Geeky Ninja » Announcements http://geekyninja.com Linux, Windows, OS X - Tips n Tricks Sun, 30 May 2010 18:23:26 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 en hourly 1 December Roundup – Best of the Web http://geekyninja.com/archives/december-roundup-best-of-the-web/ http://geekyninja.com/archives/december-roundup-best-of-the-web/#comments Sat, 09 Jan 2010 17:24:10 +0000 Sharninder http://geekyninja.com/?p=864 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 to the news.

The new year brings a lot of promise for those of us interested in mobile technology. Google finally launched their highly anticipated mobile phone called the Nexus One. Initial reviews show a lot of promise and I’m really looking forward to more such innovations from Google.

Palm also released updates to their two handsets, the Pre Plus and the Pixi Plus. I don’t know about you but I think if there is a platform that can challenge the iPhone right now, it is the WebOS. And with the new devices Palm showed that they’re still very much in the game.

December was a pretty nice month for us at the Geeky Ninja and I hope you guys found our articles informative and useful. If you missed some of our posts, here is a short list of some our best posts from December.

How To Install RockBox on your iPod

Record a Screencast on OS X using the built-in Quicktime X

3 ways to archive your tweets

4 video sharing sites that are better than YouTube

We’ve got much more stuff lined up for you in January. So, hang on, and we hope you enjoy the ride.

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]]> http://geekyninja.com/archives/december-roundup-best-of-the-web/feed/ 0 November Roundup – Best of the Web http://geekyninja.com/archives/november-roundup-%e2%80%93-best-of-the-web/ http://geekyninja.com/archives/november-roundup-%e2%80%93-best-of-the-web/#comments Thu, 03 Dec 2009 11:36:26 +0000 Sharninder http://geekyninja.com/?p=775 Geeky NinjaWow ! 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 simple how to articles that teach them to use Windows. Even if you think you know Windows, we’ve got some posts lined up that should be of use to everyone. So, please keep coming back. The first article of the series that was published is on adding a new user account to Windows 7.

We also published a couple of articles to keep your Windows PC in tip-top shape by de-fragmenting the hard disk and by removing all the clutter from the registry.

Geeky Ninja, obviously, isn’t the only place on the Internet that has some action going on. Read on for some of my picks from around the Internet.

How To

How to Recover Lost Passwords from Various Browsers – LostInTechnology takes us through some easy tools to recover Lost Passwords

Reduce Image sizes with PIXResizer – If you’re a blogger, you’d know how important image size is. Read on for Nirmal’s review of the PIXResizer software.

Cool Software Applications

DoubleTwist – If you own a phone that plays any kind of media, you should take a look at DoubleTwist. Period.

Install Android on your Windows Mobile Phone – Interested ? Read on !

Wordpress

Easy and Better solutions to get images on your posts – If you use Wordpress, you should read this post.

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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 is easy to read and understand. I believe (and hope) that I’ve been able to stick to that goal so far.

In the past, we’ve covered a number of Windows Tips and software to make your life easier and while we’ll still continue to write about interesting software for Windows, we’ve decided to start a new Windows 101 series for those who’re just starting on the adventure that is Windows.

If you have any tips or tricks for new Windows users to share, please use the Contact Form and let us know. We hope you like what we’ve lined up for you.

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]]> http://geekyninja.com/archives/new-geeky-ninja-series-windows-101/feed/ 0 October Roundup – Best of the Web http://geekyninja.com/archives/october-roundup-best-of-the-web/ http://geekyninja.com/archives/october-roundup-best-of-the-web/#comments Tue, 03 Nov 2009 16:37:45 +0000 Sharninder http://geekyninja.com/?p=655 gravatar.jpgSo, here we are. Another month and another installment of our Best of the Web Roundup.

This last month had been extremely hectic for me. My brother got married last month and if you’ve ever been to an Indian wedding, you’d know how long and tiring they can be for everyone involved. And because of that and the amount I travelled in the last month, I really couldn’t devote as much time as I’d have liked to, to Geeky Ninja.

