Internet Explorer has received a lot of flak in the past for obvious reasons. It is slow, buggy and is generally a security nightmare. There are probably more exploits discovered everday for IE than for the whole windows operating system. In March this year, Microsoft released Internet Explorer 8 which...

Twitter is a great business tool and many companies have just started to realize the benefits of using twitter to connect with their user base. The only problem with using for business is that the service, by default, doesn’t really caters to businesses very well. Sure, you can have conversations...

Picture this – You’re out on the road for work or pleasure and have this sudden urge to listen to that one song from your collection which is stored on your desktop back at home. Or you’re a freelancer and need access the draft proposal you made for a client which is again on your desktop...

The Gmail team has just made your life infinitely easier by enabling you to translate all the chinese spam emails that you get, to English. I can’t begin to tell you how much more productive I will be because of this new feature. On a more serious note, this is probably more useful than it sounds....

Windows 7 is the flavour of the season, it seems. Microsoft’s latest OS has been creating quite a buzz around the blogosphere and if initial reports are to be believed, it just might be the OS to finally dislodge Win XP.  The requirements for running Windows 7 aren’t too hefty given the...

Facebook is, by all accounts, the biggest photo sharing site on the planet. Millions of photos are added everyday to facebook and the number is only going to grow given the ridiculous growth that facebook is seeing. The photos application is also one of the more social aspects of facebook and everyone...

Twitterrific for iPhone just updated to version 2.0 (iTunes Link) and I’m already in love with it. I’ve been a long time twitterrific user but that was mostly because of two reasons. The first reason was that it was free (with advertisements) and the second reason was that I liked the clean...

I’m sure you agree that having the screen saver kick in, while you’re watching your favourite movie on the PC, is one of the most annoying things that can happen.  And if you do agree with the above statement, we’ve got just the utility for you. Caffeine is a small utility that sits...

I have a confession to make – I am addicted to news. I have to read a newspaper the first thing in the morning and my RSS reader is open all the time that I’m on my desktop. While I’m not yet ready to switch full time to an e-paper, there are days when I wish that my newspaper would cover more...

Most Linux/Unix veterans use cron to schedule tasks on their machines and it is a very powerful utility for what it does. The problem with cron is the cryptic syntax which tends to scare away most new users and the fact that a user has to use the terminal to create a new job. In this tutorial we will...