Windows Update KB971033 goes live to Kill Pirated Windows 7
Serious update to all the Windows 7 users who use the non-genuine copy. Microsoft has released a WAT (Windows Activation Technologies) update targeted to kill non-genuine/pirated copies on Windows 7. (more…)
Love Twitter & DOS? Here’s Quitter
Geek? Nerd? Love DOS? Addicted to Twitter? Here’s Quitter – a free, OpenSource, quiet, light-weight and portable Twitter client.
Quitter is a tiny Twitter client that runs in a command window (DOS) and doesn’t let the world know you are Tweeting. It’s a single small EXE file of a mere 140KB in size along with an XML file that takes hardly a KB. (more…)
The Best of OpenSource Portable Applications
With Flash Drives with higher data rates & high capacity, you can store virtually anything – starting from your holiday photos to PowerPoint presentations, starting from Applications to Operating Systems.
Here is a list of the best of OpenSource Portable Apps, starting from simple utilities to 3D modelling applications, categorized. (more…)
Resizing Images – Windows Vista & 7
For Windows XP, Microsoft has its own Image Resizer Power Toy available here. But if your OS is one among those that were developed later, say Vista or the new comer Windows 7, don’t expect the same old Power Toy to work. Microsoft hasn’t thought of developing a similar Power Toy for Vista/7, so lets look for some alternatives. (more…)
Tracking your Blog Visitors
So you have a blog with great content, optimized for search engines and ready to get exploding traffic? But how do you know which of your articles are most liked by your visitors, and how many unique visitors and impressions your blog gets daily? To track these, you’ll have to feed your blog with few lines of JavaScript; or if you find it hard, plugins are there for you. (more…)
Pixie – Lightweight Portable Color Picker
Whether you are working with Photoshop, or altering your AdSense colors, or the HEX color codes in your CSS or simply playing with colors, you’ll always need a color picker that helps you find RGB / CYMK / HTML Hex color codes
A free alternative to ZoneAlarm
You should’ve already read my article on Basic Security for your PC where I recommended ZoneAlarm Free. But due to its incompatibility with Windows 7 when I tried a month back, I had to look for an alternative. The latest version (ZoneAlarm 9.1.007) released a few days back is compatible with Windows 7. After a few hunts on the internet, I landed (more…)
What is RockBox and Why?
RockBox is a Free and OpenSource jukebox Firmware for Portable Players from SanDisk, Apple, Olympus, Cowon, Toshiba, Archos and iRiver. The tutorials given here are for SanDisk Sansa MP3 Players. They are personally tried by me and tested safe. Just make sure you follow the tutorials properly for a safe installation of RockBox firmware.
Why RockBox?
RockBox can totally change your phone’s interface. What you see on a basic Sansa Firmware is (more…)
Turn Off your LCD with just a click
There may be times when you just want to listen to some music on your laptop and want to turn off the LCD to save battery life. But, sadly, not all laptops have a button to turn of LCD, and when you close the lid, your laptop simply goes to sleep mode. So you end up,
- leaving the lid open
- put it in an energy-saving mode
- lower display stand-by time
But, here’s a solution where you’ll just have to click an icon, and you LCD turns off automatically. ;) Continue reading, and you’ll learn by the time you reach the end of this post. (more…)
Deleting a Virtual Hard Disk [Windows 7]
My previous post should have helped you learn to create Virtual Hard Disk Drives. Now if you don’t find the use of a Virtual Drive you created, you can easily remove it. Here’s how.
Before you proceed, be sure to take a backup of files you have in your virtual HDD. (if needed)
Open Disk Management by typing diskmgmt.msc in the RUN command. (more…)
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