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Android Hardware Solutions

Galaxy Ace – Gingerbread Update – Notes

There are many good tutorials on the web about installing Gingerbread on the Ace (like this one). Once you have Gingerbread installed what can you expect from your new system? Other than the already present updates to Android, here are a few notes I made: The Default language at the start is not English. To […]

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Device Hardware Laptop Linux Solutions Ubuntu

Getting the Latest Ubuntu Graphics Drivers on Samsung NC20

To get the best graphics performance out of your Samsung NC20, you will need to install the latest graphics drivers.  These drivers unfortunatey are not easy to find on the web, so here is a step-by-step installation instructions for driver installation on Ubuntu 10.10.  Special thanks to the wonderful folks at Ubuntu Forums(Wonderful source, thumbs […]

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Solutions Windows

Protect your Thumb Drive from Viruses using a Simple Hack

One of the easiest ways for getting your system infected with viruses is by using infected thumbdrives.  Most viruses create a startup file with the name “autorun.inf” and in the file point to the location of the virus(within the drive) to be run automatically when the thumb drive is detected. Most Antivirus programs detect these […]

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Open Source Solutions

Bulk Edit Photos using Phatch

Image via Wikipedia Phatch is a simple to use cross-platform GUI Photo Batch Processor which handles all popular image formats. Phatch can batch resize, rotate, apply perspective, shadows, rounded corners, … and more in minutes instead of hours or days if you do it manually. Phatch allows you to use EXIF and IPTC tags for […]

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Linux Solutions Ubuntu

Solve Choqok’s Twitter Connectivity Problems…

Image via Wikipedia Choqok the new and impressive micro-blogging client for KDE is one of the best clients for microblogging sites. The tool available via the default repositories of Ubuntu does not support the latest OAuth authentication of Twiiter. This means that it wont be able to connect to twitter. You will need the latest […]