Portable Apps - Your Favorite Apps On The Go

If you want to take your favorite applications with you then PortableApps.com is the best software for you to do so. It is completely free and works on any portable storage device so to speak. It is a very lightweight (6MB installed), handy tool to use and has a support of almost all the usual open source software and some compatible freewares.Simply, make every PC feel like your own.

LibreOffice - The Best Open Source Office Suite Available

LibreOffice is a office suite available for Linux, Windows and Mac OS X. It has quickly become a mainstream office suite for Linux users and is still growing, it is available in Ubuntu as a default. It has replaced Open Office at the top of the open source office suites available. It is very simple to use and also has a lot of functions with minimal system requirements. It is not as great Microsoft Office but is worth using as it comes for free and yet powerful too. It is compatible with most of all file formats. It can also be useful to edit PDF's which is a bonus. It also has a fully featured portable version packaged as a portable app so that you can take every documents you have on the go and play with them.

IrfanView - Lightweight, Compact and Innovative Graphic Viewer For Windows

Many of you may already have heard of IrfanView and also used it. It is a freeware/shareware Graphic Viewer for Windows. It is known for the ability to handle a large variety of graphic file formats with some image creation capabilities. It works under Windows and can also be run in Linux under Wine. 

The program is compact and just occupies 2 MB(approx.), and with all plugins installed occupies about 10 MB(approx.). IrfanView can create icons, screensaver and do many more such operations such as image editing. Batch processing is one of the most important operations included in IrfanView. The program is also available in more than 20 languages.

The IrfanView team quotes it's program as:
"It is designed to be simple for beginners and powerful for professionals."

Official Website: http://www.irfanview.com/ 

The HTML5 test - How well does your browser support HTML5?

If you want to test the upcoming HTML5 capability of your browser then visit http://html5test.com/. It is a perfect website created by Niels Leenheer to test the capability of your browser. It doesn't test all the functionality of HTML5 but  tries to check the basic and new features of the the HTML5 by giving points for the different attributes. Each attribute is given one or more points. The tests are only trying to detect if a feature is provided by the browser.

VirtualDub - Opensource Video Capture/Processing Utility for Windows

VirtualDub is a video capture/processing utility for Windows platform. It is a very useful, powerful and lightweight utility for processing linear video streams, including filtering and re-compression. This tool is very useful to compress large videos and also for quick capture and encoding. Different plugin filters further extend VirtualDub's capabilities. 

Touch Mouse - Make Your iPhone/iPod/iPad a Wireless Keyboard & Mouse

TouchMouse

Touch Phone is an app for iPhone/iPod/iPad which converts your iDevice to a wireless keyboard and mouse. This app is provided by Logitech Inc. completely free and is very easy to use. You just need to install the Logitech Touch Mouse Server onto your PC and then install the Touch Mouse app onto your iDevice. If you connect your computer to a TV then Touch Mouse is a perfect solution.

Website Down or Not?

Today, I was checking Demonoid but it refused to open. So, I thought the website was down but I needed to confirm it. So, while go-ogling for it I found this pretty useful website which determined whether the website was responding or not.

Down Or Not is an online website (tool) that allows us to see whether the current website is online or not. It simply checks the status of the website. If you have your website and want to check whether everything is working fine or not then you can use downornot.com. The site is very basic which helps users to check sites quickly and efficiently. A listing of popular search terms are also included on the homepage which can help users check up on the sites they frequent to see if there is a problem.

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File Extensions Registry

FileInfo.com

Well, I was wanting to know about a strange file type or file extension (suffix at the end of the file name) residing on my computer. I couldn't figure out the extension of the file and was left disappointed. Thus, I came across this pretty useful website FileInfo.com which contains a searchable database of thousands of file extensions with detailed information about the associated file types which they call as the "File Extension Registry".

Nonetheless, the coolest thing about this website is we can easily register our own file extensions. Thus, developers can submit their file extensions along with its information.

Official Website: FileInfo.com - The Central File Extensions Registry:

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Know Your Facebook Profile ID

If you want to know your Facebook Profile ID to find Fan Pages, setup Facebook Comment Box, Like Box then you probably need to know your Facebook ID. So, in order to know your Facebook ID we can use Facebook Graph API.

Paste the following URL to your address bar:

https://graph.facebook.com/your_user_name

Replace your_user_name with your Facebook Username.

For example: My username is Liverpool.Rocks so to access my graph I need to type in

https://graph.facebook.com/Liverpool.Rocks

If you don't have setup a Username you don't need to worry. Simply, login to your Facebook and in a new tab type in:

https://graph.facebook.com/your_name

For example: https://graph.facebook.com/SaugatAcharya

The output obtained is JSON format as below:

{

    "id": "1143197729",

    "name": "Saugat Acharya",

    "first_name": "Saugat",

    "last_name": "Acharya",

    "link": "http://www.facebook.com/saugat.acharya",

    "username": "saugat.acharya",

    "gender": "male",

    "locale": "en_US"

}

More On Graph Api: http://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/api/

Good Luck!

