Ever since Android rose up to be one of the top mobile OSes and Chrome became the most popular ‘alternative’ browser, one question that everyone has been asking is, why does Android not ship with a version of Chrome for mobile. I personally found this question rather silly, as Google would want Chrome on Android […]

Social media is rivalling search in many website niches, and increasingly, webmasters and bloggers are making websites geared towards attracting as much referral traffic from social media, as they do from search and direct traffic. SEO was the king in pre-social era, but now, with the advent of Facebook, Twitter, Stumbleupon and others, social media […]

After almost a year of not using Ubuntu, I tried out Ubuntu 11.10, codenamed Oneiric Ocelot (what’s up with the harder-to-spell names?). Since this was a trial run, to see how things had changed, I decided to install Ubuntu from within Windows, using the Wubi (Windows based Ubuntu) installer. Wubi installs Ubuntu in a folder […]

In Ubuntu, you can install programs and packages in three ways – terminal commands (sudo apt-get install), Synaptic package manager (which does not come installed by default anymore) and Ubuntu Software Center (which is the preferred way of installing apps on Ubuntu now). One common issue I have faced while using Terminal and/or Synaptic and […]

Photo uploading and sharing is a big part of the social experience on Facebook. The number of photos uploaded on Facebook every year is in the billions, beating out even dedicated photo sharing sites like Flickr. In fact, Facebook’s photo upload feature is one of the reasons for Flickr’s gradual decline. Facebook has a tagging […]

When a relative came for a brief stay in my house recently, he tried connecting his Windows XP laptop to my wifi router which is secured with WPA2 encryption. He got the following error: Windows is unable to connect to the selected network. The network may no longer be in range. Please refresh the list […]

My trusty and much-abused Nokia N95 has been giving an “Insert SIM” error when switching on, even when it has a SIM inside. Here are a few things I tried, and what worked for me. Be sure to try each of these, because what worked for me may not necessarily work for you. Try changing […]

After writing some PHP code, I encountered this weird error that displayed this message: “Parse error: syntax error, unexpected $end” on the page and did not execute any other code. It appears that there are multiple causes for this error, and is a syntax error – that is, missing some code or writing the code […]

After buying an Android phone, I started getting the error “The process android.process.media has stopped unexpectedly. Please try again” every few seconds. This seemed to happen when moving between different custom ROMs like Cyanogenmod and MIUI, perhaps because I restored the wrong Titanium backup files mistakenly, included system settings in the batch restore or something […]

USB flash drives are a common way of spreading malware among computers. Users typically plug in USB drives into public computers and 3rd party workstations at office, college, libraries or labs without being careful about what they might expose their data to, or the kind of malware (virus, worms, trojans etc.) that get into their […]