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 There are two ways to get to the phone settings Dial  *#*#4636#*#*    on your phone keypad                                    Or Go to Settings > About phone > All specs > Tap Internal storage multiple times  On the next screen  select your Phone information (1 or 2 depend on your sim).  Change NR/LTE/GSM/WCDMA to NR only

Using adb connect to the device. To connect to the device use adb shell  and once in the shell use   pm uninstall -k --user 999 "com.android.chrome "

With the news of GSuite legacy being discontinued I needed a way to manage the personal family email accounts. Everyone was in any case using it as a forwarding email address so had to figure out a way to continue using it that way without moving to a paid version as none of these accounts are business critical accounts. The first thing was to move the domain control to CloudFlare. Then in the cloudflare dashboard selected the email setting and requested for access. It took me 2-3 days to get access so not exactly sure how long it will take you or if its out of beta by now. Once you have access to email routing you can forward mails which is the easy part . In this case I'm forwarding the emails to my gmail account. Now the problem is how do you reply or compose mails with your custom email address.  Step 1: Add the following line to the DNS TXT record " include: _spf.google.com" . This will allow google to send emails on your behalf.  Earlier it was:  v=spf1 include:_sp...

Make sure you have more than ₹29 in main talk time balance account. Just dial the USSD Code * 567 *29# from your existing Airtel prepaid number. Now your account is activated with 30 days validity Airtel ₹29 internet pack.

Internet Access without a Data Pack is treated as a service. If you turn off this service the service providers cannot charge you any money from your main balance. It can only use the data if you have a data pack. SMS "STOP" to 1925 to disable that service and SMS "START" to 1925 to enable. When the service is disabled you will not be able to access Internet services till the time you have a valid Data Pack.

If you've started seeing this new chromecast popup you are no longer using the extension but using the built in chromecast extension. You won't be able to see it using chrome://extensions/ If you want to use the extension and not the built in extension turn it off. Open chrome://flags/#media-router and disable it and you will be able to use the extension you can download from the chrome webstore.

Its been almost 2 years since I last posted anything here. But now if I ever go through my old posts I can re-live those moments. The past year has been good and stable. I've been off Facebook and most other social networks. Its not that I've deleted my accounts there but I log in there once in a while. I've removed all the apps from my phone so that I don't get any notifications. That has made a lot of change in the way I think. I am not constantly trying to go back there and like a post or read something interesting that is in my notifications. I just don't get any notifications that can get my attention. I wanted to make a Facebook De-Addiction extension but that's on the TODO list for now and ever. My time on twitter is not more than a minute every few days. The growth on pics.fefoo has been quite a bit over the last few months and all thanks to the responsive style-sheet that I was able to add one of the weekends. Now half of the traffic is from Mobile ...

To load a HTML5 file from another domain use this  query . select * from html where url="https://www.yahoo.com/" and compat="html5" and xpath='*' This will return the whole HTML page in the results tag of the generated XML. If you want to use JSONP just add a "callback=[funcName]" query parameter in the end and instead of an XML a JSON will be sent out. Here is an  example  of how it will be sent out. I am using callback function as "test". Depending on which framework or library you are using you will need to set it accordingly. Also the YQL servers support CORS so it won't be that difficult if you do a direct XHR to get the file instead of using script tags for JSONP. I also tested it using text files and they can also be downloaded using this method. If you want other types of resources which are less than 25KB you can use another YQL query to get the results. select * from data.uri where url="http://l.yimg.com/a/i/u...

The simplest way to connect to an external server using a proxyserver. C:\Work>telnet proxyserver 8080 Trying 192.168.1.20... Connected to proxyserver. Escape character is '^]'. CONNECT irc.freenode.org:6667 HTTP/1.1 HTTP/1.1 200 Connection established :kornbluth.freenode.net NOTICE * :*** Looking up your hostname... :kornbluth.freenode.net NOTICE * :*** Checking Ident :kornbluth.freenode.net NOTICE * :*** Found your hostname :kornbluth.freenode.net NOTICE * :*** No Ident response In this case we are connecting to a proxyserver on port 8080. After that we open a http tunnel to irc.freenode.org on port 6667. Then you need to press enter twice to establish the connection. After that you have an open socket and you can send the commands accordingly based on the protocol being used. Here we connect to an IRC server. We could do the same thing by connecting to a HTTP server. You can apply the logic by opening a socket to the proxy server and then sending and receiving ...

