Updating a mobile phone’s firmware is often the most sought after thing among mobile owners. Updating not only fixes bugs, but also adds new functionalities. Till today, updating was limited only to authorized service centers. Read on and find out how you can do this on your own without nullifying your warranty. Nokia has now...

The space limits seem to be getting blurred. Yahoo! Mail has announced that it is going to provide unlimited email storage starting in May 2007. And this applies to everyone, no invites required. If I am not wrong, GMail will soon follow suit and the ticking storage counter will be a thing of the past....

After reading the simple SEO tips at Pearsonified , I was impressed by the fact that we can actually help Google index our blogs better by simply creating a XHTML Sitemap which links to all the internal pages in our blog. The XHTML sitemap also allows a visitor to see all posts that are there...

Forget the “Get a Mac” ads by Apple. Here is Novell’s spoof on Apple’s Mac ads. The ads feature a woman (presumably signifying that Linux is beautiful). There are 3 ads till now. I will post more if I find any. Really hilarious and definitely worth a look. Show them to everybody who says Linux...

1. Prettify the Firefox widgets in Ubuntu Make the widgets (radio buttons, check boxes & text fields etc.) in Firefox inherit their styles directly from the theme you are using in Ubuntu. 2. Reduce your Linux memory footprint A lack of physical memory can severely hamper Linux performance. Learn how to accurately measure the amount...

Many a time, the Windows XP ARP cache becomes corrupt and needs to be cleared. The first symptom which points to a corrupt ARP cache is that connections to web pages will time out and fail. Occasionally, clearing the ARP cache will fail due to a bug in Microsoft Windows XP. When you try to...

Requirements A WordPress Blog Lots of friend bloggers and favorite websites Wish to share the above addresses with your readers End Result A extra large sidebar with no more space to keep other items Do you have similar requirements? Then this post is just for you. So what is the solution to the above problem....

A website or a blog can usually be accessed either through http://www.url.com or through http://url.com. Most people do not think there is any difference between the two as both of them always direct to the same place. But search engines see the two addresses as two different sites. This can harm your blog’s ranking in...

By default, the search function in WordPress searches only inside the post body not the comments. This in my opinion, is a serious limitation as comments are a valuable part of a blog. Also sometimes there are very useful comments in some posts which are helpful to a visitor. WordPress plugin “Search Everything” attempts to...

Got a blog on Blogger.com and now want to shift to a new domain ? But fear you will lose your readers. To ensure that you do not lose your readers during the transition, simply create a redirect from your Blogger blog so that every time a visitor visits your old blog, he will get...

Okay that is a bad post title. But that should do. Now that I have got this blog up and running, it is time to thank some people and websites who helped/forced me to shift from free Blogger to WordPress on my own domain. So here goes thanks to, Ashwin for helping me buy the...

Welcome to ManasT.com. My fourth blog, since I started blogging. Here is a little flashback. The History As with any newbie, I chose Blogger as my first blogging platform. Frustrated with the shortcomings and the spam comments, I shifted to Zeeblo with a free hosting account and installed WordPress on it. I loved WordPress but...