How To Lock Your Folder without a Software

March 20th, 2009 We have always been concerned about hiding a particular file or folder from someone for definite purposes. I won't go into that now.

December 1st, 2008 If you have downloaded .rar files into your computer and want them to be played through itunes in your Mac, what will you do? You can find lots of descriptions for decompressing .rar files on PCs but no description of how to do so on a mac. Here are some quick and easy steps to get the files you want decompresse onto your computer, iPod, or mp3 player directly.

December 27th, 2008 I know that Windows runs super slow in some people's machine. And try as hard as you can but you can seldom find a good reason for the slowing up or a remedy to it.

January 7th, 2009 How about a simple trick that hides a file in an image? Yes I will give you a simple tip which will hide a file inside an image. So much so that the image file will be a JPEG, look and act like a JPEG too.

January 14th, 2009 You must have had some annoying moments with USB pen drives viruses at some point of your life. Its so frequent that its considered to be normal by some.

May 4th, 2009 Ubuntu 9.04, codenamed Jaunty Jackalope has satisfied the Linux community to no end after its successful launch of the newest version of the distro where stability ands speed both were awesome as per the tech pandits. The other day, while I was going through a series of tests with my own Jaunty, I thought of using Samba with it so that I can share folders.

January 19th, 2009 Quick Launch bar has seen two extreme use cases in Windows XP and Windows Vista. Some have loved Quick Launch and some didn't.

May 16th, 2006 Ten commandments for computer security: Thy shall create strong passwords Thy shall use good antivirus software Windows users shall regularly update critical updates Thy shall download online forms after verifying URL https:// or forms with lock icons Thy shall use secure shell (ssh or sftp) for file transfers Thy shall not open unnecessary emails Thy shall regularly back up important files Thy shall set a password protected screen saver to activate after 10-15 minutes Thy shall shutdown thine computer at night Thy shall schedule monthly scanning of hard disk Heavily modified from BSNL list (by email).

February 4th, 2009 Windows explorer with its inexplicable  bugs have annoyed and irrirated millions of us. One of the most common source of irritation is to find that the Folder Options under Tools of Menu Bar has gone missing.

September 19th, 2008 Windows XP, arguably the world's most popular operating system, still has lots of tricks up its sleeve. Today I will show you some hidden rooms, some unknown corners in this column that you never knew existed but wanted to.

December 30th, 2008 Its a trivial thing but annoying nevertheless. Suppose you are trying to find some information from a particular folder and your every time your mouse hovers over an icon, Microsoft Windows starts teaching you about that application no matter how blunt! So here is a simple trick which will permanently switch the yellow tooltips off.

June 6th, 2009 Microsoft had introduced a new free email and newsgroup client in Windows Vista, Windows Mail. It succeeded Microsoft's long grown Outlook Express.

May 20th, 2009 If you right click on the Control Panel in Start Menu, you cannot find the Pin to Taskbar right click contextual menu item  that allows user to pin the Control Panel shortcut to Windows 7 Taskbar. Event if you drag and drop the Control Panel shortcut to Taskbar on Windows 7 to pin Control Panel folder on Taskbar it will not work.

August 30th, 2007 By default, Windows Vista uses Live File System to incrementally add files to your CD. Live File System is a file storage system that can be used to create CDs and DVDs.

April 24th, 2007 Following three simple steps now you can get rid of the pesky and sometimes buggy Windows Genuine Advantage (WGA) notifications: 1. Reboot Windows in safe mode (hold the f8 key while booting and you will get the option to boot in safe mode) and then: 2.