Category Archives: Techonology

C# development on Mac

PrologueI am pretty excited to begin C# coding on my new macbook pro.The primary reason is to begin coding whenever my heart sets in, without waiting for the system to load up and open Visual Studio 2015. Back from the days of linux yore and Linux for you magazine, I was aware of Mono, the… Read More »

Android development on Mac

Installation Installed java Downloaded and installed Android studio ( around 1.1 GB) Took about 5 minutes. There was additional download and configuration, and that took about 4 minutes Creating my first hello world program When you first open the IDE, you might see nothing. Don’t freak out. At the bottom of the screen, you can see… Read More »

Installing Java on Mac

Before I executed the the ‘sudo’ command, I made sure I enabled the ‘sudo’ account ( Google if you don’t know how to do that ) Next I wanted to find the location and version of the java installed in my system.>>sudo find / -name javaIt listed several directories, including /usr/bin/java. I proceeded to execute… Read More »

First app purchase for my Macbook

Although I was skeptical at first, I wanted to extend my experience using the Mac. Hence decided to go for most essential apps that I need on a day to day basis Using my debit card, I purchased 3 apps, from the app store Day one : Journaling app Fantastical : Calendar app Blogo :… Read More »

Online grocery stores

Other than bigbasket, came across two other online grocery stores that seems to have good reviews. Grofers and Peppertap

Windows 10 Installation

1. Downloading Dowloaded the Windows 10 (Multiple Editions) (x64) – DVD (English-United Kingdom) from the MSDN site. This iso contains both the pro and the home versions in it. The name of the iso file was ‘en-gb_windows_10_multiple_editions_x64_dvd_6846903.iso’ and it was around 4 GB 2. Checking for checksum Since it was a big download, I wanted to… Read More »

Fixed printer problem at office

Since last 2 weeks, I am unable to take any print outs from the printer at my office and I have been getting the error. Google and found the following solution Make sure you take backup of your registry, before you proceed with any of the changes mentioned below HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Printers\Connections HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Print\Providers\Client Side Rendering Print… Read More »

Best gift ever – Amazon Kindle

All of you know how much I love books and love reading. When I gifted myself the ebook reader kindle ( Kindle paperwhite 2015), it was nothing short of inexplicable joy and excitement. It was delivered yesterday and I almost half way through the book ‘Briefer history of time’. It’s just amazing how such a… Read More »

Sci fi turning into reality

In the movie, I, robot, robots have to follow the following 3 laws A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm A robot must obey the orders given it by human beings, except where such orders would conflict with the First Law A robot… Read More »

Conversation with Mark

Future of communication as per the discussion posted on fb by Mark Zuckerberg There are a few important trends in human communication that we hope to improve.First, people are gaining the power to share in richer and richer ways. We used to just share in text, and now we post mainly with photos. In the future video… Read More »