Tools

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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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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eBay Desktop

March 11, 2008

eBay Desktop, the free alternative to eBay web portal is a very good application to showcase the power of Adobe AIR. I totally fell in love with the user interface; easy to use and very fast. One reason I prefer FeedDemon over Google reader is the pace at which I can navigate between the feeds [...]

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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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Xobni – I have 5 Invites

January 15, 2008

Xobni Insight is an add-on for Microsoft Outlook that offers email management and provides instant access to the most important information in your email. Xobni also supposedly exposes the hidden social network in your email. The add-on has several features, including fast email search, email analytics, automatic phone number discovery, threaded conversations, and more. When [...]

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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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Newsgator providing its RSS reader for FREE !

January 10, 2008

I have been a great fan of Newsgator products, particularly the desktop based feed reader FeedDemon ! I have been recommending the same to many of my friends. After trying out lot of RSS readers including RSS Bandit and Google Reader, I finally found that none of them could match FeedDemon’s simple yet powerful user [...]

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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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