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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Recently, I moved into a new home and was setting up my Phillips Hue lights with my Google Home assistants around my house for convenience. I noticed a couple of hick-ups since the last time I did this. Logging into Phillips Hue app If the app does not ask you...

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My Macbook Pro sometimes doesn’t detect it’s web camera when I’m trying to join a video call and it’s painful to have to reboot the machine to fix it. A simpler way (especially if you have root access to your machine) is to kill VDCAssistant from the command line. sudo...

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If you don’t mind using Spotify in a browser, you can use Hola Better Internet. Admittedly, it’s not as cool as using the Spotify client on desktop but it’s certainly a lot simpler (and quicker) than managing proxy settings yourself ;)

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It’s been a bit over 24 hours of using OS X Yosemite and I’m liking all the UI sugar it’s added. So far, my regular applications work fine after the upgrade but the IDEA based IDE set (IntelliJ, WebStorm, PyCharm, RubyMine etc.) seem to have a problem which has been also reported...

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I recently moved to Pune and of course to a new ISP (Tata Telecommunications in Pune). For strange reasons, images on Twitter wouldn’t load. Also, certain other websites weren’t visible. Simple enough fix was to ensure I wasn’t using Tata’s DNS’ but Google’s. If you have a 2 level setup...

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Windows, at times, denies you the right to delete a file or a folder. I’ve noticed this happening especially when you copy the contents of the folder to empty it and later try to delete it. At this moment, you’ve got to ask yourself if you’ve got the necessary permissions...

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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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If you’re having issues buying anything on XBox 360 and doesn’t even let you login to xbox.com and it keeps kicking you out, there is a chance that one of the credit cards you have stored on record is invalid. If you read the XBox help on how to remove a...

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This is a really old trick for Universal Flash Drives (UFDs) and I’ve been using it for years. I just thought I should document the steps so it’s available as quick reference for me :) Insert your UFD and make sure all your data is backed up because we’re going...

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I had this infamous issue where I was stuck with my phone unable to boot for 2 days. I documented everything I learnt so others might find it helpful and as usual, it’s on XDA for all nicey goodness :) You would want to read this post either because you...

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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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For those of you who don’t know what Spotify is, it’s a great music streaming site which allows free streaming to your PC and great streaming/offline music play on your mobile device. So, have you been waiting years to create your Spotify account? Here’s a way to easily get a...

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It’s been a while since my laptop (a Sony Vaio VGN-CR35G/R) has been running Ubuntu and yesterday, I updated my OS to the release candidate for Ubuntu’s latest OS (due to release in 7 days time; 10-10-2010 ;)) 10.10 codenamed Maverick Meerkat. It’s been irritating me for a while that...

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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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I noticed that Dell had finally released updates for some of their drivers on their support site for a Dell Studio XPS 1640 on Windows 7 x64. I immediately started downloading them and after a reboot noticed that the update for IDT sound driver causes a freeze in any application...

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Once upon a time, not too far long ago, I got a Dell Studio XPS 1640. I found that the laptop was great. I knew before I got it that it had a slight heating problem so ever since I got it, I would give it some cooling space. The...

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I should officially be named the PPC hack king when it comes down to recovering them from positions where it seems they might be bricked :P I installed a custom cooked WM6 ROM for my Wizard (I-Mate K-JAM) and then moved to a second custom ROM, which quite sadly, crashed....

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The term “Wizard” refers to the HTC Wizard which is a Windows Mobile sold by companies like I-Mate and O2. Now the manual simply states that one should press the communications and voice buttons simultaneously and then press the reset key with your stylus. Well I can say honestly, that...

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I had to reinstall vista once and so vista copied its already existing files into Windows.old like any other decent OS does. This was of course a move to help me keep the data I already had in C drive at that time. Now that my work with it was...

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