Installing OS on VirtualBox can be nirvana for people. Thanks to speedy Virtualization offered by Virtualbox, it has become among the most popular/free Virtualization solution. Butdoing so takes time. If you are short on time and want to try various flavors of Linux/Unix, Solaris, it can’ t get better than this. Here is the complete List of Available OS: The ready to use VirtualBox images include: (All credits to Read further »

WiiMote is the best Gaming gadget you could ever dream of. Though Originally designed for Nintendo Wii console, WiiMote can be used by interfacing to PC, MAC via Bluetooth. What you need: 1. Bluetooth dongle (Integrated BT might not work, try your luck) 2. Right Bluetooth stack (BlueSolelil or WIDCOMM or Toshiba). 3. Software to control WiiMote (GlovePie on Windows or WMGUI and  Read further »

OCR or Optical character recognition has potentially infinite benefits: A printed page can be quickly be converted to Text for editing and Re-use. Whether they are  notes from meeting, an instructor, an old document, a Book, a letter that needs to be turned into a template, an text-image taken from Digital cam or phone, Online OCR tools can help. There are lots of software based solutions that let you do all this. But with the beginning of cloud computing, everything wants to go online. OnlineOCR is one such free service. Another good one to lookout for is Read further »

Tweetmeme captured the Twitter Trends and changed the way everyone explores twitter. Google’s Social initiative, Google Buzz, gets Hot-item with “Buzrr“. Swedish marketing technologist Dennis Hettema believes that Buzrr will finally solve the problem Buzz was facing since it’s launch: Tracking Trends. They have kick-started the service with a simple interface, and there are no categories, Read further »

Firefox 3.5 is now World’s most popular browser, but Apple forgot to integrate Bookmark sync with Firefox, Chrome. All you get is the Sync option for Safari/Internet Explorer. Behold, there’s a solution that will make it possible to automatically sync iPhone Bookmarks with Firefox and Chrome [and vice-versa] i.e. Sync Firefox, Chrome Bookmarks with iPhone, in a blink of the eye. Step 1. For Firefox, Download and Install Xmarks Addon Read further »

Screencasting can be a handy widget for a no. of things: preparing a Tutorial, demonstrating a product, broadcasting your favorite software trick/hack to internet. But when it comes to choosing one to your needs, it’s not hard to be confused.

In this guide, I`ll walk you through Industry’s Best Free Screencasting tools along with the paid ones. We will cover all three platforms: Windows, Linux, Mac OS X.

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Microsoft already let gamers use their Xbox 360 Game controllers with Windows, but it features no support for Mac OS X. Colin D. Munro, a Mac programmer, has created a USB driver/application which adds support to Mac OS X for the Xbox 360 wired (USB) controller. Everything works, the buttons, analog sticks, the analog triggers, and the D-pad, and most important,  Force Read further »

VideoLAN VLC is among the most popular video players on Windows, Linux but still not the best one. The decoding codecs used by current versions of VLC (1.0.x) are way too inferior in performance and quality as compared to the top of the line. The Proof of Concept comes when one tries to play a 1080p High-Def video in VLC vs. using other Codecs. Our previous post talks about superior contenders in Codecs: CoreAVC, that lets you play 1080p smoothly, even on low-end machines (1.5Ghz Dual core, low-end GPU). Well, the things are about to change for this Read further »