My First Ever Hardware Review : The Samsung N150 Netbook

I love gadgets. I didn’t have one until yesterday. Okay, I do have an HP laptop and an LG dumbphone since two years, but neither is the kind of stuff I’d call a gadget. Yesterday, I got my first ever...
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How to Combine Multiple Bookmarklets and Reduce Browser Toolbar Clutter [GT Posts]

Now that I’m writing for Guiding Tech, I feel like I should post snippets of my published articles on PC Tonic. Here’s the latest one, and it’s about Bookmarklet Combiner – a web app that lets...
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WTH is Happening!

by Micky.! It has become almost customary for me to update PC Tonic every couple of months, so keeping the tradition alive, here’s the latest update for the four of you still subscribed to this blog. This...
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Ditch The Search Box In Firefox For The Address Bar [Firefox Starter Tips]

Despite being a handy feature, the search box in Firefox is mostly unnecessary as most of its features can be accessed from the address bar. In this article, we’ll see how to remove the search box, and...
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Sync Subtitles With The Video In VLC

I can’t stress the usefulness of subtitles enough, especially when you’re watching a movie in a foreign language. I was watching Heavenly Forest, a Japanese romantic drama, a few days back. The movie...
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Microsoft Has A Download Manager. It’s Total Crap.

There were times when everything made by Microsoft (save Windows and Office, of course) was crappy. Geeks couldn’t wait to install tons of additional software on their new Windows XP machines the moment...
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What Are Userscripts, And How Can I Use Them?

  by dreamglow pumpkincat210  Web applications often lack the flexibility provided by their desktop counterparts. Although they’re designed to provide a unified and pleasing experience...
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Add Search Engines [Firefox Starter Tips]

Firefox, like all other modern browsers, has this nifty search box from where you can search for stuff from different search engines and websites. Some of the usually available options (in the English...
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Prevent Your Secondary Email Accounts From Being Deactivated By Using Digsby

  by Fletcher Prince  A lot of people, myself included, have this habit of creating multiple email accounts, and then abandoning one or more of them. This leads to removal of those inactive...
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Miss AlZip? You Can Get The Upcoming Version For Free

AlZip was one of my favourite file archiving tools, until its developers decided to stop distributing it for free. While it supports a ton of archiving formats (ZIP, RAR, ACE, 7Z, TAR – you name it,...
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