Archive for the ‘Technology’ Category

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DNS323 NAS harddisk upgrade.

Posted: June 16, 2010 in Technology
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I have been using a Home NAS product by Dlink (DNS323) for close to 3 years. It is rock solid and serves me well. But, I keep running out of hard disk space. Initially i had 1TB (500+500). Then I upgraded one of the Disks to 1.5TB to have total 2TB. And I have run [...]

Sony & its deathwish.

Posted: June 16, 2010 in Technology
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In 80s and 90s, Sony was the brand I looked up to. They used to have the coolest techology, best designs and high reliability in all that they chose to produce. They used to be priced at a premium, but used to be worth the buy. How things have changed! Today, Sony products continue to [...]

Apple Monopoly?

Posted: June 6, 2010 in Technology
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Have been using more and more of Apple’s product in the past year or so, After owning various iPods for a long long time. I like most of what apple has to offer, especially their breathtaking designs for their products. I had earlier used Mac for a brief while in late 90s and didn’t find [...]

Blackrain & Blacksnow.

Posted: November 6, 2009 in Technology
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iPhone is tightly controlled by Apple and as with every digital device that restricts usage, iPhone gets hacked too. Each time Apple plugs a loophole Hackers find new ones. 3 Days ago, iPhone superhacker GeoHat (George Hotz) released a new hack to unlock the new baseband of iPhone (05.11.07) by name Blacksnow. He also created [...]

Podfather…

Posted: November 2, 2009 in Technology
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Watch Podfather, it’ll be worth your while!

An MacOS upgrade to Snow Leopard killed all the mapping to the home NAS server I had setup on Dlink DNS-323 NAS box. Snow Leopard won’t let me connect to the NAS Box at all. The shares were fine, and I could access them from other systems. I had fairly recent version of firmware for [...]

Mac Mini with Windows XP.

Posted: October 29, 2009 in Technology

Why Mac is not ideal for Windows.

peacock's tail?

Posted: October 23, 2009 in Technology

Do we all have an tail syndrome?

MacOSX need not necessarily be safe from all the ills of Windows.