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Project Gutenberg is the oldest and largest producer of free and public domain ebooks (electronic books). The site has over 25.000 of free ebooks in its catalog and boasts over 3 million ebook downloads a month. There are books for everyone here, including many classics such as Shakespeare. Majority of books available in text, mobile [...]
IZArc is a proprietary file archiver for Microsoft Windows. IZArc is one of the best archiving utilities out there. Compatible with a huge number of archive formats, all the major are represented, as well as 7z (from 7-Zip), ISO, BH (Black Hole), and TAR, among others. It can create archives for many of the formats [...]
Firefox is the browser of dreams for many people. One of the great perks of Firefox is that there are tons of extensions that enhance the functionality of the browser. With over 1500 extensions in existence, there are many that can be used to improve your productivity. The following is my take on the top [...]
Why settle for a basic build of your Firefox browser on Windows Operating Systems when you can have one that performs 25% faster? Mozilla does not provide optimized browser packages for Windows, while many Linux users get the advantage of a browser built specifically for their system. That needs to change! So, here is the [...]
Someone can easily access Windows partition from Linux. There is a small free utility for Windows called Ext2IFS. It provides Windows NT4.0/2000/XP/2003/Vista/2008 with full access to Linux Ext2 and Ext3 volumes (read access and write access). This may be useful if you have installed both Windows and Linux as a dual boot environment on your [...]
Virtual desktops are very common in Unix/Linux. If your interested in getting one for Windows, I have listed few utilities. 1. Microsoft’s Virtual Desktop Manager for Windows XP: It is basic and simple utility compact in size. Download a small utility called Virtual Desktop Manager from Microsoft’s PowerToys download page. Install the utility. To enable [...]
In order to enable NTFS file system on the USB Flash Drive drive (USB Flash Memory), the following tweak will help you. 1. You need to connect your USB Storage device to your computer. Right-click on My Computer from the desktop and choose Manage. 2. Click on “Device Manager” and expand out “Disk Drives”. 3. [...]
Windows XP comes with some basic multimedia capabilities. These include Windows Media Player, basic CD burning support etc. In order to deal with latest video formats and burn CDs, DVDs and BlueRay Discs, you need other multimedia tools to be installed. Here are some free and useful tools for Windows: 1. K-Lite Codec Pack: K-Lite [...]
IP Messenger is a free and open source pop up style LAN Messenger for multi platforms based on TCP/IP (UDP). It doesn’t require server machine to operate. It is very useful product for offices, where are large number of computer connected through LAN. IP Messenger allows you to send messages via the IP number of [...]
exFAT (Extended File Allocation Table), (also sometimes referred to as FAT64) is a proprietary file system suited especially for USB flash drives, introduced by Microsoft for embedded devices in Windows Embedded CE 6.0, in their desktop operating systems. exFAT can be used where the NTFS file system is not a feasible solution, due to data [...]
