Linux And Friends

Have you ever wanted to capture the whole web page you are viewing in your web browser as an image ? If you are using Firefox as your web browser, you are in luck. Firefox has a number of freely available extensions which allow you to capture screens of the visiting web page. You can [...]

Google’s GMail is a free email service which has ascended the popularity charts by leaps and bounds. In fact you may seldom find a Net user who doesn’t have a GMail Id. One of the main reasons for GMail’s popularity stems from the fact that Google has gone to great lengths to provide an email [...]

lshw is a Linux command which provides details of all the hardware in your PC. The details provided by the lshw command run the gamut of processors, memory, slots, onboard sound, video chipset and more. To get the full details of your hardware, you need to run lshw command as root (or super user). If [...]

WinDirStat is a GNU/GPLed disk usage statistics viewer for Microsoft Windows.  What it does is, it scans your hard disk and other connected storage devices  and displays all the files and directories in it via a directory list and a treemap.

A Credit Crisis, like bankrupcies and massive unemployment  is a side effect of the  country going into a recession.  Put in a nutshell, it relates to banks suddenly tightening the conditions required to obtain loans (aka credit) from them. If you are like me and would like to learn a little bit more about the [...]

Animator vs animation is a set of videos which showcase the amazing things that can be achieved using modern computer software.  Verily  your imagination is the limit. In this case, a royal battle is in progress between the animator and the animation he creates. The battle is fought within Adobe Flash interface. But in the [...]

There are 245 independent countries in this world. How many can you name ? If you are up to the challenge, then here are two online games which put you to test. I was able to name only 35 countries on the first try and 56 in the second. You might do better.

I came across a very nice bike video which I found quite inspiring. Ever since I started riding a bicycle for going to nearby places, I have grown to love, enjoy and cherish each and every ride on it. Watch the video and get inspired to start biking.

Totem Destroyer is a very entertaining online game. The game play is simple. In each level of the game, you have a number of blocks stacked one on top of the other in different combinations.  Right on top of the uppermost block sits – what else ? – a Totem.  Your goal is to eliminate [...]