Tech Salsa

Wanted to know what is your hard disk’s speed? Well if you are uncertain of your disk’s performance and wanted to verify its speed and other details then here is a free tool for you that can do the same work easily.

The free tool is called Roadkil’s Disk Speed. It can perform certain tests to determine how fast your disk is and how fast it can transfer the data from one location to another. In simple words, if you wished to determine your Hard Disk’s speed and data transfer rate then try out this free tool Roadkil’s Disk Speed. [Read the rest of this entry...]

I have a jailbroken iPhone 3G with Vodafone connection but the problem that I had was with the Internet connection. Despite having an activated Edge or GPRS service my iPhone was facing the internet connectivity problems and was not able to run the internet.

I needed to set up my internet settings manually but those who use iPhone know that there isn’t a way to do that. So if you are also facing internet problem on the iPhone and wanted to manually configure the internet settings, you can do that easily in just 2 minutes even if you don’t have a wifi connection. [Read the rest of this entry...]

After all the developments and the research Microsoft has decided to release its next version of the Internet Explorer that is IE 9. As claimed, IE 9 will have all the latest features and standards that one user wishes to see in a browser.

Microsoft has recently released the official logo of the Internet Explorer 9 browser. The new logo looks refreshing and is, of course, based on the ‘e’ that it has been using for quite some time now. [Read the rest of this entry...]

It is very irritating when you are trying to work on slow internet connection. There is nothing much that you can do when waiting for your email to get sent or waiting for the web page to get fully load before you can actually do something.

There are few dial-up users or people facing the internet problems and if you are one of them then here are some steps how you can reduce your wait time.

1.    Send multiple files faster by compressing them

If you need to send many files over the net to someone then you should send them after compressing them as compressing them using the compress utility like WinZip or WinRar reduces the size dramatically. [Read the rest of this entry...]

There can be situation when you come across some problem related to some application in MS Office, well if that is the case or you just want to reinstall the MS Office suite then here is something to interest you.

The tool being described here is called Office Key Remover, which is a small and free tool that can be used to remove the license information of the MS Office suite from the machine thereby enabling it enter the same [Read the rest of this entry...]

We have opened many restricted sites through the Anonymous Proxy sites someday or the other without knowing the risks and security vulnerabilities involved in this.

There are loads and loads of anonymous proxy sites available which are used by many people who are unaware how unsafe it is to use this for our confidential data. Use of such proxy sites is highly risky and it is advisable that you stop using those with immediate effect. [Read the rest of this entry...]

This problem was submitted to us by one of our readers who came across the following error message “You have been disconnected from chat because you have signed into Yahoo Messenger from another computer or device”

Well there is nothing to be afraid of as this error message is common and can occur because of logging into different clients at the same time.

Cause of the problem:

If you are using the new Yahoo Mail with Chat feature and also logging at the same time on the desktop Yahoo Messenger client then you can’t log into both [Read the rest of this entry...]

The problem was faced by one of our readers that whenever he tries to open Orkut, an unknown file named Debug.log appears on desktop automatically. This problem has also been seen when trying to open iGoogle.

When you open the debug.log in a notepad you will find that it is empty and does not contain anything.

Cause of the problem:

The problem is not much common and has been seen to come mostly when using the IE browser. The problem usually occurs after you are asked to install [Read the rest of this entry...]

Thunderbird which is the Email Client from Mozilla, the developers of Firefox browser, has recently got upgraded to a new version 3.1.2.

After all the bug fixes and the improved stability, Mozilla Messaging has released their recent version of the Email Client Thunderbird version 3.1.2. There have been few improvements over the previous version 3.1 like the fixes to improve stability and the fixes to improve User Interface. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Downloading movies and other stuffs from torrents are great option but what if you are not able to install or run the torrent clients like uTorrent? As long as you are running the client in your own system, it is not a problem but it surely is if you are running it in office systems where you are unable to install torrent client.

So if that is the case then you need not worry as you can make use of the online site that can download the torrent as well as stuff for you without downloading either the torrent file or installing [Read the rest of this entry...]

If you are into gaming then you must be aware of the fact that how much important it is to get good and sufficient monitor frequency. Good and higher display frequency not only provides better display but also least flickering chances.

It is true that display frequency depends upon the capability of the monitor attached to some extent but it can be increased without changing either the monitor or installing the drivers. With this tool called RefreshLock, you can easily optimize refresh rate for Windows NT/2000/XP. [Read the rest of this entry...]

If you need to highlight some text in MS Word then you use the highlighter available but there are situations when we come across some text on some website which we want to mark so as to read later on.

Web browsers lack this feature but there is an add-on in Firefox using which we can select and highlight a text in the web page itself. The add-on called Wired-Marker is a permanent (indelible) highlighter that you use on Web pages. [Read the rest of this entry...]