Disable Autorun of All Drives In Windows

The Autorun or Autoplay feature is enabled in Windows by default. Thus, CDs, DVDs & Flash Drives containing viruses or malwares make use of the Autorun feature in Windows to infect your computer as soon as they are loaded into your PC, Laptops. If you want to avoid all possible means of your computer being infected by viruses then disabling Autorun feature is the first step of them all.

Note: The operating system vulnerable to most of the viruses is WINDOWS.

Here are the simple steps to disable Autorun in Windows:

Go to Start, Click Run type gpedit.msc (Windows Group Policy) and click OK.

Now in the Group Policy, click Adminsitrative Templates under Computer Configuration.

For Windows XP click on System.

For Windows 7 & Vista, click on System Components, then Autoplay Policies.

Double click on Turn Off Autoplay in the Right Hand Side.

Now in Turn Off Autoplay Properties, select Enable & then select All Drives in the drop down. Click Apply and then OK.

Turn off Autoplay Properties.

You're done. Good Luck!

Find RAM Type and Speed From Commandline in Ubuntu (Linux)

If you need to find out the type of RAM and it's speed or the number of slots available in your computer without having to open the case. Then you can do so in linux machines (Ubuntu or Fedora, etc) by using the following command:

?sudo dmidecode --type 17

Greenshot - A Free and Open Source Screenshot Tool

Greenshot is probably the best screenshot tool you'll find for free. It is an open source and lightweight software for Windows with simple and easy to understand features. You can easily capture partial and complete screenshots within a second. Take screenshots - upload it to your blog, show it to your friends, enjoy!

YouTube's New Music Page

YouTube has renewed it's music page for music lovers. It has renewed it's page with some new design and some new features stepping into the Music Industry for good.

http://www.youtube.com/music

The YouTube music page will also compile a rolling top 100 chart of the site's most popular videos, as well as a feature announcing upcoming concerts in the user's area according to YouTube's Blog.

Read More:
http://youtube-global.blogspot.com/2011/08/youtubecommusic-is-your-ever-changing.html

Download an Entire Website Using wget

If you want to download an entire website for off-line viewing you probably need to learn this. wget is a nice tool in-built in many Linux systems. The basic syntax of wget is:

$ wget [option]... [URL]...

Using this we can simply download all the URLs specified on the command line. some of the required options are:

Ubuntu 11.10 Release Key Features

Ubuntu 11.10 (Oneiric Ocelot) operating system is set to release on October 2011 according to Ubuntu Wiki Releases. Many Linux users are waiting for this release eagerly. Lets look at the key features to be implemented on the Oneiric Ocelot.

The key features to be included are:

1. New Desktop
A new experimental release of Compiz and Unity is to be included along with the new Alt+Tab switcher as in Windows.

More on Unity: http://unity.ubuntu.com/about/

2. Ubuntu Software Center
The Software Center will allow to edit or delete your own reviews, and it's significantly faster for “.deb” file installations. View of both the main category page and all subcategory pages is made smooth along with top ratings by users.

3. Gwibber
Gwibber the microblogging client will come with a new interface and improved performance using the most recent GNOME technologies.

Note: GNOME, meanwhile is updated to GNOME 3.2.

4. Mozilla Thunderbird
Mozilla Thunderbird will be the default email client for the new release, making it the end for Evolution, the long servant for Ubuntu email standard.

5. Linux Kernel 3.0
The most important of them all, the upgrade to version 3.0 (mainline Linux kernel) brings the updates for enhanced wireless chipset and wifi driver support as well as numerous config updates.

Technorati: How To Claim Your Blog?

Technorati is a dictionary of blogs. So, you need to register your blog in technorati.com to be found on it.

Well, I just joined Technorati and was having trouble to register(claim) my blog to Technorati. I finally found it and its pretty easy. Follow these steps below:

More Ethical Hacking!

Learn ethical hacking via:
http://ethicalhacking1.com

"More You Stay On This Site, More You Will Learn Ethical Hacking"

All-In-One Utility For Windows - Glary Utilities (Freeware)

This free utility offers numerous powerful and easy-to-use system tools and utilities to fix, speed up, maintain and protect your PC. It allows you to clean common system junk files, as well as invalid registry entries and Internet traces. You can analyze disk space usage and find duplicate files.

You Tube - How to Set Default Resolution?

You Tube doesn't have a setting to set the default resolution of the video. Thus, to set it to a default resolution we can use different plugins (extensions) for different browsers listed below:

1. Firefox Plugin:
SmartVideo For YouTube (My Tube)

All RUN Commands For Windows

Here is a list of all RUN Commands for Windows. To download the PDF please follow the link.

