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Memory Cards are as much a part of our daily computing as hard disks and RAM is. The Digital cameras that we use everyday, the mobile phones that we rely on and even some of those tiny netbooks that we use, more often than not use some kind of memory card based storage to store data. Improvements in...

Apple likes to claim that Mac OS X is one of the most secure operating systems available. While it may be true that a default install of OS X, is usually more secure than a similar default install of a consumer Linux distribution, it is also true that the average Mac OS X user is far less computer savvy...

As the saying goes, An image is worth a thousand words. As a tech blogger, I absolutely live by that saying. I like to include a lot of images in my posts for reference and also because sometimes it’s just easier to explain a concept with a single image rather than writing a couple of paragraphs...

If you own and run a blog or a website of any kind, I’m sure there’d have been times when you wanted to find out the value of your website, if only to massage your ego a bit, or you were actually considering selling the site and wanted an accurate valuation for all the hard work that you’ve...

The iPad has been a roaring success. There are no two ways about it. It is an awesome device and the built-in web browser is the best in it’s class. Even though most websites work perfectly fine on an iPad, a lot of web publishers have optimized versions of their websites available for just the...

As a child, my parents used to present me with an encyclopedia every year on my birthday. It started around the time I was in the second grade or so and continued till I was around 14. I still remember the joy I used to get reading up those thick books crammed with information about this wonderful world...

Before I got the iPhone, I used to own a Nokia E50 that I was (at the time) absolutely in love with. It was the first phone I owned that could play real MP3 files without the need to convert them to some esoteric light weight format. The E50 could also use MP3 files as ringtones and that was arguably...

In the past couple of years, the Internet has taken over and changed a lot of our media consumption habits. From newspapers to magazines and even movies, everything is available online. With more and more publishers taking the online route, it would be safe to say that in a couple of years the Internet...

Almost all search engines support searching inside PDF files and almost all of them have special keywords that the user can pass if you want them to return only PDF related results, but by default the results that you see for any query are mixed with regular web links as well PDF files. If you’d...

Before the iPhone came, only the largest websites had a separate version exclusively for mobile visitors which was usually based on WAP. And since there weren’t too many mobile visitors anyway, a lot of site owners just didn’t bother with creating a lighter version of their websites. The...