Koshy John (Blog)

Memory Cleaner

Koshy John — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 23:56:19 +0000

Tech-savvy folk are divided over how useful memory cleaning tools can be because Windows (Vista upwards at least) manage memory reasonably well. Most memory cleaning tools are not very useful because many of them use ill-advised techniques that are only relevant to older versions of Windows (pre-Vista).

MemoryCleaner is considerably better because it uses functions built into Windows to judiciously free memory – with no performance impact whatsoever. You can now access Memory Cleaner functions from the tray icon without having to open up the main window. The cleaning prodecures are both silent and the only alert you will see is the amount of RAM recovered briefly displayed in the window.

If you find your RAM usage exceeding 60% regularly, then MemoryCleaner is an absolute must have.

42,487 installs and counting…

Read more about Memory Cleaner at the Memory Cleaner page at Koshy John’s personal website…

DiskMax 4

Koshy John — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 03:42:00 +0000

Do you know why your computer no longer feels as fast as it did when you first got it? It’s because of the accumulation of junk files and other data on your system coupled with inefficient layout of your files. So what can you do about it?

Download DiskMax and run it just once – the difference will be instantly noticeable. Your system will be peppier, applications will launch faster, files will open quicker, games will run better, and so on. Running DiskMax from time to time is recommended to keep your system in shape.

202,167 installs and counting… (as of March, 2010)

Read more about DiskMax at the DiskMax page at Koshy John’s personal website…

neoSearch 1.95

Koshy John — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 03:40:43 +0000

Tired of wondering where you saved that important document? Is launching applications quickly something you still dream about? Put off by having to scour through your hard-disk to find that elusive mp3? You know that Google Desktop and Vista’s built-in search can help you but you just hate the way they slow your PC down and bloat it with nonsense.

neoSearch features the fastest indexing engine on the planet! 29,489 installs and counting…

Read more about neoSearch on the neoSearch page at Koshy John’s personal website…

DiskMax Install Records

Koshy John — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 04:34:53 +0000

DiskMax has broken install count records. It saw a unprecedented daily install count of 455 yesterday followed by 432 today. This can be in no small way be attributed to its listing on Softpedia.

Learn what the fuss is all about by downloading version 3.15 today!

Link: http://www.koshyjohn.com/software/diskmax.html

koshyjohn.com

Koshy John — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 18:00:10 +0000

Koshy John .com

I just wanted to announce that my website http://www.koshyjohn.com is now designed well enough to warrant a visit from all old time visitors to this blog. koshyjohn.com is best displayed in Internet Explorer 8 or Firefox 3 at a resolution of 1024×768 or higher.

Please do visit!

KJohn DesktopSearch v1.03

Koshy John — Sun, 10 Dec 2006 07:29:54 +0000

Google Desktop Search takes hours to index your hard disk and then searching is not really all that great either with all sorts of irrelevant results (like showing all the contents of a folder as individual results just because the folder name matched the search query!!; Google takes great pride in the number of results returned. Hmmm…….)

Now imagine being able to index your computer in as little as 15 seconds and being able to search for files and folders in as little as 0.05 seconds. Impossible? Not with KJohn DesktopSearch! Look at the table below for a full comparison:

Feature	Google DS	KJohn DS
Size	~1MB	~0.3MB
Indexing time	Hours	Less than a minute
Search time	~0.5ms	~0.05ms
Results	10 per page	All at once!
DeepScan	No	Yes
Performance Drop	More	Much lesser¹
Office 2007 Support	No²	Yes
Interface	Generic	Vista-grade

¹except when high priority indexing is requested for
²at the time of this writing

KJohn DesktopSearch supports a whopping 36 filetypes including the Office 2007 ones! A partial list: DOC,RTF,PPT,PUB, XLS, DOCX,PPTX,XLSX,PUBX, WMA,WMV,MP3,MPEG,MPG,EXE,COM,ZIP,RAR,CAB, TXT,HTML,PDF, AVI,MOV,MID,WAV, BMP,JPEG,JPG,PNG,GIF…

The entire program is contained within a self-contained executable named ‘KJSearch.exe’. All you need to install or run the program is this executable. Each user on the system will need to install the software for themselves if they wish to use it. On running the executable for the first time, it automatically installs itself after asking for permission. Then indexing is run for the first time (this is likely to take much less than a minute). You can start searching your computer as soon as this is over!!!

New Features in v1.03:
1. Better documentation, including documentation relating to the Internet Explorer active content alert override.
2. Improved installer/uninstaller subroutines.
3. Online registration
4. Theme support across application (extended to About page)
5. Indexing subroutine optimisation
6. Updated results pages

Click here to download KJohn DesktopSearch v1.03!

