First Anniversary! :D

July 4th 2014, the day I bought my first bike, Enfield Thunderbird 500. Today after covering some 15,000 odd kilometers I look back at my reasons behind making one of the best choices of my life.

1st: I fell in love with the Enfield Thunderbird’s new design.
2nd: I desperately needed a two wheeler for my daily commute and other traveling needs.

Ride to Kodaikanal, my first long ride

Long ride was a pending item in my list, I wanted to see how myself and my bike can perform in such rides and to see if we both are capable for my upcoming long list of tours, I chose Kodaikanal for this ride. Kodai was always in my interest, so planned for it and started on 23rd morning around 7:00 a.m.

I took NH 7 via Hosur, it took me more than an hour just to come out of Bengaluru's traffic, 7:00 a.m is when the traffic slowly starts congesting almost every part of the city, and it was even more when I reached Silk Board junction. Anyways, managed to come out of it. Had breakfast

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.