Disk Wiping Utilities: How to Get Rid of Your Data Permanently

On one sunny summer day, Mr. and Mrs. Smith (Those 2 characters are completely fictional and are in no way related to anyone) decided that they’d had enough with their old, sluggish computer and wanted to get a brand new one. After doing a traditional format, Mr. Smith decided to put up the system for [...]

Free iTunes TV Show Page

Want to beef up on content for your iPod Video but don’t have a lot of money?
Lately the iTunes Store (US) has been full of free videos. A common trend has been for networks to offer a series pilot for free in hopes of getting you hooked on the show. Not a bad idea - [...]

Linux: How to create multiple users accounts in batch

Usually you use useradd command to create a new user or update default new user information from command line. However, let us say you want to create a large number of users or if you want to import usernames from a text file. You can use newusers command, which update and create new users in [...]

PayPal’s Send Money Firefox extension

The PayPal’s Send Money Firefox extension is a cool Firefox extension that caught my eye today. Adding this Firefox extension to make sending money to your mom faster could save you up to 50 hours a year to enjoy more English Premier League matches or Apprentive reruns on the telly. What ever you do with [...]

Bug Me Not - Say goodbye to compulsory registration!

Fed up of having to register at certain websites just to read a news article or download a file? You no longer have to go through this time-consuming process of handing over your personal information.
Introducing, http://www.bugmenot.com, a free service which allows users to share login information at sites that make registration compulsory. You don’t even [...]

ColorBlender.com

Are you looking for a nice set of colors you can use for your website?
Enter Colorblender.com
What makes this website special is the ability for the user to blend colors out of 60+ sets of colors you can readily use. Not only that, users can also download his/her customize blends as an .ACT or .EPS.
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How to give yourself a grub splash screen of your choice

As you may have guessed, I’m something of a self professed geek. I like my machine to boot with grub (given that I dual boot) and I like to have a nice image when I’m taking my 15 seconds to decide which OS I want to boot into. Or in case a supermodel [...]

Check out TrackMeNot - a new way to obscure your search habits.

Plausible deniability steps forward.  Let me introduce you to TrackMeNot.  From the site:
TrackMeNot is a browser extension that protects web-searchers against surveillance and data-profiling. It does so not by means of concealment or encryption (i.e. covering one’s trail), but instead, paradoxically, by the opposite strategy: noise and obfuscation. With TrackMeNot, actual web searches, [...]

Indian social bookmarking sites take off & it’s a rush out there already..

I have been approached by four social bookmarking sites for reviews; however instead of writing individual reviews, it makes sense to do a sweeping scan of this entire space, hence this round up post. It has taken me multiple sessions spread over a week to put together this review.
If the essence of Web2.0 is social [...]

OS X Startup Manager - booting from a CD

I need to diagnose my iMac and figure out how hosed my hard drive really is.

In Windows I knew to press F8 during system boot to get the boot manage. How can I do the same on my Mac?

Press Option during startup Starts into Startup Manager, where you can select a Mac OS [...]

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