‘baretorrent’ is an open-source, completely free, bittorrent client that runs on Windows, Ubuntu and Mac OS X. It has a simple looking and a slightly different interface (as it displays the advanced details of torrents to the right) when comparing with other bittorrent clients. Being said that it’s simple, it still lets you change...
Read more →‘EagleGet’ is a new download accelerator for the Windows platform, and the best thing about it is that it is completely free to use!. It is currently in beta stage and I have only tested it in Windows 8, but it should run in other Windows versions (7, Vista etc) and supports popular web...
Read more →In GNU/Linux, you can create a bootable USB flash drive using an ISO disc image of another distribution, by using the command-line. The command that is used to create that is called ‘dd’. By default, almost all USB flash drives use a common partition layout (which of course can be changed) that consists of...
Read more →‘Unvanquished’ is a free and open-source, first person shooter game that lets you take a part in a battle between aliens and humans. It is available for GNU/Linux, Windows and Mac OS users. You can choose any side at the beginning (either the aliens or the humans), and for playing the game, you will...
Read more →Because it is completely free and comes packed with awesome features, ‘NetWorx‘ is my favorite network usage monitor in Windows 8. However, I also dual boot my laptop with Ubuntu, and as a result, after accessing internet in Ubuntu and taking a note of its network usage, I end up having to update those...
Read more →Lot of mobile devices do not support playing more than a handful of multimedia formats (‘carefully chosen’ by the manufactures), though most of the time, their hardware are quite capable of doing so. One good example would be Apple products such as iPhone, iPod touch etc. Others that run on open source operating systems...
Read more →‘Lithium-ion’ (‘Li-ion’) is among the most widely used batteries in mobile computing devices because they have many advantages over the old and even against some newer battery technologies (such as ‘Lithium-Polymer’). But just like any other battery, they too lose their capacity, over time. For instance, my Dell Vostro V131 is now about an...
Read more →As mentioned in a previous article, the hibernation feature in Windows 8 can have a direct impact on your computer’s performance (as it reduces the booting times impressively), therefore, unless you are having a serious issue, it is recommended that you keep it enabled. However, if you want to disable it (say that you’re...
Read more →Windows 8 boots really faster than its predecessors, and the main reason behind that is the newly implemented ‘hybrid boot’ or ‘fast start-up’ feature. As the name suggests, it is nothing but an improved version of the existing ‘hibernate’ feature that had been there in Windows operating systems for a long time. Below is...
Read more →The ‘file manager’ is an extremely important software utility of any operating system. Apart from helping you manage your files, thought it is not a necessity, most of the time, it is also being used to manage the desktop by many operating systems (including ‘Windows’) too. Previously, Windows’ file manager was called ‘Windows Explorer’...
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Wireless networks are getting more and more popular nowadays. And when compared with the wired networks (which are still heavily used), a wireless network is easy to setup (as one does not need to deal with installing wires etc) and is also easy to maintain as well (including troubleshooting). However, they also have their...
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If you use LibreOffice Writer for creating documents, then sometimes, being able to save the newly created documents into multiple formats might be a necessity. Though LibreOffice lets you save a document into a lot of other popular document formats, it does not support saving a document into a multiple formats, simultaneously. But thanks...
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