January, 2009 | PCs Place

Play Music in Command Line or Text Mode with MP3 Blaster

The heart of the Linux or Unix platforms lies in the text mode of the OS, popularly known as the command line. Many enthusiastic open source developers have helped to bring entertainment even to the command line atmosphere, which is perhaps unimaginable for a Windows user. MP3Blaster is one such non-graphical music player for Unix-like […]

Download The Best Free Disk Defragment Utility – Smart Defrag

If you looking for a free and yet efficient disk defragmentation tool, look no further than IObit Smart Defrag. It is the best freeware software that helps defragment your hard drives more efficiently than any other product in the market. As you use your computer, the various files on the hard disk get arranged in […]

How to Turn Off Admin Shares of Your Drives

By default, Windows shares your all drives (C: shared as C$, D: as D$ and so on) so that you can access them over the network using your administrator password. However, if you’re the paranoid kind or need to share your admin password with your colleagues from time to time, you might want to turn […]

Try Habari – The Next Generation Content Management System

Habari is a next-generation blogging script that is freely available for anyone to install and use. There are numerous other blogging scripts like WordPress, BlogCMS, etc. However, what makes Habari different is that it is being written by taking the current state of the blogosphere into consideration. Factors like comment spamming and digg overloads are […]

Edubuntu – Linux Distro for the Young and School Going Children

Edubuntu, A Linux Distribution is based on Ubuntu and is targeted at the young ones. This distribution comes as a Live CD, and has a GUI for its installer as well. It is of 695 MB and can be downloaded from edubuntu.org. Here is a small review about Edubuntu’s features and applications. Edubuntu isn’t just […]

How To Automate Your Internet Connection in Windows

A lot of us use the dial-up method to connect to our ISPs. Even the broadband users amongst us usually have to use PPPoE (dial-up broadband). The problem occurs when the Internet Connection fails or when the connections drop. It will be very annoying as the downloads will stop or fail and the transfers are […]

Search and Download Freeware Versions of All Software with Last Freeware version

Almost all the best software you use now are Freeware at one time or the other of their development. After being successful they are made as Commercial software which will cost you a lot to buy them. But if you want to try out software without actually buying them Last Freeware Version is the place […]

Ultimate List of Linux and Unix Commands

Here is a list of Linux and Unix commands which will be useful for you. These commands can be used as a quick reference to simplify your Linux or Unix using experience. The commands are categorized into different categories depending upon the operation of the command. Almost commands of every type are listed here. The […]

React OS – An Open Source Windows Clone Operating System

ReactOS is an open source/free operating system that was created with the intention of running software and drivers written for Microsoft Windows. ReactOS was created by clean room reverse engineering of Windows. The source code is freely available for anyone to see/study and modify. Currently, the ReactOS project is in the alpha development stage. However, […]

Notepad++ – A Best Alternative to Notepad like Text Editing Software

Have you ever used Notepad or Wordpad to write HTML or C/C++ code ? If you have done so, you might be aware that it is not so cool. There is no color coding, no syntax highlighting and it is simply very difficult. Commercial text editors are generally used for the coding of programming languages […]

How to Lock or Password Protect Your PDF Files with Adobe Acrobat Reader

Password protection of your PDF file ensures that the PDF can only be opened by the intended recipient of the file. Password protection can also be used to prevent users from printing or editing the document. These settings can be further tweaked to allow only low resolution printing, and varying degrees of editing. To password […]

Count Words in PDF, Text, HTML, XML & CSV Files Online for Free

Now you can quickly count words in PDF, Text, HTML, XML and CSV files without even opening them by using a free online word count application called CountOnIt. It is an online application of Felix-cat. To get the number of words in your file all you need to do is select/upload the file you want […]