Tech Salsa

Album Arts are the pictures that the songs display while being played in a music player like Windows media Player and iTunes. The songs and the audio library look really cool especially in our iPods and iPhone.

If you have always wanted to know how to add custom images to the songs as album arts, then here is the info that you need.

Album Art can be added to the songs using many software but we can do the same thing without any software and just using the Windows Media Player. So here is how to do that. [Read the rest of this entry...]

We like playing a lot of games on our system, don’t we? One of my favorite games is the all time Counter Strike which can be played better if we face less ping and the FPS is more.

If you also like playing games but in smooth and accelerated manner then here is a tool for you that will boost game speeds.

The software is called Game Booster which in a way is highly recommended for the gamers like you. Using Game Booster you will definitely see an improvement in game speed and from now on your game will hang less often. [Read the rest of this entry...]

One of our readers wanted to know the steps using which he can remove the custom theme installed by him some time earlier from the Windows XP.

The post will describe how you can delete a theme installed by you from the Windows.

Steps:

1.    Right click on Desktop -> Properties. [Read the rest of this entry...]

It is always a better idea to manually restore the data in the iPhone during major firmware upgrade (like moving from 2.2 to 3.0) and not restoring it from the backup made in the iTunes. So if you cannot restore the backup from iTunes then will you lose all your data? No as you can manually restore all your data in the iPhone.

Using the same method I was able to restore all my old and saved SMS, Notes, Calendars and Mail Accounts in the new upgraded firmware. What we need is the location where iPhone stores these SMS, Notes etc and an iPhone file explorer. [Read the rest of this entry...]

It has been a month since I mentioned 3 free Disk Defragmenting Software, and adding to that list here is another free but powerful defragmenter that will throw all your fragmentation problems.

The tool is called UltraDefrag short for Ultra Defragmenter and is claimed to be the powerful Open Source defragmentation tool for Windows. It is believed to be faster than the rest defragmenters because in this the defragmenting is done by kernel-mode driver. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Mozilla had been working on its browser for quite some time now and its latest development is the all new Firefox 3.5 final that was live yesterday.

Firefox 3.5 has been released to the world with some serious improvements which will make your most loved browser more loving. The major developments include: [Read the rest of this entry...]

If you have used Windows for quite some time now then you must have seen this folder called RECYCLER. But many people don’t know what this folder is and what is it doing in the drive?

What is Recycler folder?

The Recycler folder is used only on NTFS partitions and is referred to as a location where all the deleted files go after they have been deleted by the user. Now you may be wondering if it contains the deleted files then why we have the Recycle Bin.

When a file is deleted it goes to the Recycle Bin but when the Recycle Bin is emptied, the files are stored in this Recycler folder. This is the reason why we can still restore the deleted data in the Windows. [Read the rest of this entry...]

One of our readers wanted to know how to hide any drive or partition in Windows? Well if you also want to hide yours or just wish to fool someone, then this can be easily done.

The advantage of hiding a disk drive is that this method not only hide your data but also make it invisible to those who are a threat to your secret files. You can prevent the unauthorized access to your data.

The method is best to use when you have lot of data to protect then what you can do is just copy the data in a drive and hide the complete drive instead of hiding those individually.

Drive can be made hidden by two ways: [Read the rest of this entry...]

One of the major improvements in the iPhone 3.0 Firmware is the launch of the MMS Service. Though iPhone 2G users would not be able to use this but iPhone 3G and 3GS users can use this facility on their phones.

I recently upgraded my iPhone 3G firmware to the latest 3.0 version but I was disappointed to see that the MMS feature was missing from my handset. I did see the Messages settings but the above screen was missing. [Read the rest of this entry...]

You have been removing the USB drives by safely removing them first by clicking on the Taskbar. Here is a way to do the same work but in easier and interesting way.

There is a tool called Removable that will create a list of all drives connected in the computer whether externally or internally and can disconnect or remove them just by double clicking on the selected drive. By looking at the screenie above you can make out what this software would do. [Read the rest of this entry...]

If you are planning to purchase a USB Pen Drive and are worried about its genuineness then this post is surely for you.

It happens many times that before we buy a pen drive or a USB memory drive we want to give it a try and check whether it will work fast and reliable or not. With this free tool you can also make out whether the drive you are going to buy is worth it or not. [Read the rest of this entry...]

What you do to open a drive or a folder in a new window? I guess open My Computer again and open the required drive/folder there. But with this trick you can add the option “Open in New Window” to the right click menu of the drive or a folder in Windows.

XP has this feature by default (pressing Ctrl or Shift while double clicking a drive or folder opens in new window) but this is not supported now in latest versions of Windows like Vista and Seven. [Read the rest of this entry...]