PC Tonic

Bit Che is a useful utility for Windows that allows you search for torrent files, and load them onto your torrent client, directly from your desktop.

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.

Did upgrading from Vista to 7 create hardware problems on your PC? Fixing them is easier than you think!

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, [...]

Today I made some modifications to an older post on free antivirus tools for Windows. Norton Security Scan, no longer available with Google Pack, has been removed from the list, while the recently released Microsoft Security Essentials has made its way in. If you’re looking for some free PC protection, do read the article.
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SpywareBlaster makes your PC a lot safer by preventing attacks on the vulnerable Internet Explorer.

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.

The traditional taskbar in earlier versions of Windows has been completely overhauled in 7, the next Windows in line. Popularly as the “Superbar”, the new taskbar has drawn accolades from the tech community for better management of a large number of running windows and for improved productivity. And like every other part of 7, [...]