Move, Install Android Apps to SD Card without Rooting

Author : mad madrasi      Blog : www.madmadrasi.net      Date : 6/18/2013 5:17:00 PM

'As written earlier, the most frustrating aspect of an Android Phone is the ‘Low-on-Space’ warning and attendant problems.The most practical and useful advice on fixing ‘Low-on-Space’ problem in an Android phone is to move as many Apps as possible to the SD Card from the phone internal storage.  But the solution immediately runs into a problem of its own.  The danged Android phone will not allow many apps to be moved to SD Card.The most dangerous advice is to Root the phone(...)'

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Android Phone ‘Low-on-Space’ warning fixes

Author : mad madrasi      Blog : www.madmadrasi.net      Date : 6/18/2013 11:27:00 AM

'The most frustrating nag on an Android Phone is the ‘Low System Memory’ or ‘Low on Space’ warning.  It does not matter whether it is a Samsung 2.3.6 Gingerbread device like mine or a Samsung Galaxy S4 Jelly Bean 4.2 device like a dear one’s - within a couple of months that nag is sure to pop up.The general advice to all Android users to avoid this ‘Low on Space’ warning are:set limit on number of text/SMS messages to retain,move *all* media files (music, videos, images, etc.) t(...)'

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Use Apple Touch icons in Blogger Blog

Author : mad madrasi      Blog : www.madmadrasi.net      Date : 6/17/2013 12:05:00 PM

'Today a good friend who off-and-on suggests good SEO tips, pointed out that this blog is missing Apple Touch icons for iPhone and iPad users.  To be truthful, as an Android user, I never knew about the Apple Touch icons.It seems in an Apple mobile device (iPad, iPhone), users have the option of saving web pages directly to their home screen. When a page is saved, an icon is generated (something like a favicon), and users can then-on use that icon to quickly reach the webpage or(...)'

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Sitemap XML in Blogger for better SEO

Author : mad madrasi      Blog : www.madmadrasi.net      Date : 6/17/2013 9:16:00 AM

'Google started rolling out automatic sitemap for Blogger (blogspot) domain sometime last year (?).  If a blog is hosted on a blogger with blogspot URI - for e.g., www.madmadrasi.blogspot.com, then Google automatically generated a sitemap.xml file for that blog.  Since all the major search engines use the standardized sitemap protocol, theoretically the blog automatically became visible to search engines.  Here, theoretically is the operative word because sitemaps do n(...)'

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Champions Trophy Matches to watch out

Author : mad madrasi      Blog : www.madmadrasi.net      Date : 6/14/2013 12:46:00 PM

'Today’s ICC Champions Trophy 2013 match between West Indies and South Africa at Cardiff is touted as the unofficial semi-final to grab the Semi-Final berth from Group B. The conventional wisdom is whichever team wins this match would qualify along with India for the semi-finals, as both West Indies and South Africa have 2 points each from one win against the poor Pakistanis. I am not so sure.  One reason is (as of this writing), rain has delayed the toss in the match.  I(...)'

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Quick look at Chrome Office Viewer Extension

Author : mad madrasi      Blog : www.madmadrasi.net      Date : 6/14/2013 8:19:00 AM

'Back in April 2013 Google released an Extension for Chrome called ‘Chrome Office Viewer’.  Though tagged a BETA, the extension performed (or did not perform) more like an alpha release.  Testing it out was a real pain, but due to my own (emotional) pain at that time didn’t write or laugh about it.Last week Google updated the Chrome Office Viewer extension to 2.9.2.14, and though still a Beta, performs a bit better.  Back in April, viewing an Excel or World file with C(...)'

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China launches Shenzhou-10 with 2nd woman astronaut

Author : mad madrasi      Blog : www.madmadrasi.net      Date : 6/11/2013 9:46:00 AM

'China today launched her 2nd female astronaut Wang Yaping, along with two male astronauts to space.  In a textbook launch the Long March 2F rocket took off from the Jiuquan spaceport at 17:38 Beijing time (09:38 GMT/ 15:08 IST) - a few minutes back.What isn’t much talked about is the 48 year old commander of the mission, Nie Haisheng, is going up on his second space journey. He was on board of the Shenzhou-6 spacecraft launched in 2005 and will be the 2nd Chinese to go up twice(...)'

