Category: Tech
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Website migrated to WordPress
After running this website on Drupal 7 for over a decade, I’ve now migrated it to WordPress. This change was prompted by the official end-of-life for Drupal 7 in January of this year. I considered upgrading to Drupal 10, but ultimately chose WordPress for several reasons: Popularity and Ecosystem: WordPress is the most widely used…
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Work environment upgrades
After many months of contemplation, I have finally gone ahead and purchased a standing desk and a chair. Deciding on either of these is not easy as you are spoilt for choice. However, after some evaluation, I finally decided to go for a dual motor electric height adjustable desk frame from MojoDesk and a chair…
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Stanley 23 Piece Ratcheting Bit Driver Set Review
A few months back, I bought a Stanley 23 Piece Ratcheting Bit Driver Set and there is just one thing I got to say about this – AWESOME!!! I was initially not sure whether to go for the 23 Piece Ratcheting Bit Driver Set or 10 Piece Multi-Bit Ratceting Screwdriver. However, I finally decided to…
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HyderabadLaptops.com Review
HyderabadLaptops or HyderabadLaptops.com seems to be a division or an alias of AISS (Academy for Integrated Systems & Solutions) and deals with computer hardware. I got to know of this company while googling for laptop repair services. Generally, when writing a review of a product or a service, I tend to give an advice to…
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USB Flash Drive With Write Protect Switch
The first USB flash drive that I had owned, RiDATA 1 GB flash drive, had a hardware USB write protect switch. This was really cool as whenever I had to take a printout at some Internet cafe, I’d lock it and then only attach it to any computer. This way I was confident that even…
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Creating Audio CD Image
We all have heard of the ISO image format which is a very popular way of backing up data CDs & DVDs. A very easy way of creating an ISO image in linux is by using the dd or dcfldd command. Similarly, in Windows, applications such as Nero have an option to save a CD…
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Tekkeon TekCharge Mobile Power and Battery Charger Review
TekCharge MP1550 is an awesome mobile charger. I had purchased it from Amazon and got it shipped with one of my friends. Few things which I think are really cool about this charger are: Charger supports 7 different connectors. Furthermore there is a USB port, which means that theoretically any portable device that could be…
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My First Smartphone – Motorola Fire XT530
At last, I get my first smartphone – Motorola Fire XT530 which is based on Android. And this was a gift from a very close buddy of mine – Srikanth. He wanted to gift me something for my marriage, and I put it off till my second anniversary as I wanted his gift to be…
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Replacement Laptop Keys
It may sometime happen that a key of our laptop breaks, or no longer works properly. Often the solution suggested for this is to have the entire laptop keyboard replaced. But this is not economical considering that laptop keyboards are pretty costly.
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Nokia Symbian S60 SIP Clients
Here is a list of some of SIP clients for Nokia S60. Kindly note that these are generic SIP clients and not bound to any SIP provider as such. Tivi – Tivi is perhaps my favourite softphone. It is available as a free download and I believe the authors intend to keep it this way.…