Privacy vs Convienience is a constant battle. Personally, I prefer dialing up my privacy up to 11 to avoid being tracked. Every once in a while, social logins are important because it’s the only way to use a service. If this service is an internal company login that only uses...

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Homebrew is a the missing package manager for Mac OS. Brew cask extends Homebrew and brings its elegance, simplicity, and speed to Mac OS applications and large binaries alike. If you’re using these tools and would like to upgrade all of the applications you have, run the following command. brew...

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Have your first look at Microsoft releasing the .NET source on GitHub: https://github.com/microsoft/dotnet Full Linux and OS X support for .NET is coming soon! I hope this also heralds the arrival of Visual Studio for Linux and OS X :)

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I recently found Desktoppr, a service which has an insane number of curated wallpapers. What’s even better is that they come with an easy to consume API. To fulfil my insatiable need for good high resolution wallpapers, I wrote a script to go through the thousands of pages of images...

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As Reddit puts it, Cloud to Butt is the funniest plugin ever and they aren’t wrong. Childish, but funny. Safari has an equivalent but alas it’s not as effective. I really should say wasn’t that effective because I just made it :P There is a pending pull request but if it...

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Earlier this week, I was maintaining a web-application when I noticed something weird. Some images were not shown on my browser at times. The application dynamically displayed images based on certain conditions using java script and every once in a while, an image would disappear. This only happened to me...

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TeraCopy is an amazing tool for Windows which allows users to queue up copy requests, pause them, re-order them and change copy file lists at run time. It’s got a lot of power and great integration with Windows. It’s a tool which I highly recommend. Go check it out! I...

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There used to be a slightly long way to do this earlier but I found a simple one line command to do it. It is probably old but it’s one I didn’t know of. convert L: /fs:NTFS This converts L: to NTFS without removing any data from the drive. This...

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Oh yes, it’s time I started uploading some of my old code to github. It’s something I’ve wanted to do for a while. For those unaware, I use Soccer Scraper to quickly view Manchester United’s schedule in IST. The base source code (circa 2008+minor fixes) is now on GitHub. There are...

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I was helping a friend fix his hacked site when I had to disable ESET to check where his injected code was (because the website ran an img iframe hack to download a trojan on the user’s machines). I found the issue and told him what to do but had...

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Here’s something small but interesting and useful I learnt today. Often times, I update my linux profile so that I can have aliases to work with on my server. Problem is that the profile is only loaded when you login so, in normal circumstances, you would have to relogin to...

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Your first thought on reading this probably is “Why in the world would I need to do that?” Well, I would have thought of it the same way a week back. But it seems some times, Windows does not want to give access to certain features such as Advanced File...

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Large video files are sometimes distributed in multi-part RAR archives. This can happen with video downloads, backups, or files shared across services with size limits. In such cases, you’re left with RAR files that you have to extract every time you want to play them. Some video players like VLC...

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Ever since I started using Win7 (first public beta) I have liked one thing about Internet Explorer that Firefox couldn’t do. This was the ability to use Win7’s Aero prowess completely rendering each tab in the Aero preview for Firefox. At the time, Microsoft hadn’t come out with the Win7...

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My new laptop is a work box and doesn’t inherit the obsessive compulsiveness of File naming and sorting that my desktop hard disks have. I have, for this reason, dumped all wallpapers which are applicable to be used with my desktop (wallpapers with aspect ratio 16:9) into my “My Pictures”...

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Custom Search Engine Right click the address bar and click Edit search engine. Click add, fill in a name and a keyword followed by the search query. For adding the Messenger Plus Forum Search engine I used the name as “Messenger Plus! Forum Search” (doesn’t really matter what you use...

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Having heard all the rage about Google Chrome, I decided to try it out this Friday morning before leaving for college. What’s this I see? An online install? Of course it doesn’t mean much to people who have connections which can download the 7.3MB installer in a few seconds but...

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Every gadget I’ve owned to this day has been personalised. Its just something I have to do (if the hacks make the device better). I’ve done it so far with my i-Mate KJAM (custom ROMs for WM5 and WM6 and even cooking some up once in a while), my brother’s...

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On 10th of December, 2008, 2 days before my Computer Networks paper I made a WhatPulse class in php to get data from the WhatPulse WebAPI for you to work with. With the information at your finger tips make a forum signature, why don’t you? ;) I’ve added a few...

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Ever wanted to send a quick email but then though, “nah.. cba to open my inbox right now”? Now you can send emails via command line! It doesn’t have to be installed though you could do so if you please. I give you Blat! Here is a simple example from...

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