A Techie’s Blog

Apple has recently announced that over 2 Billion applications have been downloaded till now from its App store. Apps can be downloaded in 77 countries from App store. There are paid and even free applications available to the user to download. The company claims that the app store is the World’s largest application store. It includes more 85000 apps for the iPod and iPhone.

On this special occasion, Steve Jobs, the CEO of Apple said “The rate of App Store downloads continues to accelerate with users downloading a staggering two billion apps in just over a year, including more than half a billion apps this quarter alone” In addition, he added “The App Store has reinvented what you can do with a mobile handheld device, and our users are clearly loving it”.

Well, yes, I agree with Steve jobs saying that reinvention thingee. Many users are enjoying apps for their iPhones. And this Apple iPhone is still selling like hot cakes. There is too much craze for iPhone. Afterall, who don’t wants to “touch”.

This post is about the codename of various Windows operating systems. Codenames are the names given by Microsoft to the products in development stage. Before appearing on the shelves, that means during development stage, they are known or recognized by codenames. Did you ever know that Windows Vista is codenamed as “Longhorn”. Lets learn about some more codenames. Read more…

Yes, I have faced this problem. Not one time but two times. First my PC had only Windows XP. Than I installed Ubuntu. Than due to some problem, I again wanted to format Windows XP and install it. After doing this my GRUB bootloader was gone, and I can only start Windows XP. Second time, I wanted to triple boot i.e Windows XP + Ubuntu + Windows 7. Now again after installing, my GRUB is gone. So, many of you must have faced a similar problem. Now today, lets learn how to solve this problem and restore GRUB bootloader. Read more…

Yes, its true. If you are a student, than you can get Windows 7 Professional genuine license key for just 19 $ . Not just Windows 7 but many more softwares also. As we know, the MSDNAA website gives students access to genuine softwares like Windows 7 , Windows Vista, XP, Visual Basic, and many more softwares. But getting access to MSDNAA website is not that easy. So today, we’ll see how to get access to MSDNAA website and get these genuine softwares. Read more…

Heared this name? Dropbox. A very simple name but it can do wonders. In this digital age, we love our files very much. We can’t even think of loosing our important / precious files. That’s where Dropbox comes to the rescue. Ofcourse there are many websites which allow you to store files online, but dropbox is something different. It’s a somewhat new concept. I have been using Dropbox from more than a month and I love Dropbox. Lets see what makes Dropbox too good to use. Read more…