Now, just because I wasn’t posting much on this blog, doesn’t mean that I’ve been goofing around.

Windows 7 was released and while I’ve played with the betas and the RCs, I haven’t had the time to install the GA build on any of my machines, yet.

I also managed to build my first fully functional hackint0sh last month. I’ve installed OS X on non-intel hardware before but all those installs always had some driver or the other missing and I couldn’t really enjoy the complete OS X experience. But, this time I followed the MacYourPC guide and successfully installed OS X on my Dell Inspiron 1525 machine and so far, I’m loving it.

Since, I had OS X on my inspiron, I configured it to work with the Cisco VPN solution that my office uses, and also did some digging around with .pkg package format that OS X uses to distribute installable applications.

Well, I’ll be posting more posts on my experiences with my hackint0sh and till then here is a sample of what’s been happening around the web.

Tips and Tricks

5 Smart Playlists to help you manage your iTunes library: Get some smart tips on playlist management from the masters – TUAW

How to create customer rebranded Firefox and Thunderbird version: Create your own custom versions of firefox and thunderbird.

Cool new Applications

TubeRadio.fm: A slick and cool Internet Music Player for Youtube.

AbiWord 2.8 released: AbiWord is probably the most underrated word processing software around. Show some love people ’cause this is one rockin’ release.

HowTo

Trick out Google Apps for your Domain: Lifehacker teaches you all that you know to make Google Apps work with your domain.

How to lock folders and files: Use the free software, My Lockbox, to lock your folders and files.

That’s all we have for now. See you on the other side of the break !

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The Palm Pre launch that we’d been waiting for desperately the last time around has come and gone and while the Pre software did get a lot of coverage and praises, a lot of people haven’t been too happy with the hardware that Palm chose to adorn their comeback phone with.

The Pre that is released on Sprint in the US is a CDMA only phone and the GSM version of the device is expected to be released on Oct 16 in the UK. Although, I’m not really waiting for it this time around as much as I was when it was first announced, and the reason for that is the HTC Hero.

The HTC Hero is an android based device that runs a custom skin over the android interface called Sense. The HTC sense UI is what sets this particular phone apart and you really have to see it in action to get what I’m talking about.

Of course, HTC and Palm aren’t the only companies to have gotten my attention the last few weeks – Apple released their new operating system Snow Leopard a couple of weeks back and it looks like the OS is getting some nice reviews.

That is about all the news I had to share with you guys. On to the blogosphere then.

Tips and Tricks

Improve your battery life with PowerTOP: MakeTechEasier’s Damien writes an pretty detailed article on the PowerTOP tool. PowerTOP is an excellent utility to discover and improve on the battery consumption of your notebook. A must read if you use Linux on your portable computer.

Use the Ubiquity extension with Firefox: Lost In Technology writes about the Ubiquity extension for Firefox. Read on for all the awesomeness Ubiquity gives.

Must have photo tools for Linux: HitchedHiker’s Top picks for the best photo tools on Linux.

HowTo

Create an EXE installation file: This post that I wrote at the Make Use Of blog teaches you how to create an EXE installation file using the iExpress tool.

Mount your iPhone as an external drive: Another gem from MakeTechEasier. Use your iPhone or iPod Touch as an external drive in Ubuntu.

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The Mobile World Congress at Barcelona kept most of us busy. Not that we were there, but well, the blogosphere has been pretty active :-)

The Palm Pre is still hot and the Mojo SDK video gives us all some hope, if it ever comes out that is !

Oh, and it looks like that geeks in a lot more countries might just get lucky with the Palm Pre, sooner that we’d have thought.

So, with all the interesting news out of the way, its time for the Geeky Ninja State of the nation roundup :-)

Diddit helps you find a purpose in life

Need a purpose in life. Love keeping a score ? Try Diddit.

Recover your data from an iPhone backup

The title says it all !

Configure remote to you Ubuntu Desktop

Ubuntu is arguably the most popular Linux distribution and it looks like remote tech support for Ubuntu is quite in demand, what with everyone moving their grandmas’ old machines a new lease of life by installing Ubuntu on them !

