Category Archives: Techonology

Mission Impossible : Dirt cheap phones

I was reading reviews of a phone, which my friend had bought recently. Because of Chinese companies like these reputable companies are loosing market share big time and I wanted to find out how they could give amazing hardware configurations at dirt cheap prices. The following reviews are from a major online retail site ( reviews… Read More »

Raspberry Pi 2 is here

As per the suggestion from Sri, I ordered the latest iteration of this great pocket sized computer from Amazon, and it was delivered yesterday. I did not waste much time and decided to start with exploring and this great concept of computing. Since the new Pi makes use of MicroSD card ( the ones we… Read More »

First looks at Windows 10

Thanks to my MSDN account, I downloaded Windows 10 PRO Insider preview ( 10074 ) today from the Microft MSDN site. I installed it using virtual box. I plan to install all the applications which I am currently using and if everything goes on fine, I could go ahead with my plans to permantenly move… Read More »

Running WordPress locally

After purchasing VPS server package and getting access to a whole server, I was thinking what I must do with all that power. Suddenly I realized that it’s been sometime I had access to php, MySQL 🙂 . It’s been actually a while since I worked on any linux based system. This is evident from the fact… Read More »

Making your site visible to the world

If you are having your own blog/ website hosted using wordpress on your own domain, you definitely need to let the world know about your site. The following steps helps you do just that – this will help search engines index your site and bring more people to your website/ blog. Enabling Google webmaster Go… Read More »

Mixing audio for skype ( using audio interface )

Problem statement : I wanted to connect my guitar and mic to the audio interface, to jam with my friends and use both of them simultaneously through skype. I found that Skype picks up only the left channel ( one channel ), which means the other channel will not be heard. That means, I will… Read More »

Picking the right keyboard

After a lot of research and thinking process, I ordered ‘TVS-e Gold Bharat USB 2.0 Keyboard’ from Flipkart and I have been using it for more than 2 months. The results are nothing short of impressive. Very tactile and very useful for fast typing. For your information, my average typing speed is 72 words per… Read More »

Heartbeat detecting device saves lives after earthquake

It has been reported that earthquake has again hit northeastern parts of India and I felt a deep pain in my heart about all the people who lost their lives in the last earthquake, that hit Nepal a few weeks back. Now, with the new tremors hitting the northeastern planes again, the situation looks very… Read More »

Oops, I did it again

After using tomoato USB for over a year in my ASUS RT-N16 router, I was missing using the stock firmware. So headed to ASUS site, downloaded the latest firmware and flashed my router again. I am pretty much impressed by the features provided by the new firmware and also got back the speeds I was… Read More »