HTC Hero – Yet Another Android

After surprising its Indian Fans with the release of HTC Magic in India, HTC hasn’t failed to surprise its fans across the globe. Here’s HTC Hero, yet another Android phone that was launched today in London, a successor of HTC Magic. HTC Hero is the first Android phone to have support for Adobe Flash for web browsing and to feature a new interface – HTC Sense. The phone will be available in Asia and North America later and for Europe, in July. (more…)

Android-Powered HTC Magic Comes to India

Finally, we have India’s first Android-powered Smartphone, the HTC Magic. And this is brought to India by AirTel. The phone is available at AirTel Centres and also at HTC resellers at Ahmedabad, Bangalore, Bhubaneswar, Chandigarh, Chennai, Coimbatore, Cochin, Delhi, Hyderabad, Jaipur, Jalandhar, Kolkata, Lucknow, Ludhiana, Mumbai, Patna, Pune. The phone is priced at roughly 30,000 INR at AirTel Centres. AirTel has got a special package that includes applications like Hello Tune Manager, Portfolio Manager, Whether, MobShare, In-Mobile Search and City Search. And also, free data transfer of 100MB per month for 6 months. (more…)

Force Shutdown or Restart from Command Line

If you’ve been using the power button to force shutdown your PC, try this Command Line trick to Force Shutdown and to Force Restart your PC. This Command Line trick allows you to specify normal Shutdown/Restart or if you want to Force Shutdown/Restart and also allows you to specify the time to wait before Force Shutdown/Restart. Shutdown.exe is the process responsible for System Shutdown and Restart. Normal Shutdown is the term we’ve used here to mention the default Shutdown. Force Shutdown will stop all processes and forcefully shuts down your PC. Force Shutdown with time set as a parameter, will force shutdown your PC at the specified time. The same goes for Restart and Force Restart except for the base parameter (-r instead of -s) (more…)

Setting up a Simple LAN Connection between 2 PCs

To create a simple LAN connection between two PCs/Laptops, the only hardware requisite is an Ethernet Crossover Cable. Ethernet Crossover Cables are easily available in the market. You can buy one online starting from $1 or you can go for a branded one from Belkin (available at buy.com) for $3.

Places your can buy Crossover Cable:
Buy.com – $3 from Belkin
MacMall.com – $1
OnSale.co – $1

A Crossover Cable looks like (more…)

Facebook Usernames have gone live

Facebook usernames have gone live and you can get one at facebook.com/username It’s one of the trending topics on Twitter.

How do I?

Just point your browser to facebook.com/username! If you aren’t logged in, you need to login first. Once you land on the username page, you’ll be presented with (more…)

Playing XviD on Windows Media Player

I’ve seen many having the same query on how to play XviD movies on Windows Media Player (WMP). In order to play a content on ANY media player, you’ll need to have it’s (content’s) codec. In simple, a codec is similar to your normal software and helps your player to read the movie/audio from a compressed video/audio file by decoding it. Wikipedia describes this as “A codec is a device or computer program capable of encoding and/or decoding a digital data stream or signal”. (more…)

Guide : Creating a Torrent

Why rely on 3rd-party File Sharing sites when you can create yourself a torrent and share it in real-time? Torrents are the easy and the best way to share your files. All you need to have is a Tracker! (more…)

Submit your site to Microsoft Bing!

If you have already submitted your site to Google, Yahoo and Live, you will have to do it again, and this time for Bing! Bing is the hot topic now, next to Google’s Wave (an all-in-one tool for communication & collaboration from Google expected to release later this year). Bing already has indexes of many sites, probably they have used their existing Live/MSN Search’s index. If you are unsure whether your sites are indexed by Bing, you can find it by typing site:yourdomain.com in the search box (or) you can better submit your site & sitemap(optional) to Bing and make it’s job easier. To upload your site/sitemap infomation to Bing, all you need is a Bing Webmaster account which you can get it here. Use your live account (.net passport) to login to Webmaster Centre. Click “Add a Site” to submit your site. You’ll be presented with a forum similar to the one displayed below. Type in your website and if you do have an XML sitemap, you can add it here. Though sitemap is optional, it would help Bing to index all the pages of your site. Type in your email address in the Contact Information section. Submit the form once you are done. (more…)