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.

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Quitter – Twitter Client for the DOS Geeks

A DOS-based Twitter client for all the geeks/nerds out there

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The Best of 30+ 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.

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[How-To] Quickly Resizing Images in Windows Vista & Windows 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 [...]

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[How-To] 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 [...]

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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

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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