June 2009
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By Pallab De on June 30, 2009
More and more cyber-criminals are using websites as a vehicle to deliver trojan horses and other malwares. Often they insert malicious codes into innocent websites run by unsuspecting webmasters. Detecting a malware infection is relatively easy (as long as you have a top class antivirus) if all the pages of a website [...]
Posted in Security, The Web | Tagged antimalware, dasient, malware, Security, The Web
By Pallab De on June 30, 2009
I have already reviewed the much acclaimed Carbonite Data Backup and Synplicity Data Synchronisation solution. Today I will take a look at Mozy Backup – which is one of the most popular data backup solutions. Mozy has different solutions for home users (called Mozy Home) and enterprise users (called Mozy Pro). In this article [...]
Posted in Featured Post, Software | Tagged backup, contest, data backup, mac, mozy, review, Software, windows
By Pallab De on June 27, 2009
I started using Songbird when I began using Linux (again). I wanted something with a powerful library and an intuitive user-interface. Amarok just didn’t feel right on GNOME and although Exaile was pretty brilliant I still felt something was missing. That was till I tried Songbird. I had last tried it on windows a [...]
Posted in Featured Post, Software | Tagged linux, multimedia, Software, songbird, windows
By Pallab De on June 25, 2009
Windows task-switcher (Alt+Tab or Win+Tab) sucks. It’s as simple as that. The much hyped Flip-3D (first introduced in Windows Vista) may look cool but is practically worthless. It definitely doesn’t make switching do another window any easier. I don’t know anyone who actually finds Flip-3D productive. The task-switcher found in Mac Operating Systems – [...]
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By Pallab De on June 25, 2009
For the greater part of this week the comment system of this blog was broken. It was due to an incorrect setting in my anti-spam plugin. Any attempt to leave a comment would have returned an error – “failed to add your comment”. I have fixed the issue now. Thanks to Andre for bringing this [...]
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By Pallab De on June 24, 2009
Making a game is an expensive affair, often costing millions of dollars. Half Life 2 cost Valve in excess of $40 million. Considering the amount of effort and money it takes to create a game, it’s not surprising that high quality free games are few and far in between. But that doesn’t mean that there [...]
Posted in Featured Post, Software | Tagged freeware, game, list, review
By Pallab De on June 23, 2009
Although Windows has included visual styles (also known as MSStyles) since Windows XP, they only support official themes digitally signed by Microsoft – which are few and far in between. Bypassing this built in limitation and enabling support for third-party themes in Windows XP was easy. It only involved patching a single dll file [...]
Posted in Software | Tagged desktop modding, desktop theme, rafael, uxstyle, visual style, windows, Windows 7, windows vista, windows x
By Pallab De on June 21, 2009
While there are hundreds of applications that are capable of displaying lyrics very few support synchronised lyrics and karaoke mode. MiniLyrics belongs to this rare category of lyrics plugins. It supports an insane number of applications (21 in all) including Windows Media Player, Winamp, Foobar, The KMPlayer, VLC Player, Songbird, iTunes and RealPlayer. And [...]
Posted in Software | Tagged minilyrics, multimedia, review, Software, windows
By Pallab De on June 20, 2009
Imagine this scenario: You are wasting time browsing YouTube or chatting over Yahoo Messenger where as you should be working on your spreadsheet. Suddenly you see your boss approaching ; leaving you short of time to close all the open instant messenger and browser windows.
Whether you are in school or in home or in [...]
Posted in Software | Tagged chameleon, review, Software, windows
By Pallab De on June 19, 2009
A lot of Opera users would be familiar with the concept of mouse gestures. It’s one of the many awesome features available in Opera. Simply told mouse gestures allow you to perform specific predefined tasks by simple movements of the mouse. For e.g. if you right click on a link and drag is [...]
Posted in Software | Tagged review, Software, strokeit, windows
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