After downloading and using some of the official Windows 7 theme packs such as 7up, Avatar, Twinkle Wish, Samsung Winter Sports, Valentines Day and so on, you might be wanting to create a theme of your own using your vacation or party pictures. Or simply you may want to create a theme using only your favorite wallpapers taken from Windows 7 default Aero and regional themes. In this article we give the steps to create your own theme pack in Windows 7. (more…)

Came across a funny picture while browsing the web? The first thing you want to do is to capture the image and share it with your friends. There are several screenshot tools as well as webpage capture tools (some even let you export as E-books to Amazon Kindle) available for free. We have already featured our pick of best free screen capture software. (more…)

HTC Desire has been recently unveiled at the Mobile World Congress and is set to be released in retail a couple of months from now. While HTC Desire has almost the same hardware as the Google Nexus One phone, it has some non-Nexus One features such as the HTC Sense UI, a unique graphical interface with cool widgets that is only found on HTC phones, the face recognition camera app, touch focus, and so on. (more…)

Whenever you leave your PC for a while, it is always better to lock it with a password, so that no one else gets access to your data while you are away. But sometimes it gets tiring to enter the password, each time you unlock your Computer. What if you could have a key which will simply turn on the lock? Predator, a free program, lets you use your protect your PC using a USB flash drive. (more…)

Now that Windows 7 RC is approaching the bi-hourly shutdown phase(March 1st 2010 onwards), any one who is looking to try this OS is left without an option, except to buy a copy. However, Microsoft has recently started a demo website for Windows 7 Professional version, letting every one take a test drive, without any registration. (more…)

Many of us use iTunes to organize, playback music and to download tracks from the Apple store. Unfortunately iTunes is set to synchronize only with an iPod by default. iPhone and iPod users have other alternatives to iTunes syncing, such as Yamipod, CopyTrans Manager, iPhone Explorer, etc. But other portable music players are completely left out, with no way to sync them with iTunes. (more…)

There are many backup solutions available, both offline and online, such as AutoVer, a powerful auto versioning and backup program, Back4Sure, a handy portable tool, and Free MozyHome, an online backup solution. If you don’t want to have any extra software, you can even use your own Gmail account as an online backup drive. (more…)

So you, like many others who are aspiring to jailbreak and unlock their iPhones or iPod Touches, are completely clueless as to whether your device can be tethered or unlocked? Well, you don’t have to do all the research yourself. Now you get the answers in a jiffy, thanks to f0recast, a tool released by the iH8sn0w team. Yes, they are the same guys who have helped us jailbreak iPhone 2G/3G/3GS 3.1.3 with Sn0wbreeze. (more…)

If you are a Net book owner, chances are that your machine might not have an optical drive. So in scenarios where you want to install Windows 7, Windows Vista, or even Windows XP, you need to create a bootable USB flash drive. We already have posted the manual steps to install Windows 7 from USB drive, and also featured the Windows 7 USB/DVD Download Tool released by Microsoft. (more…)

Social networking has become so common that recently Google made a foray into this arena by introducing Google Buzz, which is integrated into Gmail. In case you are an MS Outlook user, you don’t have to miss out on the social networking part any more. Outlook social connector, still in Beta,  is a free program released by Microsoft which lets you view the status updates and messages from your favorite online social networks  right within Outlook. (more…)