Archive for February, 2009

I’m a big GNOME fan and have been using it ever since it was first released. Ofcourse, like all software, not all is good with the GNOME project also and some of the decisions made by the developers are just plain absurd to me. One such decision was making the Spatial mode on Nautilus as the default. Nautilus,...

TweetEffect is a new web service which is designed to give you information on the number of followers that you have at any time. Not only that, it also tells you the number of followers that you added to your list and the number of followers that stopped following you on the basis of the last 200 updates...

Google has just released an iPhone optimised interface for their Book search portal. This brings almost 1.5 million public domain books within easy reach of iPhone/iPod touch owners. The only problem is that unlike other eBook readers available for the iPhone, the user has to be connected and online...

How many times have you had to reinstall the OS on your computer and then had to install all your favorite pieces of software by hand. I’m sure it’s quite painful. And even more so when you forget to install a couple of software and then have to install them in a crunch when you need them...

My sister lost her iPhone a couple of days back and with that all her contacts, notes and calender entries that she had painstakingly stored on the device. Her only hope of getting all that important data back was the backup that she had taken a couple of days earlier and she asked me to help her out. This...

The first month of 2009 has been a super exciting one. The Palm Pre was demoed at CES, the next version of Android is almost upon us and I managed to publish my first post on MakeTechEasier. With all the fun stuff happening in the tech world, Geeky Ninja has managed to be the only sane place around the...