Shantanu Vs The World

For most new android app developers (like me), it is a bit puzzling how to debug the android widgets or how to put a breakpoint in an android widget code.

Just a small post to let you know that I just published a small app in the android market, which scratches an itch of mine and I thought probably it will be help others too.

This is a very small android app to open the accounts and sync settings in one click.

Update: Removed the post as the person in consideration has contacted me with the explanation of what went down.

This is an effort from my side to consolidate everything about Android Froyo with respect to Nexus One.

Just a quick post to tell you how to update your Nexus One to Android 2.2 Froyo immediately without waiting for google to send it to you OTA.

This is just a short post to to document how I got JDownloader to integrate with Flashgot.

This article will tell you a simple way to login automatically to beam cable (Beam-Telecom) internet connection instead of using the web login manually.

I wrote this script a few days ago to plot real-time / streaming data with gnuplot.

This is a script to plot streaming / real-time data (i.e. plot the points as the data comes in) with gnuplot.

If you can’t get tail command to continuously monitor a file, then read on.

This is just to let you know that a few of my friends have started Overclocked, a haven for PC enthusiasts in India.

I generally move from LTS to LTS releases of Ubuntu but reluctantly had to update my system to Karmic when my old HDD gave in.

I recently got hold of a Guitar Hero controller for my PS3 but the game still had some time to come so I tried it out on my laptop with Frets on Fire (rather FoFix).

Killzone 2 (KZ2) is one of my most favourite games for the Playstation 3.

If you are a proud owner of an Asus WL-500W wireless router (or maybe another one of the same series like wl-500g, wl-500gp, etc), then you know that this router has a very useful USB port with which you might have attached your external hard disk and have

A few days ago, I had to install Windows XP as a guest OS on my Ubuntu Hardy machine as I needed to carry out some Visual Studio work.

FireFly is a nice DAAP based media server that allows you to listen to your music collection anywhere using any DAAP based client like iTunes, with other players (like Winamp, Rhythmbox, VLC, etc) using plugins, or it even has its own dedicated php/flash/…

Today, the whole word is going gaga over “Opera Unite”, the new technology in Opera 10 which will make your web browser a web server as well (and not just that, it will make a whole lot of “sharing” options available).

I got myself a Microtek 800VA UPS (MDP800+) a couple of weeks ago to save my PS3 from the frequent power outages that we are seeing in Hyderabad but the purpose was rather lost when I found that it worked fine only till the mains power was on.

Update: It has come to my notice that many people do not know about this (and other problems listed in comments of this post).

If you have used perforce, you’d have definitely come across a situation where you wanted to sync files belonging to two different labels, but as soon as you sync the second label, the files from the first label get deleted.

Figlet is a brilliant tool to convert text to amazing ASCII Art that I have used for many years.

Since quite some time, Google Reader has included the feature to share interesting items with your friends who also use Google Reader.

If you have an Asus WL-500W, the DIYers’ favourite wireless router, and have installed the Oleg custom firmware on it, then you would have set up a shutdown script for it, that allows your router to shut down gracefully.

Perforce is an excellent revision control system for the code but the GUIs (P4WIN and P4V) are too slow to be productive.

Here comes another update, and this time it is a majorly recommended one.

I have one of those crappy DSL modems that all these ISPs give to you with the connection.

Asus WL-500W is a greate wi-fi router with lots of features, one of them being able to use it as a media server to serve movies/songs over your network from a hard disk connected directly to it through USB.

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My WordPress Plugin “Shantz Wordpress Prefix Suffix” has just been updated to version 1.1.2.

Here is another update for the fans of XWinWrap, the tiny program that allows you to run animated wallpapers on your system.

Just a little piece of news to all the bloggers, and especially WordPressers (did I just coin a new term?)

Recently someone asked me about an issue he was facing with his Ubuntu Hardy Heron installation.

First a bit of background.

Many times you might not be sure about which shell you are currently using.

Most of you must be knowing by now that I bought the amazing Asus WL-500W router a few days back.

Many readers of this blog have written to me for the slow updates.

I have a coupon to give away for the excellent SiteGround Web Hosting.

I got hold of a new Asus WL-500W router for me (Pics & specs coming up soon).

My company had a video contest a few days ago (which yours-truly won by a handsome margin :) ).

I hereby call for setting up a charity fund so that we can donate some money to get the poor ol’ Google Adsense some Mathematics/Algebra 101 classes because apparantly it thinks that 0.63 + 0.07 = 0.69.

Well, its not just prefix suffix any more, because I added an option to add things in the middle of the posts as well.

This is a really sad day.

Given the ignorant lazy bum I am, until a couple of days ago I was unaware of this magical place called “Google Solutions Marketplace”.

“Google Adsense” has been caught in a conflict of interests with its parent company “Google”.

Creative has finally come to its senses and turned to the open source community to raise its X-Fi series of sound cards from the ashes on the linux platform, which got burnt mostly due to the poor quality of the drivers that Creative was giving out.

A 404 page is an error page that is displayed when somebody tries to go to a link on your website that doesn’t exist.

Google is known to be pretty strict with making sure that all Adsense publishers remain conformant to their policies.