Thursday, December 17, 2009

Torrent-Damage -> Torrent-Wiki

As you might have noticed one of the popular bit torrent tracker named Torrent-Damage.net is down!
The reason as i found out was some issue with the domain, the site is working perfectly fine!
Their new (maybe temporary) URL will be torrent-wiki.net

If you are in the middle of leeching/seeding a torrent please change the tracker url to
tracker.torrent-wiki.net/blah blah


www.Torrent-Wiki.net


Please say a little thank you if this helps you! :)

Tuesday, December 15, 2009

Google Chrome Extensions

I've being a hard-core Firefox fan but now Google Chrome is tempting me very much!!! First it was the Grease Monkey scripts that Chrome supported and now there are about 100 useful (almost similar to Firefox) extensions in the Google Chrome Extension website!! Installing an extension does not need a restart (well, uninstalling doesn't need either!)

Well Stumble Upon and some neat extensions are rocking Google Chrome!!! True that Chrome does not have a huge addon repository like Firefox but I'm betting on it!

Install the latest Developer Preview of Chrome and try out all those neat extensions!

Google Chrome Extensions

Monday, December 7, 2009

Get to know your laptop battery and give it a treat!

How much do you know about laptop battery? Bet you don’t know a lot apart from the manufacturer! Want to know the design capacity? Total capacity?? How about wear level? Interested? Keep reading…

Battery Care is one good piece of software that will let analyze your laptop battery’s birth certificate!

 

This is the main screen where you get to see all the basic information

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This is the Detailed Information screen where you get to know everything about the battery! As you can see there is a comprehensive list of details about your battery

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The most awesome feature of Battery Care is the automatic selection of power plan depending on the power source. This helps a lot when you keep your laptop unattended for a long period of time.

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BatteryCare has a handy system tray icon which will display the current status of your battery

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BatteryCare has options to temporarily disable battery-hungry Vista Aero and SuperFetch, ReadyBoost and SearchIndexer services in battery mode making you squeeze out that extra juice out of your battery!

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BatteryCare website contains a comprehensive guide to laptop batteries and debunks a lot of battery myths too!

http://batterycare.bkspot.com/en/guide.html

 

Another great feature of Battery Care is to change the power plan with just 2 clicks! Right click on the system tray icon and you can easily switch between ALL the power plans and not just 2! (I can seriously kill whoever changed Windows 7’s power plan switch option!)

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Battery Care is really a one man show by Filipe Lourenço! Kudos!

Download Battery Care and give it a try! It is totally worth it!

Tuesday, December 1, 2009

Your one stop solution to be online in all your IM Messengers + Email Accounts + Social Networking Sites

Seriously, how many instant messengers and web browsers windows you have to have opened to chat, view email and connect with your social networking buddies?

For me, just one simple application! Digbsy!

First of all Digsby is a MULTI-PROTOCOL Instant Messenger! It can support AIM, MSN, Yahoo, ICQ, Google Talk, Jabber, and Facebook Chat!! Yes people, FACEBOOK chat too :D :D

 

Apart from these you can have fully customizable messaging windows!

OK… no more multiple windows!!! Do it the TAB style :D

Merge all Roberts Yahoo, MSN and Facebook chat in to one! :)

Find all your conversation, quickly! Really really quickly!

One of my favourite feature is the Digsby Widget :D This allows you to embed a widget in your blog or favourite which the visitors can chat with you live while you are using your desktop Digsby application

Another very cool feature is the ability to carry on conversation without the window taking up half of your screen and blocking your precious screen space. This also allows to quickly respond to messages without stopping what you are really doing.

 

OK… that’s all about instant messaging but that doesn’t stop there! The email functionality of Digsby is very extensive!

Digsby supports Hotmail, Gmail, Yahoo Mail, AOL/AIM Mail, IMAP, and POP accounts

The another very awesome feature is to the ability to keep up with all the social networking sites. Facebook, Twitter, MySpace and LinkedIn accounts are supported. You can even update your status using Digsby :)

Well i have only covered a few of the main features of Digsby! There are 100’s of more features and customizations for Digsby!

