November 2006

AutoHide Firefox Extension

November 29, 2006

In most of the browsers, toolbars take a lot of space on the display. You can either remove/hide the toolbars or switch to Full Screen Mode. In the latest version of Firefox (Version 2.0) the Full Screen mode will display only the Navigation Toolbar. However you are forced to switch back to the normal view [...]

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More Vista Wallpapers

November 26, 2006

In one of my previous post I had linked to Windows Vista Wallpapers shared by Stephen Silber. Haklabs has shared another set of 54 photos from Vista RTM build. Download it here ! Its hosted on Rapidshare;Wonder why people use this sharing service, I would recommend using AMD’s Streamload for sharing big files ! Brajeshwar [...]

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I want Windows XP SP3

November 26, 2006

This might sound crazy; but I make it a point to reinstall Windows every 6-8 months. I install a lot of tools/applications and over the period of time the PC becomes very slow. Even if I do DiskCleanup and Registry cleanup, its not of much use ! Some of the steps I take before reinstalling [...]

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EclEmma – Java Code Coverage

November 22, 2006

EclEmma is a free Java code coverage tool for Eclipse and is based on EMMA code coverage tool. Features Fast develop/test cycle: Launches from within the workbench like JUnit test runs can directly be analyzed for code coverage. Rich coverage analysis: Coverage results are immediately summarized and highlighted in the Java source code editors. Non-invasive: [...]

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The Last Legion

November 21, 2006

Check out the trailer of The Last Legion starring Aishwarya Rai ! I never knew till now that she was starring in a Hollywood movie. If you saw the trailer completely one thing that you will notice immediately is the dialogue delivery by Aishwarya Rai ! Sounds pathetic !  Doesn’t it ? This is the comment left on [...]

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QWERTY Warriors

November 19, 2006

My hands are aching as I type this post ! All credit for the pain goes to this game called QWERTY Warriors ! The game is pathetically addictive and is supposed to improve your typing speed ! When I took the “Typing Test” some time back I was impressed by my own abilities. However I [...]

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Kiwi !

November 18, 2006

I stumbled on this video in Youtube and its worth watching ! The video was created by Dony Permedi as a part of his Masters Thesis (Animation)

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Ethereal User Guide

November 17, 2006

Ethereal is one of the best open source packet sniffer available today. It is available on both Windows and Unix Platform. Detailed list of Ethereal features can be found here ! Richard Sharpe and Ed Warnicke have written an extensive user guide(450 pages) on Ethereal. The intent of the document was to improve the accessibility [...]

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Launchy – Quicksilver for Windows ?

November 16, 2006

One of the features I liked in Google Desktop was the Quick search. Using this, I could quickly invoke the programs in the Start Menu, other than searching the files in my computer. Colibri was a nice alternative to GD’s Quick Search. You can read more about Colibri here. Launchy is another nice little open [...]

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100 Linux Tips and Tricks

November 12, 2006

Nope I am not going to write a post listing the 100 Linux Tips and Tricks. I am just going to attach a nice book that I found while searching through by E-book collection The book is pretty good for new Linux users and can help them to quickly get started on Linux ! I [...]

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