Google Plus – A review
Josh | January 27, 2012 – 8:00 am | No Comment

As a former Facebook user and a admittedly ashamed former MySpace member (you were on it too in 2005), I recently joined Google Plus. My expectations were rather low, as I had little use for …

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What is a Universal USB Installer?
Peter | January 27, 2012 – 7:59 pm | No Comment

With the costs of pendrives dropping, the usage of CD’s and DVD’s is becoming kind of outdated. Recently, there was an article on the development of a 1 TB pendrive which will be available with the Swiss army knife (Price yet to be announced). Most of the R&D is now towards the development of pendrives. A 8 GB pendrive is available for as low as Rs. 380. Pendrives have become an indispensable gadget in this era.

The “Universal USB Installer” is one such software which helps you to install any operating system using your USB pendrive. It is a free standalone application that runs on Windows systems. The GUI is rather very simple. A long list of operating systems are specified in the software. A long list of distros are available which includes Ubuntu, Redhat, SuSe to name a few, as well as some specialized distros for system management, security and rescue. Not to disappoint the windows users, windows vistas and windows 7 are also among these distros. The tool is updated periodically to include recent distro releases as well. You would obviously need the .iso file of the distro you want to install. (Distros are nothing but distributions, which is the Linux/ Unix user’s term of operating system in the family of “Unix-like” operating systems. There are nearly more than 600 Linux distributions and over 300 are in active development.)


The tool creates a bootable pendrive and the operating system can be installed from the same. However, you would need to change your boot order during the startup so that the pendrive is read during booting. Once booting starts from the pendrive, the same procedure for installing any OS is to be followed.

Some advantages of using a pendrive to install any operating system are as follows. Installation finishes very fast as the data transfer rate of the usb is faster in comparison to DVD’s and CD’s. One more advantage is that you can reuse the pendrive to install any other operating system too (unlike CD’s and DVD’s, unless its a rewritable one).

The open source latest version of the software can be downloaded here

Remember the meal, Recall them all through Evernote Food App
December 15, 2011 – 3:59 am | No Comment
Remember the meal, Recall them all through Evernote Food App

Do you remember the food you had for your last b’day. What did you eat with your girlfriend on your first date? Want to keep track of all your meals. Here is an awesome app from Evernote. …

How to take screenshot using your iphone 4
November 25, 2011 – 6:48 am | No Comment
How to take screenshot using your iphone 4

Wondering how to take screenshot of your iphone 4 ? Its now very simple without installing any 3rd party application. You just need to tap the power of iOS.

Go to the screen which you want …

Santhosh Pandit –Internet Infographics
November 23, 2011 – 1:56 am | 2 Comments
Santhosh Pandit –Internet Infographics

Santosh Pandit is an average Indian man who turned to an internet celebrity before his debut film “Krishnanum Radhayum”  was released. The songs and trailers of the film went viral in YouTube after it was …

Apple announces iPhone 4S officially; iOS 5 also hitting the market
October 5, 2011 – 12:03 am | No Comment
Apple announces iPhone 4S officially; iOS 5 also hitting the market

Atlast Apple revealed their new generation iPhone. As expected it is not the iPhone 5, it is iPhone 4S. Through these days we were after the so called iPhone 5 demos and the dummy prototypes. …

Two New Android Smartphones from Disney
September 28, 2011 – 10:02 pm | No Comment
Two New Android Smartphones from Disney

What comes to your mind when you hear about Walt Disney? Mickey Mouse? Disney has decided to widen their areas of action by entering into the world of Smart phones. They already have some models …

Screeen Grabber for Blackberry
February 25, 2011 – 9:07 pm | One Comment
Screeen Grabber for Blackberry

The Jared  Company launched Screen Grabber, a totally flexible screen capture app that lets you share your BlackBerry screen shots with anyone. Simple. Easy. Useful.

SCREEN GRABBER:

With a single click take a screen shot of your …