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How to setup Google Calendar and Microsoft Outlook syncing for free

By Sharninder | Published: September 30, 2009
Microsoft’s email and PIM software, Outlook, is without a doubt the most popular software of it’s kind. Thousands of companies and individuals swear by it and use it day in and day out to streamline their otherwise chaotic online (and offline) lives. Even in this day and age when cloud based solutions rule supreme, Outlook [...]
Posted in WebApps, Windows | Tagged Calendar, Google, Outlook, Sync, Windows | 1 Comment

Run Windows inside your browser with Windows4All

By Sharninder | Published: September 29, 2009
Windows4All is an awesome Microsoft Silverlight powered online operating system. The website simulates a complete operating system inside your browser and actually does a pretty good job of it. The application is made to look like a default Windows Vista install and the simulation is so good that if you make the browser go full screen [...]
Posted in WebApps | Tagged Useful webapps, vista, web browser, Windows | Leave a comment

How to revoke access to Twitter Applications

By Sharninder | Published: September 28, 2009
If you, like me, are a fan of Twitter, I’m sure you try out a lot of twitter based applications. There are thousands of applications based on the Twitter API with hundreds more being launched everyday. While some of them are pretty useless, there are some gems that once you start using, are difficult [...]
Posted in WebApps | Tagged applications, security, twitter | 1 Comment

How to enable the 2-way Firewall in Windows Vista

By Sharninder | Published: September 26, 2009
The Internet is not a place for the weak hearted, or so the saying goes. And it has become even more dangerous, in these times of Always-On, broadband internet connections. Virus threats, DOS attacks and zombie networks have taken over the internet and there is no running away from all this chaos. The point [...]
Posted in Windows | Tagged firewall, security, vista, Windows | Leave a comment

Announce your musical tastes on Twitter using Tunes Tweeter

By Sharninder | Published: September 23, 2009
There is no denying the fact that Twitter is an extremely popular web service. In fact, Twitter is more than just a web service, It is a cultural phenomenon which is going to slowly but surely take over our lives. The service is spreading like a wild fire and the user base is growing [...]
Posted in Windows | Tagged iTunes, twitter, Useful Utilities, Windows | Leave a comment

How to read HFS+ volumes on Windows

By Sharninder | Published: September 21, 2009
I’ve been using an OS X Leopard (That’s 10.5) machine at work since the last few days for a project that I’m working on. I’ve been a Unix user for a long time so I’m pretty comfortable with the Unix side of OS X including the file system and the BSD underpinnings. For those who [...]
Posted in Mac OS X | Tagged file system, Linux, Mac OS X, utility, Windows | 2 Comments

How to find out which process has a particular file open

By Sharninder | Published: September 16, 2009
Ever tried deleting, moving or renaming a file and got a terse message from Windows saying, you can’t ! With the reason being that the said file is in use by another process ! If you’ve ever been faced with one of those “Cannot delete a file because it is in use by another program” dialogue [...]
Posted in Windows | Tagged process explorer, sysinternals, system tool, utility, Windows | 3 Comments

uQuery: A better search engine for the Apple App store

By Sharninder | Published: September 14, 2009
The Apple App store has truly revolutionized the business of mobile phone applications. It is often touted as a unique feature of the iPhone (and the iPod Touch) and is absolutely one of the best things to have happened to the developers developing applications for the platform. For the end user, though, the App store can be [...]
Posted in WebApps | Tagged applications, iphone, ipod touch | Leave a comment

Access and use ISO images as normal drives using ISODisk

By Sharninder | Published: September 11, 2009
The ISO file format is the most format for sharing CD/DVD images on the Internet. A lot of software and most (all) Linux distributions are shared using this format. The advantages are that it’s a universal format and portable across operating systems. By portable, I mean that all operating systems have utilities to burn ISO [...]
Posted in Useful Utilities, Windows | Tagged create iso, isodisk, mount iso, Windows | 1 Comment

Quub: A Better Take On Micro-Blogging

By Stefan Neagu | Published: September 9, 2009
At first glance Quub may appear to be just another twitter-like service, but it’s actually much more than that. George Ruan and Dr. Donald J. Patterson created the service because they thought that existing micro-blogging services requires too much time and effort on the part of the average user, which ultimately meant that the [...]
Posted in WebApps | Tagged alternative, micro-blogging, twitter, Useful webapps | 1 Comment
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