Linux And Friends

You might suffer from eye strain if your job involves working on a computer for long hours. This is especially true if you stare at the computer monitor sitting in a dimly lit room. One of the best ways of reducing computer eye strain is to change the colour of your monitor in relation to [...]

I am always interested in note taking apps. Using a proper note taking software in collecting and aggregating information will help you improve your study skills. Note taking apps help students and professionals alike, soak up and retain information in a much more efficient manner.

Bcrypt is a cross platform file encryption tool that uses the Blowfish encryption algorithm. One of the chief advantages of using bcrypt (apart from the security aspect) is that it runs on a wide variety of OS platforms and hardware architectures. This includes Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, BSD, HP-UX etc. This means, you can [...]

Q10 is a minimal text editor that packs quite a punch. It eliminates all distractions while you are writing. All of 400 Kb, this is a fully portable text editor that you can carry with you while on the move. Minimal as it is, Q10 has a number of features that are very useful for [...]

USBWebserver is a portable software that can be run from a USB Stick. It consists of the following applications. Apache web server, MySQL Database, PHP, and PHPMyAdmin. In other words, you got yourself a portable WAMP stack.

Microsoft Office Web App is now freely available for people in India. Microsoft Office web access is freely available to anyone who has a live.com ID or a Hotmail email address.

Angry Birds is a free game that is the “talk of the town” the world over – at least among people owning smart phones (iPhone and Android). It is a game where you use your finger to slingshot a bird through a distance and aim to hit the pigs who have stolen all the birds’ [...]

Nitro PDF Reader is a free PDF document reader that comes with a lot of exciting features not found in Adobe’s Acrobat Reader. For instance, Nitro PDF Reader allows you to convert your files to PDF. It supports highlighting blocks of text, embedding notes, and typing text directly in any PDF file.

ZScreen is an open source screen capture tool for Windows. However, unlike other screen capture tools, ZScreen is much more versatile. ZScreen is developed  in Microsoft  C# 3.0 language and requires .NET 3.5 framework to run. If you are a Linux user, you should take a look at Shutter which is also as powerful as [...]