Hacks Open Source & Free Password Manager I have about 200 user accounts to keep track off and they have 200 passwords out of caution! You simply never know which service will get hacked at some point. Till now, I
Electron Desktop client for WhatsApp Here is a great desktop client for WhatsApp built using the all mighty Electron! Go ahead and download from bcalik/Whatsapp-Desktop And yeah! It works great and on all platforms!
Music Searching for Torrents from the command line and streaming them Here is a quick demonstration to search and stream torrents using the command line straight to VLC! All credit to ItzBlitz98/torrentflix! Install peerflix and torrentflix using the below code and you are
Shell Setting the title bar in an iTerm using a fish shell I recently wanted to set my title bar in iTerm to something custom. Here is a step-by-step video to show how to set the title bar in an iTerm using a fish shell.
Movies Movies - Meru & Amy Done with two movies this weekend finally! Great ones! Meru (2015) - IMDb Three elite climbers struggle to find their way through obsession and loss as they attempt to climb Mount Meru, one
Notes Read - How to launch your digital platform A good read from Harvard Business Review on "How to launch your digital platform". Contains links to other good reads.
Notes Online sales of luxury goods could triple to €70 billion by 2025. A latest research report [http://www.mckinsey.com/insights/consumer_and_retail/is_luxury_ecommerce_nearing_its_tipping_point] from McKinsey thinks that Online Luxury Sales maybe near its tipping point. They expect
Property Tax Paying Property Tax Online in Bangalore The BBMP seems to be fairly well digitised. As a new comer (?) to Bangalore, I had initially faced some difficulty in finding my property id #. So here are some tips to help you
Fun Happy Halloween - 2015 One of the good things of being a father of 2 year old is that you need to become social and participate! So that the weekend plan! I've got to dress
Ubuntu Solving the maximum file size error on Ghost + NGINX I ran into an error when uploading a awesome Mesmerising Waterfall - Picture in a post today. The error stated something on the lines of: The image you uploaded was larger than the
Picture Mesmerising Waterfall - Picture Straight out of my Facebook feed thanks to 1000 Places to See Before You Die
Startups Research - Online Trends for Real Estate Mortgages Here are couple of notes from a National Mortgage News on Consumer-Direct Lenders and Mortgage Innovation [http://www.nationalmortgagenews.com/news/origination/no-longer-a-niche-consumer-direct-lenders-lead-mortgage-innovation-1064448-1.html] > And with some estimates indicating that more than
Hacks Switch back to Upstart after upgrading to Ubuntu 15.04 (Livid) I just upgraded my Digital Ocean Ubuntu 14.x droplet to Ubuntu 15.04 (Livid). The previous version was outdated and apparently the support was discontinued. As a result, I was running into
Trading Shorting overvalued stocks Today's daily dispatch from Casey Research shared few perspectives on the market crash that started with the Shanghai sellout. For the uninitiated on the topic, China’s stock market sank 8.
Hacks Converting a docx document to PDF For a new web application that I am working on, I needed to convert a docx document to PDF. Pandoc [https://github.com/jgm/pandoc] seems to be the most preferred option to
Hacks Creating an animated gif from the terminal Animated gifs are a great way to quickly demonstrate small tasks on the screen. Videos are an overkill and making quality gifs is often quite a pain. I often use LICEcap to created
Electron Download videos from YouTube For this weekend trip, I needed to download a few videos to keep my daughter occupied in the car. Videos can easily be downloaded using KeepVid [http://keepvid.com/] but I wanted to
Hacks Lazy Sunday Morning So here I am in Chennai to make a trip to the US Visa office. What good is a trip without a tiny hack! Here is where I stayed and where I enjoyed
R-Project How Much do you Need to Earn to Afford a Modest Apartment in Your State? Continuing with the theme of plotting Choropleths, here is an interesting problem I encountered. The details are below, but the end product is to develop a static visualization as shown here ... Out Of
R-Project Plotting Geocoded points on the US Map I recently had to plot a set of geocoded points on the US Map. The ease with which we can create maps using custom data that can be transformed using GeoCoding APIs is
Startups Social Network + Marketplace => Market Network TechCrunch today featured an evolving business model in its article titled From Social Networks To Market Networks | TechCrunch [http://techcrunch.com/2015/06/27/from-social-to-market-networks/]. The model is quite compelling and addresses the