Users can usually uninstall applications from their computers quite easily, however the same cannot be said for Windows services, of course you can disable a service, but the entry for it may still remain. If you are looking for a way to completely delete a service in Windows XP and Vista, you are in the [...]

We have been talking a lot about IE8 and its features, however not everyone is going to love the browser and uninstalling IE8 is slightly different in Windows Vista than it is in Windows XP. If you are a vista user, here are the steps on how you can uninstall IE8, which we have also [...]

Application launchers are a real time saver, as they allow you to launch applications quickly without having to go through several menus. However Windows has several hidden features which are least exploited by users. Those hidden features can definitely save users a lot of time keeping them productive, for example many users may not have [...]

More than a year back I had written a tutorial on creating SEO Friendly URLs with Mod Rewrite and PHP, where I had explained the basic SEO concepts of rewriting URLs to make them SEO friendly. Though It has been over a year, numerous emails and comments have dropped in for me to write the [...]

Picasa is one of the best photo managing and editing software I have ever used, though I haven’t written much about it, I stand to mend those and give you more and more tips about it, and like Picasa I will be covering several other softwares, that I have neglected or rarely written about in [...]

Yesterday we told you about 3 new exciting features where they integrated Google Calendar and  Google Docs into Gmail, along with that, they also added a new feature where you can add a custom gadget to Gmail by providing the XML URL for it. Here is a simple and step by step tutorial to add [...]

Backups are the way of keeping your data safe and secure from disasters, and those include your personal data as well your blog database where you have been writing for days, months or years. We have always opted for hosting providers that provide us access to Shell interfaces using which we can use putty to [...]

Torrents are gaining lots of popularity as a medium of sharing files over the P2P network, many of you may have already downloaded several torrent files, but what if you want to create and share your wedding video as a torrent among several of your friends. Here is a simple tutorial that will show you [...]

An ISO image is an image of files that can be burnt to a CD. If you’ve just downloaded an ISO file, and be able to open the ISO file and edit its contents, before burning it off on a CD, here’s a quick guide telling you how you can open an ISO file.

One of my friends recently asked me what a workflow means and I being a geek start about to give him my opinion about it. Once I was done with the explanation he was just where he started, he didn’t have a clue yet. Because I did the explanation the geek way. So I explained to him in a real life example what a workflow means.

If you have been a windows user then you may have heard of a scheduled task which you can run on your windows PS. For the non geeks a scheduled task is some process you have arranged to take place at a specific time.

I am a big fan of the Champions league, UEFA cup and English Premier League, but since I landed in US i haven’t caught a glimpse of football on cable. ESPN and Start sports in India showed all the matches live in India

I am a regular user of Putty a linux simulator for windows which allows you to use the funcionality of linux boxes within windows. Something putty lacks though is a bridge between the windows and linux boxes. To overcome this I have been using Cygwin which brings in a linux OS like functionality within my [...]