PTFB Pro (Push the Freakin' Button)
How many times have you downloaded a software from the internet and you had to click through a number of dialog boxes, like asking you if you trust the publisher, or agree the license and stuff like that. It does become repetitive and can bog you down if you are one of those guys who are trying out new stuff all the time. It’s enough to make a mild-mannered computer user shout, “Yes! Yes! Just push the damned freakin’ button!” Or something like that. What you want is a simple,... Read The Rest →
19 Little Known Facts of Windows XP
Windows XP happens to be one of the most popular operating systems from the Windows Family. I Just don’t like Vista because it really isn’t able to match upto Windows XP on similar loads and conditions. So here are some tricks that will give you a lot of extra muscle to use your Windows Machine. 1. Windows XP boasts of how long it can stay up. Whereas previous versions of Windows were coy about how long they went between boots, XP is positively proud of its stamina. Go to run... Read The Rest →
Connect Your Laptop to Internet without Tweaking with the Settings
If you are one of those readers who use Laptop at different places like School, Office and Home etc.. You Must be knowing what pain it is to keep shuffling between your TCP/IP settings everytime you change the location. Well there is a solution for this problem. All You need is NetSetMan a network settings manager that lets you create multiple LAN profiles on the same computer. Using NetSetMan all you have to do is configure everything once and save it as a profile and you are ready to go.... Read The Rest →
Delicer – del.icio.us Client for Windows
Delicer is del.icio.us client for Windows.It is a Desktop program that allows you to: Manage your whole delicious account. Easily search for your own tags and navigate through URLs accordingly without opening a single browser. Post new, rename existing, and delete old tags without surfing through delicious. Feeds from YouTube and delicious are available with one button-click.
Speed Up Torrent Downloads in Windows Vista
I’ve noticed that BitTorrent downloads are not as fast on my friends PC as they were for me in XP. From what I could understand, this reduction in speed is due to difference in the AutoTuning function that Vista uses on the TCP/IP stack.But guess what the optimizer actually results in slower downloads. This affects BitTorrent and other programs that make use of threaded downloads. If you are seeing slow downloads in BitTorrent too, you can disable the AutoTuning in Vista, this worked for my friend so i guess it... Read The Rest →
Intype – Text Editor for Windows
Intype is a powerful and intuitive code editor for Windows with lightning fast response. It is easily extensible and customizable, thanks in part to its support for scripting and native plug-ins. It makes development in any programming or scripting language quick and easy. Intype also has some amazing looking screencasts so if you are intrested in watching them go ahead and click these links Watch Snippets Watch Parser in Editor Video: HTML Snippets (take one)
Installing IE 6 on Windows Vista [How To]
If you are a web designer or web developer, then you know how important it is that the sites you design look and function the same in multiple browser environments. This is easily achieved by simply downloading the latest versions of Mozilla Firefox, Safari, Gecko, Konqueror, Opera and what ever you choose. But what about Microsoft Internet Explorer? It is next to impossible to run side-by-side versions of IE. Most designers use more than one PC to accomplish this. There are ways to hack earlier installations of Mirosoft IE to... Read The Rest →
Restart Windows Without Restarting BIOS
Modern Windows OS’es can take a while to boot. My Windows XP Machine takes about 1min to boot up completely. Couple this with the fact Windows wants me to restart everytime I install an update or a driver a lot of time can be wasted just for restarting the machine. Codejacked has an interesting solution to solve this problem by restarting windows but bypassing the BIOS reboot. This can actually shave of about 10-20 seconds of the boot time. Here is how can do this trick. The trick is to... Read The Rest →
How to Flush DNS in Different OS'es?
Most DNS clients cache the results of name resolution requests. This speeds up name resolution if multiple lookups are done to the same address, such as is common when browsing the web. Sometimes a bad DNS entry will be cached and you will need to either flush the DNS cache to get rid of it, or wait up to 24 hours for it to be dropped from the cache automatically. How to Flush DNS in Microsoft Windows In Microsoft Windows, you can use the command ipconfig /flushdns to flush the... Read The Rest →
Windows Updates on Mac OSX – Irony
This is a sight to behold, one of the best desktop views you will ever be able to access. A Windows Updates notification on Mac OS X tiger. Note that the emphasis is immediately placed on the fact that Windows has successfully conquered the Mac OS X desktop. And with the support of virtualization, all roads lead to Microsoft’s Windows. Apple can only benefit from this move. The Cupertino-based company only recently upgraded its Boot Camp Public Beta to version 1.4, making another step toward Windows and especially Vista. However,... Read The Rest →