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Kundankulam protestors petition to drain Bay of Bengal

Author : mad madrasi      Blog : www.madmadrasi.net      Date : 6/4/2013 12:44:00 PM

'Couple of weeks back there was earth shattering (to some) news that scientists have worked out a new way to efficiently extract Uranium, used as fuel in Nuclear Reactors, from sea water.  The earth shattering part is in the small innocuous disclosure that the world’s oceans contain almost 1000 times the Uranium estimated in conventional - read land - reserves. Which left me with a peculiar thought.  What if the anti-Kundankulam and anti-nuclear protestors in India read re(...)'

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Dhoni as God Vishnu and religious sentiments

Author : mad madrasi      Blog : www.madmadrasi.net      Date : 6/4/2013 11:47:00 AM

'It has happened to M.S. Dhoni again.  No, not the helicopter shot, which I hope will be played many times during the on-going ICC Champions Trophy 2013. Almost a month back, a case was filed in a Bangalore court, accusing M.S. Dhoni of hurting the religious sentiments of the Hindus for being depicted as Lord Vishnu - with 8 sponsored products in eight hands.  That case was filed by one enlightened Jayakumar Hiremath. Today news is another case has been filed in an Ananta(...)'

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One rule for Kalmadi another for Srinivasan

Author : mad madrasi      Blog : www.madmadrasi.net      Date : 5/29/2013 10:50:00 AM

'The politicians are back to doing what they are good at - hatchet job.  And the politicians have a reason to wield the chopper with glee, because the target is *not* one of their own - for once.Let us see the list of politicians - both from the ruling alliance and the national opposition ganging up on the issue:Sharad Pawar, Union Agriculture Minister and former BCCI Chief, (actually the party he heads) called for N. Srinivasan to quit.Jyotiraditya Scindia, the Union Minister f(...)'

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Indian Air Force to be disbanded for S.P. Tyagi corruption?

Author : mad madrasi      Blog : www.madmadrasi.net      Date : 5/25/2013 10:21:00 AM

'Can anyone imagine reading a headline “Indian Air Force has been disbanded because its former Chief S.P. Tyagi has been involved in fixing VVIP Chopper deal with Finmeccanica?” Or another “Indian Railways stops all trains plying to-from Punjab because its former Minister P.K. Bansal is accused of corruption in selecting Railway Board members?” How absurd do these sound.  Just because the former Air Chief fixed the VVIP chopper deal in favour of AugustaWestland-Finmeccanica, n(...)'

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What’s good in Steganos Online Shield 365 -part 3

Author : mad madrasi      Blog : www.madmadrasi.net      Date : 5/17/2013 5:49:00 PM

'In part 3 of the Steganos Online Shield 365 we are going to explore if there are any quirks which we have to watch out for.  Oh yes, there are a few. BTW let us be very clear here - even though I’ve been offered an year’s free subscription of Steganos Online Shield 365 worth $79.95, my policy is to test out the (any) software in and out, and list out problems, if there are any. The reasons are two.  One, a wishy-washy review does not do the readers any justice.  Two,(...)'

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What’s good in Steganos Online Shield 365 -part 2

Author : mad madrasi      Blog : www.madmadrasi.net      Date : 5/17/2013 1:26:00 PM

'The second part of tryout with Steganos Online Shield 365 takes a look at how good is the software in practical terms.  The first part of the review is here. Connection Speed: Anyone who has used a VPN or TOR from India would know the frustration of slow speeds, drop/cut-off connections and timeout errors while using them.  With Steganos Online Shield, though there is a slight drop in speed , it is barely noticeable.  My 4 Mbps download line behaves better than a 2 (...)'

