Inverse Karma

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 [...]

Recently, two of my friends who were regular users of orkut (like me) woke up to find that their accounts were taken over by some weird jerk and that nasty scraps and photo comments had been sent out from their accounts. Obviously both were shocked, but one was at least able to recover his account [...]

As a follow up to my previous article on how to protect your PC from viruses & spyware, I’m gonna show you how to protect yourself from even the latest, meanest & baddest viruses that spread through USB thumb drives. USB drives have become an easy and also the most popular data transfer medium these [...]

We all know Windows’ weak spot has been security – but software companies and passionate programmers alike – have come up with some great software that can help users to both prevent and remove potential threats like viruses, trojans, worms, spyware and malware. This article assumes that the user has a fair amount of experience [...]