Category Archives: Technical

Netflix on Wii..

Received Netflix DVD for Wii yesterday.. Details here.

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Apple should be afraid..

I never thought I would even consider a phone other than the iPhone. I went from the 1st Gen iPhone to the 3GS mainly because my son and I together killed the 1st Gen in a toilet Once the love … Continue reading

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A passionate plea..

Please try, pleeease try.. you need to believe in it.. you can do it.. your family needs you.. your friend needs you.. I, who fed you everyday with power, need you.. I took you places, never left you alone, through … Continue reading

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Unicode on WordPress..

Trying to type in ‘Marathi‘ (my native Indian Language) here: मराठी पोस्ट This wasn’t working for me earlier and I completely scrapped and rebuilt my blog just for this. Before taking such a drastic step, I did basically try some … Continue reading

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My Technical Notes..

My technical notes finally found a permanent place. I have had this Tech Blog since 2003, but I did not work on it regularly. I recently resurrected it and moved it from Blogger to WordPress hosted on blog.softricks.com domain. So … Continue reading

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iTunes..

I download a lot of songs. I am no position to brag about having the largest collection of songs, because I really don’t have the largest collection by any standards. Right now, I only have 535 MP3s – some Hindi, … Continue reading

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Video Converters..

I am currently evaluating several video converters in my attempt to backup my home videos. The problem is as I have stated before. I want to save them so that I can find them easily and also, I want to … Continue reading

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How do you store Camcorder Videos?

I am investigating this for far too long.. I need some input on how others are doing it. I have done the usual Google search on this a lot, but nothing has convinced me on what is the best way … Continue reading

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I broke up with my new ‘girlfriend’!!

For those of you who do not remember or did not read my earlier post that had the context for this post, here it is : http://blog.somik.net/lifetime-change. Then the war began to unfold.. (you can skip this if you are … Continue reading

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Bye Bye Bill Gates!

Bill Gates stepped down last week from day to day operations at Microsoft. During the last 10 years or so, several people in the world have developed a love-hate relationship with him – for various reasons, maybe the strong monopoly … Continue reading

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