Tips n Tricks

Google Calendar Sync with Outlook 2010

December 15, 2009

I use Google Calendar Sync to synchronize my Outlook calendar items with Google Calendar and this worked fine until I upgraded to Office 2010. Google Calendar Sync did not like Outlook 2010 and I was no longer able to synchronize calendar items. I was almost tempted to go back to Outlook 2007 and then I [...]

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How To: Activate or Deactivate a Service on Linux

June 13, 2008

A service is a long running executable which does require any user intervention and is configured to start when the operating system is booted. On Windows, the services are managed via services.msc and you can also communicate with a NT service using the SC tool. On Linux the services can be controlled via the chkconfig [...]

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Safely Remove USB Hardware

June 11, 2008

I have been reading in many posts which mention special tools to help in ejecting/removing a USB disk. The Windows “Safely Remove Hardware” feature has been notorious for hiding itself after installing the new hardware. You do have the option of Ejecting the hardware; however this becomes a pain if you are working with multiple [...]

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Woopra Web Analytics

June 10, 2008

Web Analytic tools are must have for anybody running a website since they give interesting insight into your site’s traffic patterns. Woopra Web Analytics was mentioned/reviewed by so many sites that I had to give it a try. After signing up for Woopra, I immediately proceeded towards the downloads page. I installed the Desktop Client [...]

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Cell Broadcast on HTC Touch

April 24, 2008

Cell Broadcast also know as Short Message Service – Cell Broadcast (SMS-CB) is a service designed for delivery of messages to multiple users in a specified area. Unlike SMS Point to Point which is manly a one to one service Cell Broadcast is a one to many service. Some mobile operators use Cell Broadcast for [...]

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Must have software for Windows

April 20, 2008

I happened to reinstall the OS on my system (yet again) and there is a set of software that I install after every OS re-install. In fact I have a “Must Have” directory which has all the software’s that I use on a day to day basis. Here is my list of “must have” applications [...]

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Cleaning up your Gmail emails

April 16, 2008

I am sure many would be surprised with the title of this post. Gmail for one provides with almost 6.6GB of space and its keeps growing every day. It would be amazingly difficult to fill up this space. Even on the Gmail’s home page, you would see this marketing statement: Over 6628.815124 megabytes (and counting) [...]

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Twitter Clients for iPhone

April 15, 2008

Twitter is a web service which helps you to communicate and stay connected through quick exchange of messages. Its supposedly one of the fastest growing phenomena on the Internet. Until few days back, accessing Twitter service from iPhone was possible only via the safari web browser. Following are the 4 web based Twitter Clients for [...]

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Moving from Dreamhost to Media Temple

April 8, 2008

Exactly an year back I wrote about moving this blog from GoDaddy to Dreamhost. The story continues and this year I have moved to Media Temple (referral link). I had considered Media Temple last year, however the site revenues weren’t enough to match the rates quoted by Media Temple. Even this time around I thought [...]

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Fluency – Best Admin Theme for WordPress

April 3, 2008

WordPress 2.5 was released some days back and I upgraded to the same with some minor hiccups. There were high expectations from me and everybody with respect to the Admin user interface. I for one was totally disappointed when I found out that the menu items in the interface were taking almost 50% on my [...]

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