DiskMax

Koshy John — Sun, 10 Dec 2006 06:41:24 +0000

DiskMax is a hard disk performance tool I created. It started with a little project called DiskClean that I created to automate all my disk cleaning activities. I used it for well over a year before I thought, ‘Hey, Vista’s coming out soon, my XP installation is all pepped up with Vista features but here I have my trusty old DiskClean with a Win9x-esque interface’ (saying it was ugly is being very kind).

So I started work on DiskMax. Like LiveConnect, DiskMax comes with no installer/uninstaller (its a standalone!). It really doesn’t matter where you run it from! All this contributes to it being just 212KB!

It’s got a very Vista-like interface as you can see from the screenshot above. As each section of your system is tuned up, that portion of the tasklist lights up (in the figure only HDD and UserAccounts are lit up; Windows, DeepScan and Defrag are yet to come). You won’t realise how fast your computer can be until you’ve run DiskMax at least once!

In order to see how many people run this software, it is necessary that DiskMax is allowed to register itself on the internet the first time its run. Kindly show your support by leaving comments!

Click here to download DiskMax!

LiveConnect v6

Koshy John — Sun, 10 Dec 2006 06:17:35 +0000

This is the final version of LiveConnect v6. In light of the release of Messenger Plus! Live (which can be downloaded from http://www.msgpluslive.com), this version of LiveConnect has been stripped of its BossKey functionality. Dynamic transparency, however, has been enhanced greatly (this being a feature that Messenger Plus! Live doesn’t provide).

Devoid of many of the features seen in the previous versions and by some deft programming, it has been possible to bring down the size of the software from 1.1MB to 140KB. This version doesn’t account for any of the previous versions (incompatible). It is HIGHLY RECOMMENDED that you remove ALL previous versions before you run this. LiveConnect no longer needs an installer/uninstaller. It is now a lone executable that can be run from anywhere on your hard disk! If you decide you no longer want to use LiveConnect, all you have to do is delete the file.

Program updates:
1. Press ‘F9′ to open user interface.
2. Least processor usage ever (0% when idle).
3. Support for Fast User switching. Multiple users can be logged on at the same time running LiveConnect.
4. No system file modification.
5. Faster startup due to quicker update checks.

Click here to download LiveConnect v6!

Internet Explorer 7

Koshy John — Sun, 22 Oct 2006 09:05:26 +0000

Internet Explorer 7 is out (it came out about a week back)! I’ve used all versions of the betas and RCs and I find Internet Explorer 7 way way better than Firefox (at least until Firefox 2.0 comes out)! It’s got a amazing interface and I simply love tabbed browsing. It saves me a lot of space on my taskbar. Here’s a list of what’s new in Internet Explorer 7:

- Improved user interface
- Tabbed browsing
- Favorites Center
- RSS support
- Zoom improvements
- ClearType
- Integrated anti-phishing filter
- Browser history deletion

If you use Windows, you MUST install Internet Explorer 7. Don’t get left behind!

Visit: http://www.microsoft.com/windows/ie/ now!

Psst! Windows Media Player 11 will also be out before the month’s up!!!

KJohn DesktopSearch

Koshy John — Sun, 15 Oct 2006 03:46:33 +0000

I’ve been away from my blog a long long time… In the meanwhile, I’ve completed work on my DesktopSearch program which is better and faster than Google Desktop in many ways.

KJohn DesktopSearch is a program that allows you to search for files on your computer within a fraction of a second. This is made possible by the use of an index (similar to Google DesktopSearch). Currently, the contents of files are not searched through. This program is intended to be used by people who have way too many files (like music, documents, etc.) to locate just the one(s) they want instantly.

This version of KJohn DesktopSearch supports the new Office 2007 file formats in addition to the Office 2003 (and previous) file formats. Adobe Photoshop Images are also supported apart from the widely used image files formats like bmp, jpg, png, gif, etc. Unknown/Unrecoginised file-types are only displayed during deep system scans. Total file types supported: 36

The entire program is contained within a self-contained executable named ‘KJSearch.exe’. All you need to install or run the program is this executable. Each user on the system will need to install the software for themselves if they wish to use it. On running the executable for the first time, it automatically installs itself after asking for permission. Then indexing is run for the first time (this is likely to take much less than a minute). You can start searching your computer as soon as this is over!!!

Download KJohn DesktopSearch!!!

PLEASE leave your comments here once you’ve used the program. The download is in the form of a ZIP file containing the install program and a readme file (txt). Kindly go through the read me file before installing the program.

Visit Koshy John’s website today!