March 2011

PowerUp brings Reboot, Respring and Restart options on iOS devices.

March 19, 2011
PowerUp brings Reboot, Respring and Restart options on iOS devices.

PowerUp is a free jailbreak tweak available on Cydia that enables additional options to you iOS device’s sleep button. Normally you press the sleep button and then “slide to power off’” your iOS device. Wouldn’t it be nicer if you had more options than being limited to a simple OFF button? So here’s a simple [...]

Nokia India Offers Mobile Money Service with Union Bank of India

March 19, 2011
Nokia India Offers Mobile Money Service with Union Bank of India

Union Bank of India in collaboration with Nokia officially made the public announcement of its new unique consumer-benevolent service ‘Union Bank Money powered by Nokia’. This service is already available in a small portion of NCR  (Gurgaon,Haryana ) to Nokia users and soon will be for entire National capital Region and then all over India. [...]

GNU Offers Open Source Alternative of Skype as GNU Free Call

March 19, 2011
GNU Offers Open Source Alternative of Skype as GNU Free Call

GNU, as all our readers may be familiar with the name, is going to challenge in somewhat different way the monopoly of Skype in the world of internet Telephony (VoIP service). Announced on last Monday with catchphrase  “Free as in freedom, and free as in no cost, too!”  the GNU Project team has hoped to [...]

Android vs iPhone Browser Speed Test Flawed

March 19, 2011
Android vs iPhone Browser Speed Test Flawed

Yesterday we reported about a certain test that proved that the Android operating system’s browser loads web-pages faster than that of the iPhone 4′s. The Android vs iOS battle has been going on from quite a while now, and although Android is leading in Mobile Platform number, I still did not believe this report. But, [...]

How to Take Screenshots in Mac OS X

March 19, 2011
How to Take Screenshots in Mac OS X

Mac OS X has this great ability of working right out of the box. This tutorial will show you how to take screenshots of the whole screen or a part using in built keyboard shortcuts in your Mac. Absolutely no need to download additional tools. Unlike Windows, there is no Printscreen on Mac Keyboards. Another [...]

Flickr Photo Lightbox for the Apple iPad, Easy Photo Viewing

March 18, 2011
Flickr Photo Lightbox for the Apple iPad, Easy Photo Viewing

Flickr has always been the favorite photo hosting and sharing website for many photographers and others alike. Bloggers also enjoy using this service very much, to host the images they use on their websites and blogs. Flickr has an official app for the iPhone, Windows Phone 7 and Blackberry, but all other platforms have to [...]

Bypass Installation method of Windows XP on the Windows 7 installed system

March 18, 2011
Bypass Installation method of Windows XP on the Windows 7 installed system

How to Install Windows XP on Windows 7 System? Microsoft has shut down Windows XP and all the big computer manufacturer stopped their support (Drivers and online-offline) for Windows XP system. Though if you are like me who still love the old Windows XP over Windows 7,  This guide is for you. Note: This method [...]

Western Digital Launches Massive Dual Disk 6TB External Hard Drive

March 18, 2011
Western Digital Launches Massive Dual Disk 6TB External Hard Drive

Western Digital (WD) has recently launched its My Book Studio Edition II 6TB external hard drive. It is an upgrade over 2TB and 4TB models offered earlier by WD and the latest upgrade comes with 6 terabytes of storage. WD claims that the 6.54 x 3.87 x 6.06-inch, 5.2 pound (2.63 kg) weighing 6TB drive [...]

How to Edit Hosts File in Mac OS X using the Terminal

March 18, 2011
How to Edit Hosts File in Mac OS X using the Terminal

Your mac has a hosts file which contains a list of IP and domain addresses. Whenever a URL is accessed on the Mac using the browser or other apps, the system first checks for entries in the hosts file and fetches the IP address if found. So one can edit Mac’s hosts file to block [...]

Explanation behind Enabling GPS on iPad/iPod Touch While Tethering from iPhone

March 18, 2011
Explanation behind Enabling GPS on iPad/iPod Touch While Tethering from iPhone

Lately, a lot of sites have been reporting about some kind of hidden GPS functionality in Wi-fi iPad which is enabled by iPhone Tethering. I would like to hereby state that this isn’t a hidden iPad 2 feature but works just the same on iPod Touch or other iOS devices without GPS.