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Recently, I had accidentally deleted a very important video from my camera, and was looking for ways to somehow recover it. After trying out a bunch of useless applications, I stumbled upon the misleadingly titled PhotoRec. PhotoRec comes from Christophe Grenier, the same dude behind TestDisk, which had saved my ass more than once in [...]

Friending your parents on Facebook isn’t a great idea, but it is almost unavoidable. And sometimes, you make the inadvertent mistake of posting a.. inappropriate status message. However, Facebook actually provides very granular privacy options. Here’s how you can hide your Facebook status from specific people in your friends list, or even let only specific [...]

Photography had always been a passion for me, and I was clicking pictures (good and bad) and reading about photography techniques all the time. With the time just right for buying a good camera (read: have enough money), and putting months of research into good use, I finally decided to buy a camera on my [...]

With portable memory becoming cheaper everyday, more and more devices are pushing the memory capacity to unprecedented levels. The ubiquitous iPod comes with a mammoth 160GB space (the Classic version). Even your mobile phone could take up to 4GB or 8GB SD memory cards. So what do you do with all that storage space lying [...]

Everyone needs a PDF reader. But if you’re still using Adobe Reader, it is time to switch to one of the many better alternatives. Why better? The Adobe Reader installer is a whopping 25 MB download, it draws significant memory (and hence SLOW). Some popular alternatives include Foxit Reader, PDF X-Change and Sumatra. My personal [...]

Many computer users often hit upon this dilemma – which format to save an image in. The four most popular image formats are – BMP, JPG, PNG and GIF. BMP can be imagined as some kind of a raw lossless format that is used only in special cases. GIF is largely used for animated images [...]

AAC stands for Advanced Audio Coding and is officially the successor to the hugely popular (and still widely prevalent) MP3 format. AAC was developed by Fraunhofer, AT&T, Nokia, Sony and Dolby and offers a number of improvements over MP3. Okay so you clicked on that link and you understood NOTHING (like me!). Fear not peeps, [...]

I have (and many of my friends too) a broadband plan that allows free usage at a specific part of the day, or in my case, the earliest part of the early morning. After having grown tired of waking up at 2 A.M (you read that right) to download my torrents, I thought of finding [...]

I’m sure most of you have quite a handful of movies on your hard-disks. I recently upgraded my HDD just so that I could accommodate my growing movie collection. Soon, finding some movie or some actor becomes difficult and you’ll have to start cataloging everything. Now there are the popular ones like DVD Profiler and [...]

Ever got frustrated with the annoyingly long right-click menu on your computer? (It could even make your PC slower). Well, I have! Googling a solution to knock a couple of items off the context menu, you’d most likely end up with a lotta websites asking you to manually edit your registry, which I would not [...]