Using “MobileGo for Android” was the first time I got to know about the company called “Wondershare”. And then I found out they have a host of useful little apps sold for affordable two figure prices. “Wondershare Video Converter Ultimate” is the latest software I got a chance to play with. I am happy with it and I noticed a ...

Some Background Online Git Hosting vs. Local Bare Repos So you work very well using Git in your own PC and looking to get a couple of people in your local network to join with you in the project? There are couple of options available to you here: you either can initialize a bare Git repository for your project in ...

Last week, Praboda messages me on Google Hangouts and asked whether I’d be interested in joining him to do a Hangout On Air, which would discuss about tech stuff. I said “Sure!”. The rest, as they say, is history. After a little bit of discussion, we decided that we should indeed do it. Iroshan, Sashen, and Udith joined us, and ...

On 21st and 22nd of December last year (2014) we had the annual trip of my work place. Many of my colleagues are heavy users of smartphones and social media, and it was only natural of them to want to check in to places we visit on Foursquare and tag all the others who are in the trip in the ...

“Ghost” is the newest player in the field where blogging platforms compete. It’s creator John O’Nolan’s blog post explains why he saw the need for a new platform. Basically, he created Ghost because his ex-favorite blogging platform WordPress is no longer just a blogging platform. He still loves WordPress as a platform on which advanced websites can be created, including blogs, ...

Gmail will no longer ask you whether you want to see images in emails – they’ll show it by default from now on. Won’t it bring viruses and such to your computer? No. Google now hosts images in their servers and load the images from there instead of the images’ original sources. They even check the images for malware prior ...

Twitter released a new version of it’s Android app on 10th December, and this update brought a new refreshed look to the native client of the popular social network on Android platform. Following is a collection of screenshots of the app: The home page. Discover Activity Notifications Direct Messages Find People – Suggested Find People – Popular Profile Twitter has ...

Today I thought to restart microblogging (For the gazillionth time!) on the go. So I headed to the Google Play store to install the WordPress app on my Android phone. The first thing I noticed after I installed the app, is that Google has changed the way the stars of the apps are displayed. They have made it bigger and ...

Today at work, I had to create a SQL query that’d insert some rows to a MySQL table. The rows are not user generated, they are dynamically created through several SQL queries. The results of the queries should be entered to a separate table, unless if they’re already inserted. Imagine there’s a table called “library_lending”, which looks like the following. ...

I bought my current smartphone Sony Xperia P on 1st December 2012 (Thanks Facebook Timeline!). Since then I have made a good use of it. It helps me to read mail, check-in to places, take photos, send and receive text messages, make calls and everything that a smartphone would do. However, I have noticed that I have never used some ...

Recently I ran into a situation where I had to download hundreds of files linked from a web page. If I were to manually right click on them and save them, it’d have taken ages to download all the files I needed. I use Google Chrome as my browser and I wanted a Google Chrome extension, that would recognize all ...

We all have faced that moment when we need to add a little more to your last tweet. May be what you have in mind can’t simply fit into that limit, and you need to find a way around to get your whole opinion out there. May be you tweeted something and then you remember you need to add something ...

It is true that all smart phones are not low in price. If you could find one with low price tag, the features are going to be bad. How about a phone with decent features for a low price? I have found one like that and I am going to give you my ideas about it after using it like ...

Yeah, you read the title correct. Yeah yeah, I am a huge fan of Google and I have made fun of people who uses alternatives for Google’s products and services, like when someone uses Bing instead of Google Search, or Yahoo! Mail instead of GMail – the list goes on and on. But ever since the replacement of GTalk with ...

Listening to your own music collection can be boring some times. It is always predictable what comes next. Even if you have shuffle on, you are limited to the collection you have in your device. That’s where radio stations comes in handy. They can not only let you listen to music you know and love, but also they’ll help you ...

In Sri Lanka, there isn’t a culture where startups are supported by people. Many bright new ideas die out without support from the public. We have to create an environment where people happily try out creations from other people, tell friends about it and help it grow. Few days ago, I read an article titled “7 Characteristics of Silicon Valley ...

I and one of my colleagues at Sanmark Solutions started a little side business couple of weeks ago. We immediately ran into the problem of managing and keeping track of money we put into that business and we spent for various things. Neither of us knew anything about accounting. So we clearly needed the help of a software, that would ...

Although I am not a full time writer, I have maintained couple of blogs for the past few years. All of them were WordPress based ones – May be Blogger is the only Google service I am not using! – and I have only written my posts at the WordPress admin panel, except for few occasions. I remember I tried Zoundry ...

Identity spoofing is the act of someone or an organization sending messages to one or more people (”victims”), appearing as a third party. This third party is most often a trusted person or an organization to the victims, making the victims believe that the content of the message is true and correct. But most of the time the messages sent ...

Today, Praboda, a friend and a colleague of mine at showed me a text message in his mobile. Everything was normal except it’s sender, who was me! The message was sent from my mobile number, but the strange thing was that my phone was in my pocket whole time and I don’t think he or someone else was able to ...