Today Google Launched Google Drive ! They also increased the Gmail quota to 10GB from the existing 7.5 GB. Now I will no more struggle with labnol’s tip to find the large emails and delete/forward them to save Gmail space. Google Drive is giving 5GB initially and more space can be bought. I am still …
Category Archive: TIP
Apr 06
Syncronize your web accounts with IFTTT
I just came across this wonderful service provided by the website http://ifttt.com . I always wanted to synchronize photos , links posted in various web accounts I have automatically. This website called “If This Then That” works pretty much like a cron job you define in Linux machines. For example I share interesting links in …
Apr 06
Current Running Status Of Train In Indian Railways : Official Source
Now there is a official way of knowing the current status of train in Indian railway. Three years back I had posted about the a third party site which gives you the best possible location of a running train. The IT department of Indian Railways has cleaned up there website and trainenquiry.com and redesigned in …
Aug 14
Installing Windows XP from USB Drive
I just bought bought a Samsung netbook (NP-NC108-A04IN). Like many of the netbooks of this price range it came with FreeDOS. Few price comparison revealed that the same model with Windows 7 basic license costs on an average 2500/- INR more that that of the once with FreeDOS. While buying I was assuming that it …
Jul 25
setting up eclipse with github
For most of the project I use eclipse as it is very extendable with so many plugins but when I want to be lazy and let the IDE do everything I wish I use Netbeans (i.e at work ). I wanted my project to be stored as repository at git and let eclipse handle all …
Jun 12
Taking Screen Shot of Samsung Galaxy Mobile
I just figured out how to take screenshot in Samsung Galaxy series mobiles running on Android , But I have only tested in my Samsung Galaxy Ace running on Android 2.2.1 . 1.Go to the screen in mobile , which you want to take screenshot of . 2.Press the back button on the bottom right …
Apr 25
Remove or Change Proxy settings for apt in Ubuntu
Remove proxy settings from apt? Try to edit your /etc/apt/apt.conf and change it to: Code: Acquire::http::Proxy “false”;
Apr 25
Mounting NTFS (Windows) drive automatically in Ubuntu
Add the following line in you /etc/fstab file /dev/sda5 /media/Data ntfs defaults,umask=007,gid=46,noatime 0 0
Apr 13
Print the Stack Trace of the Exception to log file
In Java, when an Exception occurres , the following code snippent can be used to print it in a log file import java.io.PrintWriter; import java.io.StringWriter; public static String logStackTrace(Throwable t) { StringWriter sw = new StringWriter(); PrintWriter pw = new PrintWriter(sw, true); exp.printStackTrace(pw); pw.flush(); sw.flush(); nLog(“exception “+ sw.toString()); } public void nLog(String msg) { try …
Mar 20
Converting video from ameg to avi with ffmpeg
I have been using my Sony SCR SX 20 for quite a some time now. One of the the problem I see is that even though it does not record in High Definition (HD) , it consumes a lot of space.In fact for 22 Minutes of High Quality video it creates a .MPEG file with …