Ubuntu Mirror For Nepal

Nepali Ubuntu Users:
The Ubuntu Official Country Mirror For Nepal is: archive.mitra.net.np and np.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ (Experiencing Problems)

Currently, Nepal Telecom (NTC) has started hosting the Ubuntu repositories: np.archive.ubuntu.com or ubuntu.ntc.net.np

Edit your sources:
Simply goto: Update Manager and in the Settings tab select Ubuntu Software and Nepal as Download Sources.

Download Fast, Enjoy!

Lyrics Player - MiniLyrics

Well, if you have been looking for a Lyrics Player.. then here it is. MiniLyrics is a lyrics plugin player which automatically searches for lyrics on the web,downloads it automatically when you play a song from your music player. It comes with lyrics scroll option so that you can follow along with the artist and catch every word of the song.

Playing MP3's In Counter Strike

I was typing on the CS1.6 console and accidentally found this command "mp3", explored it on the web and found how to use it. It goes like this:
Simply jump onto the location: "C:\Program Files\Counter-Strike 1.6\cstrike\media". If you have it in some other location then go to your path: ".....\Counter-Strike 1.6\cstrike\media" folder. Copy any song or mp3's to this folder. Now, execute the game and type in the console:

CleanUp! - Delete Unwanted Temporary Files From Windows

CleanUp! is a application for Windows that removes temporary files created while surfing the web, empties the Recycle Bin, deletes files from your temporary folders and more.

Learn More From It's Official Website:

 CleanUp! Official Website

Very easy to use and powerful tool.

Peace !

Client Side and Console Side Commands for Half-Life 1 and Counter Strike 1.6 Game Servers

Each and every command for Counter-Strike 1.6 and Half-Life 1.

Goto:
Client Side and Console Side Commands for Half-Life 1 and Counter Strike 1.6 Game Servers

'or'

Download this PDF:
CS_1.6_Command List.pdf

\m/ Rock On!!

Learn Ethical Hacking

Useful website for learning ethical hacking. Provides free hacking tutorials, free hacking tools, free hacking books and much more.

www.kyrionhackingtutorials.com

Kyrion Ethical Hacking Tutorials is a platform for the techno-geeks to exchange their ideas and knowledge in the vast and exciting field of Ethical Hacking and Information Security.

Download Your Entire Facebook Data

Very few people know that Facebook allows you to download your entire data in a single zipped file. The data contains profile, contacts, wall posts, images, videos and many more information... So, in order to download your entire Facebook data you simply need to do this:

Mp3 Cover Downloader (freeware)

A very small software to easily find and add Album Arts(covers) for your Mp3's.
More on this software from it's website:
Creevity Software - Mp3 Cover Downloader (freeware)

It comes with a friendly and intuitive interface and is really smart.
Enjoy!!

Creevity Mp3 Cover Downloader Screenshot

Counter-Strike 1.6 Gameplay With Both Right And Left Hand

Found this information from Facebook.. Run Counter-Strike 1.6 and type in the commands on the console one after another to easily switch between left and right hand.

Prime95 - EXTREME Overclocking and Torture To Your CPU

If you think running your favorite game is a good stress of your CPU, you're wrong. Games are only good for testing GPU. If you want to squeeze your CPU hard then use Prime95.

Disguise Facebook As A Spreadsheet

Excellbook is a desktop application available for both Macs and PCs, that makes Facebook like a spreadsheet connecting you to your world with being caught. Download it, install it, and connect it to your Facebook account.

Top 5 Softwares Under 2MB (Must Have)

Here are some of the best and free applications available under 2MB for Windows:

• uTorrent
: Fast, simple and very easy to use Bit Torrent client. It supports UPnP, automatically adjusts the bandwidth usage based on network activity.

• Everything: Is Windows built-in indexed search fast enough?  Think Again! Because Everything(from Void Tools) is an ultra-light weighted indexed search application that makes looking for files extremely fast.

Change Counter Strike Background Music

Well, if you are bored of listening to the same background music of Counter Strike on the Main Menu and want to change to your favorite music then it's pretty simple. You just have to rename one of your music files(only mp3) to 'gamestartup' and simply copy and paste it to the location: "C:\Program Files\Counter-Strike 1.6\cstrike\media" for default. If you have it in some other location then just paste it to: ".....\Counter-Strike 1.6\cstrike\media" folder. Make a backup of the original 'gamestartup.mp3' in-case you want to return to the same background music later.

Note: Mp3's having high bit-rates may not be supported. Tested only with Counter Strike 1.6!

Best And Free PDF Reader For iPhone, iPod, ...

I have tried a lot of PDF Readers apps for my iPhone. But the best one so far has been PDF Reader Lite by Kdan Mobile Software LTD. There are many PDF Readers like iPDF, PDF Extreme, Reader Lite, and many more in the iTunes store but it seems most of them all have tried to renovate PDF Reader Lite and failed. It's a powerful file viewer too, which supports different formats like .doc, .txt, .ppt, .jpeg. It is very easy to use and powerful tool for your device but the Lite version only allows to store files no more than 10 files. If you like the Lite version you can consider to download the full version via iTunes Store.