Inverse Karma

One of the major troubles with downloading stuff from filesharing websites is that almost all of them do not support download managers like Orbit, FDM (a personal favourite), Flashget, DownThemAll and DAP (if you’re still using it!). Also, they do not support resuming downloads. Not to mention the CAPTCHAs and the forced waiting period between [...]

Hard disk prices have come down to rock bottom, owing to the consumption of digital data. Every computer contains hundreds of thousands of a variety of files, all across various locations. It is here that the user needs a good search utility. While the Search feature built into Windows is quite adequate, it needs the [...]

Next up in my series of homebrewed software is CCS — Communicator Custom States, a simple standalone tool for adding your own status messages, or, presence states to Microsoft Office Communicator. Many corporate offices use Communicator, and this is a great tool for anyone willing to get a little creative! Note: This tool needs to [...]

Windows 7 introduces a feature called Virtual WiFi that lets you create a personal WiFi network with almost any WiFi device (even a USB WiFi dongle!) on your laptop or computer, which could then be used to share your internet connection with other devices like smartphones, media players, wireless printers, netbooks, and other laptops and [...]

While HandBrake remains a personal favourite for converting videos for my iPod Touch, it might look a little intimidating for newbies. Freemake is one of the very very few best-looking as well as feature-rich video converters for Windows. And best of all, it comes for an astoundingly low price of 0! Freemake’s Top Features Supports [...]

I’ll say it — Never before has an FTP client (uh.. for Windows) struck the balance between functionality, features and drop-dead stunning looks. Cyberduck for Windows is as functional as it is beautiful. Cyberduck has long been the de-facto FTP client on OS X, and recently, a Beta has been released for Windows. The fact [...]

A month back, my dad got himself a new Nokia C5. Being the in-house geek, I was assigned the work of ‘safely’ moving all data from the old Sony Ericsson S500 to the new phone. It was a breeze moving all the images and the audio — all I had to do was simply putting [...]

The CSS compression algorithm in Mini5 has been completely rewritten. It now uses a 2-pass CSS compression process, first compressed by the beautiful .NET port of Yahoo YUI Compressor, and then by Michael Ash’s enhancements to YUI. So you get a more efficient compression ratio and it won’t break your websites, like v1.1 did! (Obviously, [...]

UPDATED WITH SOFTPEDIA DOWNLOAD LINK! With Web 2.0 being adopted by everyone (and the imminent 3.0 wave), websites are laden with complex CSS and tons of JavaScript. IK heavily makes use of some JavaScript magic (think of the cool screenshots that nicely popup when clicked and the navigation menus and the search box on the [...]

For many years until now, LimeWire had been my (and for many others, their) tool of choice for downloading and sharing music. However, this May, the RIAA won a lawsuit filed against the P2P company, effectively making LimeWire unusable. Though BitTorrent is the de-facto standard for downloading content on the Internet now, somehow for me, [...]