May 2009
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By Pallab De on May 31, 2009
These days information overload is a real possibility on the web. Here are five Firefox extensinos which will allow you to consume even more information without getting overwhelmed.
Posted in Browser, Firefox | Tagged Browser, extension, firefox, interclue, juice, kwiclick, read it later, stumbleupon
By Pallab De on May 31, 2009
Microsoft just opened registration for Office 2010. Beta accounts will be granted on a first come first serve basis. If you are interested head over to http://www.office2010themovie.com/ and click on the signup link. The beta program is designed to gain feedback from a wide range of users and is expected to be launched in [...]
Posted in Software | Tagged beta, microsoft, office 2010, Software
By Pallab De on May 31, 2009
With 2GB and 4GB pen drives becoming common these days it often makes more sense to burn (or rather setup) the Operating System installer onto a pen drive rather than burning it onto a CD or DVD. This is especially true if you love trying out new linux distros, or rush to install the [...]
Posted in Software, Tips and Tricks | Tagged linux, unetbootin, unix, windows, winsetupfromusb
By Pallab De on May 30, 2009
Sony Ericsson is a doing a major revamp of its multimedia phones line-up. Yesterday they unveiled three gorgeous new multimedia phones which would hit the markets by the fourth quarter of this year.
Sony Ericsson Satio
The much hyped Idou has a new name – Satio. Satio features a 12.1 Megapixel camera with Xenon [...]
Posted in Mobile | Tagged aino, Mobile, phone, saito, sony ericsson, yari
By Pallab De on May 30, 2009
Kaspersky – a leading manufacturer of security products, is well on its way to releasing Kaspersky Antivirus 2010 and Kaspersky Internet Security 2010. The initial beta testing phase for KIS 2010 and KAV 2010 is over. General avaibility hasn’t been announced yet. Kaspersky may go ahead and release this build to the public or [...]
Posted in Security, Software | Tagged antimalware, antivirus, kaspersky, review, Security
By Pallab De on May 29, 2009
For the past few days I have been using my old system (AMD 64 3000+ with 512 MB RAM). Thanks to my fairly demanding multitasking habbits my RAM usage often exceeds 95%, in the process making the system extremely sluggish. I decided to give a new product from KoshiJohn – MemoryCleaner a try. I [...]
Posted in Software | Tagged memory cleaner, review, Software, utility, windows
By Pallab De on May 28, 2009
Welcome to the seventh edition of Opera Bytes – my semi-regular column about all things Opera.
Opera got a makeover with Kestrel (v9.5). While the new skin was definitely better than the previous one and put Opera ahead of most of its competitors as far as looks was concerned, it did have [...]
Posted in Browser, Opera | Tagged Browser, firefox, microsoft, Opera, Peregrine, Skin, standards, w3c
By Pallab De on May 27, 2009
Firefox is the browser that the world loves to love. But there is a lot of confusion regarding its spelling and abbreviation. I have seen a lot of people abbreviating Firefox as FF or even writing Firefox as FireFox.
Mozilla had done their bit to clarify the matter as far back as 2005. From their [...]
Posted in Browser, Firefox | Tagged firefox, mozilla
By Pallab De on May 26, 2009
PDF Readers are dime a dozen these days thanks to the explosion in popularity of pdf files. Everyone has their own favourite software for reading pdf files – most popular options being Adobe Reader, Foxit Reader and Sumatra PDF. All of these are awesome options. But allow me to suggest another wonderful free viewer that [...]
Posted in Software | Tagged djvu, freeware, pdf, review, Software
By Pallab De on May 19, 2009
We are long past the days when Air Conditioning was considered to be an essential requirement for Computers, but paying a little attention to your computer’s temperature levels can save you some headaches and prevent disasters.
HWMonitor reads all the main health sensors present in your PC. Its a complete solution that displays your voltage [...]
Posted in Software | Tagged hardware monitor, hwmonitor, review, Software, temperature, utility
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