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What’s good in Steganos Online Shield 365 -part 1

Author : mad madrasi      Blog : www.madmadrasi.net      Date : 5/17/2013 10:24:00 AM

'As I wrote a couple of days back, everyone will and should start to use a good VPN service soon.  And as luck would have it, there are no good, free (cheap) Virtual Private Network (VPN) services available in India. In this situation, when I was offered a chance to review Steganos Online Shield 365 (with a complimentary one year subscription free), I jumped at the offer - only some family health issues hindered putting out the review.  So here is how Steganos Online Shiel(...)'

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Why everyone should use a VPN

Author : mad madrasi      Blog : www.madmadrasi.net      Date : 5/14/2013 5:05:00 PM

'The internet is an evolving environment and the proof is to think back on all the new tools, techniques (and ‘apps’) we use today when compared to a few years back.  Another way to look at the evolving nature is to look at the protective security measures we’ve to adopt. Ten (or even 8) years back, a simple anti-virus was considered enough to secure our life online.  Today, anyone venturing online (or even staying off the net) without a decent Security Suite would be cons(...)'

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Why TC 01B ‘MAHASEN’ will skip Chennai

Author : mad madrasi      Blog : www.madmadrasi.net      Date : 5/12/2013 12:33:00 PM

'It is a scary and sad thought that the developing Tropical Cyclone 01B, named ‘MAHASEN’, is forecast not to approach Chennai.  The models suggest that TC 01B MAHASEN would veer off North-Northwest after making a CPA of about 650 km from Chennai, thus avoiding the TN and Indian coast altogether. But this skipping of Tamil Nadu by the TC 01B MAHASEN should gladden the hearts of some people in the state.  You know, the so called Tamil activists (actually chauvinists) who hav(...)'

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Won’t TC 01B ‘MAHASEN’ hit Chennai

Author : mad madrasi      Blog : www.madmadrasi.net      Date : 5/11/2013 1:33:00 PM

'Almost 6 months to the day, there is another Deep Depression in the Bay of Bengal (BoB), which has actually intensified and been officially christened ‘MAHASEN’.  In November of 2012 there was a Deep Depression 03B which acted as though it was interested in lashing Chennai.  Sadly, it thrilled only to deceive and dissipated without intensifying into a Tropical Cyclone. After 6 months, the only other Deep Depression to intensify into a Tropical Cyclone named MAHASEN, sadly(...)'

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Are Che Guevara, Unicef T-shirts terrorist uniforms

Author : mad madrasi      Blog : www.madmadrasi.net      Date : 4/24/2013 2:36:00 PM

'The contributors to Reddit did a lot of good after the terror bombing at Boston Marathon.  They organised housing for those stranded in Boston, sent pizza deliveries to Police and hospitals, and the like. But Reddit, the portal,  didn’t cover itself in fame with the mis-identification of innocents as suspects.  No wonder they published a full fledged apology today. If you had been reading the comments and contributors posts during those tense hours (days!), you woul(...)'

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Sunil Tripathi is Not the Boston Bomber

Author : mad madrasi      Blog : www.madmadrasi.net      Date : 4/19/2013 12:55:00 PM

'In some ways the man hunt for the Boston Bombers resembles more the bumbling of Indian Police rather than a professional, thorough, analysed one by FBI.  For in India we are used to leaks about almost everything on an investigation. Back home, almost every aspect of the investigation, any investigation, is somehow leaked to the media - especially TV channels.  People learn the names of victims through TV channels and not through a polite, sympathetic official call. But i(...)'

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Google plus comments skrews Disqus on Blogger

Author : mad madrasi      Blog : www.madmadrasi.net      Date : 4/19/2013 8:25:00 AM

'From yesterday (today, for us in India), Google Plus has taken forward its integration with Blogger to a new level.  In the words of Yonatan Zunger of Google, “ starting today, you can bring Google+ comments to your Blogger blog.  Once you’ve enabled the feature through your Blogger Dashboard, you’ll enjoy a number of important benefits”. Bringing together Google+ and Blogger with the integration of Google+ comments is in one way a huge step.  But after trying it out(...)'

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