Swype is an innovative keyboard for Android phones. It works by tracing the letters of each word in a continuous path, rather than hitting each key separately. This is particularly useful for those with fat fingers, or small screens. More and more Android OEMs are integrating Skype in their custom Android skins, like Samsung with […]
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Root and flash custom ROMs on Galaxy S2 without incrementing flash counter
Samsung is known to be rather friendly to the hacking and modding community around Android. They have unlocked boot loaders in their phones, making it easy to flash custom kernels and ROMs, and they even sent a bunch of Galaxy S2s to the Cyanogenmod team with the request that they make the Cyanogenmod ROM compatible […]
How to get a zip of only changed files between two WordPress versions
WordPress, the popular blogging software, often has a minor update out a few days after a major release, to fix security bugs and clean up code – like 3.2.1 coming after 3.2. If WordPress auto update works for you, then upgrading your blog is a 10 second job. If not, manually uploading files and upgrading […]
Fix computer not connecting to any internet connection
For the last few weeks, I noticed that only my laptop does not connect to any internet connection – home Wifi router, ADSL modem via ethernet cable, USB data card and mobile 3G internet. The laptop would get connected with the USB data card and mobile phone, but not load any data. The same devices […]
Configure Cisco Linksys WRT54G2 V1 wireless router to work with ADSL modem
I had purchased a Cisco Linksys WRT54G2 V1 router nearly two years ago. I gave up trying to set up the wifi router with my DSL modem then, and it has been accumulating dust in my attic ever since. Recently, I tried setting it up again, and presto, this time it worked! Below is a […]
How to enable/disable Windows hibernate with a single command
Here is a one-line command to enable and disable hibernation in Windows 7, for all you command-line users. By default, hibernation should be enabled in Windows. To Disable Hibernate Open an elevated command prompt, ie. one with admin previlages (Start > cmd > right-click and “Run as administrator”). In command prompt, key in powercfg -h […]
Clear Facebook of spam with FB Purity
FB Purity is a popular tool to clean up Facebook of all the crap borderline spam that has been increasingly accumulating – app messages, pesky notifications, quiz questions etc. F.B. Purity is compatible with the following web browsers: Firefox, Google Chrome, Safari and Opera on all operating systems – Windows, Mac OS X, Linux. F […]
Nokia N95 volume button not working
Nokia N95, the smartphone that brought in a lot of features and the ‘fully-loaded’ concept, sometimes has a bug with its volume button: it just stops working, in every application, home screen, and even in calls. This problem occured to me some time in the past. Searching online turned up many quick fixes and solutions, […]
Windows detects but does not show external USB hard drive (in My Computer)
Due to OS upgrades, sometimes, a hard drive that worked fine previously fails to show up in (My) Computer. This happened to me once when I upgraded a computer from Windows Vista to Windows 7. The external hard drive was powered up, and detected by the system (proven by the fact that it shows up […]
Batch-delete empty folders in Windows and Mac OS X
After using Windows for several months, chances are, that parts of your hard drive will contain many empty folders nested several levels deep. One of the reasons for this is frequent installation and uninstallation of software – some poorly-designed installers are the culprits here and leave empty folders after uninstall. Needless to say, it is […]