Category Archives: Software Reviews

mp3splt – Splits mp3/ogg Files In Jiffy

Posted on February 15, 2011 by

Do you have an mp3/ogg file(s) longer then 10 minutes and your mp3 player does not have seek functionality? It is very very painful to fast forward/rewind (if available)  to the required position in the file, isn’t it? Now it … Continue reading →

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MultiGet – Multi Platform, Multi Threaded File Downloader/Accelerator

Posted on February 6, 2011 by

Once upon a time when my primary operating system was Windows 95, 98 and I was using dial up Internet connection with maximum speed of 19.2 kbps. The most essential software was Download Accelerator Plus (popularly know as DAP) from … Continue reading →

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tinySpell – Check Spellings Anywhere

Posted on January 22, 2011 by

Have you ever looked at some of the comments in your old code  and felt bad about the spelling mistakes? While programming we also make use of  abbreviation and short substitutes  for some words (e.g. using “val” for “Value”, “rev” … Continue reading →

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Sun xVM VirtualBox Goes 3D

Posted on December 23, 2008 by

Here is the great news for all VirtualBox Users. Virtual box team has released new version of VirtualBox 2.1.0. The main attraction for this release it Hardware 3D acceleration support. This is experimental feature and support is limited to OpenGL … Continue reading →

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WinDirStat – Visual Disk Usage Statistics

Posted on October 23, 2008 by

This is continuation of my previous post on the similar tool KDirStat for Linux user. It is highly recommended that you go through the post here before going further as I will not discuss the common stuff again. WinDirStat is … Continue reading →

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KDirStat – Visual Disk Usage Statistics

Posted on October 23, 2008 by

Someone has said that “A Picture is worth thousand words”. I completely agree with this statement when it come to determine hard disk usage. This requirement is even more prominent when you want to clean up your hard disk, if … Continue reading →

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Jigdo (Jigsaw Download)

Posted on October 17, 2008 by

With every passing day more and more stuff is available to download. Average download rate per day has also increased drastically since broad band is made available to more and more users.  I remember I was using download accelerators to … Continue reading →

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JKDefrag – An Intelligent Defragmenter for Windows

Posted on September 23, 2008 by

Whenever we talk about slow system performance, its almost certain that the first advice we will get is to defragment the hard disk drive. Lets understand what does it mean before we actually move on to JKDefrag. Fragmentation: During the … Continue reading →

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SWFTools – Create, Extract and Manipulate SWF Files

Posted on September 18, 2008 by

All internet user are familiar with Shockwave Flash or SWF files. SWF files are used extensively to show the graphics, animations, menus, games on the web page. SWF files can contains vector graphics, video, sound and text. You need a … Continue reading →

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Lightscreen – Screen Capture Tool

Posted on September 16, 2008 by

When you want to write a technical blog like this, one of the most useful tool is screen capture/screenshot. It helps you to explain what you are doing in much easier way. Windows provide basic screen capture functionality using print … Continue reading →

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