Archive for November, 2009

Online services that let the user create a playlist are dime-a-dozen on the web and most of them work the same way. Think of an artist or a song and the service either suggests a ready-made playlist or lists songs that you can then add and make a custom playlist out of. If you like the song, pick it,...

Apple’s iPod is the most popular media player on the planet and together with the iTunes software and music store command almost 90% of the market for digital music and music players. With the amount of money at stake, it is not a surprise that Apple likes to maintain tight control over the iTunes/iPod...

If you’re one of those who recently switched to Windows 7 from Windows XP, and are still learning the ropes of Microsoft’s new operating system, you’d have noticed how Windows 7 likes to do things a little differently especially when it comes to administrative tasks such as creating...

If this is the first time you’re reading The Geeky Ninja, Welcome ! If you’re a regular reader of our blog, Thank you ! And for the rest of you, we hope you’ve enjoyed the ride till now. The goal of this blog has always been to write about software and technology in a language that...

Retweets have always been one of Twitter’s most powerful features, except, that ReTweeting was never even a feature that the Twitter team developed. Retweets using the RT (or the ‘via @user’) format were pioneered and popularized by the early adapters of the service and it is only when...

The Windows registry is a mess ! There … I said it. And the more I use Windows, the more I’m reminded that if there is anything close to a cardinal truth, it is the fact that a windows computer will become slower and slower and crash more often as it grows old. Of course, ‘Old’...

Do you know how Data is stored in your computer ? The operating system stores data in little chunks called blocks on the hard disk. If a file that you save is large and can’t fit in a single block, the operating system divides it into multiple blocks. These blocks are chosen wherever there is free...

Gmail is one of the world’s most popular free email services and is definitely my favorite email service. The reasons that I like Gmail for are simple enough. In my opinion, the reason Gmail is so popular is because Google really goes the extra mile to ensure that the Interface remains as clutter...

Let’s have a small poll. How many web browsers do you use ? Those of you thinking that this is a rhetorical question, it’s not. If you guys are anything like me, I’m sure you have multiple browsers installed on your system. I’ve always had multiple browsers on my all my systems....

RSS has changed the way content is consumed on the web. Almost every website worth it’s salt, and all blogs, including Geeky Ninja, use an RSS feed to distribute their content to the readers. Using an RSS reader Google Reader is arguably the best and the most famous RSS reader around. The only...