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Monitor your websites for free using WasitUp?

By Sharninder | Published: February 4, 2010

WasitUp - Website Monitoring serviceEven though datacenter technologies have come a long way, downtimes are still a reality that most of us bloggers have to face at one point or another. Your web host may offer a 99.999 % uptime guarantee but the fact that no host gives a 100% uptime guarantee proves the point that as there is no such thing as a free lunch, there is also no perfect webhost.

So, what do you do when your website inevitably goes down ? Inform your webhost about it ? Open a support ticket sit in one corner of your house sulking ?

While it is true that you can’t do much to bring your website up once it’s down, you can definitely reduce the downtime by informing your webhost about it as soon as you come to know about it.

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Grooveshark: Listen to unlimited music online for Free

By Sharninder | Published: January 18, 2010

Grooveshark - LogoStreaming music over the Internet has always been a legal gray area. Most streaming music sites tend to call themselves radio stations but the music industry thinks of them as independent media consumers and that is the reason that while radio stations get bulk deals for playing content, online streaming stations have to pay for each song streamed on a per user basis.

This, as you can imagine, doesn’t really bode well for sites that rely solely on advertising to cover their costs as advertising spots for all but the biggest sites are usually pretty low.

A lot of streaming sites have gone under trying to perfect a monetization strategy for online music and only a few have managed to survive. Among them Pandora is the most famous and while it is one of the few sites making any money, it is only accessible to people living the United States.

For people outside the US, Grooveshark is an excellent alternative to Pandora.

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Posted in WebApps | Tagged music, online radio, streaming | 4 Comments

Glide OS – A web based free operating system

By Sharninder | Published: January 17, 2010

Cloud computing is the latest buzzword that seems to have taken over the Internet. Everyone seems to be talking about it, yet no one seems to have absolutely any idea what it actually means !

Cloud computing from a user’s perspective is simply the process of taking one’s computing needs online. What that means is that the web based email solutions that we use, or the calendering applications that we rely on are examples of cloud computing. And by that definition, every one from Google to Microsoft to Yahoo is in the cloud computing business.

Google recently announced that they’re working on an operating system called Chrome OS which will be based on Linux and the users using it will store all their data on Google’s servers. So, even if the actual operating system resides on the user’s machine, the data resides in the Cloud. This is Google’s vision of a Cloud OS.

While Google’s Chrome OS hasn’t yet hit the market officially, Transmedia’s Glide OS is here and it goes one up on Chrome OS by storing the complete operating system in the cloud.

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Posted in WebApps | Tagged cloud computing, cloud os, Useful webapps | 7 Comments

December Roundup – Best of the Web

By Sharninder | Published: January 9, 2010

Happy New Year !

Apologies for the lack of any updates for the last couple of weeks.

This blog has been silent for a while now and I blame the holiday season for it. Christmas, new year and then the hangover from the holidays ensured that I hardly had time for anything but, well, holidaying :-)

Now on to the news.

The new year brings a lot of promise for those of us interested in mobile technology. Google finally launched their highly anticipated mobile phone called the Nexus One. Initial reviews show a lot of promise and I’m really looking forward to more such innovations from Google.

Palm also released updates to their two handsets, the Pre Plus and the Pixi Plus. I don’t know about you but I think if there is a platform that can challenge the iPhone right now, it is the WebOS. And with the new devices Palm showed that they’re still very much in the game.

December was a pretty nice month for us at the Geeky Ninja and I hope you guys found our articles informative and useful. If you missed some of our posts, here is a short list of some our best posts from December.

How To Install RockBox on your iPod

Record a Screencast on OS X using the built-in Quicktime X

3 ways to archive your tweets

4 video sharing sites that are better than YouTube

We’ve got much more stuff lined up for you in January. So, hang on, and we hope you enjoy the ride.

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HowTo install RockBox on your iPod

By Sharninder | Published: December 22, 2009

Apple’s iPod music player is the most popular music player on the planet. The iPod along with the iTunes store has revolutionized not only the music industry but also the complete music distribution business. It is this music business that has brought back Apple, the company, from the brink of bankruptcy and made it into the household name that it is today.

