March 7th, 2011 by Aseem Kishore
MIDI stands for Musical Instrument Digital Interface. MIDI is a standard developed to facilitate the exchange of musical instructions between electronic musical instruments and computers. MIDI files are not sound files. Instead, they’re data files containing instructions on how to reproduce a selection of music. There are MIDI devices such as keyboards and guitars that [...]
February 21st, 2011 by Aseem Kishore
Looking for an easy way to monitor your computer’s performance? The Taskbar Meters app lets you keep PC performance stats in view at all times. Although this may not be practical for everyone, PC builders and hardware geeks may find it quite useful. If you aren’t a fan of the whole Windows 7 widgets, this [...]
February 15th, 2011 by Aseem Kishore
Windows Live Photo Gallery supports plugins that help to extend its features and function. Most of these plugins are free, and several are published by Microsoft. These free plugins for Windows Live Photo Gallery will help you share to your photos on social networking sites, create a professional-looking photo album or a build a 3D [...]
February 13th, 2011 by Aseem Kishore
Windows Live SkyDrive is free online storage space provided by Microsoft. You can get up to 25 GB of free online backup space for your documents, photos, videos and Microsoft Office files. Windows Live Skydrive works with both Windows PCs and Macs, and allows you to access your files from any computer, anywhere in the [...]
January 8th, 2011 by Aseem Kishore
If you are looking for a simple to use and comprehensive benchmarking application, NovaBench may be just what you are looking for. NovaBench is a benchmarking application that can help you test the CPU, memory, hard drive, video card, and other hardware in your PC or Mac. Learn how NovaBench can bring professional benchmarking capabilities [...]
October 26th, 2010 by Aseem Kishore
We have previously written about how to download multiple files at one time in Ubuntu (see our post, Download Multiple Files Using the Command Line in Ubuntu). You can do the same thing in Windows using a free tool, called Mass Download. It uses multiple threads, so it downloads files faster than most download managers. [...]
June 18th, 2010 by Aseem Kishore
Not all people are born with their right hands being the dominant one. In fact, 10 percent of the world’s total population is left handed. Nevertheless, left-handed people are not inferior to the right-handers. Actually, some of the most famous, powerful, and captivating personalities in our history are left-handed. These include Julius Caesar, Alexander the [...]
May 25th, 2010 by Aseem Kishore
For users of Linux who also have to use Windows, there is one feature missing in Windows. In Linux, you can scroll in any window, or in a pane of a window, just by putting the mouse cursor over the window and scrolling using the middle scroll button on your mouse. Unfortunately, in Windows, you [...]
February 28th, 2010 by Aseem Kishore
The veteran geeks among us, who have spent the better part of the last three decades behind a computer screen, all share one nightmarish computer tale: The Hard Drive that Died. It is a dramatic tale of how precious data—potentially years’ worth of work—was lost forever. It can happen suddenly, through a lightning strike or [...]
January 29th, 2010 by Aseem Kishore
You download an ISO image for some awesome free software you found and want to install it. You find you either don’t have any CDs to which you can burn the image or you don’t have access to a CD writer. Virtual CDRom can solve your problem. Virtual CDRom is a virtual CD ROM driver [...]