Been using this amazing tool to clip backgrounds which otherwise is a real pain to do in most other software. Really like the simplicity of the application. Visit   http://clippingmagic.com to see it in action. Only 4 steps after that. Upload photo Select background Select object to extract  Wait for magic and you are done.

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This year has been relaxed (lack of a better word) to say the least. Did nothing much besides work. For once in many years I did not work or passionately work on any personal project. The list of personal projects is still there but have not been able to find the right structure to get it done. And for once I really enjoyed being lazy at home. Hopefully I have had enough rest and get something going in 2013 as far as personal projects are concerned. There is the next version of pics.fefoo, fefoo.com and the windows based twitter client which has been languishing in the dark for the last 3 years now. Not sure if it will ever be used by anyone else but me. I like using it but still need to get the kinks out and reduce the number of features and make a public version that someone else besides me can use and test. Here is hoping I release something in 2013 and also streamline my webhosting accounts.

I still don't get WinRT or the new windows applications. If I really wanted to go back 20 years where I could run one application at a time I would use an iPad instead. This whole paradigm shift brings me to Chrome OS which works fine on ARM architecture and since most of the applications are just web applications I really don't see any difference from the WinRT applications. Maybe in a year or two I might have to eat my own words but at this point of time I don't see WinRT going anywhere. If WinRT does work out it will surely push Chrome OS adoption as well. Its cheaper and lighter than WinRT.

To setup the router for Tata DOCOMO eStick set the following values and it should work. You don't need to do anything else. 3G/3.5G USB Adapter AUTO APN service(optional) Username I bought the router from flipkart and it took 3 weeks to get it. I had posted this a review but flipkart removed it.  Dear Customer, Thank you for posting your review for "Asus RT-N13U", dated 28th September 2012. We sincerely apologize for the poor service you experienced with Flipkart. We have shared your feedback with our customer support team for further follow-up. As per our review policy ( www.Flipkart.com/s/help ), we solicit only product-specific reviews on the product page and hence your review on our service has been removed. We are in the process of rolling out a customer-centric forum welcoming your experiences and feedback on our services and products. In the meanwhile, please feel free to share your concerns or queries with us at  cs@flipkart.com . Yours Sincerely, [na...

I've been trying to search for a customer care number to file a complaint but its so difficult to find the numbers. So in case you are one of the unlucky ones here are the numbers. 9316065982, 2591033, 2591037, 2595549 Toll free- 155333 Its almost impossible to get through the 93* number. But thankfully people tend to pick up the landlines. If you still have a landline then it should be easy to call up on their toll free number.

If you are on slow internet connection this blog post should help . The only change is that to get the latest APIs instead of using  https://dl-ssl.google.com/android/repository/repository.xml  use  https://dl-ssl.google.com/android/repository/repository-7.xml  or keep whichever is the latest version. Some more information is available at  http://www.hariadi.org/android/manual-download-of-android-sdk-components/

Call  *321*671# to activate the service on your phone. It will ask you for permission if you want to enable it. To customize the account dial 52555 To disable voicemail dial *321*673# You can also activate it by sending out a SMS Send START VMS to 54321 for activation  Send STOP VMS to 54321 for de-activation  This post if for my own reference. If you have any questions leave a comment and if I know about it I will try and answer it.

tl;dr If I had to predict today which OS will finally win the battle it has to be Android. Once the market stabilizes there are only so many OS's that can survive. Android is to the mobile what Windows is to the PC. It might not be the best to begin with but given enough time it can finally catch up to the competition. There are only that many new features that you can add. Once you've added those there will hardly be any differentiating feature amongst the competing OS's. In the end it will be about hardware. And as of now only Android is the only OS which can run from a very low end smartphone to the top of the line phone.

Finally node.js is available as a windows binary without requiring Cygwin to be installed. As of writing this post you can download the node.js binary 0.5.6 . Currently npm does not work with node.js on windows. You need to download and use ryppi.py instead of npm . It works similar to npm but requires python. To setup node.js first set the PATH and NODE_PATH to the where you have copied node.exe.              set PATH=%PATH%;c:\node              set NODE_PATH=c:\node It is better to set these environment variables in the System Properties so that you don't have to set these variables every time. Follow the following steps to do that. Right-click  Computer , and then click  Properties . Click the Advanced system settings in the left side bar. Click the  Advanced  tab. Click  Environment variables . Append the node path to the PATH variable Create a new variable...

function test(a, b, c) { } alert(test.length); In this piece of code if you use .length on a function it returns the number of named arguments that this function accepts.