Hacks Amazon Fire TV Stick with Beats Wireless Headphones Discovered this last night and am pretty kicked about it. I never thought this would be possible. I wanted to watch Tron in the living room without disturbing family in the house. I
Hacks Keep your mouse moving on Windows Ever wanted to solve the million dollar problem to keep the mouse moving in a Windows system. (more on this later) Here is a solution that simply works! I just modified this gist
Hacks Reset PRAM and SMC on Macbook Pro Life can get weird and somethings seem to work by the "Shut-it OFF" and "Shut-it ON" way :-) Here is the way to do it for PRAM and SMC.
Hacks Solved : Displayport of Macbook 2011 (Early) not working OK! I hate ridiculous solutions, but this actually seems to work! My displayport of Macbook Pro 2011 edition stopped working ... suddenly! I tried a lot of restarts, plug-ins and plug-outs .... and the usual
Hacks Sublime Text and Package Control with Proxy This post describes how to use Sublime Text with a Proxy First, download package control manually as explained here Click the Preferences > Browse Packages… menu Browse up a folder and then into
iPhone Accessing Iphone 7s photos on Ubuntu 16.04 I have tons of photos on my iPhone 7s and was looking to download them onto my MacBook Pro. I swapped the harddisk in my Macbook Pro (2011 edition!) with an SSD and
git Problems & Solutions using Git for Windows I've been using Git for Windows for a while. It works very well but I occassionally keep running into recurring problems (typically when I move systems, upgrade computers, etc.). In this post, I
Hacks Redirect IP Address to localhost I had some of my code (terrible as usual) pointing to an IP Address. I had downloaded my code to a local machine and wanted to use the same code to function of
FFMPEG Creating an audiobook from a list of mp3 files I recently got my hands on an audiobook with a collection of mp3 files. I like to listen on an iPhone and creating a playlist wasn't working the way I intended. So, I
Hacks Solved! Display setting of Dell ST2420L monitor going black after few seconds! This is weird. I dug up my closet and pulled out my old Dell ST2420L and plugged it in. It was turning off after a few seconds! Sucks! After an hour of changing
Tools Clearly Extension on Google Chrome I'm addicted to the Clearly extension that was previously released by Evernote and is no longer available!! Here is the way to install the last one available: Download extension from Clearly 10.6.
rstats Data Pasta is a must have to working with R and the Web Just came across this package called MilesMcBain/datapasta from r-bloggers! Here is a quick demo of why it is a boon for working with RStudio! No repetitive tasks of parsing and munging for
Pebble Creating my first Pebble Watchface Going to try out creating a pebble watchface as mentioned here. Installation Install pebble SDK using Homebrew with: brew install pebble/pebble-sdk/pebble-sdk Development I first started with this sample app of a
Hacks Creating A Native Signature From A Picture To Sign Documents A fun exercise today. I had to sign a document .. self-attestation actually and I hate manual stuff and paper. I wanted to hack a way to get a near real experience of signing
Mac Resurrecting my Apple TV 3rd Gen I've been a facing a weird lag when I use my Apple TV as an extended monitor. Till recently, it was fine because I decided to use my Apple TV to watch on
Music MusicBrainz Picard - Awesome id3 tagger for all your music! Totally blown away by MusicBrainz Picard! This id3 tagger is just awesome! The explanation will take some time .. but here is a demo that shows how awesome it is! (shower some patience on
Hacks Decrypting Gaana's undocumented API This weekend has been fun! I do a lot of hacks around Gaana.com! But, now I needed to get Metadata of the tracks I listen to. Here is a quick explanation on
Hacks The (Raspberry) pi has landed this weekend was quite exciting I recently got hold of a raspberry pi. Honestly, installing raspberry pi is not as straightforward as I had imagined. There were couple of challenges which had tried
Automation Hammerspoon – Powerful automation of OS X with Lua This is pretty cool! HN featured a post on the front page today about Hammerspoon. I skimmed through the page and looked pretty neat. I liked two examples ... run spotify and find your
Terminal m-cli - Add some more power to your OSX command line I love working on the Mac terminal. I just came across the rgcr/m-cli: Swiss Army Knife for Mac OS X. It is basically a set of cool administrative commands made accessible through
Raspberry Pi Raspberry Pi Zero has landed I just got my hands on a Raspberry Pi Zero. The size of it is just amazing. I'll experiment with it the next couple of days and try to write some interesting posts!
Hacks Making your external harddrive from Mac readable on ubuntu I recently replaced my old harddisk in the Mabbook with an SSD. I decided to put the old hard disk into a USB casing and start using an external drive. I formatted the
Hacks A completely customizable browser - Electron Browser It sometimes happens that I do not need the complete functionality available in a typical browser and would like to hack on top of it to suit and customize it to fit my
Hacks Creating a bootable USB stick from an iso file on Mac OSX I wanted to load ReactOS on an old laptop of mine. Steps followed to create the bootable USB stick hdiutil convert -format UDRW -o /Users/santoshsrinivas/Downloads/ReactOS-0.4.0.img /Users/santoshsrinivas/
Music More fun with Music - Introducing Kodi! I spent a lot of time this Saturday getting my music collection ready. It was quite an experience! I'll first layout the notable highlights of the experience that I somehow seemed to enjoy