Inverse Karma

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 [...]

Ever wanted to check the actual speed of your trusted little USB drive? Well here’s a small utility (available as both free and paid versions) that lets you benchmark your USB device. I ran a sample test on a friend’s Transcend 2GB JetFlash device and came up with the screenshot below! Looks like its a [...]

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 [...]

Fences is an amazing desktop organizing software to maintain a clean and tidy desktop. It works on Windows XP, Vista and even Windows 7! Post installation, it presents a wizard that lets you choose between using their built-in container layouts and also it tries to detect and group icons on its own (of course, you [...]

Media players are almost an indispensable piece of software that everyone uses on a routine basis. But with a plethora of formats cropping up now and then, it kinda becomes annoying to track down codecs and install them. Of course, you’ve got popular codec packs like KLite and Storm Codec. But popular players like VLC [...]

Everyone uses Ahead’s burning software Nero. I got my first taste of it in 2004 when Nero 5 was pretty much the standard application that all OEMs bundled with their products. It included a host of other utilities like a WAV file editor, a cover designer, a VCD/SVCD menu editor. And with every successive version [...]

According to a TRAI survey, public sector telecom giant BSNL enjoys the dominant position among internet service providers (ISP) in India with roughly 40-50 per cent of the market share. I’ve always been a DataOne (the broadband service offered by BSNL) user here in Chennai and its been extremely satisfactory. And lets face it, no [...]