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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 – ...

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. ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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. ...

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 ...

“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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...