Making Winamp sound better

Though Winamp has by default a very good mp3 decoder, it lacks many features such as replaygain, resampling, higher bit-depths, etc. Here is where the mpeg123 input plugin by Otachan comes in. This plugin is considered to be the best decoder for mp3 so far. The sound quality is crystal clear. The main plus point is that it supports ReplayGain. ReplayGain is used to make the volume of all audio files equal....

April 30, 2006 · 2 min · 340 words · Kalpik Nigam

85% of the Internet Could be Destroyed

The Internet is extremely vulnerable because of the chain of dependencies between the computers that hold different parts of net addresses. As a result, this main characteristic of the so called web could lead to several hacker attacks, it is said in a study of the Department of Computer Science at Cornell University. It seems that all simple attacks combined could lead to the take-over of 85% of the Internet, because of the huge number of computers that have to be consulted in order to trace the exact location of a web site....

April 29, 2006 · 2 min · 229 words · Kalpik Nigam

KGB Archiver

KGB Archiver is the compression tool with unbelievable high compression rate. It surpasses even such efficient compression tool like 7zip and UHARC in terms of the abilities. Unfortunately although its powerful compression rate, it has high hardware requirements (I recommend processor with 1,5GHz clock and 256MB of RAM as an essential minimum). One of the advantages of KGB Archiver is also AES-256 encryption which is used to encrypt the archives. This is one of the strongest encryptions known for human....

April 28, 2006 · 1 min · 128 words · Kalpik Nigam

Bit Comet v0.66

BitComet is a p2p file-sharing freeware fully compatible with Bittorrent, which is one of the most popular p2p protocol designed for high-speed distribution of 100MB or GB sized files. BitComet is a powerful, clean, fast, and easy-to-use bittorrent client. It supports simultaneous downloads, download queue, selected downloads in torrent package, fast-resume, chatting, disk cache, speed limits, port mapping, proxy, ip-filter, etc. Changelog: v0.66 2006.4.27 Core Improved: more program run-time error can be detected by the crash report...

April 28, 2006 · 1 min · 95 words · Kalpik Nigam

Avoiding “FORMAT C:”

This is the worst nightmare for any of us. Having to Format and re-install windows. And no matter how careful you are with installing software, a time comes when some software does not uninstall properly, or messes up your system, or even a virus attacks windows! There are many cases where Formatting is the only option left. Formatting the PC takes at least around 2 hours to get back everything to normal working conditions, as in re-installing all software, setting them up, just the way you like it....

April 28, 2006 · 5 min · 860 words · Kalpik Nigam