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.

Watch data flow through serial ports in real time with Serial Watcher

By Ajith | Published: December 20, 2007

Serial Watcher is a small piece of program from PCRemote Control that can watch the data flow through any of your serial ports live and save the flowing data. It’s main use is during the testing of serial data receiver devices. I found this program while I was making a remote control for my PC. [...]

Posted in Software | Tagged Free | 2 Comments

Free deleted file recovery software from PCI

By Ajith | Published: December 16, 2007

Guess you all remember the free SoftPerfect file recovery software. Although it was lite and installation free, it had no hierarchical or folder tree representing the deleted files. also you wouldn’t be able to recover a deleted folder as it is. Perhaps these were the only drawbacks of the software. Thats why the PCInspector file [...]

Posted in Software | Tagged File, Free, Recovery | 3 Comments

How to make custom Icons

By Ajith | Published: December 12, 2007

Most of us would like to add a few custom icons to some folders or file types in our computers, but the problem is difficulty to find a good tool. I was personally a victim of so called icon maker when it turned out to be a virus once. It was a long time ago [...]

Posted in Software | Tagged File, Free, Icon, Image | 5 Comments

Google Desktop search now available for Mac also

By Ajith | Published: May 2, 2007

At last Google has developed the Google Desktop for MAC’s users. By using the quick search box you can search Web Pages or Launch applications. The search box is brought up by pressing ? key twice, and can be hidden by pressing ? twice again. Many File Types Google Desktop automatically indexes and allows you [...]

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QSM free screen capture software with image editing for Windows

By Ajith | Published: March 4, 2007

The etrusoft Homepage now says QSM is free for home use but this was not specified on the QSM page and download page. Try your self This is one piece of software that all would love to have. But this is an evaluation version by which you can save only 30 captures. Don’t worry there [...]

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