Microsoft Internet Explorer 9 has been a huge improvement to it's ancestors, it's faster, sleeker, feature rich and good looking. Microsoft advertised IE9 as a faster and future technology proof application with smooth animations and HTML5 magic. Now, here is a funny parody take on that commercial labelled "Internet Explorer 9 Commercial - The Honest version".

While a lot of graphical user-interfaces and utilities are available for Linux, there are times when one needs some command line skill sets to get things going. After installing my Raspberry Pi with an Debian operating-system and using the popular "X Window System" to manage it, things went bad today as the "startx" command failed to load the graphical user-interface. Upon digging up through terminal using "df -h" command, it was clear there was no space left on the rootfs partition which was causing "X" to fail loading.

It needs to be noted that the official Raspberry Debian Wheezy Image does not partition the SD card to it's full capacity, and we need to do that later as instructed ahead. Extending the root partition to utilize full-space will also get rid of application launch errors caused due to non-availability of disk space in rootfs partition.

Apple designs beautiful products, and there have been many concepts mimicking their design philosophy on products they don't create. Here is yet another example of simplistic and futuristic table-tennis table designed using Apple aesthetics. The concept labelled "Apple iTable 2" shows a futuristic version of popular game ping-pong (Table Tennis), the concept features multi-touch surface which is responsive to both human touch as well as the ping-pong ball. The table is powered with two 2.4GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon E5620 processors, an ATI Radeon HD 5870 graphic cards, a Wi-Fi connection and 12 Bose micro speakers. The screen is Apple’s new HiDPI, which gives a resolution of 2880 x 1800 pixel.

The SMART Table will offer various statistics and data during and after the game, for example ball hit location, trajectories and player scores. All this can be synced with Apple iPhone and iPad.

If you have an Apple iPhone without a working WiFi connection and you are dependent on the Ultrasn0w software unlock, you are stuck in a sort of classic "Chicken or the egg" dilemma - you dont have an WiFi internet connection and you can't use your cellular data network until you unlock your phone by first downloading ultrasn0w via Cydia !!!

Thankfully, we have solutions to install ultrasn0w manually as blogged earlier - however, the trick shared earlier is outdated now and UltraPusher is no longer updated. We can still get things done manually as instructed ahead.

The DFU (Device Firmware Update) mode is needed to update/upgrade/restore an Apple iDevice, however if you want to flash a custom .IPSW file you must enter a Pwned DFU mode i.e. a special DFU mode which had exploited limera1n jailbroken core to allow operations not permitted by the normal Apple DFU core.

Here is a simple to follow, visual tutorial on how to enter the Pwned DFU mode on an Apple device using ever handy redsn0w jailbreaking tool.

TinyUmbrella is an indispensable tool in the war between jailbreaking community and Apple, the software allows users to save their iDevice SHSH files making it possible to later downgrade or restore a firmware (.IPSW) even when Apple has blocked that forcing users to upgrade to a newer version.

If you are having issues trying to use TinyUmbrella and error shown is "Cannot Start TSS Service" and the status shows "TinyUmbrella's TSS server is not running" with option to start the server disabled, here is a quick and easy solution to the problem.

There is no doubt that iOS 6 Apple Maps failed miserably, and now Apple has even admitted that. To test the impact in an real world usage scenario, Reuters pitted Apple Maps with Google Maps and the resulting video is as follows.

Touch interactive user-interfaces are the latest trend across today's gadget and gizmos landscape, however if you are not willing to shell out premium money for these expensive touchscreens here is something of your interest.

TMDtouch is an China based company which is offering an innovative solution to enable full touch ability and gesture support to existing screens without installing anything on the host operating-system, the "Zorro Macsk" system works by mounting an magnetic aluminum frame on top of your screen and plugging in the USB cable to get everything working. The sensors built into the frame interacts with OS native multi-touch gestures converting your screen to a huge touchscreen display.

Must watch, exciting video demonstration of "Zorro Macsk" with iMac running Mac OS X and an huge screen running Windows 8 posted ahead.

Ever wanted to see when you email was opened, at what location and which links were clicked ? There are quite a few services which offer this as blogged earlier, there also exist specialized software utilities to track email headers letting users trace geographic origin of an email. While the service is mainly targeted at mass email marketers, they also provide a free account with 5 emails/day tracking limitation which can be used by individuals.

BananaTag would be the fastest and simplest service to offer email tracking service with advanced features. The service lets users track when their emails are opened, links clicked, and from what location and device. BananaTag also provides easy-to-consume in-depth metrics, allowing users to better interact with their email contacts.

The service works with any email client or service, with exclusive extensions for Gmail and an add-in for Outlook. Once activated the service will auto-notify the user as actions takes place on sent emails.

The revolutionary cheap and small Raspberry Pi mini computer is so popular now it hardly needs an introduction. After assembling all the bits and pieces needed to run an RPi, you will need to format and load the SD card with an compatible linux operating system of your choice. Here is easy and fast way to get this done.