November 2008
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By Pallab De on November 22, 2008
TuneUp Utilities is an award winning system optimization tool that has long been my favourite. The 2009 edition was released yesterday and boasts of several new features. Let’s take a look at the latest release and see if it’s worth the upgrade.
New in 2009 :
Retooled Interface: TuneUp Utilities 09 maintains the [...]
Posted in Software | Tagged review, Software, TuneUp, Utilities
By Pallab De on November 20, 2008
In just a few years Bittorent has cemented its position as the P2P leader, displacing traditional networks like Kaaza and Gnutella. These days if you know where to look almost everything under the sun can be found via torrents. Often, the best place to find stuff is restricted private torrent trackers. Due [...]
Posted in The Web | Tagged bittorrent, The Web, torrent, tracker
By Pallab De on November 17, 2008
Last time I brought to you links for watching India Australia cricket live on the web. Here are some links to the India vs England series :
Live Cricket Streaming (try all the channels – you should get atleast one working link)
NahmanTV
SPVod
Cricket-Justin
Cricket – Ustream
Use Internet Explorer [...]
Posted in Misc
By Pallab De on November 16, 2008
I have covered various security products before. I even told you how to get them for free (Six Premium Antivirus Software for free and Six Premium Antivirus Software for Free – II). But in the past I mainly concentrated on the detection rates. Detecting a malware is important, but equally important is completely removing [...]
Posted in Security, Software | Tagged antivirus, review, Security, Software
By Pallab De on November 16, 2008
Just as the name suggests WebHostingrating.com is a web hosting rating service that is similar to WHG (reviewed in previous article) in many ways. Web hosting is a fiercely competitive sector populated by thousands of service providers. With all them vying for your attention, making the correct decision can be tough.
WebHostingRating.com has [...]
Posted in The Web | Tagged review, The Web, webhost, website
By Pallab De on November 15, 2008
There are many things you need to consider before choosing a webhost. First of all does it meet your requirements? Does it provide enough bandwidth, diskspace, subdomains, and mysql databases? Does it support scripts and php? Is it reasonably priced? How good is its uptime? How good is the after-sale support? These are questions [...]
Posted in The Web | Tagged review, The Web, web hosting, website
By Pallab De on November 15, 2008
The Pre-Beta Windows 7 build distributed by Microsoft at the PDC’08 (build 6801 – the one readily available on torrent websites) doesn’t contain many of the eagerly anticipated features of Windows 7 like the super taskbar. However as Rafael Rivera discovered many of the features are actually present but locked down. Till now we had [...]
Posted in Software | Tagged microsoft, rafael, utility, windows, Windows 7
By Pallab De on November 13, 2008
Instant desktop search softwares are nothing new. In fact you are pampered for choice as far as local desktop search clients go. But the fact remains that almost all of them aren’t really instant search. Most of these tools take hours to index your computer, and build huge indexes before getting started. To make [...]
Posted in Software | Tagged desktop, search, Software, utility, windows
By Pallab De on November 13, 2008
Opera Mini – the most popular mobile browser, with more than 20 million users just got even better. With Mozilla preparing to enter the Mobile arena the competition is about to get tougher. But Opera is definitely trying their best to stay ahead of the curve.
Opera has added a server park in the United State. [...]
Posted in Browser, Opera | Tagged Browser, Mobile, Opera
By Pallab De on November 9, 2008
Opera Sharp – the default skin since v9.5 (kestrel) is a beauty. It’s probably the best looking default skin for any browser (at least on Windows). However, it comes at a cost. The super wide tab bar eats up a lot of screen real-estate.
Fortunately enough there is a solution. Tamil took it upon himself [...]
Posted in Browser, Opera | Tagged Browser, Opera, Skin, Software, Theme
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