Adding an external microphone to your Galaxy Camera, SIII , Note 2 is much easier than you thought, thanks to an interesting discovery by Adam outler on XDA developers. New Galaxy S series devices has the wolfsen microeletronics audio processing chip which is proven to have astonishing audio quality and plethora of options.

 

 

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Touch optimized Ubuntu is coming

by Ruchira on January 1, 2013

 

Since microsoft’s introduction of touch optimized windows 8, Ubuntu must have felt that its behind the game and that’s exactly why a touch based Ubuntu is being teased to be coming on January 2nd 2013. Currently the teaser is up and running on ubuntu.com counting down time to release ( or maybe announcement? ) .

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My favorite android apps of 2012

by Ruchira on December 27, 2012

Since 2012 is nearing the end, I thought I should write about my favorite Android apps of 2012. This list consists of apps which I use daily basis on my Galaxy SIII and does its job like I wanted it to be.

1.  Poweramp

 

 

I totally love the inbuilt music player which comes with Galaxy S series phones, I have been a user of Galaxy S,SII in the past and the included Samsung music player is great with Galaxy SIII its no exception, its the most beautiful and easy to use inbuilt music player out there. But when I was looking at Top paid charts of google play I found the Poweramp player. Interface didn’t looked better but when reading all the positive comments made me curious, And I gave the free trial a try. Immediately I fell in love with the Audio quality and the flexibility of adjusting EQ’s on Poweramp. Playlist management and things aren’t that great but if you have good quality earbuds and ears seeking quality this is the music player that you want to go with.

Full trial – Google play  Full version purchase – Google play

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TOR exit node owner raided in Austria

by Ruchira on November 30, 2012

With the ever increasing rules on Internet copyrights and content sharing rules, running a TOR exit node is like waving hand to hackers and law enforcement agencies. This is what happened to a man who operates multiple TOR exit nodes on Europe. Named William Weber who lives on Austria got his apartment raided by LKA (Styrian Landeskriminalamt which is FBI equivalent type agency on Austria ).

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How to change refresh rate on Ubuntu

by Ruchira on November 29, 2012

Setting refresh rate is missing on Ubuntu under appearance settings. But with just simple terminal command, you can set the refresh rate and resolution. Open up Terminal ( Go to dash home and type “Terminal” to find it and click to open )

xrandr -s 1920x1200 -r 75

Command is shown above. On that 1920×1200 is the resolution. Adjust that with your expectations, and the 75 is the refresh rate you can also adjust that accordingly.

Problem with this is when you reboot your computer, this will reset to the prior default settings. We can run this command on startup automatically to avoid this problem.

To add this command to startup programs go to Dash Home and type “startup ” and open up the “Startup applications” and click “Add”

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$15 dedicated servers from OVH

by Ruchira on November 27, 2012

While most of VPS providers are trying hard to stay in the business with their sub $5 VPS plans, OVH which is the worlds biggest consumer data center located in France is now ( uh for sometime ) offering $15 a month dedicated servers. While OVH has data center in Canada, this cheap offering is only available in their home country which is France. You can absolutely trust this company and its not going to go away anytime soon. OVH has a crazy big network than most other big data centers you can imagine of, and quality of the network is improved drastically over the years.

You can find the plans here . I went with the 9.99 euro kimsufi MKS 2G plan. Web site is in french google chrome’s auto translate comes to rescue here 🙂 .

 

 

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How to make your own VPN for less than $2 a month

by Ruchira on November 22, 2012

If you want to access blocked web sites on your country or if you want to get US only services like Hulu,Netflix,Pandora from anywhere in the world, best solution is to get in to a good US based proxy or tunnel your traffic via VPN, I have explained the first option here. Building a proxy is easy but VPN allows more natural and fast traffic flowing than using a proxy. There are many VPN providers on the interwebs but they are costly more than $5 a month and speeds aren’t cool as you might think. Its because those resources are shared by many users. Creating a a VPN server with OpenVPN can be considered hard for an average user,

On this guide I’m going to explain how I built my own VPN server with just few mouse clicks without ever touching the command line and best of all it cost me $15 for a year, yes that you read it right $15 for a year. And I got a dedicated IP , 500GB of monthly guaranteed bandwidth for that price.

The secret ingredient to achieve this, is a linux VPS ( Virtual private server ) and for $15 a year you can get one from BuyVM.net . BuyVM is considered as a well reputed company for many years and they were the first to introduce $15 a year VPS plans to the world, And years later they are still offers those even though most of other providers who tried to achieve that price point has long gone.

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SLT ADSL makes me hate this country

by Ruchira on November 22, 2012

You know I’m living in this country called Sri lanka, its small but located on a fine place of world map which makes it most ideal place for submarine cable connections and to place internet data centers to serve the whole Asia Europe and USA by a equal amount of latency, currently this spot is held by Singapore. See the map which i found online when searching for current submarine cable maps below ( click to zoom ) , you can clearly see the advantage of placing a data center and submarine cable exchange on here.

 

But unfortunately this is not happening now, Government is spending millions of dollars to send satellites for no apparent use.  And the one and only cable internet provider which is government owned Sri Lanka Telecom  just has mere 19Gbps international bandwidth and they are boasting that they have hundreds thousands ADSL subscribers.

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