Clicked 9000 Kilometers on my Thunderbird 500!

It's been 8 months and yesterday I gave my beloved bike Royal Enfield Thunderbird 500 to its final free servicing, out of my curiosity I asked the servicing center guys to show me how to change the engine oil, break pads, clutch cable and couple of other important routines that are done for a healthy bike life.

HSR Services in Bangalore are good enough (not great) when it comes to Enfield servicing and shows professionalism at job,

My first ride!

It’s been like 3 months with my Royal Enfield Thunderbird 500, so far I used it only for daily commute, always felt like going on a long ride and the time has come. Like any other newbie bike rider in Bengaluru I've chose Nandi Hills as my destination.

Nandi Hills is located at around 65 km from Bengaluru, know for its breathtaking sunrise view. Located at an altitude of 1,479 m above sea level, it’s considered to be one of the highest peak in south India.

Clear guide on bringing Kitkat 4.4 and Nexus 5 UI to Nexus 4

Hi Peeps! I know most of the Nexus 4 owners in India are still waiting for Kitkat 4.4 OTA, I being one of them couldn't wait and finally updated kitkat 4.4 manually.

After the update I noticed the launcher is the same as before, Nexus 5 UI isn't available for Nexus 4 OTA update, which means, we won't be getting GEL (Google Experience Launcher) which integrates Google Search (noticeably, the Ok Google feature), Google Now and few UI enhancements. GEL is exclusive for Nexus 5 only (at least for now).

Got my Nexus 4

So, finally after a long wait of 2 months, it got my Nexus 4! ;-)

There was some hiccups dealing with Cart2India dealer on eBay, again, we know that it’s happening with most of the people who ordered this beast, Google too admitted that they underestimated the demand for this product.

Anyways, glory! I finally got it.

Activities in Android

Activities are basically the applications that fill the screen for user interaction, it can be the Launcher, Phone Dialer or the Facebook application. At any given instance, the Activity window show one screen at a time and if you switch between them, the previous Activity window stored in the RAM memory will be loaded or a new Activity window is loaded, this is a helpful feature because initially when loading any application all of its resources are loaded in to the RAM, like code, scripts, services, media. As can be seen, this is an Intensive Task and consumes CPU cycles and RAM memory. When an application is closed, like when you switch from

Virtual Network Editor in VMware Workstation 9.0

Not sure if you have read my post on creating Virtual LAN on VMware 6.5, I made that as a two part article because of its length, especially because of Part 2, where I covered topics on Virtual Network Editor. 

The thing I hated about the old Virtual Network Editor in VMware was its unnecessary tabs, and irrelevant options scattered all over its GUI. When writing Part 2 I thought about how this VNE can be made simple and refined. Fortunately, VMware realized it and reduced the VNE's cumbersome GUI with dozen tabs into a simple refined single window GUI, as below.

My thoughts on the root cause of SOPA/PIPA ACTs

Internet should be available for everyone!

Well, in the context of this post, above statement is an oxymoron, because the whole parts of Internet is not available in all countries due to their political borders and (still alive to this day) totalitarian governments, but nevertheless, I mentioned it to signify the intent behind the birth of Internet. Here are my thoughts.

The Creators Vision:

Abuse of the word Computer Hacker

In the wake of recent Facebook's security issue which compromised lot of profiles I am seeing lot of posts putting vague information about Hackers and "How to be safe on Facebook".

First and foremost the term Hacker is misused all the time, Hacker is simply a computer enthusiast who loves to tinker with systems, it need not to be a computer all the time. It is not necessary that the term Hacker is related to a crooked mind who misuses the vulnerabilities in a system for a malicious intentions. There is another term for such, it's called Crackers. Know the terminology or do a bit of research in Google