Steve Job - One who changed the world with a half bitten apple.

Steve Job – One who changed the world with a half bitten apple.

For the last few decades we were living in a dream. We started watching incredible things happen around us. Was it just a dream or was it reality? We cannot really identify because a man with a half bitten apple, Steve Jobs took over the whole world and put it in his dreams. We were living our l

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Changing screen brightness in android using notification shortcut

Changing screen brightness in android using notification shortcut

This is a small TIP for android users. You can increase the brightness of your android phone from anywhere using the notification bar. Follow these steps and see the magic :) Open the notification drawer just a little bit where just the bottom of the pulldown bar is showing. Swipe your finge

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Add background image to Google’s home page

Add background image to Google’s home page

Google goes colorful like Bing. Now you can put any images as the background of your Google home page. Google puts a link “Change background image” at the bottom left of the home page for changing the background. You need to login to your Google account before changing the background. Rather

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Treegger IM - Chat with your twitter friends

Treegger IM – Chat with your twitter friends

Treegger IM is a service that lets you to chat with your twitter friends (bidirectional follow relationship only). You can chat directly with your twitter friends without sending tweet. Treegger does not store any data, credentials or messages, all contents just transit between you and our servers u

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Setting up Twitter @Anywhere on your site in 3 steps

Setting up Twitter @Anywhere on your site in 3 steps

What is Twitter @Anywhere? Twitter @Anywhere is a platform that brings the functionality of twitter on to different websites. Now most of the twitter activities are hanging around the twitter home page and the tools which access twitter through its API. @Anywhere is a service which is similar to

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Kerala Google Technology User Group Launched

Kerala Google Technology User Group Launched

Finally Google fans in Kerala (including me) launched Kerala Google Technology User Group in Trivandrum yesterday. I was eagerly waiting to attend the function after registering for the event. The event was really a superb one. All sessions were good. But the only thing I missed was the wifi( I

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Understanding OAuth (Open Authorization)

Understanding OAuth (Open Authorization)

OAuth (Open Authorization) is an open protocol that allows users to share their protected data under a service provider without sharing their username and password. Let’s go deep by taking the example of twitter. If you have a twitter account and you want to tweet using a third party applicatio

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Twitter now showing popular tweets at top of search result

Twitter now showing popular tweets at top of search result

Twitter added a new feature in their search for showing popular tweets at the top of search results. They are using a special account for capturing the top tweets(see that account here). In new twitter search top three search results will be the most popular tweets. The number of retweets for th

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Twitquake - Twitter timelines stopped updating.

Twitquake – Twitter timelines stopped updating.

My twitter friends timeline stopped working 9 hours ago(from the time of writing) . Many twitter users are suffering from the same problem. You can see the tweets about this problem by searching in twitter (for example use "Friends timeline" ).  Not all twitter accounts are affected by this probl

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BSNL launched 3G in kerala

BSNL launched 3G in kerala

Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited launched 3G services in Kerala. This will help 2.65 lakh 3G mobile phone subscribers in the state avail the 3.5G technology.  The coverage would be available in 21 cities covering all the district headquarters in Kerala. 3G services launched in Kozhikkode on 4th

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