You often need to turn off your laptop’s LCD display to save on battery power, but don’t want it to go on sleep. This used to be fairly easy on a Windows PC but I had a hard time figuring out how to do this on a Mac. Just try this useful but not very […]
If you have accounts on multiple social channels, it’s hard to get a consistent username across all networks, especially if you have a common name (like me). It’s also incredibly hard for your friends to keep a track that you are a “gauravgupta” on one network, “guptagaurav” on another and “gauravgupta123” on some other. Moreover, […]
Caller: Hello, am I speaking to Mr. Gaurav Gupta? Me: Yes Caller: Very good afternoon Sir, I am Falah Dimkana calling from UCUCU bank. Are you currently using any credit cards from UCUCU bank? At this point, just interrupt the conversation and answer back sternly (or even rudely) – “What is your TC code?” The […]
Hmm… Let’s see. What is Twitter? (I am sure I’m going to find it real hard writing this post.) OK Let me try… if put simply, it’s about telling the world “what you are doing right now” in 140 characters or less. So, why would you want to tell the world what you are upto? […]
Most people in India still browse through the Internet with “broadband” connections of 256 Kbps. (Thanks to TRAI for that, no pun intended). In a smart move by some service providers, bandwidth was upgraded for free to a whopping 2 Mbps. That was certainly good news for consumers. However, there was a catch. Download limits […]
Yes, we all know Google can be your search engine, your calculator blah blah. What about searching for MP3 downloads through Google? Simply copy paste the following URL on your browser’s address bar. -inurl:(htm|html|php) intitle:”index of” +”last modified” +”parent directory” +description +size +(wma|mp3) “Nirvana” In the above example, I use “Nirvana” as the band I […]
The bandwidth consumed by YouTube alone today is equal to the bandwidth consumed by the whole of the Internet in 1995. That surely gives you some idea of the revolution YouTube has brought about in cyber space. You often come across videos on YouTube, Google Videos etc. which you wish you could download and save […]