If you’re a MS Windows user then you really don’t need an introduction to “Notepad”. It’s the default text editor in Windows and well, it’s pretty decent for its job. But if you need a more powerful alternative luckily Windows …
These days finding a batch image resizer is easy. If you want a powerful one than Converseen is one of the best tools. But if you don’t want a lot of features and quite happy with a simple tool with …
Read moreSimple Batch Image Resizer for Ubuntu Linux & Windows – “sir”
Google Chrome and Opera are two web browsers that load fast and have minimalist, user friendly interfaces. Since I’m an open source geek I don’t like Opera that much because it is not an open-source web browser. Some of its …
Read moreUser Privacy Emphasized, Secure & Open source Web Browser – Dooble
Because in GNU/Linux Hashsum or checksum calculating tools usually come installed with the OS, if you know your way around the command-line then calculating or verifying a file’s integrity isn’t that difficult. By since I just wrote about a Checksum …
I don’t think anyone would need an introduction to Xmms. But if you don’t know what that is then in simple terms, many years ago when the Winamp was a big hit, Xmms was the Win-Amp alternative to GNU/Linux users. …
Read moreLightWeight Cross-Platform Audio Player – Esperanza
For all those who use Ubuntu and don’t like the default built in document viewer (called “Evince”, errrr ;-)) there are a lot of other alternatives that you can try. If you’re looking for a fast loading one then ePDF …
Read moreKeyboard Based Fast PDF Viewer for Ubuntu Linux & Windows – MuPDF
It’s true that any web browser comes with a simple download manager of its own. But most of the time it’s pretty much useless for the serious downloaders :). Usually they can’t resume, schedule or most importantly they can’t give …
Read moreExcellent Free Download Manager for Windows – GetGo!
Lately I’ve been a bit dissatisfied with Firefox’s startup times and been drifting towards web browsers that use the Apple’s WebKit engine as it’s proven to be faster than most other engines (including the ‘Gecko’ of Firefox). So I came …
As a parent if you’re looking for an office suite that’s especially designed for kids (age 7-14), with simplified menus, icons, tool-bars etc then OOo4Kids is an excellent software that’s absolutely free and can be used in MS Windows, GNU/Linux …
Data encryption is one of the best ways of protecting your sensitive data from data thefts and other security vulnerabilities. And normally data encryption can be divided into two main categories. Either into Hardware encryption (independent of the OS because …
If have a big image collection then one of the best ways to enjoy them is to create a slideshow. And every slideshow is sort of a “movie” (since videos are nothing but fast moving pictures) but unlike with a …
Read moreFree Slideshow Creator for Ubuntu Linux & Windows – PhotoFilmStrip!
Programmers have specific needs so even the most powerful text editor might not meet their requirements (such as syntax highlighting and various computer language support). If you’re a programmer who’s looking for a free tool then Notepad++ is pretty darn …
