Inverse Karma

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, [...]

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 [...]

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# [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]