HDTV buying tips in India
With the cricket world cup season coming up, many households in India are planning to upgrade to HDTVs. Coupled with the availability of a few HD channels in India and the telecast of all the cricket world cup matches in HD, sales of HDTV’s are at all time high in India.
If you are in the market looking for a HDTV, we have a few tips for you which will help you in making an informed decision.
Enable Instant Search In Google Chrome
Starting from version 9, Google is offering Instant Search capabilities like their website in the Chrome Browser. This means that just like on their website, when you type text in the Address Bar (also called OmniBox), Chrome will open up the Google Instant Search page using the text as query. As you modify the text in the Address bar the search results below will update automagically.
Accidentally Approved All The Spam Comments On Your WordPress Blog? Here’s A Fix
We recently had a mishap while trying out IntenseDebate integration on woikr.com. While importing all our existing comments, it marked all spam comments as approved. It left us with over 6000 comments out of which over 50% were spam and we had no way to separate them from the legitimate ones. It was a disaster.
We finally fixed the issue by using Akismet and some simple SQL scripts. If you have a similar issue, this is something that may help you.
Akismet is a great tool for blocking spam on your WordPress blog, but what if you’re realized and installed it too late and you’ve already got thousands of comments?
When you go to the “Comments” section of WordPress dashboard and click on “Check for spam”, Akismet only “tags” any previous entries as possible and doesn’t “mark as spam”.
Custom Multi-touch firmware on your Samsung Galaxy Spica
You successfully rooted your Samsung Galaxy Spica. Now what? How to install a new custom firmware? How to enable Multi-touch? How to do that kitchen thingy? Here is the answer. This tutorial will make all these things clear so you can use your Spica like a pro!
How To See Unread Email Count In Gmail Icon?
If you use Google Chrome and keep the Gmail tab pinned all the time, this is the perfect feature for you. I’ve always hated the fact that when I pin Gmail tabs I can’t see how many unread emails I have. Turns out Manu C from Google had a similar issue and he came up with a Gmail Lab feature that allows you to display the unread email count right on the Gmail icon.
To enable this you need to go to Gmail -> Settings -> Labs. Now look for “Unread message icon” and enable it. A browser refresh generally makes it work but you may need to logout and login to display the icon. This lab feature only works with Chrome (version 6 and above) and Firefox (version 2 and above).
[via Gmail Blog]
Apple TV working in India
I always wanted to have an Apple TV added to my home theater setup. In addition to renting HD movies and TV shows, I have always wanted to use Airplay to stream media to it over the air from the Apple devices I own. I have an iPad, iPhone 4 & a Macbook Air. I also have a Windows desktop and a Windows laptop. All of these devices can stream media to the Apple TV over my home’s WiFi network.
How To Transfer Contacts from iPhone to Android
With so many awesome Android phones in the market, there will be lots of iPhone users who might want to jump the ship to Android. One of the challenges is to migrate all your contacts from iPhone to Android. Here we will present you with as few options to accomplish this easily via Google contacts.
10 Mozilla Thunderbird Extensions To Boost Your Productivity
Many of us use Mozilla Thunderbird at work/home to check email. It’s got a great feature to extend functionality through 3rd party extensions or plug-ins.
Here’s my pick of 10 thunderbird extensions (in no particular order) that will help you get things done quickly. These have been proven to improve productivity at work across years.
How To Enable Cut Paste In Mac Finder?
Sometimes Apple can be just plain ignorant. All these years and they still don’t have a proper way to Cut/Paste files and folders on Mac! You have to select the files, and drag them to the target location using the mouse. It makes moving files suck a pain in the ass.
Thankfully, there is a solution. Kapeli’s moveAddict for Mac fixes the long faced problem of Mac users. moveAddict provides the simple functionality to move files using the keyboard. You can select the files, Press “Command + X” to cut the files, select a target folder and Press “Command + V” to paste the files. It’s just like Windows. You can add Cut, Copy and Paste buttons on Finder’s toolbar.
How To Block Flash In Chrome Without A Plugin?
You may have a million reasons to block Flash from Google’s Chrome browser. Maybe it makes your browser crash all the time, maybe you hate when those videos/ads play in background tabs, or maybe you just plain hate Adobe and/or Flash. Whatever the reason, apparently Google makes it pretty easy to do so on Chrome without requiring an external plug-in like FlashBlock.
Here’s what you need to do:
