Saikat Basu

The continuing task of maintaining your PC requires that you keep a system cleaning tool close at hand. The name that often comes up in all recommendations is CCleaner. CCleaner is a system optimizer and privacy tool for Windows and Mac. CCleaner has

We love images and pictures. Facebook loves it enough to pay $1 billion for it. Call it the ‘Instagram Effect’, but it has made everyone who has a smartphone and is so inclined, an amateur photographer. Instagram spurred the new art of Iphoneog

Let’s say you’re upgrading your operating system, or you’re buying a new PC. In order to install the same set of programs you are used to working with, it’s useful to have a list the programs you had installed on your previous computer. When

When it comes to any social media, we also like to know who are the famous names using the service or app. It’s true in case of Facebook, and it remains true for a photo-sharing app like Instagram too. All the more so I guess, because Instagram is

Email tracking is easy with read receipts in desktop based clients like Microsoft Outlook.

Call it a security feature to protect your privacy or one that helps your emails load quickly, many email tracking applications use embedded images to report back if you have read a certain email or not. It is also used by spam emails. To circumvent

Little tools can lead to giant jumps in productivity. Let’s take our desktop. Should I refer it as screen real estate, because it is just as precious.

It’s an old maxim that junk tends to accumulate, even when we aren’t looking. This is so true of our email inboxes. A cluttered inbox doesn’t make for either efficiency or productivity. The habit of regularly sweeping your inbox clean is easier

A public computer could just be the place where a malware or keylogger is hiding. Using your passwords on a public computer is always fraught with risk. Facebook recognizes this ‘public menace’ and has a security feature that could be the safety

The simplest startpage in the world is probably the homepage of Google. We usually start with a search sometimes. But when you can use the browser’s address bar as a search engine, why waste all that real estate. Why not get yourself some cool star

In today’s age, time-constrained men and women have to balance a lot of roles, and wear more than one hat. One of the hats is definitely that of a cook (or, chef) trying to make three meals in a busy day.

Deciding to buy a new camera is the easiest decision to make. Deciding which camera to buy on the other hand could probably choke your first decision before it gathers wings. Believe me, the price of digital cameras and your budget constraints are

There’s nothing more dreadful for an aspiring writer than a rejection letter. Famous authors like Stephen King have also had their share, and a considerable one at that.

Random Access Memory (RAM) is your computer’s ‘memory’. It is the physical component within all the hardware that temporarily stores all the data required by your computer’s operating system and software as long as it is switched on. When you

These are very good times for both presenters and consumers of data. You no longer have to look at boring pie-chats and column-bars, or even flat rows of facts n’ figures if you are statistically inclined. In fact, data visualization tools like inf

Even the graphically challenged amongst us love to try out cool photo editing tricks to enhance our photos before we upload or email them somewhere. Sometimes, even some trivial effects make a photo look more interesting than it actually is. Take app

Ever since HTML5 came into the picture, web design and creativity has been given a fillip. It has led to interesting browser-based interactive applications. The one which ticks all the right boxes is DeviantArt Muro. If you have some love for art and

Facebook could be the best place to start a relationship. It could also be the worst social network to continue with because as some reports have indicated, Facebook has been responsible for quite a few breakups and divorces. Blame it on the non-anon

The web changes daily. New content gets published almost every hour in some cases. Now, you can bookmark your favorite sites and visit them daily, but that’s too much of work. RSS simplifies the whole thing.

If you are on a limited bandwidth plan from your ISP, it is absolutely essential that you monitor your internet usage daily. Even if you are not, bandwidth monitoring software are useful because they combine other functions like speed measurement and