Jack-of-all trades computer geek who has worked in several countries around the world but has come home to roost in Sri Lanka. I've worked in IT, have freelanced for several newspapers and magazines and have worked at a television station as a writer/producer. I write (mostly science fiction) and develop several freeware applications in my spare time and dream of being a published author (published outside Sri Lanka that is) someday.
Whenever you start your computer, you are faced with a few moments of thumb twiddling while Windows XP boots and prompts you to log on. Although you should expect to wait for a few moments, sometimes Windows XP seems to boot rather slowly.
In fact, you may notice that over a period of time the PC [...]
P2P file sharing is one of the widely used applications now days. The Torrent search engine is the utility which is excessively used in this context. As the young generation says “impatience is the new world”, means the generation can’t afford anything too slow, same is the case with torrent download. But there are some [...]
There are certain programs that Windows will start every time you boot up your system, and during the startup phase, they’re all competing for a slice of your CPU speed. Extra or unwanted items in the startup list will definitely increase your startup time, perhaps by several minutes. Some common examples are things related to [...]
Theoretically, you can get rid of it (as well as a few other things). Windows 2000 power users should already be familiar with this tweak.
Fire up the Windows Explorer and navigate your way to the %SYSTEMROOT% \ INF folder. What the heck is that thingy with the percentage signs? It’s a variable. For most people, [...]
What happens when you mix two guys with two spare lab coats, a couple of protective goggles, 200 liters of diet coke and over 500 mentos mints? Sheer insanity that’s what happens :p This video is one of the most hilarious things I’ve come across in a long while and to top it all off, [...]
I’m a hopeful writer. Now I don’t mean that I write articles which are rosy in their outlook – I mean that I hope to be published one day :p So this means that I have to constantly send out manuscripts (or partials of manuscripts) to various publishers and agents so [...]
These days, a mobile phone is something that almost everybody finds useful and carries around. Of course, what would be even more useful (at least for the ubergeeks amongst us) would be a PDA phone or a Smartphone which combined the capabilities of a PDA and a mobile phone in one. I currently use a [...]
Today, everybody and their grandmother are using computers to store all kinds of information, be it your list of favourite recipes, pictures of the grandkids, that movie you’d been eager to watch or all of the books by your favourite author. Suddenly, the most critical factor has become the amount of hard disk space you [...]
At the dawn of time, during the early days of the Internet, those of us who are old enough to have been there used to spend a lot of time on IRC. In the multiple-IM (Instant Messenger) world of today, IRC might seem a little pass but boy did we enjoy hooking up with people [...]
I work for a web hosting company and one of the biggest issues we run into over and over again is customers who have their website (or their contact form) exploited by somebody. The exploiter defaces their site, uploads pages for a phishing scam to their server or uses the scripts on the server to [...]
Everybody and their grandmother today knows that two of the key players to watch out for new stuff (I hesitate to say innovations since some might disagree :p) are Google and Microsoft. But the question usually is, how do you know what theyve each got brewing at their respective camps? Sure, you know about the [...]
If youre using the public beta 2 of Office 2007, the Send a Smile software is something you have to install :) Dont take my word for it just try it out. It basically allows you to click on a smile (or a frown) icon on your system tray area to send instant [...]
By now, youve probably heard the news that Office 2007 beta 2 is publicly available for download. (If you hadnt heard the news, then you can download it from here). Unless youd been living under a rock for the past year or so, you have also probably heard about all the new UI [...]
