A number of websites are continually banned by the authorities, e.g. torrent sites by the government, Facebook by certain companies, and many others through university proxies. We here are strong supporters of freedom of choice, and show how to bypass such restrictions and access (most) blocked sites easily. Quoting the website, Tor is free software and an open network that helps you defend against a form of network surveillance that threatens personal freedom and privacy, [...]

Microsoft Mathematics is a piece of software you might have never heard of, but can prove to be tremendously useful for your high school or college homework. It is not advanced as a full blown suite like Matlab, but is definitely a step up to the Windows Calculator if you find it inadequate for your needs and don’t want to invest time to learn a new software. The screen looks like a typical graphing calculator [...]

eXtra Buttons is a free utility which adds… well.. extra buttons to the title bar of your program windows, helping you to manage and control those windows easily, e.g. making windows transparent, switching to full-screen, moving them to a different monitor etc. Download it off the official website to get started. Once installed, you’ll immediately see 3 extra buttons on open windows. These, in order, can pin the desktop over all others, minimize to system [...]

Software like TeamViewer have made remote desktop sharing dead easy. But what about when you want to do the same lightning-fast without installing any extra software. In just a few clicks, Quick Screen Share does the job. It works on all major operating systems, since its just a Java-based web app. It works on a peer-to-peer model. Once you set it up, you’ll be given a simple link to share with your friend, and he’ll be [...]

A number of scenarios can result in you needing to encrypt your data. TrueCrypt is a free and open-source software which lets you create an entire virtual encrypted disk within a password protected file, apart from encrypting entire partitions or storage devices. We’ll show you how to use it in this guide. TrueCrypt is available for download for Windows, Linux and Mac environments. Get your copy and install it. Click on Create Volume. Choose where do [...]

Smartphones have often been advertised for their gazillion features, with the suffixing ‘It also makes calls’. It makes you wonder, why hasn’t anyone upgraded the phone call yet? Until now. Thrutu is an application that adds real-time features to Android, iOS or BlackBerry calls.  It adds a number of possibilities for collaboration using mobile phones. Here’s a glimpse of what all you can do: Find each other’s location in real time Share photos and contacts during calls [...]

Quoting Wikipedia, “A live disc is a complete bootable computer operating system which runs in the computers memory through a DVD or USB Drive, rather than loading from the hard disk drive”. Live discs have been around for quite some time and here we tell you about the awesome things you can do with one. Creating a Live Disc The process essentially involves writing an ‘image file’, typically of extension .iso, .img etc on to [...]

Envision a common scenario where you need to share your internet connection with the others over a wireless medium. Your options are to either create an ‘ad-hoc’ computer-to-computer connection or a network akin to the widely popular ‘hotspots’ – where multiple computers/devices can hook up to a single connection. The former is harder to set up and has less utility, whereas most devices don’t support native creation of hotspots. That’s where we come in. Sharing [...]

If this, then that. It’s really that simple, ifttt : Their tagline is ‘Put the internet to work for you‘. And it’s damn brilliant. With this free online service, you specify ‘triggers’ which happen on the internet : like you being tagged on Facebook, or you receiving an email, and then what ‘action’ to execute on that trigger : like downloading the tagged photo to your Dropbox account. You can also share such a workflow [...]

The world is not a perfect place. Ever so often, one has to work on someone’s computer which is lacking in some small irritating way compared to yours. You are craving for what you’re used to, yet don’t want to change anything on the machine. We tell you the best portable apps to carry around in your USB stick and use at work, school or any other place. These small executables are self-sufficient  and don’t modify anything on the [...]