This week I encountered two examples of how even the giants in e-commerce have a lot towards...
Category - Apps
WordPress Plugins I use
I love WordPress. This blog has been using WordPress, the “open source” software for...
Can Google Tez help India go cashless?
India is a cash economy – and everyone knows this. Venture capitalists see a huge opportunity...
Plex Media Server
Over the last decade and half I have moved between various platforms to manage the digital media I...
90% of App store apps are zombies
Yes, Apple’s AppStore has been a phenomenal success with over 2 million apps for iOS and $50...
Microsoft Outlook for iOS, Android
Few years back, no one in Microsoft ecosystem would have dreamed these will happen. I for one...
Password Manager
I have written 8 years back on the Password Manager I use was KeePass. I continue to use till day...
VoIP Services I am using now
Like many in Indian Software services industry with teams in USA and servicing customers in North...
Don’t write, just write in Tamil
For nearly two decades this has been a dream for many of us in (when I was in) INFITT. In all the...
XBOX Live – YouTube and OneDrive
Few months back Microsoft announced to make more services available free for XBOX Live users. This...
Virtual Box error
After getting a new PC, installing all apps I needed, I finally came to installing Oracle’s...
Teaching my son to write software
The other day my 11-year-old son asked me to teach him on how to write apps. I was thinking on what...
Learning Python
I have been reading about Python (programming language) for last few years and wanted to learn it...
Compacting Virtual Machine disks
I have been using Microsoft Virtual PC (later Hyper-V in Windows 8) and Oracle’s VirtualBox...
calibre ebook management
While I have used calibre – ebook management in the past, those usages were limited and I had...
Use CDs in a PC with no optical drives
This is an old trick, but an useful one especially for new PCs & Tablets which don’t come with...
Tamil keyboard app for Windows Phone 8
I have written earlier about Windows Phone 8 (~Nokia Lumia phones) supporting display of “Tamil”...
Taking screenshots of Windows8 Apps in Windows 8.1
Taking screenshots in PC seems has been a post that repeats every few years once in this blog. The...
Outlook 2013 Action Items
At Vishwak Solutions we moved about a year back to Office 365 for hosting our...
New UI of Twitter App on Windows Phone
Windows Phone does a nice job of integrating your social networks (LinkedIn, Twitter &...