Google Mobile App Easter Egg Discovered

Google included an Easter Egg in its Google Mobile Application. I discovered it yesterday after receiving a tweet from a friend. The Easter Egg is found in the Settings page and it is called Bells and Whistles. The Easter Egg does exactly that. It allows you to change the Theme Color, [...]

SQL Server Integration Services is the new Data Transformation tool for SQL Server

I wrote this post months ago but didn’t get around to publish it. I know that SQL Server 2008 is now an available product but many of us are still using SQL Server 2005 and have created a lot Data Transformation Services (DTS) in the past.
In SQL Server 2005, Microsoft replaced DTS with SQL [...]

Defragging your Mac is so 1980s

I came back from a long walk around Kingston-upon-Thames earlier and thought about the performance of my Mac and said to myself I have never defragged the hard drive since I bought the machine a few years back. I thought should I attempt to do a defrag on a Saturday afternoon.
If I want to [...]

How safe is your Safari browser?

If you think that using Safari browser is safer than Internet Explorer, you should think twice. Apple has just release a fix for Safari to fix a dozen security flaws. The flaws opens up your PC/Mac to vulnerabilities that could have you machine taken full control by malicious programs.
The serious flaws reported by [...]

Instant JPEG from RAW

I discovered an interesting fact about RAW. If you use a D-SLR camera and shoot photos in RAW format, the photos are stored in the camera’s native format. You can edit RAW files using Photoshop and a RAW plug-in from your camera manufacturer or you can use Aperture photo editing software which runs [...]

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