I’ve using this really handy freeware that makes all other Offline Browsers go for a toss. Admitted, Offline Browsers are real good for storing content offline – but very soon your pages and directories become an uncontrollable mess if not organized properly from Day 1. Besides they still reside as...
This was another of my journeys into the deep dark dungeons of Linux. This time I managed to set-up a DNS server locally and got it resolving addresses over my intranet. Experimentation Platform: Intel P4 3.0Ghz (Intel MotherBoard)1 GB RAM2 x 80 GB HDD on RAID 1 (Disk Mirroring) –...
Registrar Lite is a powerful & immensely flexible registry editor for WinXP/2000/NT/ME/9x that offers a horde of necessary features that are totally lacking in the standard registry editor (RegEdit) packaged with Windows. It’s brought to you by Resplendence Software. Registrar Lite sports a Windows Explorer like two-pane interface with a...
It was only a matter of time before Skype, the popular VoIP software was made a target by virus authors. Websense, a leading internet security firm has discovered a worm that propagates through Skype Chat – the inbuilt instant messaging tool. The worm which probably originated somewhere in the Asia-Pacific...
For a long while I’ve been plagued by the limitations of the Windows Clipboard. First of all you can copy only one object at a time (once you copy a second one, it replaces the first) and absolutely no retentivity. For instance, if I needed to copy a couple of...
Very frequently I engage in lively video conversations with family & friends through MSN and invariably occasions arose when I felt the need to capture whole conversations or at least short video clips. You just can’t let some memorable moments slip by like that… I searched far and wide for...
Giveaway of the Day is a brand new project that gives away free software – legally! Yup, that’s right. Everyday they pick a software from well-known companies and make a fully functional version available for download through-out the day. Those who are able to grab it during the allowed period...
When I first read about this my thoughts were – “Oh no..one more player in the already too crowded Web OS gang !!” How wrong I was ! This one turned out to be a transformation pack for Windows XP, giving you a complete Mac makeover. Visiting the site took...
I came across this terrific freeware tool called Sandboxie that can run almost any given program in a virtual sandboxed space and revert your system back to the original state it was in, once you terminate the program. For instance, when you surf using your favourite browser (Firefox/IE/Opera) – they...
This is one of the first of a series of tutorials I wrote on taming the Linux daemons. It was first published at Astahost Forums on February 5th, 2005.I’m sure all of you must have come across the term DHCP – anyone who’s connects to the internet has to come...