I remember the days where GNU/Linux took like forever to finish checking a disk, which was not more than a couple of Gigabytes in size, where the same task in Windows would be done a few times faster, and how frustrating it was from an end-user’s point of view. However, over the years, GNU/Linux...
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In the newly released Windows 8, due its new user interface design, among other things, locating the shutdown (plus’ reboot’ and ‘sleep’) button can also be a little bit difficult. There are many ways to do it. But the easiest is to move your mouse over to the right edge of the screen (from...
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Recently, I ‘partially’ converted one of me friends to Ubuntu, and he is using Ubuntu alongside with Windows. After few days of using it, one day, he came to see me (with his Laptop) and said; ‘hey Gayan, mate I’m experiencing something weird here!‘ … … Because of its nature, I thought that, this...
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I don’t know whether I would love it or hate it, but because I got a pretty good deal for the Windows 8 Pro version, I decided to give it a go. Now I’m not going to review it, but just wanted to share a simple trick, if after the downloading finishes, the installer...
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Microsoft Windows comes with a ‘key’ called the product key, a unique combination of keys and numbers that is used to validate and unlock the installed operating system. If your computer came pre-installed with Windows, then you should be able to find it on a small Yellowish sticker. For example, in my case, it...
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Though they are not the only important ones, apart from the resolution and the bitrate, frame rate or frames (images) per second plays a major role giving the viewer a pleasurable experience while watching a video. And most movies (videos) still use a frame rate between 24 -- 30 as a ‘fps’ of 24...
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‘MuseTips Ringtone Maker’ is a simple application that lets you quickly create a ringtone in Windows. The only major drawback is that it only supports the MP3 format. Other than that, it is extremely user friendly and lets you create a ringtone in three simple steps called: ’1: Pick it, 2: Cut it and...
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‘WriteType’ is a basic word processor aimed at helping young students to write. For that it comes with few features and one in general is a word prediction feature that shows a list of predicted words (lists them as soon as you start to type) on the right side of its window. You can...
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‘BlackSilk’ is a new (still at Alpha stage) Black-and-white image manipulator that lets you convert colored images into Black-and-white and adjust various other settings for fine tuning images with ease. It’s a cross platform utility (MS Windows XP, 2000, Vista, 7, Mac OS X and GNU/Linux) and is completely free to use. At first it...
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Because it can be a bit difficult to keep track of the amount of hours that you put in when managing multiple projects, if you’re looking for a computer oriented ‘punch clock’ program, then ‘Kapow’ is a free tool that’s worth trying. It’s open source and a cross-platform software that runs in MS Windows,...
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‘Urban Lightscape’ is a simple yet an effective image enhancer that lets you adjust brightness settings and add artificial lighting to your photos with ease. It’s an open source application, runs in MS Windows, Mac OS X and GNU/Linux (including packages for Ubuntu), though the GNU/Linux users get to use it for free but...
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‘TAudioConverter’ is a free audio converter (a front-end that uses ‘ffmpeg’ for the actual encoding) that you can use to convert a huge number of audio files into few other popular formats with ease. It also has an option that lets you direct copy the audio stream without encoding (including extracting the audio stream...
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