Creating desktop shortcuts, adding files to start menu and pinning of applications to the taskbar.. why do we do apply these tweaks? Indeed you are right - it’s our attempt to launch our favorite programs in the easiest and quickest away possible. These tricks are good, but if you want to try something new, something [...]
Windows
If you have a common computer in your home then I am sure some day or the other you must have thought about hiding some of your files from others. Gone are the days when you can simply hide your data using the Windows built-in hiding option, unless you’ve got non tech-savvy elders or toddlers [...]
Adobe may have given us the Portable Document Format or PDF as it is popularly known. It may also have the set of industry standard tools from the free Adobe Reader to the $199 Adobe Acrobat X. But the good news is that with the slew of PDF freeware available today, you can look beyond [...]
We have talked about TrueCrypt on many occasions in the past. It’s a free open source tool to create a virtual encrypted disk. No doubt it’s one of the most secure methods of encrypting data, but at the same time it’s a little tricky to implement. In this Truecypt guide we have mentioned all the [...]
Whenever your computer starts acting weird and makes it difficult for you to work on, the first thing that comes to you mind is whether a virus has affected your computer. Some of those times, your fears might turn out to be true. Hence it helps to know about these enemies of your computer and [...]
Do you to change your desktop wallpaper every now and then but doing so manually all the time makes you a little cranky? Well, there are tools and ways to change wallpapers automatically, and today we’ll take up one of them. We have already discussed about DesktopSlides, a nifty tool that changes desktop wallpapers automatically. [...]
There could be instances when you need to track changes to a Windows folder, like the files that have been added over time to it or the number of times it has been opened by a user in a day. Of course you can check the folders for changes and even check file attributes manually [...]
Flowcharts are examples of diagrams that are the easiest to create but have great significance when they manage to do what they do. And that is, explain how a series of steps fits together in a process. Flowcharts are one of the important decision making tools you would do well to master. Contrary to opinion, [...]
With the tons of TV shows, movies, and documentaries out there in various different definitions and encoded in different codecs and formats, every user looks for the one player that is able to smoothly buffer videos and has the ability to open all sorts of files, ranging from .mp4‘s to .mkv‘s. I hated those days [...]
Remember the old visuals of reporters on the beat holding up handheld audio recorders to catch some sound bytes? Well, I recently came across a ‘different’ version of it when I visited a conference. The guy sitting next to me was using his laptop to record the speaker’s speech. He was using a free software [...]
Ever heard of Mac OS X‘s Spaces? It’s a great utility that allows you to create new desktops on your Mac computer. For example, you can leave iTunes on one desktop, Facebook in another, and your Word document in a third desktop. That means you won’t be distracted by Facebook Chat when you’re working on [...]
Usually in the real world, if everyone tries to make a grab for the same thing, it leads to chaos. But in the world of torrents, it is this basic principle that’s followed. Let us explain it a bit more clearly. When you click a link to download something, the relationship between you (the downloader) [...]
Sometimes we like to go loud. Take for instance the fact that I have my computer set up to automatically wake me up in the morning with a song from my playlist. But hitting the decibels isn’t always a good idea if you have aurally sensitive neighbors. Volume Concierge helps you earn brownie points with [...]
There’s this little piece of Windows that everyone has run into. Yet not very many people know exactly what it’s about, and why it’s there. It’s called Windows Safe Mode, and you might have had to boot into it. I remember my first encounter with Safe Mode when I was a kid, running on Windows [...]
When was the last time you clicked endlessly to find about the hardware configurations of your system? I bet finding all about your PC in a few clicks is difficult for the average user (unless you are using Speccy or any other such tools). Today I would like to show you yet another simple tool [...]
Apple really knows how to make its products beautiful. I’m not an Apple fanboy and do not carry an iPad wherever I go but I have tried them and I do like a lot of things about them (yes, I ain’t a Windows fanbiy either). Hence time and again I play with my existing devices [...]
If I start by saying that iTunes is one of the best music players of all times, I think I will be doing a little injustice to it. Don’t get me wrong, I am not defying the point of it being one of the best but what I feel is that it ain’t just a [...]
Screensavers as we know them were used to save monitors when people worked on CRT or Plasma devices. It prevented phosphorus burn-ins by displaying a randomly moving image on the screen. Today the world has moved on to LCD and LED monitors and we don’t need screensavers for the same purpose. But, if I tell [...]
One of the things I am paranoid about is the Windows boot up time. Yes, I just can’t stand delay in my boot process and thus I use software (currently using Soluto) to either remove the program from the startup process or delay the process by few seconds so that the application does not mess-up [...]
