Firefox Statistics
Pingdom.com has some awesome statistics of Firefox Browser; Within the first 24 hours, more than 7 million downloads have happened and in 48 hours – the total download count crossed 15 million! Mozilla has a neat glow page indicating the live downloads, if you haven’t visited ... Continue Reading
17 Must Have Free Applications For Android (Productivity)
Published By rsivanandan On Wednesday, December 15th 2010. Under Android, Tech in general, Tools For Life Tags: Android Must Have Free Applications
Now this title is quite misleading and couldn’t make it any general. I’m not talking about the normal Facebook/Twitter/IM Clients for the droid, the utilities mentioned below help me get the maximum out from an android phone, for the investment I’ve made buying the phone itself. ... Continue Reading
Get Adobe Reader X
For almost everyone of us Adobe Reader is a package that is needed without any question, although other PDF readers are available. In fact, whenever the word PDF comes to mind, the first thingy that flashes is the read Adobe Icon for 9 out 10 people, I’m sure. ... Continue Reading
List of Downloadable Computer Repair CDs
Published By rsivanandan On Wednesday, April 28th 2010. Under Tools For Life
From Technibble, I found this post and is very very useful for a person like me and I thought I should put it up online once again here; ... Continue Reading
IPTables for Windows
Published By rsivanandan On Monday, October 5th 2009. Under Attacks/Exploits, Tech in general, Tools For Life
Oh well, if you’re more used to IPTables than any normal firewall software, then of course you’re gonna need that for your Windows machine as well. Nothing wrong about that, the interesting stuff here is about the technology, really and not who made it – if it works ... Continue Reading
XPQuickFix – Swiss Army Knife for Windows
Published By rsivanandan On Wednesday, September 30th 2009. Under Tech in general, Tools For Life, Windows
Quite often when you’re infected with a Virus, the virus does diligently :-( disable a lot of functions in Windows (Like disable the task manager, Disable registry editor etc). So either you’re stuck at different Google searches in search for fixes to these individual problems or you ... Continue Reading
Speed Up Adobe Acrobat Reader
I had moved to Foxit reader from Adobe Reader for the sole reason that I can have a cup of coffee by the time adobe loads the document, not to mention when we’re browsing a PDF document through Internet. Then I came upon this little tool while ... Continue Reading
MTU Settings Test (Set Optimal MTU)
Published By rsivanandan On Friday, September 18th 2009. Under Tools For Life Tags: MTU Optimization, MTU Settings, MTU Test
One of the things in TCP/IP communications is inefficient communication/problems caused by packet fragmentation due to MTU settings along with the PATH. There is one known problem which almost everyone hits especially over IPSEC (Outlook & Exchange) on which I had blogged previously on how to find the ... Continue Reading
Monitor Server or Service (Check Host Alive)
Published By rsivanandan On Thursday, September 17th 2009. Under Tech in general, Tools For Life Tags: Check Host Alive
One of the things every network admin would like to do is to monitor his key application servers/machines' up status. If it is down, the last thing he wants is to have the users come to him and complain! Say I own a web server and I want to ... Continue Reading
Windows XP and 2 Internet Connections
Some time back I had written on there is no load balancing concept in Windows XP. However with 2 internet connections which is kinda normal for guys like me (I have a broadband connection over WiMAX as well as an EVDO connection from BSNL). So I can’t ... Continue Reading

