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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...

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 account...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...