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Special gestures in Windows 8.1

Windows 8.1 was released to the general public on the 17th and since then it has been quite a delight to work with. The

Hosting space optimisation for images...

Not unlike regular people, bloggers, including me, enjoy free stuff. We try and find alternatives to paid systems, as mu

Impossible files and folders...

With fifteen years of being around computers, one learns a thing or two about how to tame it. The intention is to train

Physiological considerations for the Walking aid...

My undergraduate project, Walking aid for the blind, was not driven by a desire to get over with the engineering course

Windows RT - an introduction...

Yosemite - initial impressions...

Apple has had us in for quite a few surprises, this year at WWDC. Their work in tightly integrating their iOS and Mac OS

Ultrasonic sensors - make it work...

The main focus of this post is the ultrasonic sensor. These are electromechanical devices that, with the help of some co

SkyDrive for iOS gets automatic Camera Roll back-up...

SkyDrive - Microsoft's very own personal cloud storage solution, has been quite a pleasant experience since its concepti

Login warnings for Windows...

We don't give much credit to Windows for all of the abilities it endows. Hidden features in Windows are rarely known bec

Mission Control freedom - Mavericks observations...

Mission Control was a feature added in Mac OS X Lion as an upgrade to the Exposé feature that was introduced in 10.3 Pan

Gesture updates - Mavericks observations...

Gestures have become an important form of interacting with your Mac, ever since Apple introduced multitouch for the trac

Screenshot tips for Mac and Windows...

Screen capturing is an essential feature of any operating system. It helps troubleshooters fix problems remotely, allows

Outlook.com early adopters get more of SkyDrive and Skype...

Outlook.com just turned a year old and in that time it has completely changed my outlook toward email. It was released a

Walking aid for the blind - undergrad project...

It's been a long time since I've done anything in electronics. Well, not really; I've only not published them. The past

Past MobileMe users get extra 15GB SkyDrive for a year...

MobileMe, called .Mac and iTools, was once a brilliant collection of subscription based online services offered exclusiv

Windows 8.1 - Install unsigned drivers...

Every version of Windows, since Vista, have severely crippled installation of unsigned drivers that haven't been WHQL ve

Instagram - You can hold it now...

Computers - with help from software, they can be whatever you want them to be. It could let you use it as a calculator,

App snap - Windows 8.1 preview observations...

It's been a while since Windows 8.1 preview has become available to the general public, and they have made incredible st

Charms - Windows 8.1 preview observations...

Windows 8 introduced the Start Screen, as it did many other things - full screen Windows 8 style apps, Charms, a more in

Windows 8.1 - out of the "blue"...

The most recent Microsoft Build conference happened a few days ago and to be honest, we were waiting for this day ever s

Mavericks - a closer look at a marvel...

I'm looking forward to all of Mavericks' features, so let's co-title it. Mavericks - The top new features of the next Ma

iOS 7 - Radically different but familiar...

Whoa! What a keynote it was. It has been quite some time since we saw iOS grow immensely from its previous version - abo

Tri-state logic - an introduction...

Digital electronics is quite a misunderstood segment in the field of electronics. People simply do not understand that w

Computer expert? Not me!!!

No, I don't suck at computers. You do, statistically. Those words above are what you should remind yourself when I'm aro

Windows Blue...

Not many of you know this - and why should you? - but Windows is about to get a whole lot better. Microsoft has done an

Trying Autodesk Motion FX...

Today was a day like any other - I'm pretty much free to do as I please. Unfortunately, that is the very cause of my bor

Force installation of unsigned drivers in Windows 8...

[Update: There's a newer article that will cover both Windows 8 and Windows 8.1 for installation of unsigned drivers, in

Windows 7 on a Virtual Hard Disk...

Earlier, I had posted a tutorial on how to create a virtual hard disk. If you know me well, you probably have not read i

Windows 8 on a VHD...

A few years ago I had published a blog post on the feature that caught my eye. It was about an amazing ability of Window

Apple and my thoughts on their work...

A whole new/updated range of iOS and Mac OS devices were launched by Apple this year. They brought the iPad with Retina

iPad Mini calculations and a few tests...

After making a custom stylus for capacitive screens, I decided to go try the same on devices other than my own. At prese

Windows Vista nostalgia - Vistalgia...

I miss Windows Vista. After years of using Windows XP, Vista was a refreshing change. Of course, we have Windows 7 now w

Stylus - a DIY substitute for your finger...

A while back I had posted a picture on Twitter that featured a stylus I made to precision control the iPad. It felt real

Internet Explorer - the problem with it...

Internet Explorer - the best browser to download other browsers; so I've heard. I totally agree; every other browser suc

MIDI - on to multiple instruments...

I have been having a great time concentrating more on my work with electronics. Seems like the days are getting better.

MIDI - experiments on a digital orchestra...

This post is going to mark a paradigm shift in my blogging. Most of my earlier posts seem to deviate from the point I tr

Chrome OS: Make it look like you're running it...

Chrome - apparently the best browser known to humankind. It's so awesome, Google is in the works to turn it into a full

Morse Code generator using Arduino...

If you're reading this, it is most probably because I referred you here. The important thing, however,  is we're here to

Windows 7 - the feature that caught my eye...

Windows 7, the most awesome OS till date, was released unto manufacturing on October 22nd, 2009. About 17 percent of the

Google hacks - spend least possible time on Google...

I know! I know! Reading blogs totally suck, but I guess I could make it work. In this edition, we're talking about Googl