Windows

Catch up !

August 28, 2007

I haven’t written a post in the past 10 days and many of my friends including some readers started pinging me to check on my status I am very much alive, only that I was caught up with a little work and also decided to take some time off FeedDemon, the RSS reader that I [...]

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Tabbed Windows Console

August 5, 2007

If you are used to a tabbed browser or a tabbed text editor you would also love a tabbed Windows console. As we all know the windows console isn’t the prettiest of the applications nor its usable when it comes to selecting text or pasting text. (I am not sure if the console application has [...]

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Sandisk Cruzer Micro

July 2, 2007

I have been planning to buy a USB flash drive from quite some time now. My current 256MB flash drive is of no use in the sense that it runs out of space too quickly. My 30GB iPod could have served as an alternative; however its little bulky to carry around and the “proprietary” cable [...]

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Movavi Video Converter

June 3, 2007

In recent times Videos, especially streaming videos are becoming extremely popular. There are hundreds of video sharing sites that want to become the Flickr of online video world. Most of the videos on these sites are encoded in Flash and if someone is interested in downloading the videos, he has to start searching for a [...]

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Windows Live Writer Reloaded

June 1, 2007

Microsoft‘s Windows Live Writer is a powerful desktop based weblog client and is currently the only product I like from Microsoft’s stable. The initial beta had lot of interesting features which made it a must have for any blogger. Review of Windows Live Writer Beta 1 There are lot of free and licensed desktop weblog [...]

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Keybreeze – Quickly launch applications

May 30, 2007

The “Start Menu” on my PC generally extends upto 3-4 columns; thanks to all the software/tools that I install/try out. [Note: Screen width is set to 1280 pixels ] On the top of this, Windows XP has a totally useless Start Menu; If I have to quickly launch an application, I spend more time searching [...]

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HowTo: Tail Files in Eclipse IDE

May 19, 2007

Unix ‘tail’ command is used to display the last few lines of a file. The ‘-f’ parameter makes the utility more useful in the sense that it allows you to ‘follow’ the output of the file. As and when additional lines are added to the file, they are displayed on the terminal. The follow parameter [...]

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RSS Bandit – Alternative to FeedDemon

April 17, 2007

FeedDemon, the popular RSS feed reader for windows is/was one of my favorite application. It has a clean user friendly interface and reading/managing the feeds is a treat with this application. Its also one of the few desktop based readers which can synchronize with an online service -Newsgator. However FeedDemon comes at a price (30$) [...]

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Acer – Upgrade to Vista

April 9, 2007

In spite of hearing all the negative feedback on Windows Vista I am still very keen on upgrading my Acer laptop from XP to Vista. I had tried the Beta version of Vista on the laptop and worked pretty well. I got my Acer 1690 laptop in the first quarter of 2006 and wasn’t aware [...]

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LockNote

February 13, 2007

Steganos LockNote is the one of the simplest application to store/retrieve confidential data. If you want to store E-Mail account passwords, bank login details etc in a secure way, LockNote is the application to use. It is also very secure since the information is encrypted using a password and it uses AES 256bit encryption. There [...]

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