Inverse Karma

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 [...]

Many applications install a bunch of services when installed, which in most cases, are needed to be run only when the application is run. However, these services are set to start up automatically at logon, which can significantly affect startup performance, leaving you to watch the waiting cursor while a bunch of useless (at least, [...]

With Chrome gathering a huge user-base, there has been focus on improving Firefox performance – especially startup times, where Chrome blows Firefox out of the water. Two months ago, the 20-line bugfix that was touted to improve Firefox startup time by 50% raised quite a few eyebrows in the tech community. Now, the same developer [...]

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 [...]

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, [...]

Microsoft released Service Pack 2 for Windows Vista yesterday. Download the standalone installer here. The file size is 348 MB. But if you’d rather not download such a large file, SP2 will be available on the Windows Update channel around June 30, which will download files required only for your Windows configuration. Note that installation [...]