Posts filed under 'Hacks'
Have you ever noticed how fast your PC is after a fresh OS/Software install? How the OS seems crisp and fast, and applications load up almost instantly?
And how… after a few months of use, your PC seems to slow down to a crawl? How even booting up seems to take forever, and how launching the simplest applications causes your PC to struggle? Well I’ve always wondered what causes this ‘Windows Rot” phenomenon.
Continue Reading September 8th, 2007
The simplest way to kill comment spam on your blog is to add http:// to the list of blacklisted words (99% of spam includes links - which start with http:// obviously). You can leave a text note warning legitimate users to modify the links.
Continue Reading May 2nd, 2007
Just how much performance can be extracted from a used PC? Especially one with relatively humble specs like this (Pentium 4 3.06GHZ HT).
Continue Reading March 14th, 2007
One of my flash drives suddenly died today. It all happened when XP suddenly froze for some reason. after rebooting, the device was dead - XPdetected it as a 0mb device (and attempted to format it as such - which didn’t work)
Continue Reading January 15th, 2007

This is an attempt at a Bilingual post. It carries a message in both Sinhala and English. You can read the message in either language by clicking the relevant icon. Please tell me if you are able to successfully view the message.
Continue Reading September 28th, 2006
A simple prank you can play on your coworkers. If you are really lucky you might initially fool the tech support guy too - this hack will redirect your coworkers browser to somewhere he/she didn’t intend to go to..
Continue Reading September 22nd, 2006