Author Archives: Ganesh

About Ganesh

a PC geek. Joined TechSplurge team in 2011. I am currently pursuing Computer Science Engineering at M.S Ramaiah Institute of Technology, Bangalore. Please feel free to mail me regarding any queries and app review requests.

VLC 2.0 Aka ‘Twoflower’ Released, Brings Bluray Playback Support, New Interface and Much More

Easily the world’s most versatile video player VLC, just got a second major version bump to 2.0 codenamed Twoflower. The libre and open source project which started way back in 1996, has come a rea...
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Download Google Books Online for Free with Bookworm [Invite Code Inside]

Downloading Google Books can be illegal many times. Bookworm on the other hand uses a intelligent technique of gathering together the preview pages of the book into one and building them into one. Co...
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Why Windows 8 Could Fail and Become Another Vista

Windows 8 Beta, is releasing on February 28 29th. While just like everyone, we are excited about the plethora of features Windows 8 will be bringing on the tables, we however fear that Windows 8, in t...
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Firefox 10 Brings Massive Performance Improvements, Inches Closer to Chrome

Firefox 10 has just been released and Mozilla is raving on the new improved add-on compatibility, UI tweaks and other minor enhancements. Is it worth all the noise? We will compare the latest Firefox...
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UndoClose for Windows 7 Reopens Accidentally Closed Applications and Folders

Reopening closed tabs in browsers is an extremely handy feature especially when you have dozens if not hundreds of tabs open. What if Windows 7 got this feature too? Say you accidentally closed a fold...
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Improve Web Browsing and Video Playback Performance by 80% on Windows with GPU Acceleration

GPU's are the second most crucial component of modern systems, be it Laptops or Smartphones. Often though on PC platform, do not use their GPU's to their fullest potential apart from gaming. This art...
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Best 5 Free YouTube Downloader Software for Windows

While its pretty convenient to watch videos online, there are few videos which we like to watch repeatedly; Some people face the problem of slow internet speed, causing issues with buffering. In suc...
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Highlights: 16 Big Things that Happened this CES 2012

Consumer Electronics Show 2012 as finally come to an end. This year’s CES was all about Smart TV’s, Intel’s UltraBooks, new Android powered tablets and more gadgets. As expected there were rain...
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Why BitTorrent’s Cloud Service, Share will Ultimately Fail (Against Dropbox and Other Cloud Players)

The latest entrant in the already gigantic list of Cloud storage providers is : The P2P leader, BitTorrent. BitTorrent' Share app, makes use of an unique technology where along with cloud storage, us...
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KumoSync allows you to Sync Google Docs with Local Files

Google Docs is the most widely used online office suite. Did you ever wish that there was an  app to sync your online docs automatically to your Desktop with minimum fuss? KumoSync might be the appÂ...
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