Archive for the 'technology' Category

How to change UPS battery

Over the weekend, I changed my UPS’s battery, since the old one had stopped working and UPS would completely shut down in case of power failure or even major fluctuation. Here is a How-To Guide on changing UPS battery, compiled from my experience: Step 1: Buy a new UPS battery; normally UPS come with 12V [...]

Goodbye XP, welcome 7!

If you follow me on Twitter and Facebook, you would already know that I have upgrade my desktop’s (workstation to be more precise) operating system to the latest one from Microsoft, Windows 7 Home Premium. Change in operating system comes after a span of almost 8 years and being a XP loyalist for so many [...]

Rice saved my phone!

Last night after a lengthy phone call was over, my primary mobile phone (Nokia 1650) started flashing the primary display randomly (it is set for power saver mode). When it repeatedly happened for a few times, I knew that my sweat had likely gone in to the phone and was causing this problem (this is [...]

Sennheiser HD 201 unboxing and first impression

Today I got the delivery of my Sennheiser HD 201 Headphones. Although these are considered to be pretty basic and budget headphones, priced around Rs. 1300, they are certainly a step up for a user like me, who had been using Rs. 150 Tech-Com Headphones till now. I ordered these through Ebay, since I had [...]

Cooler Master Hyper 212 unboxing and reivew

I just bought a Cooler Master Hyper 212 Plus CPU cooler for my Intel Core2Duo E4500 (due for an upgrade), as I managed to bend Intel stock cooler’s stupid mounting bracket and after that it wouldn’t properly touch the processor and caused the processor to overheat a little. I decided to buy Hyper 212 after [...]