Zynga Poker limits players receiving free chips from friends in the game. When a player hits limits on the free poker chips (s)he can receive on Zynga Poker, you cannot send chips, no matter how many chips you have and how many you are allowed to send. A workaround that my poker crazy (and chip-starved) […]

Titanium Backup is an Android app that aids in app backup and restore, freezing (deactivate but not uninstall) and deleting system apps. It requires root access (similar to super user permissions on Linux OS) and is one of the most valuable tools in an Android hacker’s arsenal. Not just hackers, Titanium Backup is useful for […]

Android 4.0, codenamed Ice Cream Sandwich, is in many ways a rewrite of the Android operating system from the ground up. It uses a newer kernel, merges the smartphone and tablet OS code (from Gingerbread and Honeycomb), and introduces a new visual design language that is a marked departure from the iPhone-esque UI of previous […]

Do you use your Android phone or tablet a lot for web browsing and reading? I do. Since buying an Android phone, most of my reading and social media consumption has actually moved to the mobile device. The convenience of reading pages anywhere, any time you’re free beats all the advantages of using a full […]

So you have some problem with your (wired) ethernet connection now, and you do not know the name of your LAN chipset so that you can at least ask someone how to fix it, or search for solutions online. Common reasons would be reqiuring reinstall of drivers after you do a fresh install of Windows […]

After Angry Birds Space, another big game will be released on Android this month – Temple Run. It is a popular running game on Apple iOS devices (iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad), and is coming to Android on March 27. Imangi Studios, developers of Temple Run, has announced the release date. The game has been […]

Recently, I have been buying VPSes with various companies to test setting up a light, fast and efficient Linux box to run some of my sites. The typical install is Debian or Ubuntu, with the LNMP stack (Linux, nginx, MySQL and PHP). I chose nginx over Apache due to its much lower resource usage and […]

For the last two major versions of Mozilla Firefox on Windows 7, I have been getting a “Software Update Failed. The update could not be installed. Please make sure there are no other copies of Firefox running on your computer, and then restart Firefox to try again” error. Windows Vista users seem to have encountered […]

Many owners of Android tablets and phones use their devices to read books. Using the built-in programs of your device (if you have any) isn’t always a good idea, but with the right apps reading from a tablet or a smartphone can be a real pleasure. But which are those “right” apps? After all, Android […]

“One small fling for a bird, one quantum leap for birdkind” is how the Angry Birds Space site introduces you to their new game. Indeed, Angry Birds Space could be a quantum leap for the popular game franchise – it is only the second major release of Angry Birds. The plot has moved on from […]