Category Archives: Software

Software make the OS breathe. Be it free or paid, most of them are useful. In this category the articles about useful software are listed. The software would be most of the time Free. But occasionally I will also review paid software.

How to use facebook chat on your desktop

By Ajith | Published: August 16, 2009
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Pidgin – the multiple protocol chat client does not support FaceBook chat by default. But you can add a plugin to get FaceBook right on your desktop. This plugin is available for both Windows and Linux.

Also posted in Featured | Tagged facebook, IM, website | 1 Comment

Free Disk tools to analyse Disk usage graphically

By Ajith | Published: February 18, 2009

A graphical Disk Usage analysis tool could do wonders when you are doing some spring cleaning on your system. The DUA first seen in GNome has a neat and cool interface. A free version of this for Windows as well as KDE is available at Sourceforge.

Posted in Software | Tagged Admin, disk, Free, Linux, Review, Tool, Windows | Leave a comment

Is Firefox stable as it is said

By Ajith | Published: February 17, 2009

Stability is the least of Firefox’s (Ubuntu) quality as I discovered recently. But thanks to the developers the problem is almost fixed now. Almost means I haven’t experienced a similar problem after upgrading to version 3.0.5

Posted in Software | Tagged Error, Firefox, Linux | Leave a comment

Image aspect ratio correction using GIMP

By Ajith | Published: January 9, 2009

In the last post we saw how to correct the aspect ratio of a video. Here is how you can edit an image to its correct sizes using GNU Image Manipulation Program (GIMP). For this I first reduced the image height. And that’s why it is seen as stretched. Now lets see how we can [...]

Posted in Software | Tagged Edit, GIMP, Image | Comments closed

Setting the correct aspect ratio for a video

By Ajith | Published: January 3, 2009

How you can correct the wrong width to height ratio in a vieo using VLC player.

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One (free) instant messenger for all services

By Ajith | Published: December 1, 2008

All the web sites having a chat facility has now got an instant messenger client. So a messenger that can handle multiple services was one I was waiting for a long time. I think this would be the case for most of you. But which client would support multiple services as well as run on [...]

Posted in Software | Tagged Free, IM, Review, Web | 8 Comments

Free screen capture software

By Ajith | Published: November 8, 2008

The humble Snippy was rendered useless by the Snipping tool that comes with Windows 7. The Snipping tool can be evoked by typing Snip in the Start menu. (Version .41 with support to outlook released) A newer version .40 of Snippy is now available. It has got the added feature of support for Multiple Monitors [...]

Posted in Software | Tagged Free, Image, Review, Screen-cast, Windows | 1 Comment

Free software for creating and editing pdf files

By Ajith | Published: September 25, 2008

Foxit software corporation is the makers of Foxit PDF tools. It includes PDF readers and editors both for the PC and mobile platforms. Although it is a payed product a free trial version can be obtained from Foxit. The trial version is as good as a full version except that in the trial version a [...]

Posted in Software | Tagged Free, PDF, Review | 2 Comments

Download the free software to shred files

By Ajith | Published: September 17, 2008

There was a small introduction on how files are recovered from magnetic media in the last post. In that post I had said about using repeated overwrites to render a file unrecoverable. Sdelete is a command line utility that can wipe off a file and its traces completely from your hard disk without leaving a [...]

Posted in Software | Tagged Delete, File, Free, Security, Windows | 2 Comments

Free online icon maker

By Ajith | Published: August 17, 2008

Free tools have always been my favorite. You can see that under the free tag. If you don’t have any software to create an icon or cannot create a free icon as in the previous post, you must try this free online icon creator. The site allows you to make 16x16px icons. You can also [...]

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