Tech Smart Life

Computer and Internet security has become one of the top priority for most of the people who own a personal computer or hold an internet account. Keeping a strong password is one of the precautionary measure to prevent online frauds. Awesome Password Generator is an easy to use portable application for quickly generating common passwords or Wi-Fi [...]

My job requires to perform work on office provided desktop on which i don’t have administrator privileges. That machine automatically locks the desktop in case of a one minute of inactivity due to security. This bothers in certain situations where i am in the middle of a presentation. I was looking for a tool which [...]

Recently i attended a seminar at my workplace on investing plan and scope for the next financial year. The seminar was conducted to brief the users about the growth of Real Estate sector in India and other options to make investment. The major focus was on real estate though other options like investing in PPF [...]

In Linux you have package managers or software centers to assist you in finding and installing your favorite software. Npackd (pronounced “unpacked”) is an application store/package manager for applications on Windows. It helps you to find and install software, keep your software up-to-date and helps uninstall it if no longer necessary. Using the tool is very [...]

DreamMail is a free email client software that comes with all the features you need for managing your email accounts.  It supports SMTP, eSMTP, POP3, protocols and Gmail, Hotmail and Yahoo etc., email providers. This tools can handle multiple users and multiple email accounts. You can access all your Inbox, Outbox, Sent, Trash, Draft and Junk [...]

Google recently rolled out Free SMS chat service in India  covering almost all operator including Airtel, Aircel, Idea, MTS, Reliance, Tata DoCoMo, Tata indicom and Vodafone. This service is already available in many other countries, the full list of supported countries can be found here. This service allows India based Gmail or Gtalk users to send [...]

  We have covered quite a few good freeware photo editing programs earlier here. Some of the best tools available are Paint.NET, PhotoFilter, and the feature-rich Photoscape. PhoXo is another simple and best tool for day to day use for novice users. Today we are covering another one that we would like to add to our favorites [...]

Two basic security precautions one has to take when downloading executable files from internet, received binary files from some untrustworthy source or downloading torrents. First thing obviously is to scan the file with anti-virus and anti malware tools and second one is verifying the integrity of the file. Secure Hash Algorithm (SHA) and Message Digest [...]