Disable Spatial mode on GNOME

I have no clue how the spatial mode left QA ! But, now that it has, here’s a great tip to disable it !

Use windows Notepad as your electronic diary

Why bother with yet another software to maintain a diary on your computer. Use windows notepad for the purpose !

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]]> http://geekyninja.com/archives/february-2009-most-popular-posts/feed/ 0 Download EASEUS Partition Master For Free – 24 Hours Only http://geekyninja.com/archives/download-easeus-partition-master-for-free-%e2%80%93-24-hours-only/ http://geekyninja.com/archives/download-easeus-partition-master-for-free-%e2%80%93-24-hours-only/#comments Fri, 27 Feb 2009 09:19:05 +0000 Sharninder http://geekyninja.com/?p=246 Easeus Partition ManagerThis is a once in a lifetime opportunity.

Easeus Partition Master – professional edition, is being offered free to MakeTechEasier readers for 24 hours. The post went up about 4 hours earlier so you don’t have a lot of time left.

MakeTechEasier has earlier covered the free edition of the Easeus Partition Manager and gave a thumbs up to the product.

So, what are you all waiting for. Hurry up and download the Professional edition from here.

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]]> http://geekyninja.com/archives/download-easeus-partition-master-for-free-%e2%80%93-24-hours-only/feed/ 0 Google releases iPhone interface for Google Book search http://geekyninja.com/archives/google-releases-iphone-interface-for-google-book-search/ http://geekyninja.com/archives/google-releases-iphone-interface-for-google-book-search/#comments Fri, 06 Feb 2009 08:35:23 +0000 Sharninder http://geekyninja.com/?p=155 Google Book searchGoogle has just released an iPhone optimised interface for their Book search portal.

This brings almost 1.5 million public domain books within easy reach of iPhone/iPod touch owners.

The only problem is that unlike other eBook readers available for the iPhone, the user has to be connected and online to read books on Google’s platform. The other ebook readers usually let the user download a copy of the book on to their fancy devices and read the books at leisure.

Apart from the above problem, Google’s interface is also quite spartan compared to the other offline readers like  Stanza. The web based Google Book search does not support hand gestures to change pages, will not have fancy page turning effects and it looks like in its current avatar, tends to display multiple pages of a book on the same page and so reading a book requires quite a bit of scrolling.

Book search interface

That said, having access to 1.5 million books can only be a good thing and I’m sure many of us would love to curl up with a good book … err iPhone .. in our hands on a nice sunday afternoon. Get start by visiting Google book search from your iPhone at http://books.google.com/m.

This web application also works with the Android browser.

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With all the fun stuff happening in the tech world, Geeky Ninja has managed to be the only sane place around the web :-) And in keeping with our goal of being the  most useful tech tips blog ever, here is a round up of the the most useful tips we made for you guys in January.

We all love GTD and we all love wikipedia, so why not combine the two and use a wiki as a personal GTD tool.

Shopping online is painful, what with all the research involved. If you agree with this statement, then Kallow is for you !

You’ll know what it does, if you’re into these sorta’ things ;)

If you think waking up early is a pain, we’ve got you covered with the online alarm clock.

If you’re a keyboard Ninja and use firefox for your browsing needs, you’re gonna love this extension.

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Yet, just because blogs fail, just because shit happens … doesn’t mean that you and I will stop launching blogs (or shitting, for that matter).

Geeky Ninja is my contribution to the blogosphere. A Tip ‘o the hat to the veterans of the industry. A place for me to share my insights with the world … you get the drift, right ?

GeekyNinja is a blog about Tech Tips and Tricks. I do not intend to make this into yet another howto blog but I’m thinking more on the lines of making this a one stop destination for tech and I will be covering Windows, Linux, OS X and anything in between.  There will be the occasional news posts and link fests, but I’ll try and keep those to the minimum. Lofty Goals, ha ! We’ll see how this goes … Hang on tight !

Phew ! First posts are awkward, aren’t they ? Glad this one’s over !

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