Tips

  • WiFi and VPN

    I usually don’t offer free advice. But I will make an exception this time for the greater good. Don’t connect your phone and computer to public WiFi networks without VPN. Install VPN software in your computer and phone and turn that on every time you are about to hook on to public WiFi. But how?

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  • Hide media in tweets

    Twitter embeds are cool, just like everything else on WordPress.com. You just paste the link to a tweet and the editor auto-magically embeds the twitter card. While this is great, WordPress.com does a bit more that I don’t like: it also includes the images in the tweet. I don’t like it because the image increases the size

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  • I learned three great ideas from Derek Sivers over the last couple of months. I am very grateful to Derek for the following ideas. Hell yeah or no. /now page. Mastering self and helping others. Hell yeah or no I came across Derek’s “Hell yeah or no” idea via Leo Babauta’s tweet. I instantly liked it

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  • Mindful November

    At the end of October I finished reading this book titled Don’t Sweat the Small Stuff. So during this month, I hoped to practice some of the things I learned from this book. Hence Mindful November. I liked the idea of conserving mental energy that’s otherwise wasted on small stuff so we can use it

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  • /now page

    I am now part of the /now page movement started by Derek Sivers. I created a What I’m Doing Now page on this blog. I felt this is a brilliant idea because it made me pause, think about what is important to me and write how I am spending my time. Here is Derek’s Now page.

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  • One thing I started appreciating after becoming a dad is the value of time. Like many dads, being the best possible hands on dad is non-negotiable to me. You don’t need a lot of money to be a good parent but you certainly need a lot of time and patience, things money can’t buy. However,

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  • Not giving a fuck

    Tim Ferriss tweeted and I retweeted this great post titled, The Subtle Art of Not Giving a Fuck. Stop what you are doing right now and read this. “@tferriss: The Subtle Art of Not Giving a Fuck http://t.co/lp6xUDTpt4” — Chait (@chaitanyamsv) March 5, 2015 It has so many f-words in it but it is a

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  • Habit Loopholes

    Last December I took the Design Your Habits: A Hands-On Introduction to Behavior Design course on Skillshare. This is a great short course and I recommend you check it, although it is no longer free, at least for me. It helped me refresh the classic habits stuff like Habit Loop, tiny actions etc. But a

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  • Finally I figured how to run YouTube in the background on iOS device. Use Safari -not YouTube app- to access mobile YouTube site. Safari runs in the background so we can still listen to the audio. YouTube app can’t multitask. So dismiss that suggestion to open the app. This works on iPad as well.

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  • Last year I had to write a small piece of java code to launch another application using one of the available ports between certain range. I wrote the code and saved the command to launch the java class in batch file so that when the user double clicks it, java class will launch the application.

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