tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-356041452012-01-25T03:40:52.024+05:30This blog is about some cool and/or useful technologies encountered during the course of work or pleasure. Hope you find them the same, too.Virajhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01535783367530141105noreply@blogger.comBlogger171100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35604145.post-26302846892184872562009-06-29T19:56:00.001+05:302009-07-03T18:45:46.966+05:30

The Mac OS X Finder and the Disk Utility (used to burn CDs/DVDs) together impose a limit on the amount of stuff that can be burned onto a CD to the specified size of the CD. And there is no way to get around this using these two. On Windows, there exists disk burning software (a.k.a. Nero Burning ROM :) ) which supports something called as overburning, which will let you burn slightly more data

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Something that could go wrong while installing Windows 7. The backup, partitioning and other pre-requisites complete just fine. But when the installation begins to extract files and data from the DVD, you get a big error which says: Windows cannot install required files. The file may be corrupt or missing. Make sure all files required for installation are available, and restart the

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Software sometimes behaves stupidly and in the most unlikely of places. Here is one such – when you start the Boot Camp Assistant in Mac OS X Leopard to install Windows, in stead of proceeding from the first – informative - screen, it throws an error: The startup disk cannot be partitioned or restored to a single partition. The startup disk must be formatted as a single Mac OS Extended (

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Well, yeah yeah, everybody's already said a lot of stuff about Google Chrome holding up CPU like a Goblin holding onto the last galleon in the world, but I'll write a few things anyway. I'll also keep updating which features were found to be bigger CPU hogs (courtesy Windows and Chrome Task Managers).I found Chrome taking up 98% of CPU one day. I found that it was sending out a truck-load of

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Or is it a robot named BigDog? I'm confused. Heck, anyone would be.See for yourself - here is the link to the homepage of a Boston Dynamics robotics project called BigDog funded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). There is a Flash video on this page that shows BigDog toiling hard when mere humans try to unsettle him, make him jump and walk over boulders, etc.From the site -"

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Well, it's not really effortless, but it does reduce the use of your mouse to quite an extent while browsing the Web. And it doesn't even take 1/10th of the time you'll take to read this. Alas, this works only in Firefox.Everybody who loves using the keyboard knows the annoyance that they feel when browsing the Web. You just can't do a lot of things without a mouse. Of course, you can always

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Something a little detached from the normal theme, this is about saving energy.Using nothing else, but just your CRT monitors. Here is a very interesting (although a bit long :) ) article talking about power savings and CRT monitors. This post is about is the impact of such power saving.By the way, a CRT monitor is the big, boxy old display that used to come with older PCs. And sometimes with

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It seems this is a very commonly faced problem and the solution is not very clearly stated anywhere. This is an attempt to bridge the gap. It should work at least for people in India using the Dataone service from BSNL India.The main problem people seem to be facing that even when the ADSL connection is working, gets connected, they can't browse any site, nor can they connect to any host using

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I'm extremely sorry for not writing anything for quite some time. Not that I have any readers particularly waiting for me, :-) but I thought it a matter of courtesy to apologize.So, I begin again with a new post coming up in a few minutes.

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More a tidbit than a tale about an idiosyncrasy of Internet Explorer 7, better known as IE7. When all was well and peaceful with IE6 (well, some of the time anyway), some nosy users were able to see the cookies set in IE stored on the hard disk in a folder. This folder was C:\Documents and settings\username\Cookies. Along came the all-new, much-awaited, etc. IE7 and everyone was asked to switch

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A quick update on my earlier post, "A Website in My Pocket".The brilliant guys at Nokia have gone a step ahead. Now, they've even created a complete Web application to be run off the Web Server for Series 60 mobiles they had developed some time back. Although the Web application on the newer Web server runs only on select mobile models, the amount of control given through the Web application is

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Since a couple of days back, Airtel - the top cellular service provider in India - has latched on to something very simple yet ingenious. They have started, or at least tried out, location based advertising in the simplest, crudest form.The concept is very simple, you are in a certain area, you receive advertisements from businesses in that area, thereby increasing the possibility of you seeking

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Google has, at long last, launched a Java application, which is basically a client for GMail. Unfortunately, there's no name. Let's call it the Client.The Client can be downloaded by going to http://gmail.com/app. The server automatically detects your phone model & the resulting page has a link to the version right for your phone. You just click on this link and the installation begins soon. It

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Here are two very useful tools when it comes to Symbian Series 60 smartphones, both by the same author Petteri Muilu:AutoLock is an automatic keypad locking application, a feature conspicuously lacking from Series 60 phones. Works nicely with Nokia 6630. You can set the delay for which it should wait from a small front-end. Delay can be set in minutes:seconds. Although, I have wondered many times

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A few days back, I came across MGTalk, which is a Jabber client supporting some of the features in Google Talk. After trying it out, I found it a very convenient tool when being away from a connected computer. Of course, you need GPRS - or some other data connectivity - on your phone.It's a great product, even in early stages of the cycle (current version 0.2.2). It supports SSL connections,

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Thanks, The Yearling for covering my antics with mobsites first.A few months back, Nokia Research Center achieved something that was a near-dream-come-true experience for enthusiasts like me. They actually managed to port the apache web server to Symbian Series 60!! Not only did they not stop here, but they packaged it with a "connector" of their own making which makes it possible to host a

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Maybe on other Series 60 phones, too. This post may seem a bit long, but believe me, it takes all of about 5 minutes to do it.Symbian Series 60 phones have a strange way of reacting to certificates offered by websites which are not one of those pre-installed in the phone. The phone pops a message saying "This site has sent an untrusted certificate. Continue anyway?". The user has to manually

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