bye bye kaspersky, welcome avast

Well not a marketing post, I recently bought KAV or Kaspersky anti-virus for all the windows machines that I run. Lately it has become extremely bloated and well it brought all my machines down to their knees. The goal of running lean and mean, while giving me optimal online protection seems to be lost on them. Being the engineer that I am, my response was to find out the leanest one around [for free]....

March 6, 2013 · 1 min · 156 words · Me

Best Samsung i9103 ROM android

I have been using the Samsung i9103 for quite a while and have tried out most of the available experimental ROM out there. Most of today was spent trying to find out the right combination to make the phone usable again. Here are the steps to having a really good setup on this phone First follow the guide below and install the XXKPE ROM following the guide below. You will need to use Odin to flash this ROM onto your device....

March 5, 2013 · 1 min · 166 words · Me

Loyal to airtel, not the other way around

Mine is a dual connection household, I use one Airtel connection as the primary and the secondary MTNL one for backup. However, it seems I will need to change the order of those soon. Lately, airtel seems to have very odd bandwidth counters which always seem to never match up with my router connection monthly counters. The difference is more than 20-30% month on month [adding both up and down counters!...

March 5, 2013 · 1 min · 184 words · Me

Rooting your Samsung galaxy ace

So have been playing around with ROMing and modding phone for most of the weekend. Here are the important posts to read to mod your Galaxy Ace. http://theunlockr.com/2012/11/22/how-to-root-the-samsung-galaxy-ace-s5830/ You will need to download the root file from the following link http://www.droidforums.net/forum/android-forum/210957-universal-gingerbread-root-unroot-2-3-3-2-3-7-a.html#post2130907 Successfull done on my wife’s phone!

March 5, 2013 · 1 min · 47 words · Me

The shift!

Looks like life something needs to be thought about in new color, one of those time when I can see it happen. I do read what I wrote earlier, and yet again I can see this is a point I will come back to. On to the next.

February 27, 2013 · 1 min · 48 words · Me