Virtualization (the ability to run multiple OS simultaneously) is gaining lot of traction nowadays. In the PC world this started initially with VMWare and Virtual PC (which Microsoft acquired from Connectix) for development and testing purposes soon gained popularity in the servers. In servers virtualization...

Even if you have a hard disk with hundreds of GBs, you will run out of space soon. At that time you want to see what is taking most of the space. Using Windows Explorer and going to each folder is a time consuming job. Several years back I got introduced to a tool called " Tree Size " that...

I came across this brilliant site called " Geonames.org " - a Geographical database for download free of charge containing over eight million geographical names. The site allows you to search for any city or place or postal code and the best part is all of this is also available through a number...

Both in my home and work I have powerful 8GB Quad-Core Desktops running Windows Vista x64 and I love the machines. I use extensively Windows Live Writer for writing my blog posts and Live Messenger for IM. Now they come as a single install package (Windows Live Suite) easy to install. When you try to...

The most common question I get about Tamil Unicode / Tamil IT is how do I input Tamil text in Windows?. Over the years my answer has varied and if you ask others it certainly varies between individuals and their choices. There are plethora of choices now available: My first in the list will be Murasu...

Though Microsoft Silverlight is a cool technology, it pales in front of Adobe Flash (98% of browsers have it) in terms of availability. It is not an unique MS problem, it is a problem for any new offering when there is an incumbent who has a majority market share. To change this requires education, awareness...

Sometimes you are stuck by not able to delete the file because some application unknown to you is holding the file lock. This freeware ( Unlocker ) helps you in those scenarios. I haven't tried it yet, use it at your own risk ! What looked impressive for me is the GUI listing of all applications...

Windows Live Search seems to have introduced a video search recently. When I searched " Vishwak " the results page impressed me - you can mouse over on a result image and see the video playing in place with audio. Surprisingly it included results from Google's YouTube as well and playing...

Microsoft have released for some time now preinstalled and preconfigured Virtual Images (in Virtual PC VHD format) of Exchange Server and SQL Server for evaluation. The list is expanded to cover many more of MS softwares including ISA Server, BizTalk, System Center, Windows Server 2008, Vista Enterprise...

As I posted in the past if you need to do screen shots then you can use the free Zabgrab or if you are using Windows Vista the Snipping tool . But what if you want to capture a web page that scrolls for multiple pages. The hands-on winner to do is the award winning Snag-It! . The other day on a Windows...