Category: Personal Technology

A practical way of generating strong and unique passwords
in Personal Technology

A few days ago OneMint was attacked, and embarrassingly enough someone or some machine had simply guessed my password. I now know that this wouldn’t be too hard as it would have taken a desktop PC just 3 days to figure out my password. I have been on a mission to change my passwords since
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Ola and Uber: Win – Win For Everyone
in Personal Technology

I’m a fairly heavy user of Ola Cabs and Uber; I really like their service, and often feel that they are currently under pricing and making a loss to gain a lead on each other in the taxi aggregator business. This is a very interesting business where Ola or Uber don’t own taxis on their own, but
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Net Neutrality in India
in Personal Technology

Ever since Airtel launched the ‘Airtel Zero‘ program, there has been a lot of anger against this program by netizens, and the anger is not going unnoticed either. In fact, Flipkart which was one of the partners of the Airtel Zero program not only pulled out of it day before yesterday but said that they will take
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Cricket World Cup 2015 Schedule – How to Add it to Google Calendar
in Featured, Personal Technology

Cricket World Cup 2015 has started with a big bang for India. India have beaten its biggest sporting rival Pakistan by 76 runs. It seems that Pakistan cricket team require some kind of commando training before they can even think of beating India in a World Cup match. It also seems that Virat Kohli has
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Systems versus Goals: There’s an app for that
in Personal Technology

I had reviewed  “How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big: Kind of the Story of My Life” written by Dilbert creator Scott Adams a few months ago, and one of the key ideas in that book was working towards a system and not a goal. Here’s a small snippet from my review to
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Twitter Transparency Report
in Personal Technology

Twitter released a transparency report today much like Google’s transparency report and this describes how governments around the world request Twitter for information on users and also request them to remove content from Twitter’s website. The US accounts for the bulk of the information requests with 679 out of the total 849 requests that came
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Facebook’s 51 million Indian active users and other interesting numbers
in Personal Technology

Facebook filed the fourth amendment to its S-1 today and I found some really interesting numbers going through it. I’m sure everyone has read the 901 million and 500 million number which is the number of active Facebook users and the number of mobile users, and at this rate it only looks inevitable that Facebook
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How to unlock a Blackberry in India?
in Personal Technology

A lot of US carriers subsidize  smartphones and sell them to customers with a contract, and the catch is that the phone can’t be used with another carrier. In an Indian context, this would be something like Vodafone selling an iPhone for Rs. 10,000 but only if you sign a 2 year contract in which
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India’s Report Card on Google Transparency Report
in Personal Technology

Google Transparency Report is a lesser known Google initiative where they compile data on content removal requests and user identification requests at a country level, and publish it on the web. The idea is to show the level of censorship present in a country by releasing data on number of content removal request that originate
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How to “Arrange by from” in Gmail the way it’s done in Outlook
in Personal Technology

Last week a reader emailed to ask me if there’s a way to sort email by Sender in Gmail like the way it is in Outlook. People who use Outlook for their work probably use the “Arrange By From” function a lot, and it’s a very handy thing too. That feature is also available in
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