TechTogetherLK Internet has changed lot of things. For some, internet was great, and for some, it meant going bankrupt. IoT is becoming a thing on the internet. It is more of an ecosystem where Things, Internet, Cloud and Big Data play their own roles. While it is great for many, there is the need for proper handling and managing of the technology and ...
When it comes to buying services and complex products I always prefer buying from a local seller. This makes it easy to communicate and handle any matter that might come up when using the product or service that we buy. But in some cases the typical Sri Lankan customer relationship attitude make it a nightmare. This happened way too often with my hosting provider. To be specific ...
Google Cardboard is one of those ideas that is so simple and it makes you wonder why we could not come up with it before Google. In ease you have been living under a rock, it is a virtual reality headset made of cardboard, two lenses and a magnet. There are no active components. You need to Insert your phone ...
It has been while since I posted here. I got this puzzle from a friend, and it took four of us roughly 3 hours to figure it out. After solving of course it feels simple. But the process of getting to the solution for the first time will give your brain cells a real workout. Thought its worth sharing, Here ...
There are commemorative days for all the sorts of people such as children, elders, mothers, fathers, women ….. Probably there are more commemorative days than the number of days in the year. Guess what! Today (25th May) is the day for Geeks and fans of Star Wars and The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. Its called Geek Pride Day or Towel Day. May ...
MAHOtrain recently posted two posts on their views on farmers problems and solutions that they propose. This post is an attempt to continue and expand on the discussion they started. But with a slightly different view. Should the farmers problems be governments problem?. Well as far as the politics and votes are concern, yes it should be. [...]
My wife and I took a road trip to Polonnaruwa on 12th and 13th of May. The day before the Shiva Devalaya was reportedly broken into. And it was some needed time out after a long time, even though it’s not the best time of the year to visit that part of the country due to high temperature. During our ...
I recently started watching this TV show called True Blood. Which is mainly a story about vampire human interaction based on the set of novels “The Southern Vampire Mysteries” by Charlaine Harris. It’s sort of like Twilight for grown ups. It is much darker, and more sophisticated than Twilight and uses lot more violence, horror and sex. True Blood is definitely not for kids or sensitive people. ...
“Flickr Thumbnails Photostream” is one of the neatest plugins available to display a random set of photos from a Flickr stream on your WordPress sidebar. I tried out so many plugins before settling with this one for my blog. It builds a local cache of information about your Flickr stream in your website database. As [...]
I recently visited Chaaya Tranz Hotel in Hikkaduwa on a company trip. Overall it was an excellent experience and a great place to relax. It is the former Coral Gardens Hotel which is renovated and re-branded as an excellent 4 star beach resort. As a result everything is new. It is located in Hikkaduwa off Galle Road. Therefore it is very easy place to ...
Prolink PRT7005L Speed Test I was a happy user of a Mobitel HSDP+ connection on a Huawei E5331 until I bought the Note 4. Because Note 4 comes with a 4G connection, and suddenly my phone has faster internet than my home WiFi. After a week of using the phone I was on the market for a new mobile 4G router. My ...
Since I posted links to Big Match live stream last couple of years. This year I got few questions asking for this years link. But the until yesterday there was no one publishing about a live big match stream. And there was even nothing to be found on Google. But finally ThePapare.Com is streaming Big Match. Here is the link. http://www.thepapare.com/index.php/live/646-live-134th-battle-of-the-blues /Rakhitha Related Posts: Royal Thomian – Big ...
Image from Wikipedia Around this time of last year, Sri Lanka did not have any 3D movie theater. If you wanted to have a 3D movie experience, only choice was to go for a movie while in another county. Finally with the end of 2011, MC Cineplex opened with one 3D theater. Now we are half way through 2012 and there are 4 theaters ...
Long Live Mother Nature! – A flag hanging on Bo tree at Kelaniya temple. When you visit a temple you can always see many flags hanging on the branches of Bo tree with text written on them to invoke blessings on various people for various reasons. It could be a simple wish to pass an exam, get well from a ...
You may have noticed how websites like Facebook and Gmail load/update pages on browser without actually reloading the entire thing. It can come handy in your own websites specially when you need to change a small potion of the content that is already shown in the screen. Or you need to change the data shown in the page without having to reload ...
Well! this topic is well covered here, and probably repeated all over the web. But I am going to write this post any way. Because my WordPress move went quite well. And here is how it was done. Everything Starts with Taking a Backup A move is as simple as a backup and restore. You back up your old host and restore ...
Have you had those annoying times when you just cant get some stupid idea out of your head no matter how hard you try. This thing start circling inside my head every time I see those advertisements on TV which sells gym equipment. And the promise is that you can lose a huge belly in no time. You just have to spend less than ...
Until recently my wife was using a Nokia E75. Which is a fine phone when it comes to the specs and the looks but if you drop it, its going to be a few thousand rupees worth of repair. A small drop can break some part of the housing, screen, and ribbon cable. Just to give you the picture of ...
Over last few years my wife and I used two Mobitel 1290 packages to connect two of our computers to internet. We used two mainly for extra bandwidth and speed. With introduction of Mobitel Mega plans, we dropped one connection and upgrade the other one to 20Gb package. It let you use multiple SIMs with same connection. Our 3G dongles ...
For those who use Wikipedia, Facebook, Twitter, Google, SOPA/PIPA is not news any more. I am not going to describe those again as you can find all about its good, bad, and ugliness by just searching for those two horrible acronyms. Piracy is a problem for any industry I am not trying to defend it. But this is not how you fight ...
