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Monthly Archives: December 2009

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 [...]
Posted in Mac OS X, Open Source | Tagged firmware, ipod, opensource, rockbox | 2 Comments

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

By Sharninder | Published: December 17, 2009
Google 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 [...]
Posted in WebApps | Tagged giveaway, Google, Google Wave | 1 Comment

Find the cheapest books on Amazon using CheapRiver

By Sharninder | Published: December 15, 2009
Amazon 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 [...]
Posted in Internet | Tagged amazon, books, cheap deals, mashup | Leave a comment

Manipulate and Manage PDF files using Preview – Mac

By Sharninder | Published: December 10, 2009
The 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, [...]
Posted in Mac OS X | Tagged Mac OS X, pdf, Preview | Leave a comment

3 ways to Archive Your Tweets

By Sharninder | Published: December 9, 2009
There 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 [...]
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
So, 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 [...]
Posted in Windows | Tagged Windows 101, Windows 7 | Leave a comment

Record a Screencast on Mac OS X using QuickTime X

By Sharninder | Published: December 7, 2009
A lot of the top bloggers have been using video as a medium to illustrate their posts for a long time now. Some of them use proprietary software to make screencasts and some of them just use digital cameras to shoot videos. With Mac OS X latest incarnation, 10.6 Snow Leopard, however Apple has given everyone [...]
Posted in Mac OS X | Tagged Mac OS X, QuickTime, record video, Screencast, youtube | Leave a comment

November Roundup – Best of the Web

By Sharninder | Published: December 3, 2009
Wow ! November went by really fast ! It almost feels like yesterday when we did our October Roundup and were talking about the Windows 7 launch and my hackint0sh experiences. Well, I now have Windows 7 on one of my computers and we’ve started a new Windows 101 series where we’ll  take our readers through [...]
Posted in Announcements | Tagged Announcements, Best of Geeky Ninja, roundup | Leave a comment

4 Video Sharing Sites that are better than YouTube

By Sharninder | Published: December 2, 2009
For a long time the Internet was a text only medium and the first browsers weren’t even capable of displaying anything but plain text. Then came browsers that could display static and animated GIFs and while it was a major change back then, text was still king and that was the medium in which most [...]
Posted in Internet | Tagged alternative, online video, youtube | 2 Comments

5 Alternatives to Mininova and The Pirate Bay

By Sharninder | Published: December 1, 2009
2009 will go down in the annals of history as the year when two of the biggest names on the movie piracy file sharing scene went down. Well, they’re both actually still up, but I’m sure you’d agree that they’re just not as useful anymore. I’m also quite sure that web searches for alternatives to these [...]
Posted in Internet | Tagged alternative, mininova, torrent | 5 Comments
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