Archive for August 2008

Test your Internet Connectivity with VisualRoute 2008 Lite

The command line tool tracert displays the route that is taken to contact a Website/server. It also displays every hops on every router that is taken along the way. It also displays the IP addresses of the intermediate routers and the time it takes to get to those routers. VisualRoute 2008 Lite is a graphical [...]

Make your Firefox Tabs Colorful

ColorfulTabs is a neat little extension for Firefox which allows you to make those colorless Firefox tabs colorful. This will make them more beautiful and easy to distinguish. Though very simple in nature, it does give the user a few choices. Users can select any custom color for there tab or let it generate one [...]

Convert Docx Files using Docx2Rtf Converter

Microsoft introduced the Docx file format in there new version of Office 2007. However it is incompatible with the older Office versions and since many people are still using the older Office, you need a way to convert your Docx documents to a format that is supported by Older Office versions. Docx2Rtf is a freeware [...]

Internet Explorer 8 to have a Privacy Mode

Microsoft is going to add a new Privacy Mode to its next release of Internet Explorer 8. With it, just by clicking a button, users will be able to limit how much information is recorded where they go online and what they do. This made will also clear the browser cache at the end of [...]

Control your Computer from anywhere using RealVNC

VNC (Virtual Network Computing) is a remote control software which allows you to view and interact with one computer desktop (VNC ‘Server’) using another computer desktop (VNC ‘Viewer’). It is currently finding a lot of applications in troubleshooting a distant computer by just sitting at your home. It can even be used by System administrators [...]