We have so many new Microblogging/Social Networking sites that keeping track of all of them becomes difficult on a day-to-day basis. With Ping.fm you can link your social network together – post a Tweet, update your status, submit a meme ALL with just one click!

Today, I was at my dad’s office and interestingly the Wi-Fi locator on his notebook flashed a new network – ‘Hari Om’ it showed the holly network as unsecured! My curiosity got the better of me and I instantly double clicked and Wolla! It was connected with a signal strength of 80%.
Although, I wasn’t hopping of any miracles but Firefox opened the default Google homepage and before I knew it…

Torrents are fun. Downloading from swarms however has a negative side. The download speed may be capped, there are port forwarding issues. Upload is mandatory and you may not have a good seeders to peers ratio.

Using G2P.org (a take on P2P – stands for Google-to-peer) allows you to search the web (via Google) for files you want. The concept behind it is simplicity itself – it uses special search operators…

A lot has been said about how virtual memory increases system performance. After RAM, people often suggest the second best way to get a speed boost is to increase the size of pagefile.sys. Its time for debunking some myths about virtual memory.

Here are a few false beliefs about virtual memory

More is better.
Setting a static swap file size will make virtual memory more effective.
Emptying the Pagefile will increase system performance.

All of…

Earlier, I wrote about why I love windows the most. Today, I am writing about why Linux hates me. You may think how can an OS hate you? In fact, hate is a strong word, instead, let’s say it doesn’t really love me very much!

It all started the day I became a fan of Open Source softwares. I just love open source alternatives so much so that you’ll find me…

One utility any Operating System can not be complete without is a text editor. To many people the first example that comes to mind is Notepad (In case of Windows). Some on the other hand, may shout “Microsoft Word”, I’d like to offer an explanation here – Word is NOT a text editor instead its a WORD PROCESSOR.
Power users, enthusiasts & programmers will agree on the fact…

This is a really interesting piece of news and I’m digging it as soon as I finish writing. I just discovered this bug in Apple’s Safari 4 Beta. Although some “interesting effects” and minor issues are expected out of a beta release and should go away in the final version but after all, a bug is a BUG!
In Wordpress, when we use the Tiny MCE Editor – WYSIWYG and click…

I formatted my Vista 64Bit and installed WinXP SP3 32Bit. Apart from the reduction in memory from 4GB to 3.5GB, there is no change which I have encountered. Windows XP feels more crisp and responsive than Vista. Your view may differ but this post is about an addon I found which makes Navigation through Windows Explorer in WindowsXP similar to Vista style breadcrumbs trail.

Here is the Application in action, its…

I have two Gmail accounts, one is my personal email and second is of my blog. Last week, I found out how to integrate both the email addresses so that I could change the “From” field and send an email from any account. It does not matter from which account you are logged in.

Here is what you have to do to integrate your Gmail accounts

LogIn and go to Settings,…

All of us have faced this situation, an issue which cannot be resolved. Software not being installed correctly, Software not functioning the way it should, Driver problem, Configuring IIS on windows, Resizing Partitions etc

There are time when you must have faced a situation in which a friend of yours could help you out only if he could have access to your PC. Not only troubleshooting, if you have multiple systems…