Tools

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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Adobe Digital Editions

October 31, 2006

Adobe labs has come out with Digital Editions which is supposed to be a completely new way of reading and managing e-books. Digital Editions is built from the ground up as a lightweight, rich Internet application (RIA). Digital Editions works online and offline, and supports both PDF and XHTML-based content. This is an early Windows [...]

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PicLens

October 25, 2006

Alec from CoolIris mailed me regarding PicLens, a new product from CoolIris. (Check my post on CoolIris here) PicLens is a first-of-its-kind browser plug-in that transforms your browser window into an immersive cinematic experience for viewing web images. Compared to the traditional, sluggish way of viewing of images of the web, the PicLens viewing experience [...]

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MediaMonkey – AutoTag MP3

October 10, 2006

I stumbled upon MediaMonkey few days ago and if any of you guys are managing tons of MP3, this is one cute little application you should try ! I am still trying to figure out as to how I found this ! Doesn’t matter Managing MP3 media files is always a pain. Usually you end [...]

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Comic Viewer

October 4, 2006

During the summer holidays whenever I used to visit my grandparents house, one thing I always used to do was read comics. There was a huge collection over  there and I somehow managed to finish reading most of it during my stay there. And during my next visit, I used to again start reading it, [...]

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CCleaner

September 25, 2006

In response to my previous post on Disk space, Rahul suggested me to try the CCleaner application. Initially I thought that the functionality of CCleaner was similar to that of Windows Disk Cleanup I was proved wrong ! First I ran Disk Cleanup to clear the temporary files. Later I ran CCleaner and the tool [...]

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Planning to upgrade to Windows Vista ?

September 16, 2006

If you are planning to upgrade to Windows vista, you should also start planning to upgrade your PC hardware ? But do you really need to upgrade your hardware ? The Windows Vista Upgrade Advisor is the right tool to answer this ! It recently had an “upgrade” to RC and the same is available [...]

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"Hidden" iTunes Toolbar

August 25, 2006

I have been using iTunes for quite some time, but I was not aware that iTunes had a nice little toolbar as well. This is how you activate the toolbar. Open iTunes Right Click on the Taskbar and select Toolbars -> iTunes(This toolbar option appears only when iTunes is running and its kind of totally [...]

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Images for your theme

August 21, 2006

Check this link http://www.intersmash.com/300images/ It has got images for Arrows Posts Comments Mails Bullets Print Carts and Bags If you are thinking of customizing your wordpress theme, do consider using some of these images.

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Windows Live Writer – Powerful Desktop Based Weblog Client

August 17, 2006

The WYSIWYG editor in worpdress is one of feature that is used most by any user using wordpress to host the website. However this builtin editor is pretty slow and to write/publish every post, you need to login to the administration console. Desktop based weblog clients are a good alternative and these clients help you [...]

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