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How to add Facebook chat to iChat on Mac OS X

By Sharninder | Published: March 11, 2010
Facebook is the social media giant that is showing no signs of stopping. Apart from being a regular social media website for people to interact with their friends (and strangers, in some cases), Facebook has also been trying to get into the instant messaging game which has till now been dominated by Google’s GTalk and [...]
Posted in Mac OS X | Tagged facebook, ichat, jabber, Tips and tricks | Leave a comment

How To Get Music Off your iPhone

By Sharninder | Published: March 8, 2010
A couple of months back I wrote a post about how the iPod stores music internally and how you could use that knowledge to retrieve music stored on your iPod without using any external tools. This is made possible because of the fact that the iPod identifies itself as a USB connected external disk and [...]
Posted in Mac OS X | Tagged copy music, ipod, ipod touch, iTunes, Useful Utilities | Leave a comment

Monitor your websites for free using WasitUp?

By Sharninder | Published: February 4, 2010
Even 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 [...]
Posted in WebApps | Tagged website monitoring, website uptime monitor | 1 Comment

Grooveshark: Listen to unlimited music online for Free

By Sharninder | Published: January 18, 2010
Streaming 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 [...]
Posted in WebApps | Tagged music, online radio, streaming | 6 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 [...]
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 [...]
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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 [...]
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, [...]
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