November 25, 2012

System Explorer: Alternative to Windows Task Manager

System Explorer is an alternative to and a much better version of Windows Task Manager.

It provides you with an in-depth view of your system functioning and performance. It gives you much more detail than Task Manager that comes by default with Windows. For example, the list of files opened by a particular process, the list of network connections, process hierarchy (which process is invoked by which other process) etc. are some of the interesting additional features provided by this tool.

Download it from http://systemexplorer.net/.

November 18, 2012

How to delete browser autofill field value(s)?

Have you ever mistyped a username or a word in a text field of a form on a website? If autofill is enabled, the browser stores the (mis)typed word in its cache and associates it with the dropdown of that text field. In such cases, have you wanted to delete such words from the browser cache?

One way is to delete/clear all of your browser cache – which is not effective though as it wipes out all of the cache.

The way to delete only a specific entry from the cache is to use keyboard to navigate to the required value in the dropdown list and hit “Del”. In some of the older browser versions, “Shift” + “Del” may be needed. Note that this holds good for URLs in location bar as well.

November 11, 2012

µTorrent (uTorrent): Torrent Client

If you’re looking for a torrent client to download material like Linux ISOs, training videos or digital copies of CDs/DVDs that you own, then µTorrent (uTorrent) is the one you should go for. It is an excellent and lightweight torrent client while providing rich functionality and performing wonderful as well. Yeah, it's not for downloading movies or songs - remember that! ;)

µTorrent (uTorrent) can be downloaded from http://www.utorrent.com/.