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Any PC user use file compression tools everyday to compress files or uncompress files, file compression in pc’s are really famous these days where ever in the world anyone is sharing a file he’ll compress it make it zip (most popular compression format) so you always have to use a software to uncompress theme. there are many compression softwares available in the market which help you compressing files and uncompressing files some are free and some are paid one’s but in my humble opinion ‘7zip‘ is the best from all of them and i think this is the real future of file compression this is what i am going to talk about in this post

7zip is nice and light weight app which is totally free of cost and i think even better than many paid softwares and by size it is under 1 mb. The technology with 7zip compress and uncompress files is the best from all and the compression rate of 7zip is best from all too.

7zip do whatever other compression utility do but 7zip is having very simple interface it uses .7z extension for compressing files and compressing and uncompressing speed is very fast compared to winrar (this is what i was using before 7zip) but winrar is a paid software and there is nothing in winrar that 7zip misses without even a penny, 7zip supports many formats such as RAR, ARJ, Z, gzip, bzip2, LHA, tar, tar.gz, cpio, smzip, JAR, rpm, zip, cab, deb and sometimes i was able to extract MSI files too.

7zip uses LZMA technology which’s compression ratio’s are relatively best of all others i was able to make 7z file of 6gb junk of different files without any issues and i am pretty sure it can handle even more, you can also password protect files with 7z and encryption method is really tough it is 256-bit AES which also encrypt file names which zip format lacks. if the file names are corrupted in some archive like other than windows language then other utilities fail to extract them but 7zip has ability to extract those files too but you have to rename files while extracting you can also make self extracting archives with 7zip and can password protect them as well.

Final thoughts i was using winzip 5 years ago after 2 years i adapted winrar and from 1 year i am on free 7zip and i am pretty sure i am not turning back or looking elsewhere now i am so happy to have this better than paid software for free. the only flaw with 7zip i found so far was there is no GUI version for linux, mac & unix based systems however command line versions are available for free obviously.

Options in right click context menu:

This is how it looks when compressing:

Download 7zip now:

Download .exe

Download .msi

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Today i am going to share some amazing looking Alienware wallpapers, i was supposed to be minimalistic choice guy who thought things looks beautiful when simple but now i am changing the way of thinking now its like a thing looks beautiful with some colors and appealing overlay and i think i am good now you must’ve noticed my previous post about 30 best icon packs for iconpackager in which i shared a lot of icon packages to serve your desktop needs and today they are wallpapers.

Some of them are taken from Alienware website but from there you can download each wallpaper in zip this is long way they and you also have to provide your e-mail to download from them many of them are my search from all over wallpaper websites and i am sharing here direct .JPG files the easy way obviously =)

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I’ve been using linux from 3 years and most of the time Ubuntu or Kubuntu 2 months with suse because of its killer GUI. Today i found an incredible distro of linux which is only 50mb small and its free plus its open source its called ‘Damn Small Linux‘ There are a couple of benefits in using linux the key ones are its secure, most of them are free, they attracts geeks because of more vast developing features This distro is too small that you can take it any where with you on any media possible boots.

DSL (Damn Small Linux) is really having a lot of kool options more than it sounds and compared to its small size, you run it directly from usb drive, cd or dvd or you can install it on hard disk and it will then turn into a Debian base OS and the developer if DSL says you can run DSL on  Intel 486DX with 16 mb Ram thats amazing i mean that was a slooooooooooooooooooow machine (my father had it so i know well) compared to current era.

DSL can be really helpful for a couple of reasons, it can be good for a business man having presentations and need his own personalized interface where he can show things well, a lot helpful as a backup OS when you lost your primary OS and want to backup files now what should you do grab an old usb even 128mb would do the job and make a backup OS as DSL and keep it for bad times or just a CD or we say mini CD’s will be good for this purpose. you can also install further packages to make things according to you basic packages are already install with the download package including firefox and basic media files audio and video, e-mail client, pdf reader, word processor, file anager image software and many more head over to this page for more packages information.

According to DSL website:

Boot from a business card CD as a live linux distribution (LiveCD)

Boot from a USB pen drive

Boot from within a host operating system (that’s right, it can run *inside* Windows)

Run very nicely from an IDE Compact Flash drive via a method we call “frugal install”

Transform into a Debian OS with a traditional hard drive install

Run light enough to power a 486DX with 16MB of Ram

Run fully in RAM with as little as 128MB (you will be amazed at how fast your computer can be!)

Modularly grow — DSL is highly extendable without the need to customize

Download Damn Small Linux

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Wifi Radar is a free small utility for Linux which help you find wifi connections near you and give you option to automatically connect to network and overview signal strength. You can create new profiles and set connection priority if a network is inaccessible you’ll automatically be connected to other network you specified.

Wifi Radar’s interface is pretty simple and its very usable utility because nothing like this comes by default in Linux so for people using laptops and wifi this free piece of software is a must have.

How to Install:

Installing from source:

Download and untar the latest “Official Tarball” or do an anonymous checkout from SVN (See the “Download” box on the left).

Move into the wifi-radar source directory.

Type “sudo make install“.
(or “sudo make install sysconfdir=/etc/wifi-radar“)

2. Usage Instructions

To do a quick scan and connect to any available profile:

sudo wifi-radar -d

To show the UI and manage profiles:

sudo wifi-radar

Wifi Radar Official Page

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Yesterday I wrote about how to check if you computer supports Windows 7 XP mode. Today I am going to tell you how to check if your processor supports Hardware Virtualization under Linux. I already mentioned in this post that XP mode requires that your processor supports Hardware Virtualization. If you are switching to Windows 7 from Linux and you are sure that you’ll need to use XP mode then this post will guide you through.

If you are running your Linux under “Intel” based processor then open your terminal and paste the following command and then press enter.

if [ 'grep -c vmx /proc/cpuinfo' -ge 1 ]; then echo Supports Intel VT; else echo No Support for Intel VT; fi

If you are running your Linux under “AMD” based processor then open your terminal and paste the following command and then press enter.

if [ 'egrep -c '(vmx|svm)' /proc/cpuinfo' -ge 1 ]; then echo Supports VT; else echo No Support for VT; fi

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