“Facebook Home” – Facebook’s “New Home on Android”. Facebook announced “Facebook Home” their “new home on Android” on 4th April. No one productive will use it. What is Facebook’s “new home on Android”? Simply put, it’s a home screen replacement for Android devices, in which updates from Facebook dominates rather than your apps. This is the promotional video Facebook ...
In the world of Android, there are many devices for us to choose from. Google develops the core OS and then various device manufacturers take that, modify that to fit their various phones and tablets, (and phablets), and then release it to the market, leaving customers with large number of choices. Having a huge and diverse market like this ...
Hm, thinking about bad habits of mine, the first came to my mind was leaving the PC turned on always unless I am asleep or away for a long time. Continue reading →
Facebook Places, Google Latitude and foursquare. Do they appear to you like competitors? Not to me. I see them as 3 friendly shops which sell related but different products. Continue reading →
Are you a heavy Internet user with multiple devices, who can’t use a wireless router because you’re often moving or residing in some other place than where your fixed Internet connection is? Do you have to buy and maintain several mobile Internet connection because you can’t use a single connection for multiple devices at the same time? Plum Switch ...
Thambaru, who is a friend of mine recently bought an Android phone and asked me what should be the first things he do with it in order to prepare the phone for his use. So, I thought why shouldn’t I write a blogpost on that topic, so I can share my experience of Android. The phone I am currently using ...
I have been using AnyDO since more than a year to plan my tasks. I infact wrote an article in TechDome encouraging others to start using it. Recently, AnyDO introduced a paid plan for their service — with which I am totally cool. I don’t care about paid plans, as long as the free option is enough for me and they don’t force me ...
The Plum Switch (http://www.plum-mobile.com/models/switch) is a great mobile phone + USB dongle + WiFI hotspot and Mobitel sells it here in Sri Lanka. I wanted to buy one and contacted @MobitelSriLanka in Twitter. After a long conversation I found out that it is network unlocked and available for 9,990LKR. However, just to double check, I called Mobitel Customer Care and ...
Last night I had a SSC moment. You don’t know what a “SSC moment” is? Well, that means a “Sudden Clarity Clarence” moment. It suddenly came to me that the species name “House Elf” mentioned in Harry Potter sounds like the name of a noble house in the Seven Kingdoms in A Song of Ice and Fire series. “Dobby” the “House Elf” ...
Earlier, I blogged about how to clone a Git repository from Windows to Linux through a local network. Now, I think it’s necessary that I should write something about the other way around, which is cloning a Git repository in a shared directory of a Linux machine to a machine using Windows. This is how to do it: Step ...
So, I bought a smart phone. Its a Huawei IDEOS X3 U8510 device and ,following my computer naming scheme, I named it “hal600″. By that name, you’d already know that this devices’ processor’s speed is 600Mhz. You’d say that is very slow compared to many high end devices in the market. But I wasn’t looking [...]
Working on a project at Sanmark Solutions, I encountered a situation where I needed to clone a Git repository placed in a shared directory in a Windows machine into a working directory in a Linux machine. First I tried to do it with SSH, but I wasn’t successful. I guess that’s because I am not much experienced with that protocol. ...
So, #AL2011 results are released and mine are Physics:F, Maths:F, ICT:C, Gen:70, English: A. My index number is 1510100 and anyone can check that by going to http://www.doenets.lk. Few months back, I conducted an only survey called "#AfterAL2011", asking #AL2011 candidates what they are planning to do after the exam. So, with the release of exam results, I'm releasing that survey's results too.
PayPal is the de facto standard online money transferring service. But as Central Bank of Sri Lanka (CBSL) doesn’t support transferring money into Sri Lanka through PayPal, Sri Lankan online service providers like freelancers are facing huge trouble getting earned money into their bank accounts. Today I saw Information and Communication Technology Agency (ICTA) has tweeted the following tweet: This is for ...
