All those new visual and performance improvements in Windows Vista and 7 might be a welcome change, but they also eat into your laptop battery. Use one of these battery managers to make your battery last longer.
Make your PC clean and organize itself automatically with this nifty file management tool.
Windows doesn’t have an inbuilt PDF reader like Mac OS X and Ubuntu do. PDF readers from Adobe Reader and Foxit are great, but they’re also bloated and / or include bundled crapware. Open source Sumatra PDF solves both these issues and lets you read your PDFs without fuss.
Everyone knows of the pathetic software [Notepad & Co.] built into Windows. And for many tasks, there isn’t anything at all [antivirus, PDF, office work]! So it’s common practice for us, PC users, to download our favourite tools from the Internet or install them from a disk, right after a clean Windows installation. It’s painful, [...]
We’ve previously covered the Vidalia bundle, which uses the Tor network to let you hide your identity while browsing the internet. With the amount of options provided by Vidalia and the complexity of the Tor bundle (three tools working together), it can certainly get confusing for quite a few people out there. Moreover, the Tor [...]
USB Threat Defender is a specialized anti-virus designed to protect your PC from the USB threats. It runs silently in the background and automatically scans any plugged in USB device for possible threats. It can also manually scan, detect, and heal USB infections that might have already infected your PC. USB Threat Defender can [...]
Most Twitter clients are getting overly bloated these days, trying to pack in as many features as possible. The likes of TweetDeck, Seesmic Desktop, and DestroyTwitter have got what it takes to be a power Twitter user, but can be overwhelming and confusing for the lesser tech-savvy Twitter users. If you’re looking for a simple [...]
Ever since Twitter started getting popular in early 2007, the number of apps for this microblogging service have exploded at a phenomenal rate. Blu is one such desktop app for Twitter, and it tries to distinguish itself with aesthetic look and feel. Quoting the developers,
There have been a lot of attempts at a great Twitter [...]
Sublight is a useful utility for Windows that allows you to fetch subtitles for movies and TV shows from various sources across the web. With it’s nifty features, Sublight can automatically look up subtitles for the movies on your PC and play them on your favorite media player.
We’ve previously covered ad-blocking tools for all the major browsers :
IE7Pro for Internet Explorer
AdBlock Plus for Firefox
AdSweep for Chrome, Opera, and Safari
All these tools work great, but if you’re an Opera user you can actually block ads using the browser’s built in features! Let’s see how :
