Kokul’s World

BatteryCare is a great program that allows you to monitor the state and health of your battery in detail.
You can get it at: http://batterycare.bkspot.com/en/index.html
If you laptop is like my machine, and it does not give Windows a means of estimating how much time your laptop has left until your battery is drained of power, then [...] Read more »

Verdict: Google Chrome is a surefire winner in the browser market.
The Good: Small, fast, secure with a clean, intuitive interface.
The Bad: Not enough customization options available in terms of themes, addons, and extensions.
Google released their web browser not so long ago into a market already dominated by the likes of Internet Explorer, Firefox and Opera. [...] Read more »

I was recently browsing through the Kubuntu 8.04 beta release notes, and I came across Wubi.
So what is Wubi?
It’s basically an unofficial installer that allows you to install Linux on a Windows computer like how you install an application on Windows. Of course means all you guys out there who want to try Linux, but [...] Read more »

So it’s finally happened, the format wars are over and some camp has lost several billion dollars. The loser is HD DVD. They already were heading towards defeat when several studios switch to the other camp, but the largest and probably the fatal blow came when Walmart announced that they would be phasing out HD [...] Read more »

For the past four months now, I have been learning Java as part of my computer science curriculum in Grade 12 high school. While Java has given me a taste of multi-platform programming, it also has revealed what I have considered quite a big flaw. That is the lack of documentation.
For a beginner like I, [...] Read more »

Ubuntu Linux has been triumphed for its easy-to-use features for new beginners. While that may be true for most consumers, it becomes difficult to use when you want to get things tweaked and running more your way.
One instance of this is Samba. Despite having a GUI interface, I just can’t seem to make it work. [...] Read more »

Over the past few months, I have gotten active in web site design, particularly for the websites about my home village of Idaikkadu in Sri Lanka. After several emails being sent without a response, and a lack of motivation from the admins to even change their sites, I’ve decided to write a little guide that [...] Read more »

Amarok is probably one of Linux’s most popular music players, not just because it provides an easy-to-use and intuitive GUI, but also because it’s features blow away any other music player created for computers. Best of all it’s free!
Amarok 2.0 is scheduled to be released in the near future, with a version of the player [...] Read more »

Just a few months ago, I would have been championing XviD as my favourite format to encode and view videos in. Why? Because it produced small file sizes with minimum loss of quality. However now I am championing a new codec as my favourite and that is the H264. Like XviD, it is cross-platform compliant.  [...] Read more »

Everyone has at-least once picked up a computer game or a console game. But it can get pretty lonely, when all you do is play single player mode. In today’s age, where everyone is connected through the Internet, it is sometimes nice to play games where you can interact with others at all stages. For [...] Read more »