Technology Bites

VLC 1.0 came out today, fixing a lot of bugs and adding some new features. The “throw anything at it” media player also got added support for more formats and new codecs to make it better than before. The new 1.0 update is called Goldeneye, and truley, VLC is the Bond for video files. Got [...]

There are several torrent search engines and every torrent tracker provides a search engine, but it would be better to have a desktop app that can search for the torrents. Some of the torrent download clients allow this but they still redirect you to web based search engines. TorrentFetcher is a desktop app that allows [...]

Everyone who has a website or blog has to upload files to their ftp server and download files to local computer regularly. There are some great software like Filezilla to do that, but there is also a better way to use FTP with out connecting with FTP software. NetDrive is a freeware for Windows that [...]

“I find television to be very educating.  Every time somebody turns on the set, I go in the other room and read a book.” Said Groucho Marx. But apparently, everyone these days is too busy to read books. Of course you are excluded if you are a student and that too a ‘good’ student. People [...]

Image Tuner is a freeware for windows that allows you to do basic editing of your digital photos and images. The program allows batch resizing, converting, watermarking, and renaming of the photos.

There are several video downloader and scripts available for downloading Youtube and other popular video sharing sites, but not many for Hulu. Hulu Video downloader is a freeware app that allows you to download Hulu videos to your desktop.

Microsoft Security Essentials, a free security software from Microsoft is available for download from today. This is a beta release of the software and the download is capped at 75,000, Microsoft may increase the download limit based on the demand, but if you want try the software download as soon as possible. Download from here.

This is useful for those who use multiple Yahoo Messenger IDs, with the official Yahoo Messenger program it is not possible to login with multiple Yahoo IDs to Yahoo Messenger. Multi Yahoo Messenger is a simple tool that allows you to run multiple yahoo messenger instances simultaneously.

Microsoft used to offer a Anti-Virus suite called OneCare that got discontinued due to lack of interest, and then Microsoft announced that it will offer a free solution code named “Morro” for security in November 2008. Looks like finally Morro has come to life. Neowin.net obtained screenshots of the program code named “Morro”, which will [...]

BitBlinder is an open source project aimed at offering anonymous bittorrents and browsing to get around filters. With increasing policing and Governments considering internet cut off for users downloading music or movies over P2P networks, anonymous bittorrenting is good solution to get around these draconian rules.