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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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 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!

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

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

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/

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

Show the last played song on my page

So, I think its high time I get to putting few of ideas I had related to my music into action. I have recently resumed scrobbling all the music I listen to last.

Running portable Photoshop without admin rights on Win 7

I had a quick job to do using Photoshop on a Win 7 machine without admin rights. I got a copy of the portable photoshop installer and installed it without any issues. So

Mount remote folder onto your local disk on the Macbook

I like working on my Mac but like to keep my development repositories on a headless terminal on the cloud (like a Digital Ocean droplet or a AWS EC2 instance). Usually, I simply

Stitching a set of video files together

Similar to the previous two posts (Cut a video from desired time intervals and Creating a custom animated gif from a selected duration of a video), I have now a requirement to stich

Cut a video from desired time intervals

Similar to my earlier post on Creating a custom animated gif from a selected duration of a video, I now want the custom video itself! The video I had taken at the International

Creating a custom animated gif from a selected duration of a video

I took a nice cute video of my daughter when we landed in Cochin recently. I've been try to convert a portion of the video that I particularly liked to an animated gif.

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

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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

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 seems to be the most preferred option to do this. Installation: Head over