ReviewSaurus – Technology Rocks!

Long back when I started blogging (well, around 1 and half year back…feels longer though), I’d suggested Microsoft to simply create a web service where people could use Microsoft Office online. Unfortunately, Microsoft didn’t listen to me and now they are seeing lot of users shifting to Google Docs or Zoho Office!

However, there was someone who was listening to me and decided that they’ll launch something like that, although they added a small twist to the original plan. Ulteo is the company who is working on the idea of providing OpenOffice.Org over the web. The idea is simple that a user logs to their system as if he’s sitting on his own computer and gets to access the applications and in this case the applications are OpenOffice.Org apps (Write, Calc, Draw, Math, Impress etc.)

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Ever wanted to run those old DOS based games or software ? Do you want to play your favorite old DOS based game but can’t because you are using a Macintosh or Linux ? Well, no need to think about these questions anymore as DOSBOX is the open-source application which can help you right away!

DOSBOX is a DOS emulator which can run on Windows, Linux, Mac, FreeBSD and few others and which can run DOS based games (but not limited to them) easily with sound too.

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All these year, we’ve seen Blue screen of death! Now, lets see this Google Screen of Death!

If you are a windows user then you know the pain of fighting against those nasty viruses and Trojans. One of the ways of fighting these malicious programs is that instead of running yourself with Administrative privileges, use a restricted or a normal user account.

I know that most of you’ll think that what’s the point of having a personal computer when you don’t have full control over it and that you don’t want to get into the mess of logging off and logging back on when you want to start or stop a service or when you want to reinstall an application.

Well, there is a simple work around to such a problem (actually two work around) and here’s what you can do :

1. Right click on any software or program which needs the administrative privileges and select Run As and that’ll give you the option of inserting the username and password. Over there type the administrator username and password and you’ll be able to run the application or install that application.

2. Creating a batch file to load command prompt with administrative privileges :

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Credit : Sonata Music by jrossol

We all listen to music and it is part of our lives and when it comes to playing it on our computers, then the first thing which hits our mind is that which software are we going to use for playing the music! Well, here’s the list of 50 + audio/media players which are free to use.

1. Winamp : Link-http://www.winamp.com/

Winamp 5.5 is a Multimedia player packed with new features. It supports numerous Audio & Video file formats.

2. JetAudio : Link-http://www.jetaudio.com/

JetAudio is an Integrated Multimedia Software which supports numerous Audio & Video file formats with some new functionality.

3. KM player : Link- http://www.kmplayer.com/forums/index.php

KMPlayer is a music player supports various types of formats such as VCD, DVD, AVI, MKV, Ogg Theora, OGM, 3GP, MPEG-1/2/4, WMV, Real Media, and QuickTime among others.

4. Cool Mp3 player : Link-http://www.digitalfan.com/

Cool Mp3 player is a compact mp3 player with all the must have features, but none of extras.

5. CoolPlayer : Link- http://coolplayer.sourceforge.net/

CoolPlayer is a fast Mp3 player which supports major music formats.

6. Xion Audio Player : Link-http://xion.r2.com.au/

Xion is a high fidelity, easily skinnable, out of this world audio player.

7. Sonique : Link:http://sonique.lycos.com

Sonique is much creative player which supports most of music formats including Mp3, WAV, WMA and CD Audio.

8. RealPlayer : Link- http://www.realnetworks.com/

RealPlayer is the all-in-one digital media player that lets you find anything and play everything.

9. Faststone Player : Link-http://www.faststone.org/

Faststone Player is a simple and flexible multimedia player that lets users play all common media files (MP3, DivX, XviD, MPEG, Windows Media, and RealMedia) within one program.

10. Media Player Classic : Link- http://sourceforge.net/projects/guliverkli/

Media Player Classic is a compact and light-weight windows media player capable of playing VCD, SVCD and DVD playback, without the need to install any additional software or codec’s.

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