By Santhosh on March 30, 2011
Google came up with an ambitious idea to make mobile devices affordable by introducing their open source Android operating system. But things started changing as the OS evolved. Devices started getting better in terms of performance to harness the full power of Android OS and thus enabling great user experience. Lately, new android devices are breaking new barriers with all those dual-core CPUs and quad-core GPUs in them.
Amazingly, even consumers started ignoring the fact that Android devices are supposed to be less priced. In the midst of all these ups and downs, there are people who are still in debate that there is no use of thinking about expensive Android devices. So apparently, manufactures began listening to the consumers’ far cry and are launching new mid-range affordable android mobile phones.
Here is a list of 10 affordable Android Phones in India at the moment:
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Posted in Android, Mobile Phones | Tagged dell, htc, lg, phones, samsung, sony ericsson |
By Aditya on March 27, 2011
Today’s gaming industry is growing wildly. With the advent of MEMS Systems – all those Accelerometers, Gyroscopes and the likes – the gaming today is taking a more natural interface than ever before. Now you can just swing the remote and hit a ball, tilt your phone and the car just skids across the screen. It’s more natural, more realistic, and to me – it’s boring at times.
There used to be a time when I used to enjoy gaming. Spend 5-6 hours a day playing the same game again and again till I could finally complete it. Let’s face it – the old consoles and the games were just more funny than what they’ve become today. I found myself longing for the old days. Continue reading “DOSBox – A DOS Emulator for Linux”
Posted in Gaming | Tagged Gaming, Linux, Windows |
By Aditya on March 26, 2011
Internet is growing faster than it has ever been. As more and more people use, develop and deploy their applications on the Internet, the threat of spammers and bots is also increasing at an alarming rate. CAPTCHA tries to minimize the spamming problems encountered by most developers.
CAPTCHA stands for Completely Automated Public Turing to tell Computers and Humans Apart. Almost everyone familiar with the Internet has seen CAPTCHA at a lot of places. Yet, for those of you who do not know, Continue reading “Top Free CAPTCHA Solutions”
Posted in Web Designing Resources | Tagged web, web design, web designing resource, webmaster tools, Wordpress, wordpress tricks, wordpress tutorials |
By Aditya on March 26, 2011
Often times Linux users find themselves wanting more from the network manager, especially laptop users on the move find it difficult to manage all the different networks they have access to. WiCD is one of the best tools for people wanting more. It’s gtk based network configuration tool, especially meant for wireless networks written in python. Apart from being dependent on gtk, it does not require any of gnome components to work. Rejoice all the openbox and fluxbox users.
Here’s what WiCD can do (taken from the official documentation),
- Compatible with standard *nix networking commands (iwconfig, ifconfig, etc)
- Once configured, will connect even if the X display does not start
- Can be managed and configured via the command line using wicd-curses Continue reading “Setting Up WiFi Connection Using WiCD”
Posted in Linux | Tagged How-to, Howto, Linux, linux tutorial, linux tutorials, ubuntu, ubuntu linux, ubuntu tutorials |
By Santhosh on March 23, 2011
Finally after a long wait, Samsung’s Google Nexus S is now up for grabs in India and can be pre-ordered at Rs. 27999.
Nexus S is the successor of Google Nexus One. The benefit of these Nexus series is that they come with unaltered Android OS. Nexus S comes with Gingerbread and sports no additional facelift UI, which many geeks like.
Continue reading “Samsung Nexus S now available in India for pre-order”
Posted in Mobile Phones | Tagged android, flipkart, Google, pre-orders |
By Santhosh on March 22, 2011
Most webmasters opt for phpMyAdmin to manage their MySQL database on their VPS or dedicated server, but sometimes you may end up getting 404 “Not Found” error when you point your browser to phpmyadmin installation (say like: http://127.0.0.1/phpmyadmin). This error is most likely caused by not selecting “Apache 2″ during the installation. To fix it, you must redo the phpmyadmin installation.
Enter the following in your terminal:
Continue reading “How to fix phpMyAdmin 404 Not Found error in Ubuntu”
Posted in Linux | Tagged How-to, server management, ubuntu tutorials, vps |
By Santhosh on March 21, 2011
How many times have you bothered about creating a strong password to your account? Be it an email account, server login, ssh or anything and everything that requires authentication. Usually, people create passwords that are easier to remember. But there are cases like database account, ssh accounts and other sensitive type of accounts where you need to create a password that is strong enough to resist any kind of password decryption methods used by hackers. Generating a password so strong can make you go bonkers. So you need something that generates a strong password automatically that is easier to remember as well.
Continue reading “How to generate strong passwords in linux”
Posted in Linux | Tagged How-to, linux tutorials, security |
By Santhosh on March 20, 2011
This tutorial focuses on how to setup vsftpd server on your linux based VPS or a dedicated server. The vsftpd stands for “Very Secure FTP Daemon”. It is not just secure as the name suggests but also delivers excellent performance by consuming less memory. The tutorial also teaches you how to configure by adding ftp users and locking the directory to individual users.
You can install vsftpd on Ubuntu / Debian, CentOS /Fedora and RHEL linux.
Continue reading “How to install and configure vsftpd”
Posted in Linux | Tagged ftp, How-to, server management, vps, Webmastering |
By Santhosh on March 20, 2011
There are times when you will be forced to start, stop or restart your MySQL server, be it on your VPS or on your localhost. And like every other linux distribution, Ubuntu also comes with a shell script that lets you to do this.
All you need to do is to login as a root or make use of sudo. Open the terminal or login to your VPS and perform these commands:
Continue reading “How to start, stop and restart MySQL in Ubuntu”
Posted in Linux | Tagged How-to, server management, ubuntu tutorials, vps commands |
By Aditya on March 19, 2011
SysRq
It doesn’t happen quite often but when it does – it’s a pain in the… Nevermind that, I am of course talking about system freezes on Linux. Freezes are rare but if you are like us and install, use and test beta versions of software or operating systems themselves, there is a significant chance you will end up with system crashes, freezes, kernel panics. Most people have no idea that hitting the power button is not the only option. You are likely to compromise the filesystem integrity by doing so. This is where the SysRq key comes in.
Continue reading “Magic SysRq Key”
Posted in Linux | Tagged How-to, Linux, linux tutorial, linux tutorials, Tutorial, ubuntu |
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