 

Download Digsby

 

Friday, November 20, 2009

Ever wanted an uncluttered desktop?

I know everybody loves their desktop! Their treasure chest. That is where all your documents, songs, downloaded items, pr0n and all your 245 shortcuts are stored. You want it neat but you need all the items too??? Have your ever seen your beautiful wallpaper that took 5 hours to search for??? No! Not in all that clutter… Do you want a simple solution for all your clutter problems?? Like ‘em organized? Fences is your solution all your cluttered nightmares :D

 

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Like this desktop better than yours???

Want to hide all the icons and fences see that beautiful desktop wallpaper? No problem! A simple double click will do the trick. Want them back? Another double click and presto, everything is back.

And as their websites says

Fences is an add-on to your desktop, not a replacement.


Fences™ is a software by StarDock

 

Download Fences

Connectify! Share your Internet Connection, Wirelessly!

Ever wanted to share your Internet connection wirelessly?? You have 165 different WiFi activated devices and you wanted them all to have the same 100Mbps connection you get to your PC? Easy! Install Connectify! Connectify lets you virtually create/emulate a Wireless Access Point. No, it will not be an Ad-hoc network. You turn your laptop/desktop in to a REAL Wireless Access Point. No fancy configurations, no special hardware required! You only need a WiFi card (which almost all the laptops and new motherboards have built in).

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Security? Will all my neighbors get free internet? Not a problem! Your WiFi hotspot will have WPA2-Personal (AES) encryption!

So what’s the catch? You know there is one, huh? Well Connectify runs only on Windows 7… All prior Windows versions are not supported. There FAQ tells you why…

Does it run on Windows Vista or Windows XP?

Sorry, not at this time. Connectify depends on improvements made in Windows 7 to operate. Frankly, Windows 7 is such a big improvement, that we suggest you're better off upgrading than waiting for us to get all this working on an older version of Windows. For more information on upgrading to Windows 7, see the upgrade guide on our web site.

Read their FAQ for more information.

 

Download Connectify from the official website

Monday, September 28, 2009

Aw snap! My files are corrupted/missing! :(

Ever wake up in the morning only to find your nights of work is corrupted/missing or cant boot up your PC? Ever want to get back to an earlier revision of a file you were working yesterday? Two days back or one month back? :) There are two options! Keep track of several folders with the date, zip it and email it your self. There should be easier way, isn’t it? Yep! There is! Dropbox, your ultimate solution to backing up and automatic synchronization.

Setting up Dropbox is so easy and once installed it is setup once and forget type software. Dropbox, simply put, is a folder which everything you put in to is automatically synchronized with the Dropbox server + all computers you have linked up with your account. That means, if you have Dropbox installed both at home and office, both the folders will contain the same exact content as one will immediately reflect changes made in another and vice versa. How cool is that? :) This does not stop there, well sure you can link up more than 2 computers… so all the 65365 computers that you work on will contain exactly the same folder…

Now, lets say half way through your document you suddenly realize that you have done some changes to your document that you want back badly??? Normally, this is impossible! Because the content of the file is over written… only exception being you can keep on undoing… but what if those changes were done 7 days back? No worries! Dropbox to the rescue! Dropbox not only does automatic synchronization but also keeps track of all the changes made to your files… up to 30 days!! (Yeah you get unlimited undo history for the paid version!)

Yeah now you know why you need Dropbox! It will automatically detect changes in a file and synchronize it with the server and other linked computers! But wait! What about my 65 MB file??? Every time i make a minor change to it the whole file is getting uploaded again!!!? The answer is NO WAY! This is why Dropbox is the next big thing and this is why Dropbox is so HOT! Dropbox uses a technology called Delta Synchronization (lBock-level or delta sync) where only the part of the file which has being changed is only synchronized! Easy on the bandwidth and time saving! Plus, upload resuming is supported too! It certainly is smoking HOT!

Here is a complete list of Dropbox’s features


So what are you waiting for! Get Drop Box!

P.S : The above link is actually a referral link…No it doesn’t give me $0.25 for everyone who clicks it but i get 250MB of additional space (up to 3GB) for everyone who gets registered!

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