Category: How Tos

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • How To Fix Mac App Store Error 100

    I came home all excited to update and see the Mac App Store, installed the update, enter my creds and was all excited to see the shiny new App Store. In fact I was praising Apple for such clean, perfect implementation. So I went ahead and clicked on the Twitter (previously Tweetie for Mac) download…

  • How to share NSFW links without embarrassing people?

    So there is this NSFW (Not Safe For Work) link that you must share with a friend but you are worried they might be in office and click it. No matter how many times your write NSFW, there is a chance they’ll just skip the text and click the link. And believe it or not…

  • Make free phone calls to US & Canada from any country if you have a Google voice account

    A few weeks back, Google launched a feature in Gmail which enabled their Google voice users to make free calls to phones in the US and Canada from within Gmail. However, this feature is only available to users physically located in the US and Canada. Even if you have a Google voice account, Gmail doesn’t…