Geek Shout

Window 7 introduced a neat feature where you can preview the window of an application by putting your mouse over it in the taskbar. Most modern browsers, including Firefox, have made use of this Windows 7 feature and are now using it to display all the tabs in the taskbar. However not everyone finds it [...]

The first of our series of unnecessary Windows processes you can do without: JSQ.exe sits there just in case some day you may stumble upon a Java Applet, in which case JSQ.exe delivers JRE (Java Runtime Environment) files that were pre-fetched at an earlier time, thus allowing the applet to start faster than usual. If [...]

So you’ve set your domain to point to some new nameservers, and here comes the waiting game. But at times, the waiting game can turn into a nightmare when, without a preview of what the website looks like, you’ll be surprised at what our friends over the ocean are seeing while you’re confidently waiting for [...]

If you find yourself in a constant pursuit for a software or service that’s better, or free but accomplishes most of what your current one does, they have a website for that, now! Bluntly named alternativeTo.net, this is a community driven website  with alternatives to popular software and services. This includes software for Windows, Mac, [...]

There’s a free video media player that will play most video formats out there, that’s a better alternative to installing the various players that support playback of FLV, RMVB, MKV and many other video file formats that have been increasingly popular in the past couple of years. It’s called VLC Media Player and it’s available [...]

All you need to determine which of the applications running are connecting to the Internet is a DOS prompt, thanks to the netstat command. Thus fire up a DOS window by entering “command” in Start Menu -> Run and type netstat -b. Wait a couple of minutes as new connections are being open by your [...]

Turns out Windows 7 can turn you into God by enabling something called GodMode. Bill has decided to give you a taste of his power with this little trick for Windows 7. The obligatory GodMode joking aside, enabling this won’t give you more control over the operating system than you already have, but it will [...]