Miscellaneous

Don’t have a DVD to spare to try out Windows 7? Don’t want to bother with making a permanent install disk for it? Just want to try it and throw it away? Here’s how you can create a bootable USB install disk for Windows 7. What you need Windows 7...

So you’ve just (re)installed windows and you want to populate an empty computer with the hundreds of applications you need and use. However, you shudder at the thought of having to visit the websites of all these applications, download them and install them manually. Worry not! Help is at hand....

Many a time, overenthusiastic beginners to the Linux world tend to try out various things a la Windows, and end up crashing the system. Even more often, while trying to configure your display driver to run Compiz (aka Desktop Effects), you end up crashing Linux’s GUI server (called “X”). Even...

I have never visited MySpace till date but THIS offer made me go there. Microsoft in collaboration with ReverbNation is offering 1000 MP3′s and M4A’s to anyone and everyone. In return, they only request you to add Windows on MySpace. Isn’t that cool! Unlike most free MP3 giveaways, this one...

After using Windows for a while, most people get quickly fed up of the clunky bloat that is Windows Media Player. Admittedly, some of the features are rather good, and to some extent, it can handle music libraries decently. The biggest problem is it’s processor and memory footprint. Here are...

You never know when your hard drive is going to crash, with all your critical data on it. Sometimes (it happened to me), hard drives can even crash within a year of usage!   There is, however little hope of cure. A hard disc, once crashed, is usually gone for...

AutoSizer is a free lightweight software that automatically resizes your program windows according to your specifications. It resizes the windows to open as maximized or a given specific size. AutoSizer provides you with various options with which you can select how a specific application window should open. Features Of AutoSizer:...

SimilarSites is a free online tool that helps internet users find sites similar to any site that they may want in a jiffy. How would this be useful – you may ask. For eg, if you are looking for video sharing sites similar to YouTube, just key in the URL...

The folks at WordPress Themes Archive have have collected over 2ooo WordPress themes and are offering the themes as a single archive for the benefit of the users. Currently at around 390 mb, users are given the option of downloading the entire collection of WordPress themes as .ZIP, .TAR.GZ or...