Archive for November, 2008

Menu Editor: Trim your Firefox context menu [Firefox Extension]

Do you use Firefox? And if you do, are you the one who cannot resist the temptation of using various extensions? Well, I am sure you would have suffered from an over cluttered context menu in Firefox because of all the extensions you use. There’s hope now. The solutions comes in the form of [...]


Generatus: Generate status message for social networking sites

If you are one of those guys who spend a lot of time on social networking sites, then I am sure you would be writing a lot of status messages. What’s the purpose of updating status message? Well, in most cases you want to let the world know something about your thoughts at that moment [...]


Gmail get’s make-up: Themes the new feature of Gmail!

Seems like the morning is quite colorful. As I was reading some of the news feeds, I found that people are talking about Gmail’s themes. No, I still don’t have this active in my Gmail, but there are users who have got this feature. Earlier if you were to theme your Gmail interface you were [...]


Disable UAC (User Account Control) in Vista: How to avoid the nagging UAC box [How to]

Windows Operating System has always been criticized for it’s security and it’s vulnerability. But then the counter argument is that this is one Operating System which is used by more number of people compared to the users of other operating system and hence the deal is quite lucrative to the virus writers and programmers. However, [...]


Svchost.exe using 100% resources: A complete troubleshooting guide for Svchost

Svchost.exe is one of the most important and integral part of your windows operating system. Most of the users are not sure about this process. However, please know that this is a window hosting process. To explain in simpler terms Svchost.exe is a process of Windows operating system that hosts/contains other individual services (A computer [...]


Google SMS Search for India Launched [9-77-33-00000]

We have seen quite a few services being offered by Google to its Indian audience. Adding to the list is Google’s new SMS search for India. Google claims that its better than anyother service in the market as it does not charge any premium where as other services cost anywhere between Rs 3-6 per SMS. [...]


XBMC Media Center – Play All the Media Content from Computer on the Big Screen in the Living Room!

Entertainment is everywhere so why should your media content be limited to your computer only? The idea of bringing the media content from your computer to the TV in the living room has been around for a while however its quickly catching up now thanks to technology which is blurring the line [...]


Google Voice Search for iPhone shows up on iTunes finally!

After all the confusion and embarrassment for both Apple and Google since Friday, the new app finally showed up on iTunes store today.
 
The new app is based on the voice recognition technology which lets the users speak the query into their iPhone to search Google. It is also capable of [...]


Download for free ZoneAlarm 2009 Pro only on 18th November!

I am sure most of us Windows have to use some sort of security software like Antivirus or Internet Security. The reason is there’s too much of filth out there which can damage your Windows. Some of us end up using free softwares like Comodo. And some of us use some pirated version of professional [...]


Problems with iTunes: Manage your iPod using Winamp [How-to]

There was a time when to manage, upload and sync music to your iPod you needed iTunes. Something that I never liked about Apple is that they push you to a lot of dependencies and this is what they have done with iPod. However, there is now hope and you don’t have to depend on [...]