Five Lesser Known But Useful Free Softwares

Sumatra PDF Reader Screenshot Windows OS’ users have got a lot of softwares to do any task; be it reading Books, listening music etc. Also, the most popular among them are the free ones. Most users have either iTunes, Winamp or Foobar for music, Firefox or Chrome for browsing. Undoubtedly, these free softwares are very useful and therefore very popular. However, there also exists a large pool of softwares that aren’t yet famous but nevertheless useful. In this post, I list 5 of such softwares and briefly discuss them.

How to use Public DNS ?

1 In my last post I discussed about what is public DNS, if you haven’t read it you can visit http://techbu.com/2010/07/31/what-are-public-dns/and read about public DNS . In this post ill discuss step by step how to configure public DNS. I am going to use Windows 7 in which I will use these public DNS.  Same method Continue reading

Linux file system explained for beginners

Diagram showing Linux filesystem hierarchy For those of you coming from windows backgrounds, the way the linux filesystem is laid out may seem confusing at first glance…. but that is where this article comes in !The first thing you should know when working with linux, is that everything is treated as either a file or directory. Yeap thats right, even hardware is considered a file by linux, and, speaking of hardware… all your hardware devices are located in the /dev directory, but more on that later.

Creating iso images in linux

0-UjU8AuT6-linux-online-inc-full-s- In windows XP, you would most probably use DVD/CD burning software such as Nero or DeepBurner to make iso images, and software like alcohol 120% or daemon tools to mount the images.In linux, you can use the commandline to both make and mount iso images.

What exactly is Linux?

Linux is not Ubuntu or Fedora or Suse Most people look at Distros like Ubuntu and Fedora and Slackware and call them “Linux”. When these distros boot up and get into a GUI environment, people call the GUI linux as well.But…..That is not true!

Hike your vista performance rating

The Windows Experience Rating is sort of like a system performance gauging system that you only find in Vista . While many complain that it’s flawed and unfair at times, there’s a way to fool Vista. Basically, we change the performance figures in the XML that holds the scores for each of the subsystems. To Continue reading

Some quick windows tips and hacks

Allowing Network Access with Blank Passwords (XP and Vista) Although you can log in locally without a password, by default, WindowsXP Pro does not allow network users to access the computer without a password. Typically you will receive an Unknown error 31 if this is the case. To change this setting: Run gpedit.msc Go to Continue reading

Make your Windows XP talk

Open notepad and paste the following code and save the file with .vbs extension, it will create a VBScript File. It will prompt you for a text, input the text and press ok.” ;copy from here————– Dim msg, sapi msg=InputBox(“Enter your text”,”Talk it”) Set sapi=CreateObject(“sapi.spvoice”) sapi.Speak msg ;———-to here Download the .vbs file

Modify Windows start button to display System time

display-system-time-in-plac Download StartClock form the following url and run StartClock http://startclock.osnn.net/files This cool freeware will replace the word start with the system time. This tiny piece of code comes with startclock.ini file for making configuration changes such as 12 hour clock with seconds 24hour clock ,load program at start up, refresh rate (Be careful with this Continue reading

Change windows startup and shutdown sounds

To change windows xp start up sound You have to convert the sound which you want to put as the start up & shutdown sound Rename the files as Windows XP Startup.wav & Windows XP Shutdown.wav Navigate to c:\windows\media & replace the orginal winxp startup & shutdown sound with the new Windows XP Startup & Continue reading

Shutdown Windows XP Faster

When you shut down Windows XP, the OS tries its best to make sure that all services (they help run things like graphics, printers etc) are shut down. But there are times when they don’t close, thus Windows XP tries to give it the chance to shut down itself. This amount of time that windows Continue reading

Brand windows with your name and add your own photo

Add ur own photo in My Computer properties open notepad dump the following lines into it and save it with the name OEMINFO.INI in the c:\windows\system32 directory: ——————————————————————- [General] Manufacturer=Your Name Here Model=Your Model Here [Support Information] Line1=Your Name Here Line2=Your Address Here Line3=Your Email Address Here ——————————————————————— 1. Save the file as OEMINFO.INI in the c:\windows\system32. 2. Then make a right click Continue reading

Why should your users use least privilege on their corporate computers?

If a business allows it’s users to install whatever software they choose and/or make configuration changes then they run the increased risk of the security of the machine being compromised. I recommend wherever possible businesses should refrain from giving end users administrative rights over the machines they use thereby preventing users from installing software (that Continue reading

Yahoo chat commands

sponsored-links Simple yahoo chat commands you can use directly in the messenger. Yahoo Chat Commands: /join [room] go to what ever room you wish /invite [buddys name] sends invitation request /tell [user] [message] private messages a friend /follow [user] follows a friend /stopfollow [user] stop following someone /stopfollow [yourname] to stop them from following you /goto Continue reading

Basic computer security tips

Computer security is something everyone who uses the internet should learn about and use to protect themselves while they use the internet. Physical security This type of security is overlooked as not being a risk but it is. Anyone that has access to the machine can interrupt the boot process to get to a command Continue reading