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Work makes life so mundane (I know, I’ve been going to office for only a week now) that we tend to forget important things, like birthdays. Sending a personalized “happy birthday” text, or better, calling up and wishing them makes it so much more special. Technology has already made inroads into this part of life [...]

Overwhelmed with the fantastic response to my Google DNS Helper, I decided to write a much better version of it, not restricted only to using Google Public DNS but other popular public DNS services. Presenting the DNS Helper The name says it all. The utility runs in your Windows notification area and provides a popup [...]

Earlier this week, Google announced a new service – Google Public DNS. For the uniniated, DNS is a system that converts simple website addresses like www.google.com to IP addresses like 209.85.231.99. So for every website you visit, your browser requests the DNS to resolve the IP address before it can show you the actual page [...]

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 [...]

A good amount of IK readers own Nokia phones, and many of them also use the accompanying Nokia PC Suite. It is a great piece of software of course, but have you noticed it adding a ‘Nokia Phone Browser’ icon in your My Computer that you can’t just get rid of? Wait.. Why get rid [...]

Last month, I decided to learn .NET. A few classes later, I had started coding simple Windows applications. In my VB6 days, I was obsessed with coding a Snake game and had actually succeeded in it (but it looked so ugly that my friends still laugh about it after 5 years!). I’ve been learning C# [...]

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 [...]

All Gmail users had to rely only on the Autocomplete feature while typing in e-mail address in the To: field. But Google has now added a handy contact chooser. The next time you are composing an e-mail, click on the To: link to launch the contact chooser in a small popup window. With this feature, [...]

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 [...]

Firefox, the best browser (uh-huh, I’m saying it!) has reached its latest milestone with the release of version 3.5. The last stable version was 3.0.11. Why did Mozilla jump from 3 to 3.5? Well that is because of the significant features and improvements the latest version offers. So why is Firefox 3.5 so special? Its [...]