We’ve covered a few (umm, seventeen!) tips to extend your laptop battery power, but even that may not help when your laptop is loaded with megatons of desktop like power and just a mediocre battery to handle it all. No wonder, most of the regular sized laptops these days usually run out of battery in [...]
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When it comes to speed, Firefox has been traditionally behind rival browsers like Chrome, Opera and Safari. No, I’m not talking about ‘webpage rendering’ speed – which is what is causing all the browser flame wars these days (and in which Firefox loses spectacularly as well). What I’m talking about is the speed of the [...]
You’ve probably heard of Picasa Web Albums, the cloud extension to Google’s famous Picasa software. Picasa Web is nowhere as popular as Flickr or Facebook for storing photos, but like everything Google, it has a rich set of cool features that make managing your albums easy and fun. One such feature is the “Swivel View”, [...]
Bookmarklets are extremely useful in the sense they can do an awful lot of stuff that regular browser extensions do, with the added advantage of being compatible across all browsers. So, if you suddenly feel like switching browsers, all you’ve to do is transfer your bookmarklets and you’re good to go. With bookmarklets, you can [...]
If you’ve been downloading torrents for any period of time, I’m sure you’ve heard of μTorrent, the nifty, and, possibly the most popular BitTorrent client for Windows. Recently, it introduced a new lightweight protocol called uTP in its latest version – 2.0. The developers of uTP claim it to be ISP-friendly (and more), as it [...]
