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Recently, I had accidentally deleted a very important video from my camera, and was looking for ways to somehow recover it. After trying out a bunch of useless applications, I stumbled upon the misleadingly titled PhotoRec. PhotoRec comes from Christophe Grenier, the same dude behind TestDisk, which had saved my ass more than once in [...]

Already having a market share of over 20%, the latest version of Mozilla’s web browser is touted as being “faster, easier and more awesome than ever”. Available for download right now, Firefox 4 has gone for a complete overhaul of the UI, and is also sporting a completely fresh JavaScript engine. Read on to find [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]