If you’re on a Mac or you have already upgraded to Internet Explorer 7, then you’ll be pretty lost about how your site looks like on lower versions of Internet Explorer.
For me this is a big problem because half my visitors to my several sites are still using IE6 and you have to admit that [...]
My past years of experience in maintaining computers, both of mine and my friends has taught me that people are not very aware of SpyWare. Agreed that this is a lot better than a few years back when spyware was just beginning to raise its ugly head.
We have several spyware tools (which I shall look [...]
Internet Explorer 7 is indeed one of the better releases of the browser. It corrected a lot of things and made is developer and userfriendly. The best addition to the browser was the Tab Browsing. I would have loved to have more features like adblocking and mouse gestures, but I guess that wasn’t meant to [...]
Two months back I introduced you to USBDeview, which you can use to list and manage all your USB drives.
This week we take a look at a similar but more powerful tool, Drive Manager.
Drive Manager will help you manage your hard drive, mapped network drives, thumb drives (USB memory sticks), smart media and compact flash [...]
Every month, Microsoft releases a set of updates for Windows and the other software. It’s been nearly two years since Windows XP SP2 has been released and we have approximately 70 critical updates since then. Even if you have the Windows XP with SP2 installed, you need to visit the Microsoft Update site and download [...]
Continue reading about Tool Tuesday: Windows Updates Downloader
As you continue to use your PC, the files get defragmented. The more the defragmentation, the longer it takes time for your operating system to fetch the files resulting in decreased performance.
Windows comes with an inbuilt defragmenter which you should run regularly to keep defragmentation levels low. However, the higher the defragmentation the longer it [...]
My extensive development and maintenance work requires me to work with a lot of code. The worst part of maintenance is keeping track of what changes have taken place. Most of the time I don’t need to worry about the software I am upgrading.
However, I need to worry about the same whenever I have modified [...]
At times you might like to have a drive mapped to a particular folder / subfolder. This situation could arise if say you copied the cotents of a CD on your drive and the setup requires to have be run from a drive directly and not via the folder.
In such a situation the DOS SUBST [...]
Those who have been reading this blog regularly would have realized that I love tiny pieces of free / open source software.
One such piece of software is StripMail.
You will notice that many forwarded emails usual have broken paragraphs and plenty of line breaks. Still others have irritaing “>” signs at the start of every line.
More [...]
Color is one of the most important elements while designing, be it graphics or webpages. A good color combination can work wonders and a bad one … well!
I browse though a huge number of sites every single day. Every site has something unique to offer and many a times this uniqueness tends to be the [...]
