So Airtel has a nice looking app that is generally pleasing on the eyes and is very convenient for checking your unbilled usage, recharge history, data plan and paying your bills. It has become really nice in all these areas but it is really really…
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I bought the Aspida Phaeton from Spartan Pro Gear’s HQ in Chennai in Dec 2014. Its a beautiful textile / leather glove. But terribly flawed in two aspects. a. The area between the thumb and the index finger is fairly narrow. There is an additional…
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Simple problem but worth isolating – my pictures folder wasn’t showing any thumbnails. Turns out there’s a setting called “Always show icons, never thumbnails” which needs to be unchecked. http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_7-files/thumbnail-preview-in-explorer-not-showing/222ca222-16ef-495f-88ce-79eaf55f258c?db=5&auth=1 see reply from Techbuddy1
This is from a recent email – so its not well articulated but is useful nevertheless. Our Bali trip was Five days: We stayed in Sanur (south side). White sand beach. Kuta or Sanur (North) are black sand. Bali is like Haryana – you shouldnt…
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#OverBillingForSure I booked two trips with Taxi For Sure for 5 May. For almost the same trip (outward trip had about 3-5km longer via VK, return trip had about 1.5km extra due to driver error), the outward and inward trips were billed at 72 and…
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Just turn bluetooth off. Or unpair any phones you may have paired in the past. My Adobe Photoshop Lightroom was crashing while importing images. Just click on import / press Ctrl Shift I and it would hang, ultimately crashing. Thanks to this Adobe forum link,…
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Today after almost an year with the S3s, realized that they come in two variants The INU is unbranded The INS is India Service. How do you find this out? Turn over on the backside of the box where there’s a sticker that says something…
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I have had bad to severe dandruff and hair loss for almost the last year + (as of Aug 2014). Dandruff has gotten perenially stronger since I moved to Chennai last September. I’d been battling my head warts for 1.5 years so dandruff was something…
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I installed Meru’s app on Aug 10, with 2.5 hours to go before my intl flight. It simply failed then. Standing in my balcony (full signal but not direct Line of sky), it just kept trying to acquire gps lock and gave up. 2 min…
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Satdeep and I visited the zoo. Occasion? Arrival of my Canon 500D dSLR. Here are the pics: Beginner’s luck! Early birds … nyah! and here was our friend – shot through the fence: