice desktop application called HTC Home, the website: http://www.htchome.org .

Drop all your important files into your Dropbox

2010-09-30 by bustatech

Do you bring your pendrive from home to work at the morning and bring that pendrive back from work to home everyday? Do you ever forgot to bring your pendrive or left your pendrive at office? Or do you ever loss your pendrive? You can now forget your pendrive and start using Dropbox. http://www.dropbox.com/

Dropbox is an application (or you can call it a service) that enable you to have a folder (default name “My Dropbox”) that you can access either from your Office PC or your Home PC, or any other PC you want. You can access files at your Office PC that you put to that folder at your Home PC. The “My Dropbox” folder will always be sync between all the PC you have or even your Iphone. One nice thing about Dropbox is you can create a free account with free storage up to 2GB http://www.dropbox.com/. The video below show detail information about the Dropbox:

Get a free account now: http://www.dropbox.com/

Easy method to send out exe file in your email or chat program

2010-07-30 by bustatech

Have you ever face problem trying to send out an exe file, either using email (Gmail, Yahoo Mail) or chat program (Google Talk, MSN Live Messenger)? Most of the email provider like Gmail, prevent the user to send out exe file, even if you zip the exe file.

The “RED” message pop out after I click the Send button. “WebcamViewer V1.0.zip contains an executable file. For security reasons, Gmail does not allow you to send this type of file. Your message has been moved back to Drafts.”