Deluge BitTorrent Client is one of the best BitTorrent client to bypass traffic shaping, especially in Malaysia. The previous version before Deluge 1.x, the Windows port is not very stable. The 1.x version of Deluge for Windows seems to be very stable for me. The latest version of Deluge is now a full featured BitTorrent client. Deluge BitTorrent client is also available for Linux and Mac OS X.

VLC Media Player is an open source multimedia player for various audio and video formats. If you are having a strange clipping/choppy audio when playing any media files in VLC Media Player, try change the output setting for audio.

Open VLC Media Player and go to Tools > Preferences. Click Audio (1). Change the output type to something else (I recommend you use ‘Win32 waveOut extension output’ (2)). Restart your player and see if the audio is still clipping/choppy or not. Hope this helps you.

Since version 9, Opera has built in bittorrent download manager, and by default, Opera will ask you if you want to use the built in bittorrent download manager to download files from bittorrent network when you’ve downloaded a .torrent file. This is quite annoying since we cannot save the .torrent file to be use in our favourite bittorrent client.

One of the easiest way to surf a blocked website is by using Tor Browser Bundle. Tor Browser Bundle is basically a portable software package which contains Tor client, Vidalia (GUI for Tor client), Polipo (web proxy), Portable Firefox and Torbutton (Firefox extension for Tor). Tor client will enables you to connect to the Tor network, which is a network that allows you to communicate anonymously on the Internet, and we can use this network to access a blocked website.

Tor Browser Bundle is very easy to be installed and it requires zero configuration. After you’ve downloaded Tor Browser Bundle, just run the self extracting executable, choose the folder where you want to extract it, and run Start Tor Browser.exe. The launcher will automatically launch Vidalia and Tor client. After you’ve successfully connected to the Tor network, Vidalia will launch Polipo and Portable Firefox. When you exit Firefox, Popilo and Vidalia will automatically closed.

Uptime can be described as the time of a system running without any reboot or powered off. For most geeks, maintaining a system uptime to its highest is a satisfaction. The Tugs Uptime Project will allows you to compete for the highest system uptime with others.

To participate in Tugs Uptime Project, you will need to be a member of the site. Registration is free. Then, download the client so that the client can update the server with your latest uptime status. The client is open source, and official client is available for Windows, Linux, FreeBSD, Solaris and Mac OS X. The rules are very simple:

“Rules are so simple. To participate just create an account. Number of machine is not limited, one login, many machine. You have just to install Client on machine and configure it with your login and password. The machine will automatically be recorded.

If you are unable to boot into your Ubuntu/Kubuntu/Xubuntu system, and it shows you the Busybox terminal, try run the fsck utility on all partition, especially the partition that you install your system. Here are the easy steps on how to do this:

1. Boot to your system with your Ubuntu/Kubuntu/Xubuntu Live CD. Run the partition manager software (GParted) to check on which partition you had your system installed (1). Take note of the partition file system (2). In my case, I’ve installed my system on /dev/sda1 with ext3 file system.

So, you’ve downloaded a cool flash video from YouTube, and you want to insert it into your PowerPoint slide show. However, Microsoft PowerPoint gives you this error message: “PowerPoint cannot insert a movie from the selected file. Verify that the path and file format are correct, and then try again.”

For those who use the dial-up method to connect to the internet, I’m sure you would save your dial-up password in your system. You can connect to the internet faster, without the need to enter the password every time you want to connect to the internet by saving the dial-up password. However, in case you’ve forgotten your dial-up password (for example, you want to format your computer), and you haven’t saved your password anywhere else, this small tool will help you to recover your stored dial-up password.

In this post, I will list 6 free system utilities that can be used to monitor your hardware temperature such as CPU and hard drive.

1. Core Temp

Info: Core Temp is a compact, no fuss, small footprint program to monitor CPU temperature. The uniqueness of it is that it shows the temperature of each individual core in each processor in your system! You can see in real time how the CPU temperature varies when you load your CPU. It's also completely motherboard independent.

Core Temp is available for Intel Core and Core 2 processors as well as the whole AMD's Athlon64 line of CPUs only. Older processors are not supported.

If your Google Chrome do not show Mozilla Firefox in the ‘Import Bookmarks and Settings’ browser list, don’t panic. Here is a simple trick to show back Mozilla Firefox in the browser bookmarks & settings import list.

Open notepad, and paste the following registry script.