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    Simpler Speaker, Microphone & Headphones

    30th July 2021 /

    It so happened that the last few weeks I was approached for multiple gadget recommendations by friends and family. The speaker, microphone and headphones that I suggested to them worked out well for the recipients that I am sharing the details here for the benefit of you, my readers. Disclosure: I write reviews about products that I have bought for my usage or my friends and paid in full. There were no sponsorship or advertisement, or commission of any sort involved in this post. Last year, I suggested to my friend, who conducts a lot of online classes, Lenovo IdeaPad C340, which turned out to be the perfect computer at…

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    Dust cover for electronic devices

    Dust cover and electronics

    5th November 2019

    My first scanner 1996

    26th June 2014
    Jio Phone

    Why I got a Jio Phone for my mom?

    22nd May 2019
  • Gadgets,  Homepage

    The PC I assembled for running Plex Media Server

    18th July 2021 /

    For years now, I have had a dedicated computer in my house to run the Plex Media server, hosting my media content (Photos, Music, Home Videos & so on) and also as a server with a copy of the data I have in the cloud storages (Dropbox & Onedrive). For a few years it was an old iMac and last year I upgraded to an AMD Ryzen 7 PC. During the pandemic as I had a need for a new PC for my work, I converted the PC for Plex from Windows Server 2019 to Windows 10 and turned it into my main workstation. With Plex gone away, I started…

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    Use CDs in a PC with no optical drives

    1st May 2014

    Access your phone from your Windows 10 PC

    7th July 2021

    Dell Hybrid Desktops

    31st July 2008
  • Coding,  Flashback,  Homepage,  Rostrum

    The software programming course in 1989 that changed my life for good

    16th July 2021 /

    Today, I found an old certificate from 1989, and that set up a train of thoughts & recalling of old memories. It was the first computer programming certification given to me thirty-two years ago for completing a course on BASIC, Word-Processing & Database management. Below is a summary of my early years with IBM PC & MS-DOS. My first contact with a computing device was probably in 1986 when my uncle gifted me an Atari 2600 gaming console. I used to spend every waking hour on the device, playing games and creating quiz presentations (a question popped up on screen and an inbuilt delay before the answer was shown) and…

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    .NET Framework Installations

    11th March 2005

    Convert Tamil from different encodings to Unicode

    20th February 2004

    Do you love or hate Visual Studio?

    28th October 2005
  • Gadgets,  Technology,  Woolgathering

    Where did my weekend go?

    12th July 2021 /

    It is another Monday morning & I get up wondering where did my weekend go? I was super busy the last few days and I was not doing any paid work. Instead, I was doing sysadmin tasks at home: Assembling a #Windows10 PC for #Plex Media Server & creating the media libraries within it; Install #PopOS Linux on an old laptop for testing; Cleaning the numerous #MicrosoftAzure subscriptions I have accumulated over the years, bringing them under one login; and Moving to #Microsoft365 E5 Dev from E3 plan On Facebook, a few friends had asked me the configuration of the above, here you go: Plex Media Server running on Intel…

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    My Experiences with Benq P50

    4th March 2006
    Dust cover for electronic devices

    Dust cover and electronics

    5th November 2019

    Light, Camera and Mic

    7th September 2021
  • Gadgets,  Microsoft,  Woolgathering

    Access your phone from your Windows 10 PC

    7th July 2021 /

    Today’s Windows tip. Apple (Mac/iPhone) owners please look elsewhere. If you are using a PC running Windows 10 (upgrade for free to the latest build easily) and own a modern Android especially a Samsung phone (most of the Galaxy series sold in the last few years) then you will thank me for this tip. The list of supported Android phones is here. On your PC, look for a free app from Microsoft that comes with Windows 10 called “Your Phone”. Once you have it set up (instructions from Microsoft & from Samsung), you can stop picking up your phone every time when a notification alert appears in your phone, to…

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    Aluminum Mobile Phone Adjustable Foldable Holder Stand for All Tablet and Smartphones

    A simple yet useful gadget for video calls

    13th May 2020
    Lenovo Ideapad C340

    An affordable 2-in-1 Windows Laptop for online training

    15th July 2020
    Improvised Standing Desk

    A standing desk trial

    20th May 2020
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