Even though there are many fans of the iPod’s simple and clean interface, there are many who would like their iPods to do still more. And for them the RockBox open source project brings hope.

RockBox is an alternative open source firmware for a lot of different music players including Apple’s iPod and today we’ll show you how you can also install RockBox on your iPod and make it do much more than what Apple ever intended.

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Posted in Mac OS X, Open Source | Tagged firmware, ipod, opensource, rockbox | 1 Comment

Want to see what the Google Wave Hype is all about ? We’ve got invites for you

By Sharninder | Published: December 17, 2009

Google WaveGoogle has managed to create an amazing hype around their new product, Wave. Almost everyone who saw the demo of Google Wave at the company’s developer conference a couple of months back went back impressed, but well, it was disappointing for most people when they found out that wave is still in beta and Google is only going to give out a small number of invites for people to check it out.

Not much has changed since that first Demo and Wave is still an invite-only product and if you still don’t have an invite, I’ve got some good news for you.

I have 25 Google Wave invites to give away to readers of this blog. Read on to find out how you can get your hands one.

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Find the cheapest books on Amazon using CheapRiver

By Sharninder | Published: December 15, 2009

CheapriverAmazon is the single largest online bookstore in the world. It operates in seven countries including the US, Germany, Japan, UK, China, Canada and France.

If you live in a country like India, though, where Amazon doesn’t have a local store, Amazon offers to ship goods internationally but even then ordering books from the Amazon book store is always a painful affair. Firstly, not all items can be shipped to India. Of those that can be shipped, the cost including shipping is usually prohibitive.

For most people in India ordering books from Amazon, the US store is the most convenient since, well, they have the easiest to remember website and the rates at the US bookstore are usually among the best, but have you ever tried adding up shipping from the US to India and then thinking about the cost ? Wouldn’t it be cheaper to get a book shipped from the UK store since shipping from the UK would be cheaper ?

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Manipulate and Manage PDF files using Preview – Mac

By Sharninder | Published: December 10, 2009

preview-logoThe PDF file format has always been an integral part of the Mac OS X user interface because of the fact that the underlying technology behind the graphical interface, Quartz, is based on PDF.

That is why, while other operating systems needed third party tools to enable things like printing a file to a PDF printer, OS X has this feature built-in.

OS X also ships with a lightweight PDF viewer application called Preview that also doubles up as an image viewer. If your PDF editing requirements are as simple as mine, show some love to Preview and make use of some of it’s cool features that we’re going to walk you through today .

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3 ways to Archive Your Tweets

By Sharninder | Published: December 9, 2009

Twitter LogoThere is no doubt that Twitter is an extremely valuable and powerful tool. It is not only a medium for communication, it is also at the forefront of the real-time web. In fact, some would even, arguably, claim that Twitter started the whole real-time craze.

A lot of people use Twitter to share little 140 character snippets of their daily life with their friends and family and there are others who just use Twitter to get the latest news, in real-time. And in these varied usage patterns lies the beauty of Twitter. The service by itself is so basic and simple that almost everyone who uses it has a different take on it.

But, one thing that most people would agree on is that the Twitter search service is most likely the best indicator of global trends and it is a pity that Twitter keeps an index worth only about 1.5 weeks on it’s servers ! Yes, you heard that right, 1-and-half weeks. So, if you tweet something today, 1.5 weeks later, no one will be able search for it. Yes, the Tweet will still be visible to you in your time-line but anyone who doesn’t know you, will not be able to use Twitter search to search for your tweet.

Given this limitation, it is only natural that several third party services have sprung up to fill the void and among them, here are 5 of our favorites.

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Posted in WebApps | Tagged archive, backup, tweets, twitter | 4 Comments

Windows 101: Remove a user account in Windows 7

By Sharninder | Published: December 8, 2009

Windows 7So, you followed our previous post from the Windows 101 series and created an account for yourself and another user on your Windows 7 machine.

I talked about how easy it was to add a new user account to your shiny new Windows 7 install and you followed the instructions in that post, added a new account for your friend and he even used it for a couple of days. So, what do you do with a user account when you don’t need it anymore ? Keep it around for eternity ?

In today’s Windows 101 post we take a look at how to delete a user account and save the user’s data.

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