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A Tribute to IrfanView
IrfanView is the best daily-use image viewer, period. OK, maybe not for everyone. But for a power-user, that statement holds true. It’s the best general-purpose image editor I have ever used since a long time (2004), and it managed to keep that title for all these years in the midst...
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Under-used Keyboard Shortcuts for Text Editing
Most people know about the basic windows shortcuts for Cut, Copy and Paste (right?), but there are a few more shortcuts that I consider invaluable when writing text. And I was surprised that most people don’t really use them. I am talking about the Home and End keys and their...
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Tasty Static - the modern day SkyRoads remix
Fans of BlueMoon Interactive’s DOS game SkyRoads, rejoice! I found an excellent remake of the classic: Tasty Static. The game is fantastic, take my word for it! Or don’t. Just check the screenshots and the trailer. The basic gameplay is the same as SkyRoads, you have to reach the end...
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Samsung Infuse 4G vs HTC Inspire 4G vs iPhone 4
A friend of mine recently went to the US to pursue his Masters degree, and he has asked me to help him decide between 3 phones: Samsung Infuse 4G, HTC Inspire 4G and Apple iPhone 4. I used the internet to quickly compare the phones and had to suggest Samsung...
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Firefox 6 Released
So what’s the deal with Mozilla? I know they’ve changed to a rapid release cycle, but it doesn’t feel like it was too long ago that version 4 was released. Soon after, version 5 didn’t bring any groundbreaking changes to the table either. Now, they’ve released version 6. (http://www.mozilla.org/firefox?WT.mc_id=aff_en04&WT.mc_ev=click) Judging...
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KDE for Windows
The computer desktop is an essential part of our computing experience. It is the starting point, the home page, the single point in space-time continuum that we can come back to. That’s all very good. But the Windows desktop looks old. Despite so many changes and developments in interface technology,...
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More 3D pics from my Leh trip
Remember my post about Stereoscopic 3D? I have processed more such photos on the occasion of my family trip to Leh, Ladakh. Use your typical red-blue 3D glasses to view: If I had known they’d turn out so great, I would have made time to take more pictures. To see...
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Windows Live Writer
I haven’t been blogging much, have I? I have missed a lot of wonderful posts I could have made, like reviews of my new 22 inch LCD monitor, my Logitech MX-518 gaming mouse, my new desk (well, modified the old one), my Sennheiser HD201 circumaural headphones, my wonderful phone Nokia...