I am no expert in photography, I only shooted photos with my smartphones, and most of them can be found in my Instagram profile. I have taken photos of various events I took part in, and they are stored safely in my external HDD. I am very sure that no one would find them “artistic”. We’re getting ready for the annual ...
I recently posted a question in my other website “Sociolead“, asking people to tell “What is the Single Most Important Thing about Android” for them. I got many a worthy opinions from that forum thread, and I thought I must give my own opinion on what people said there. According to latest reports, Android currently dominates the smartphone world. So ...
I recently thought to put my App icons into folder in app drawer on my Android phone, and it has made life easier, and saved me lot of time. I have been using Android for about two years now, and for most of the time I have used launcher replacements that didn’t allow creation of folder in the app drawer. ...
TP-Link TL-MR3020 is a compact router that allows you to share your mobile 3G connection with more than one WiFi enabled devices. All you have to do is to plug in your HSDPA dongle into this. You can also share a cable or a connection from your ADSL router as WiFi simply by plug-in your ethernet cable into the ...
Few days back I came across this cool Google Chrome extension called “Chrome Sniffer” while I was searching for something else. Not everyone might find this interesting, because this is specially for web developers, but it really is a cool tool to have. If you have Chrome Sniffer installed on your Chrome browser, it’ll tell you whether the site ...
Internet Censorship is a big problem in some countries around the world. But if you know how, you can always bypass those barriers. To access a blocked website on your Android device, you would have to install special apps like “Orbot” and bypass restrictions by Internet Service Providers and governments. The app Orbot is a product from “Tor Project“. ...
The newest update to GMail app on Android shows you the profile picture of the sender in the inbox. It’s always a nice idea to display the profile picture of the person who sent us a message, alongside the message itself. With the latest update to GMail app on Android, Google has gone an extra mile to display the ...
Face recognition had been a part of Google+ since I can remember – probably the start of it. Now Facebook has it too! Today I was amazed to see one of my favorite features from Google+ in Facebook! As I can remember, Google+ suggested me to tag people in photos whenever I uploaded a new photo to the social ...
Lalith Weeratunga, The Secretary to the President of Sri Lanka, held a Q&A session with Sri Lankan Twitter community – a milestone in SL social media usage. The session, which was done using the Twitter hashtag #AskLW, was first advertised in a press release on 14th Friday from Presidential Spokesman and International Media Unit. Our friend @gopiharan has created ...
Evan Williams, the co-founder of Blogger and Twitter, has created another place to publish text. Medium – simpler than Blogger and lengthier than Twitter. You will be greeted with a very simple, intuitive, and attractive homepage when you visit Medium.com for the first time. You will be amazed seeing how clutter free it is and how fun is it to ...
The Small Business Server (SBS) edition of previous versions of Windows releases allowed you to have a domain network with Exchange and Sharepoint for 25 users all bundled into the one server and it was reasonably priced compared to buying all the options separately. So with the release of Windows Server 2012, Small Business Server is being discontinued and ...
Foursquare now automatically creates check-ins for your friends, when you check-in at place a and tell Foursquare they’re with you. I like to use Foursquare to check-in to places I visit, so that I’ll be able to recall how that day was at some point in the future. I was out yesterday going to some shops and I thought ...
I converted my prepaid account to a postpaid one. The leaflet they gave me left me with some confusions. But their Twitter account helped me with that. If you’re a new comer to the postpaid plans in my favorite mobile telecommunication service provider in Sri Lanka (I like Dialog for their presence and activeness in social media, just like ...
Any.DO is a popular day scheduler for Android and Web. It is both a to-do list and a reminder – you can just list some tasks and assign times for others. Since the day I bought my first Android smartphone, I have been searching for a good app that can help me plan my day – or days – ...
URGJM74Q3U5P Vine is a (very) short video sharing platform owned by Twitter. It was iPhone only until they launched the Android app on 3rd June 2013. Just like Twitter made it an “art” of composing a message within a limited number of characters, Vine has created an art of telling something within 6 seconds. It is actually a very nice ...
Facebook users now has the ability to post emotions with status updates! The can now tell the world what they are doing, and eating – with emoticons! My Facebook account’s news feed has been full with various people sharing their feelings, what they are watching, what they are feeling, what they are listening to with a matching little icon ...
First thing we have to do when selecting a smart phone is deciding which OS we need to use. What if we could install any OS we like on our smartphones? We always do that with our computers. We can install either Microsoft Windows, Ubuntu, Chrome OS, Fedora, Mint or any other OS we like on our personal computers. ...
What is Gamification? Gamification is the use of game thinking and game mechanics in a non-game context in order to engage users and solve problems. In real-world terms, it means “make a chore into a game and people stay interested longer.” The last few years have seen a growing proliferation of gamified websites. They are designed to create “rewards” ...
