Tabs in a File Manager are awesome – who knew? I fell in love with Firefox for tabbed browsing a long time ago (gushingly so) but never felt any need for a better File Manager. Until some time back that is, when a Lifehacker article got me to try out …
Every Windows user is familiar with the effects of bitrot – but answers to that problem are few. My early attempts at using virtualization software (first post, followup) were disappointing to say the least and Windows’ own built-in “solution” System Restore, is a spectacular failure. The best answer right now …
Talk about shooting your mouth off š A while back I had made a long-ish post about the Recent comments feed on Flickr and how the lack of authentication could allow people to see your non-public photos. Well I recently had posted some photos to my Flickr photostream, that were …
I’ve just realized that for some time now, I’ve been making a new post to this blog about once a month. It’s almost as if just as this blog appears to be dying a painless natural death – I come along and drag out it’s agony a little further š …
Walking home yesterday, I spot a bus goes past carrying an advertisement for a new phone by Nokia – the 6110 model . And what caught my eye was the fact that one of the key features advertised for this phone was the fact that it had GPS support. My …
So over the weekend, I was working on my new (( well not so new, it’s 5 months old, but you know what I mean š )) PC at home. To wit, I was transcoding about 400 MB of DivX video onto a DVD. At the same time, I decided …
A follow-up from the previous post. I have no idea if the sort of thing I am about to describe is common in other countries (( more specifically, asian countries with a history of colonial rule )), but it’s another annoying trend. I can fairly confidently predict in a very …
So I was reading an article on the web and noticed that one of the “top guys” mentioned in the article was an Indian. My first visceral reaction was “Oooo..”. And my second was “Goddamit! Why did I just do that?” See, this is where I think the 150+ years …
On a bit of a RSS trip here aren’t we? š Anyway, this is something I came across a few weeks back and it’s been bugging me ever since. Since everyone likes a stroke (and I’m no exception) – I have subscribed to the feed for comments on my photos …
I made a brief mention about the feed-reader I’ve settled on in my earlier blog post, but decided to spend a little more time fleshing out my impressions of GreatNews. By default, GreatNews starts up with a two-pane interface Each of the folders is called a “Channel” and provides a …