My Desktop – May 2007
Click to View Full Size Screenshot WB Theme : Acrylic Compact Icon Packager : Omni Umbra Cursor XP : Terranove15 Wallpaper and Logon : All Night Long
Virus.gr Releases New Test Results
Virus.gr released the basic results for their latest AntiVirus shootout earlier today. Expectedly Kaspersky was the best performer. In fact the top four spots are occupied by various forms of the Kaspersky Engine. F-Secure completed the top five. And if I am not wrong F-Secure and and eScan also use modified versions of Kaspersky engine. […]
Top Five Little Known WordPress Plugins
Everyone and their friends have probably written about their favourite WordPress plugins – plugins one can not do without. However, this list is slightly different. Here, I present to you five wonderful plugins, which I feel haven’t received the spotlight that they deserve. In fact, a quick search on Technorati revealed that these plugins havent […]
Tiny Utilities : Small is Good – II
This is the long overdue second part the series (the first part is available here) I am writing on tiny utilities. In each article I shall feature three outstanding software – all of which are smaller than two megabytes. In this article the softwares featured are – JDiskReport, FastStone Capture and Recuva. JDiskReport JDiskReport is […]
SpeedBit Video Accelerator – Load Streaming Videos Faster
Video Accelerator (for Youtube) from SpeedBit – the makers of Download Accelerator Plus has become nothing short of a sensation. It has been downloaded a million times in 49 days. Video Accelerator promises to fix one problem that many users face on websites like Youtube – videos getting stuck due to slow loading. This is […]
Microsoft Unveils Windows Live Hotmail
Today Microsoft released new Windows Live Hotmail to some 280 million users. Microsoft hopes to pose a serious challenge to Google and Yahoo!’s offering with WLH. Like Yahoo! Microsoft has tried to bridge the gap between a desktop email client and their web email interface. WLH retains the basic three column system present in previous […]
Google Testing New Layout for Search Results Page
Google has been toying around with it’s search results page layout for some time. They randomly serve these modified layouts to a small fraction of Google Search users and track various user patterns. Below are screenshots of some of the layouts that Google has played around with : The newest layout looks something like this […]
Opera Vulnerable to BitTorrent Exploit
LaFlecha is reporting that due to a bug in Opera Browser, a malformed Torrent file (*.torrent) can cause it to consume 100% cpu resources thus making the system unusable. According to this report, this bug affects Opera for Windows running on Windows SP1 or SP2. A proof of concept code has also been published. It’s […]
Microsoft to Buy Yahoo!
According to Nypost Microsoft wants to purchase Yahoo!. This is not the first time such a rumour has surfaced on the web though. Google has been pushing Microsoft hard. Very recently it overtook Microsoft has the Most Valuable Brand. A week before that Google won a bidding battle with Microsoft and acquired DoubleClick. And of […]
Top 13 User JavaScript
Userjs is a powerfull tool that allows the user to modify a website according to his needs. It basically allows you to specify local JavaScript files for Opera to include on every page that you visit. It’s identical to what Greasemonkey does in Mozilla Firefox and Creammonkey does in Safari. It was introduced in Opera […]
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