Windows 7 and battery life issues – Problem explanation and solution

On February 25th, 2010 by Girish | No Comments | Posted in Tips & Tools 30 views

windows 7Windows 7 users who were upgraded from Vista were facing a strange problem. After the upgrade battery was failing and a message was displayed “consider replacing your battery”. Now Microsoft has confirmed that it has nothing to do with upgrade but this confusion is because of an advanced feature in Windows 7.  Windows 7 had introduced  battery notification message which created the confusion. read more

 

Twitter and Yahoo joins together for real time search integration.

On February 25th, 2010 by Girish | No Comments | Posted in News, Tips & Tools 2 views

After Google, Yahoo is also preparing to include twitter updates in their search results. In twitter blog post one of the co-founder announced the partnership with Yahoo for providing the feeds.Now we just need to wait for real time search integration on Yahoo search pages. read more

 

Free Online store – Store your files on Internet with cloud Drive

On February 25th, 2010 by Girish | No Comments | Posted in Tips & Tools 15 views

clouddriveTowards cloud computing efforts Adobe’s latest contribution is its Cloud Drive. It provides  free 5GB online storage, You can convert files to PDF, store and easily share files, Collaborate online on documents, If you want to upload or download files, you can use the web interface or desktop application. CloudDrive is a free desktop application which allows you to access Acrobat online storage from your desktop. read more

 

Install and Run Safari 4 on Ubuntu Linux using Wine

On February 25th, 2010 by Girish | No Comments | Posted in Linux 30 views

Safari is the well known browser which is default in MAC OS X, they have a version for Windows. But still there is no Linux flavors available. Here is the hack to run Safari browser on your Ubuntu installation. read more

 

ZTE Bingo – ultra slim, big touch screen , 3G Brew smartphone – review, price

On February 24th, 2010 by Girish | No Comments | Posted in Reviews 27 views

ZTE has introduced the ultra slim big screen BMP 3G smartphone namely ZTE Bingo.  ZTE Bingo adopts high end functionality Mobile operating system called Qualcomm’s Brew Mobile platform (BMP). It also adopts a new UI that supports application development and multi ztetouch functionality. It also supports adobe flash. The Bingo is one of the five Android smart phone that ZTE Plans to launch in the market this year. It supports download speed of upto 72 Mbps. In addition to the support of A-GPS and an accelerometer it porvides advanced terminal function such as touchscreen, window management , multimedia, open platform scalability and extended support for local application development. read more

 

Change drive icons on Windows 7 – free portable app

On February 24th, 2010 by Girish | No Comments | Posted in Windows 29 views

windows 7Another non-productive tools for Windows 7 , do you need to change your old drive icons with trendy new images?  Windows 7 Drive Icon Changer is for that. This easy to use free utility can quickly change the drive icons of any drive on your computer. When you run the application it shows the list of drives available, select the drive you need to change the icon and click install button. You will get a prompt to select a file for the icon. read more

 

Adobe announce AIR platform for Android and other Mobile OS

On February 24th, 2010 by Girish | No Comments | Posted in General 11 views

Adobe announced the introduction of Flash 10.1 and AIR platform for Google’s Android mobile operating system. This announcement can be treated as evidence of Adobe’s plan to introduce AIR (Adobe Integrated Runtime) as a common Platform across mobile operating system. read more

 

Google will not support Internet Explorer 6 and other old version browsers going forward

On February 24th, 2010 by Girish | No Comments | Posted in Tips & Tools, Windows 14 views

youtubeGoogle is going to discontinue its support for YouTube in Internet Explorer 6. They have stopped supporting Internet Explorer 6 in Google Apps  long back and google have plans to stop IE 6 support for  GMail and Google calendar by this year end.It was always a pain for designers to support internet explorer 6 due to its misbehavior for many CSS tags. Now Google set a target date for it – 13 March. read more

 

Unlock iPhone 3.1.3 with Blacksn0w v2 expected to come soon.

On February 24th, 2010 by Girish | No Comments | Posted in Tips & Tools 446 views

Blacksn0w v2 is ready to unlock your 3GS and 3G iPhone running on iPhone 3.1.3 OS. Gull1hack is the team working on the iPhone 3.1.3 jailbreak toolkit, Gull1hack also announced that they will be coming with a unlock tool  for iPhone 3GS 3.1.3 firmware. read more

 

Discover new and hot Android Applications using AppAware

On February 24th, 2010 by Girish | No Comments | Posted in Tips & Tools 18 views

appaware logoIf you are an Android mobile phone user then you might have used Android market which has tons of applications. If you find it difficult to decide which application is to be installed on your mobile phone, here is cute online application – AppAware. AppAware provides an online stats of Android applications which users are installing , uninstalling and upgrading. This gives you a clear picture of which need to be selected. It it looking cool. AppAware also has a twitter feed where you can follow it on #appaware read more

 

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