If you do a whole lot typing in Bengali and are bothered by the fact that XP always gets you started with that ugly font named Vrinda, here’s a quick fix for you. Font Fixer is a tiny utility (72 KB) that provides you with a one-step solution for setting...
While for many of us, Windows Media Player may serve as a good enough tool for video playback, but it’s certainly got it’s problems. Lets face it – for most part it’s perfectly capable of playing DVDs, but performs miserably when it comes to playing wmv or mpeg files which...
For people like me, who download a lot from the net and work with a wide-varitey of files spread over different drives, it’s an eternal headache to navigate between drives and folders every time I try to save some file. The common file dialog that is brought up by Windows...
Am sure all of us have done it at some point of time i.e. just cleared out our Recycle Bins and then to our horror realised that some really important file has also taken a hike with it. Or maybe you were simply trying to act tech savvy on your...
iPod owners who’ve been frequenting my blog may have come across my earlier post on SharePod – which is an excellent freeware tool for managing your iPod as well as for backing up of all the tracks to your PC. SharePod’s biggest drawback is that the software hasn’t been worked...
Linux Kernel in a Nutshell is yet another release in the Nutshell series by O’Rielly that teaches you how to build, configure, and install a custom Linux kernel on your machine. The author, Greg Kroah-Hartman routinely does the same for a living. Good news is that for the average user,...
This tiny freeware utility from GadWin has got to be best freeware screen-capture tool I’ve ever come across. Recently, I was reading a review / comparison of some of the more popular screen-capture utilities and I was surprised to see the meagerly attention devoted to such an excellent piece of...
Last week I’d written about a handy bundle of 37 essential PC Repair tools which easily fits on a 32MB USB Flash drive making it a really versatile and highly portable PC Recovery kit. I’ve been out on the hunt since then for more of such useful tools and recently...
This is the first post in a new series of tips & tricks that I’m going to run henceforth on my blog. The series will deal with accessorising Windows XP and enjoying a Vista like experience. The series will be called XP’rience Vista. Vista is still going to take some...
A couple of days back I’d reviewed the ultra cool Royale Blue and Royale Noir Black themes for Windows XP. Both the themes came as part of a single theme file called msroyale. Along with that I’d also provided a link to the Zune theme, which is almost similar to...