Prince of Persia

I am not talking about the movie. I am talking of the game that we used to play on DOS. Some of us still like to play this game. But unfortunately our Mac’s and Windows would not run it for us. So how do we do it?

There are two ways.

1. If you are using VMWare then you need to download a VMAppliance, called Nostalgic and run. Your favourite games are all there. Now click here to know more about the appliance.

2. But for lesser mortals there is another way if you are not running VMWare. You need a DOS emulator. DOSbox is the solution. Go to this place and download the DOSBOX. 0.74 is the latest stable version. Next download your game, in our case Prince of Persia from here. With a little effort you can locate more games.

So it’s time you need to rush and rescue the princess.

E-Books Converter

Many of us like to collect e-books. Most of them are in PDF format. But if you are the person who like to read the e-books on other devices like, iphone, android phones, tablets, nokia phones etc, then you might want to convert the books to a format that is friendly with the form factor (screen dimensions) of the device.

There is one excellent software, I recommend highly, called calibre.

So what to do now?

a. download the software from here.

b. Install and run it.

c. Select a PDF. Convert it to epub format. Use iTunes, and bring the epub to iphone, and read it there.

A good place to start is with the hundreds of manuals in PDF format that we read everyday.

Browsers maturing.

So finally customers are having an upper hand while surfing internet. All these years, we had no choice. The browsers were driven by companies needs and less by privacy. It was not un common for sites to collect information with or without our consent. And the list of browsers was very much limited.

Firefox 4 and IE 9 have finally passed the control to us. The basic question is now like this.

a. Do we want sites to collect information on what we are doing on the net? Obviously the answer is NO. These two browsers allow us to browse freely. At least we are not bothered on who is tracking our movement.

b. Do we want Ads to keep coming up when and where we like? Definitely NO again. These two browsers let us do this. Try surfing any site, news paper, blogs, e-commerce and a host of sites with videos come up and running. And you are in a meeting, and this video starts to play with audio.

What about other browsers? Safari, Chrome etc etc. They are not yet there. So what should you do next.

a. Update your browsers if you are using IE or Firefox.

b. Move to these browsers if you are using others.

And drill down and make your settings. If you want to know how, then I will post that too.