Saurabh Jain

How to install Windows 7 drivers for Boot Camp 4 on Mac OS X Lion

Feb. 29th | Posted by 3 comments
This post concerns a very small niche – people who have Mac machines (Mac Air) in my case and would like to install Windows 7 on it. I was able to do this successfully using the boot camp assistant – but got stuck up majorly while trying to install the Windows 7 support drivers for [...]

How to disable 3G on your Samsung Omnia W

Dec. 30th | Posted by 41 comments
This is another tip which I dug around for hours to get. Posting it here so that it saves some people time. So in my Samsung Omnia W Windows phone, it defaults to 3G out of the box and there is no visible setting to change it. If you like me, don’t really want to [...]

Importing Contacts to a Windows 7 Phone from your Nokia phone

Dec. 30th | Posted by 4 comments
I recently bought a Windows 7.5 phone which is pretty cool – but this being a Samsung Omnia W and my previous phone being a Nokia E72, I had a tough time importing contacts from one phone to another. If both phones were Nokia (like the Lumia), Nokia has a very easy app which does [...]

Duracells actually last longer …

Sep. 14th | Posted by 0 comments
This post is a result of a proper experiment. I have a Microsoft wireless mouse which eats battery juice for breakfast, lunch and dinner. I used to use Everready (Gimme red) batteries which would die pretty often and soon. So I decided to do a little experiment. I bought EverReady batteries for the mouse and [...]

Purchasing a digital camera … then and now!

Aug. 21st | Posted by 0 comments
I remember, we bought our first digital camera when my folks were there in the US – back in 2000 I  think. It was a Nikon Coolpix 4300 and it was awesome! Yes it was slow to boot and I had to wait for a few seconds for it to be able to click the [...]

Nokia Customer Care Sucks

Jan. 31st | Posted by 3 comments
Just a cry for help! If you have had some bad experience with the Nokia Customer Care, leave a comment. If you can help me by getting my phone fixed under warranty, please, please do let me know. My phone *IS* actually under warranty but those dumb nuts at the Nokia Care Center are out [...]

IMDB Voting Demographics …

Nov. 2nd | Posted by 1 comments
I’m not sure how late I am to learn about this – but just found out about this feature on IMDB which gives you exhaustive details about the demographics of users that voted for a particular title. Being a movie and a stats junkie, this is just too freakin’ brilliant for me :D Do check [...]
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Over-connectivity anybody?

Aug. 8th | Posted by 4 comments
I know that this topic must have been done to death uptil now, but the immense realisation of it all just hit me. My uncle from the states, sent me an email and asked me to reply back with everybody’s phone number in the house. I say okay, hit the Reply button and go: Home [...]

ActiveCiti goes LIVE

May. 23rd | Posted by 2 comments
This post is coming after a fairly long time – and for good reason too… The last week was pretty hectic – I was very busy studying for my exams and more busy in trying to get our Final Year Engineering Project done and released. Well, I am happy to inform you that we went [...]

Windows Media Player 11

May. 14th | Posted by 6 comments
I’ve always used Windows Media Player 11 because it has got awesome library management capabilities. Yes – it may not be the lightest or the fastest players – but its library is plain, simple, clutter free and very effective. I got to try out Windows Media Player 11 beta for Windows Xp – for a [...]
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