‘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 …
Read moreMonitor Your Windows 8 Laptop’s Battery Capacity Drop with ‘BatteryCat’
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 …
Read moreScan your Wi-Fi Network for Intruders using ‘WiFi Guard’
The file system, no matter what operating system that it belongs to, is an extremely important aspect, as it is what holds the user’s data. Let’s us lay aside the performance factor for a second, when it comes to integrity, …
Read moreWindows 8 Supports Checking the Boot Partition’s Integrity, ‘Online’
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 …
Read moreWindows 8 vs. Ubuntu 12.10: File Copy Performance Comparison
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 …
Read moreFor the Same File, Why Windows and Ubuntu Show Different Sizes ?
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 …
Read moreLocate Microsoft Windows Product Key using ‘WindowsInfo’
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) …
Read more‘SVP’ Enables GPU Accelerated ‘Motion interpolation’ in Windows
‘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, …
Read moreConvert, adjust colors and add effects to Black-and-white images with ‘BlackSilk’
‘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 …
Read moreAdjust Brightness and add Artificial Lighting to images easily using ‘Urban Lightscape’
If all you want is to encrypt a text file, then using a general file encryption tool may have few drawbacks. One is that, a lot of those tools aren’t portable so in order for you to view the text …
Read moreCTI Encryption: Portable Text Encryption tool for Windows
‘Coquillo’ is an open source audio metadata editor that runs in GNU/Linux and MS Windows platforms. Tools like these are useful, because sometimes audio files might contain wrong or empty data, under fields like ‘artist’, ‘album’, ‘genre’ etc and since …
Read moreCoquillo: Edits ‘metadata’ of few Popular Audio Formats
‘Steghide’ is a pretty useful tool (steganography program) that lets you encrypt and hide a file inside another file’s content, so it’ll be ‘invisible’ to others (under most situations) thus helping while enhancing the security of your sensitive data. For …
Read moreSteghide: Encrypts & Hides any file using few Image and Audio formats
