Jing a popular screencasting software from TechSmith turned one today, and to celebrate the occasion, the Jing team has decided to increase the storage space to 2GB and also double the monthly bandwidth to 2GB. We have used Jing to create screencasts earlier, and we must say that the software in itself is quite impressive. [...]

The Calgoo team has decided to make the full version of Calgoo 2.0 free. Calgoo is a desktop calendar management application for Windows, Linux, and OS X. It allows you to manage your calendar, and synchronize it with Google Calendar, Outlook (2003 and 2007), 30 Boxes, and iCal. Not all of the Calgoo features work  [...]

Google Maps is a great tool to find directions while traveling, but for many like us who do not own cars, those directions would not always be the best one. Well though the destination may be the same, directions for driving also includes conditions such as one ways and more, giving you a curved route [...]

We love to keep changing our desktop wallpapers quite frequently, but finding good high resolution wallpapers is not a easy task as you may have to go through several wallpaper websites, making your way through heavy advertisements, popups, popunders, full page ads etc, till you can get the right wallpaper. We do download high resolution [...]

Many web hosting providers do not use DNS to provide you access to your database, in such cases the database is only accessible by the files residing on your hosting account. Tip: If you are using localhostas your database host, your database can only be accessed by files hosted on your web account. There are [...]

There may be many times when you may want to leave your laptop on, but the default settings in Windows may take up to 20 minutes for the LCD screen to turn itself off, of course the time may vary depending on your settings. I have faced a problem with the laptop light being on [...]

I enjoy using Facebook. After using Friendster, Tribe, MySpace, and Orkut, Facebook was a breath of fresh air. I have never received Spam, and I’ve only had one or two random people try to “friend” me during the 2 years that I’ve been a member. Since Facebook evolved from a university setting, it lends itself [...]

Not everyone has system administrators running around them, to take care that no one hacks their servers and ensure all the updates are up and running. We talked about securing a system by disabling direct root access/login for a Linux based system, but we would like to continue it by helping you know, how you [...]

The root or super user is the most powerful user in a Linux operating system, it has power to cripple you system to a piece of crap if it lands in the wrong hands. Root user is also synonymous with the Windows Administrator for Windows based system. In the past we have seen many system [...]

Everything is back up now, we have completely moved to the new host and everything works fine, on the hindsight twitter is down too, so its kind of ironical. Regular posting will resume from tomorrow, we are sorry about not being able to respond to your queries today and showing a Site Access Error to [...]

After a bit of jitter and lots of hours, the server move has finally completed. We are still working on optimizing the site though. If you see any errors please report them to us, you can also email us at techie [dot] keith [at] gmail [dot] com, if the site is not accessible. If you [...]

Since the launch of Google Docs, it’s been obvious that Google is slowly constructing a full-scale online office suite. Even though Microsoft’s hold on the market is loosening, the vast majority of web-based office productivity applications still have a long way to go before they can replace their desktop counterparts. So far, Google is holding [...]

Unfortunately the current host has not been able to properly maintain the growth of users we have had, and we decided to move the site to a new host. We are working on processing the move to be as smooth as possible for our users, though we cannot help the outages that will be caused [...]

It’s been a long time since I have talked about Linux, so here is something to get started again. This post talks about a common problem, Corrupted Zip Filewhich people face while downloading zip files from the Internet. Not all the zip files can be recovered but using a few simple commands, you can try [...]

Gmail has a very annoying habit of adding people you email to the contacts list without your approval. This feature has been fiercely debated for pros and cons for quite some time. If you are asking for our opinion about this, then here goes, Gmail definitely should have this feature where they add contacts to [...]