‘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 …
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 …
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, …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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) …
‘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, …
‘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 …
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 …
‘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 …
In order to lower the power usage and enhance the battery life, MS Windows puts a lot of your hardware into low power modes (if they support it) when running on battery. However, though it helps to enhance the battery …
