Computer Woes No More !!!!

Do you often feel that you work for your computer rather than it working for you? Well if you do then you need to take a look at these applications which make your work on the pc much easier. And give you more productivity. Well there are a million applications on the net but these are a few that we found to be really useful. And the best part they are FREE.
Rocket Dock
The guys who developed it call it the “greatest piece of software ever” well it sure is great. Well
RocketDock gives you an smoothly blended OS X like dock on your windows desktop complete with link your computer’s hard drive(s), media player, web browser and more. Besides its fully customizable and you can add links to all your favourite folders so that you can get to them easier and quicker. Besides it works well even on older computers and has no hitches.
Get it from: http://www.rocketdock.com
User Styles
How often have you felt bored of the white background on the Google homepage or felt the need for some Zing on your Facebook profile? Or have your Wikipedia more readable than this is one application you need to run for! All you need to do is install the style app onto firefox and you are done. You could select from over hundreds of styles to suit your needs.
Get it from: Http://www.userstyles.org
Beryl
Well if you’re a Linux user and envy all the 3D graphics that Vista and OS X has to offer look no further than Beryl. Its gets your Ubuntu or flavour of it looking all spruced up. Unlike traditional window managers, Beryl delegates the drawing of window borders to a separate process, called a window decorator. There are currently three of them, all named after varieties of Beryl. Well although further development on Beryl is absent it sure will make your Linux pc uber cool.
Get it from: Ubuntu Repositories
Desktop Search
Well Vista with its start menu search and Mac OS X with Spotlight don’t need to go through this, it sure is one option XP users must look at well many Search Engines provide a Desktop Search Engine which indexes all the files on your PC and give you the files you need as soon as possible the best part is it indexes your data only when your PC is Idling and thus saves on your processing power.
Get it from: Search engines
CCleaner
Well this is one application every Windows user needs. This application clears up your RAM and deletes old registry keys that slow down your computer it also removes applications that begin at start up and thus increase your boot time.
Get it from: http://www.ccleaner.com
Stress Reducer
Well for all of you who are really stressed out and want to do some damage without causing hurt and also get yourself in contact with the police there is Stress Reducer a funny application helps you release it. It allows you to mess with your desktop and and even get a army of termites to eat up your enemies picture or burn up a website with a bomb.
Get it from: http:// www.skillfx.illusionfxnet.c om/stressreducer.html

As Appeared in the Bombay Times

Solo Shirpur~

Travelling alone from Mumbai to Shirpur is one of the most amazing journeys I have made to date. Starting from home to CST by Car from there by a fast Thane local train alighting at Dadar, then proceeding to the Dadar terminus and boarding the Dadar-Amristar Express for Challisgaon. The two tier A/C compartment was pretty comfortable and one could hardly realize if the train was moving or if it was stationary. At 5.05 that’s a full five minutes before the scheduled arrival I reached Challisgaon . At Challisgaon I had to exit the concourse and move to the Ticketing counter by a ticket for the passenger shuttle and be back at the concourse for the shuttle which ferried me to Dhule in a hours time. The locals were more than willing to help when I spoke to them in their local Marathi and were curious which village I was from and on informing I am from Mumbai they would be pretty much in awe. One helpful person went further to advice to sit on the single seat as it would keep other locals pushing me for a seat. Almost all of them asked me if I was going to Shirpur for higher education the reason being a little later in this article. At Dhule station on alighting I took a three wheeler to the Local State Transport Bus stand and take a bus to Shirpur which again was just waiting to leave and left within 10 minutes of my arrival with a amazing driver who was testing the limits of the Bus by driving it at around 70 km/ph with the bus rattling away. On Arrival at Shirpur I was met by my friend Br. Assis who had come over by jeep to pick me up and left for the Vishwa Mandal ashram.

This was amazingly one of the least tiring journeys i had undertaken considering the distance.