Tips n Tricks

iPhone in India – Breaking, Activating and Unlocking

March 29, 2008

A 16 GB iPhone just made its way to my home today all the way from an US store. Even though I had “experienced” iPhone by reading about it and by seeing tons of videos on YouTube, using it live was a totally different experience. iPhone is an amazing, astounding, remarkable, wonderful, incredible, marvelous product [...]

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Acer – Updating BIOS

March 22, 2008

The BIOS on my Acer 1694 laptop was 3 years old and I did manage to find an updated version of the same on the Acer support web site. However ever after trying for about say 10 times, I couldn’t upgrade the BIOS from Windows Vista. The upgrade from Vista always ended with a blue [...]

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Google Calendar

March 7, 2008

When Google Calendar was launched in 2006, I didn’t find anything unique except the “Quick Add” feature. I might not have spent too much time exploring the powerful features of Google calendar then, but I am sure that most of them would agree that there was no single compelling feature in Google Calendar. At that [...]

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SharePod

February 29, 2008

In one of my earlier post I covered some of the tools that can be used to copy songs from iPod to PC. Most of the tools available are shareware and there are very few free quality applications. Sharepod is one such quality application for iPod. It’s a lightweight music management tool for iPod which [...]

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HowTo : Delete a Windows Service

February 21, 2008

Many a times I have been in a situation where I need to delete a windows service and every time I end up “googling” to find the easiest/fastest way of doing this. Most of the posts in the search result talk about modifying the windows registry to delete the service, which isn’t always foolproof. The [...]

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Configuring Synergy

January 12, 2008

Synergy is an open source software lets you easily share a single mouse and keyboard between multiple computers with different operating systems, each with its own display, without special hardware. It’s intended for users with multiple computers on their desk. I have a similar setup at work and till now I was struggling while switching [...]

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Pointui – iPhone UI for Windows Mobile

January 6, 2008

Pointui (pronounced point-you-i) is a software which brings in a total new user experience on Windows Mobile 5/6 powered devices. Techcrunch notes that this software is probably more for the users who are envious of iPhone; The UI navigation does look very much on the lines of iPhone, but again iPhone is not just about [...]

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Launchy 2.0

December 21, 2007

One of my favorite tools, Launchy just got upgraded to 2.0. As the website says, Launchy is an utility desinged to help us forget about the start menu in Windows. I have recommeneded this tool to many of my friends and  not one of them have complained about it. Its like a “must have” tool [...]

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Windows Mobile Device Center

October 28, 2007

After upgrading to Windows Vista, setting up the communication between Vista and my HTC Touch was a PITA ! And I would like give the entire credit of this pain to Vista ! On Windows XP, Activesync did a very good job in syncing with the smartphone and I also managed to synchronize over Bluetooth. [...]

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Unlocking HTC Touch

October 15, 2007

When I bought the HTC Touch Smartphone I was never told by the reseller that it was locked onto Airtel Network in India. Only after seeing some of the comments left on my earlier post, I realized that it was a SIM locked phone. Recently when I traveled to Beijing, I felt the pain of [...]

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