We all use Google every day, quite a few times a day even and most of us are very pleased with it. But are the results to your searches always that relevant!? Often you find irrelevant results and it takes you longer than it should to find what you want. But is this because of […]
The MPAA, RIAA and several anti-piracy organizations are constantly trying to trap people into downloading fake torrents. These torrents are hosted on trackers that are setup to collect IP addresses of all the ‘pirates’ who try to download these files.To make these traps more visible, Fenopy just introduced the FakeFinder.
There are sometimes genuine reasons to unlock or crack a password protected PDF file. You have the legal right to open the encrypted PDF document but forgot the password like in the case below. Say one of your former colleague created some critical sales reports in PDF format but he is not working with the […]
Having problems installing something on your new Ubuntu operating system? “Where’s the EXE?”, “Where do I need to extract this to?”, “How do I run it?”, “Where did it go?” - have you been thinking questions like these? Don’t worry, installing software, themes and other things on Ubuntu is actually very easy! This guide will […]
Did you know that BlackBerry can now be used just like an external modem for a laptop computer, so that a laptop can have full Internet access? This is useful when you need to do certain things that a BlackBerry cannot yet do. Increasing numbers of success reports have caused me to post this message.
VLC Media Player is one of the most versatile media players ever. What it lacks in looks, it more than makes up for in functionality. It can read and save all the major formats of video and audio, and much more than that, it can rip DVDs. This is a pretty simple process, if you […]
Want to give your IT security or administrator staff access to Windows applications right in their preferred Linux desktop environment? Follow this tip and you can easily do this without needing to set up an expensive and complex Citrix environment. Also, did I mention that the following solution can be set up using free software?
Sakshi Juneja was recently interviewed on BBC Radio Five Live by Anita Anand for her views on the Big Brother Shilpa Shetty row. The radio programme is available as streaming audio [in Real Media or Windows Media] via the BBC Radio Player but there’re no direct URLs to download the entire radio show as an […]
The response I got when I posted the desktop in the image to the right was huge. Around 10 emails per day flooded in for weeks, asking exactly how I achieved that look. And, everyone who asked was given a quick guide I wrote up in a few seconds, or a “Sorry, I’ll write back […]
You’re instant messaging your wife from the office and you’d rather the IT guys weren’t privy to the conversation. You’re IM’ing a potential investor about your stealth startup at the coffee shop. These are just two scenarios when you might want to keep your instant messages from prying eyes.
This chapter is all about creating your own RSS feeds by using RSS creation applications. With RSS creators like NewzAlert Composer, for example, all you have to do is enter the data for your new feed and you’re set. When you’re finished creating your feed, you can also publish it automatically, again with an RSS […]
I own two laptops and one desktop computer, all of which run Linux. Most modern Linux distributions come with postfix and/or sendmail that allows them to send email. Unfortunately, in an attempt to reduce spam, many sysadmins have configured their mail servers not to accept email sent this way. On a desktop machine you can […]
Internet phone books, people-finding services, and other online directories make it almost impossible to keep your personal contact information entirely off the Web. It’s fairly easy for anyone to find your name, phone number, home address, or e-mail address—for business or social purposes, advertising or marketing, or even criminal intent.Here are a few ways to […]
Whenever a Linux system CPU is occupied by a process, it is unavailable for processing other requests. Rest of pending requests must wait till CPU is free. This becomes a bottleneck in the system. Following command will help you to identify CPU utilization, so that you can troubleshoot CPU related performance problems.
The Snipping Tool is a program that is part of the Vista Tablet PC Optional Components feature. Snipping Tool allows you to take selections of your windows or desktop and save them as snips, or screen shots, on your computer. In the past if you wanted a full featured screen shot program you needed to […]