About Mukhi
Mukhi is a geeky scientist & a vehement gadget freak. Anything that defies him, or any task believed to be a 'NO' for him given his background makes him take up the gauntlet. Mukhi wishes he could afford more time on the apps. He leaves no stones unturned to locate-n-learn a portable freeware.
Scenario 1: You are one of the employees. You have come to your office, grabbed a cup of coffee and started your desktop or laptop only to find that the desktop wallpaper has been changed! And, no matter what you do to Personalize...
HandBrake is an extremely popular open source cross-platform (Windows, Mac and Linux) freeware for converting (aka transcoding) videos from virtually any format to the most modern, widely supported, user-friendly formats. VidCoder...
Do you frequently extract the audio tracks from the video files? Need the original stream, or prefer to get it converted? Require multi-format support? Get full track, or the selected segment? Want audio to audio? Or you are a rin...
As far as data backup is concerned, there are a myriad of shareware options available, let alone the freeware ones. Most of them do good jobs, including but not limited to, operating system (OS) file backup. However, like m...
Despite the widespread availability of graphical user interface (GUI) now-a-days, running commands on Linux through terminal is a common practice as this operating system (OS) is known to be used mostly by the tech-savvy folks. On...
Windows user? You got it! Mac fanboy? It just works! Linux enthusiast? No problem! Smartphone or tablet owner? You betcha! What if the same app/software/program is available for (legally) free for all operating systems (OS) or pla...
No matter how easy and convenient the mouse-click is, there is no doubt about the power of the alternatives (i.e. keyboard short-cuts). A keyboard short-cut can give rise to more productivity than a mouse-click can, the only probl...
I continue to look for the hassle-free option for 3D playback; and therefore, no one should wonder why I should come up with another stereoscopic 3D media player…wait, Bino is not yet another stereoscopic 3D media player. You say,...
Ever wanted to create fillable forms but don’t want to shell out money for an expensive PDF editor, like Adobe? Already own Microsoft Word? Then you are in the right place because this guide will teach you how to create fill...
I was looking for a simple free MP3 file custom cutter, I found many; however, to my surprise, many of them are buggy. For example, MP3 Cutter Plus 1.0 produces an MP3 output that can be played by VLC media player but cannot be pl...
When I reviewed Leawo Blu-ray Player, I ended up saying that it was a promising media player having great interface, but could not recommend it because of its high price w.r.t. the features offered. Today, I am going to talk about...
So you have bought a 3D computer that came with 3D glasses and NVIDIA 3D Vision Video Player? And, now that you have got some 3D stereoscopic video files (say, MKV), you believe that they are gonna work? The bad news is that they ...
I am sure that many of you have come across webpages with black backgrounds and colorful texts that were hard to read (like this one)! You probably wished you could have changed both the backgrounds and the texts on said pages so ...
In this tutorial, I will show you how to create a simple animated GIF flame flickering across the bottom of the image by using GIMP, a free image editor. This is part 2 in an ongoing series on dotTech intended to teach you how to ...
Do you use software, or a program, or an application to make your file(s) or folder(s) private (password protected) in Windows? How about making a folder private (password protected) in Windows without using a program, or having p...