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    Redmi 10 Prime

    7th December 2021 /

    I was looking for a new phone to replace a Samsung M20 which had broken down and Samsung service was quoting a repair fee of INR 7000 – more than half of the price (INR 12,990) I had paid three years ago. Till now, my experience with Samsung mobiles has been good. My wife was having a Samsung Galaxy M31s, my sister and my son were using Samsung Galaxy M30s, and I have a Samsung Galaxy S10 Lite as my second phone, which I am very happy with.  But recently, apart from the problem with this one (M20) I had heard from a friend about a motherboard problem he was…

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    16th November 2010

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    21st August 2014

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    16th March 2007
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    Amazon Fire TV Stick Lite 2020

    2nd August 2021 /

    My mom wanted to watch YouTube on the Sony (non-smart) TV we have in our living room. This meant I had to buy a Google TV (used to be called Android TV) stick that connects to the TV’s HDMI Input. Right now, I have a Google Chromecast 2 connected to this TV, using which I can cast any content from an Android phone or Google apps from my iPhone or iPad. It doesn’t have a remote control, so my mom can’t go to say YouTube without having a smartphone. So I was considering my options.   Last year, I had bought for my son, a Nokia Media Streamer device for…

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    29th January 2015

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    16th July 2008
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    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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    12th April 2014

    Apple iPhone 3G – I love it!

    8th February 2009

    Intel Motherboard Audio and Vista

    25th March 2007
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    Move from Android to iOS and transfer WhatsApp from Samsung Phone to iPhone

    16th January 2021 /

    With the public backlash against WhatsApp with their privacy policy revision, this may not be the best time for this post, but still here it is. I recently got a new iPhone. I am coming to an iPhone after exactly a decade, my last was iPhone 4 in 2010 and now it is iPhone 12 Pro. While waiting for the new phone, I made a check list of all the items and apps that needed to be moved from the Android phone (Samsung Galaxy S10 Lite) and where their data resided: Contacts – Google Contacts Calendar – Google Calendar Mail – Microsoft Outlook and GMail Notes – Evernote and Google…

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    19th November 2015

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    10th October 2018

    Citibank Virtual Keyboard-Bad UI Example

    31st January 2012
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    Auto backup files and photos to Google Drive in Android

    13th January 2021 /

    Google Photos pretty much solved the problem of backing up precious photos we take on our smartphone to the cloud. This eliminated the fear of losing the pictures when you upgrade your phone or the unfortunate event of losing/breaking it. I backup all my photos and videos in the full format to an external hard-drive and to Dropbox, even then I keep a copy in Google Photos in lower resolution as it is convenient and fast to search and retrieve photos.  For the last many years whenever I set up a phone for a friend or relative, next to Gmail I install and configure Google Photos and Google Keep. Even…

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    3rd December 2004

    Why I am trying Brave Browser and reverted to Google Chrome?

    28th December 2018

    IEEE & CSI talk on Rebooting Software Services

    9th May 2018
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