Sign an "unsigned" file in Android

Recently i came up with Titanium backup pro. Its such a wonderful took to take backup of your applications along with the data and settings.

Creating virtual interfaces on a router

Have you ever wondered how a wi-fi hotspot in a coffee restaurant nearby works or is created? The second question is at what cost? We will come to that later on, first lets explore the possibility of creating a wi-fi access point for public use.

Download android apps for free

In the Android market place, many apps are there for sale. You can dowload them for free.. all it takes is to setup an account. Goto http://www.4shared.com/ and register yourself on your mobile.
Search for any application , ending it with .apk

When you get a list of options, select one and add it into your account. Go back to your account ,download it  and install it..  Enjoy

Error 18 in Android

This error comes whenever an installation has failed. There are some of the reasons and background conditions which i have encountered.

Android Froyo

With the latest addition of a new mobile phone - Samsung Galaxy Ace in my list of proud possessions, I became a part of the Android Family. Earlier i used to brag about the phone a little, and show off. Now i realize that the best part of it is the Android part, which is an awesome OS. I could never have realized its true potential, had many wonderful apps were not discovered. It would not be possible to review and post every application here. I wish developers would take my idea and create an app to collate reviews written by a person at one place, so that it can be posted in a blog like this on :)

Watch TV channels all over the world online

This is something i come to know about today..not the technology but this cool player and its network. I was amazed with the quality and speed of the videos. Please check the attached video to have a demo of the same.

Facebook tip – Hide status update from specific users

This is in addition to my post , Facebook tips and tricks published earlier. Today i would like to emphasize on publishing status updates to few or hide from specific users in your friend list.

Recently i have got many requests from Office friends, which i cannot ignore in a long span of time. So i did accept their friend requests, now guess what! When i publish something related to my office or work related, they pull my legs or tease me..no matter what the subject is. So it has become difficult to control what post i can publish and what not to. I have to think twice before i publish something related to work, and mostly its the senior people in work who would mind, comment or have issues in publishing something like that.

So what i have come up is to customize the way you publish a post. All you have to do is customize your privacy settings, so that the final result shows something like this below

* Names have been struck out so that the actual users do not feel bad.

Now to configure something like that, you need to follow the below steps
1) In your Facebook Page, got to Account> Privacy settings
2) Select Customize Settings


3) Edit “Posts by me”, and add the users from whom you want to hide the post from. Save the settings


4) Now when you want to publish a post, you do have the options of selecting which posts to show and which post to hide from the specific users. Before publishing the share button, select from among the options –> Everyone, Friends of Friends, Friends only or Custom (with hide to specific users)

Export file and folder contents on your PC to Excel

The simple DOS commands can do wonders, which we have forgotten with time. I was looking for a solution to list down the contents of files and folders with multiple sub-folders.

Today i got a finer solution, but it depends on your requirement too. Using the old TREE command in DOS. Heres what you have to do
1) Open Command prompt
2) Go to the path on your PC whose contents need to be listed
3) Type TREE /a > (filename).csv
4) You can type TREE/? to see the various arguments
5) Open the CSV file in Excel

New Features in Microsoft Office 2010

Earlier I had published a small review on the look and feel of MS Office 2010. Though the detailed features and benefits can be learned from the Microsoft site itself, I will focus on some cool features that i have learnt newly and can help you optimally use the suite better.
Microsoft Word
The new Office 2010 has come up with not just enhancement in interface but brought along a lot of changes in terms of flexibility and usage. Normally in Office 2003, you would require a separate add-in to be installed for writing and publishing to blogs. In the latest version 2010, they have integrated the very option to blog right from your Office Word.

1. Select new to create a new file
2. Register and login to your blog site
3. Write the blog, publish it

Run un-trusted applications securely

Most of the time, you install a third party application and take the risk of running it on your Operating System without knowing the consequences. In most of the cases, the application may be genuine in nature and may not cause any harm to your operating system.