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I live in a 2 bed room 900 sqft house. My current router is a Netgear R7000. The router is located at one end of the house (cannot be moved since the internet optical fiber equipment is kept there). I get poor signal in one of the bed rooms and a bath room, and sometimes, no signal at all...

I grew up in a small town and didn't really bother about what to wear at home. Earlier, I just used to wear old nearly worn out pants. Recently, thought of moving to something better. I tried a couple of track pants. 2 of them bought for Rs. 500 each (from Big Bazaar) got damaged within 1-2...

I am in the market for containers that can be used in refrigerator freezer for storing meat, fish and other non veg items. I liked the Tupperware Freezermate containers such as this 3.3l and this 650ml. But I am not sure if they are genuine since some of the comments say it may be fake. I looked...

I recently bought a LG 24MP88HV monitor (Amazon link). I noticed that the display felt plastic (I was expecting glass). My first thought was may be it has a screen protector similar to phones. I looked at its edges and saw a plastic layer. I tried pulling it out thinking it was the screen...

I was trying to replace my 6-7 years old HP DV5 1015tx laptop's hard disk with an SSD. Unfortunately, I think I broke the SATA connector since the laptop stopped detecting the disk after opening it. I checked in another laptop, and the disk gets detected properly. But it doesn't even show up in...

YouTube link. It shows Munnar at 1.22.

I will be coming back from US in a month or two. I am thinking of building a high end gaming PC once I get back to India. Would you recommend buying some of those components from US?

For the last several days, I have been trying to setup OpenVPN on my Netgear R7000 router running DD WRT. From my Android phone, I can connect to the VPN, but internet access doesn't work. Please give me your suggestions. The current setup is as follows: There are two routers - one provided by...

I have been using a hard disk and USB drive attached to my router as NAS drives for a while. I like the flexibility it gives. But the speed is limited to a maximum of 15 MB/s download and 13 MB/s upload. So I have been thinking of buying a NAS (Synology 214 with 2 WD RED 4 TB drives), but I...

I am thinking of setting up a home security system. At a bare minimum, I want to have cameras that are recording all the time. If not too expensive, I also would like to have a centralized system that could monitor doors, windows etc. If any of you guys have any such system in use at your homes...

Does anybody have a yellowish tint in your Nexus 5 display? I got mine and is noticeably yellowish compared to my previous phone. I asked for a replacement, it is slightly less yellowish than the first one! Photo 1: Original on left, replacement on right Photo 2: (left) Nexus 7, Nexus 5, Nexus...

I didn't see any posts specific to PS3 Battlefield. Hence starting this thread... PSN id: unnikvg Battelog id: unnikvg Has Mic: Yes Speaks: English & Malayalam Usual Timings (IST): Weekdays - 5.30 am to 7 am, weekends - 9.30 pm to 4.30 am TeamSpeak, Skype: Yes I don't have much in terms of...

I am currently in US. I am planning to order a Dell laptop (along with a widi/miracast adapter) and sent it to India. Please recommend a good and reliable option. I don't mind even if it is slightly costly.

I was looking for XPS 15 Dell laptops, but couldn't find any. Has Dell stopped selling XPS 15 laptops in India? (Link)

Came across this story in Reddit. Since I also sometimes do charge the phone overnight, thought of sharing here. Source See this also.

Anybody here has connected their Galaxy S Advance to TV's HDMI using the MHL cable?

I am in the process of buying a TV for home. Since I am not in India at the moment, I was looking for websites that deliver to my home (which is far away from city). I checked Flipkart, they do not deliver in our area. I came across this website qrs.in yesterday. They say they will deliver...

Hi, I am planning to buy a new TV for my parents this month. Here are my requirements. 1. Budget: 50-90k. 2. Viewing distance: 4 metres. 3. Sources/inputs such as HD DTH/consoles/stand-alone media players etc: SD DTH, stand alone media players, Wifi Direct. 4. Preference for plasma TV/LCD...

For quite sometime, I have been thinking about developing something similar to Microsoft's Plus Dancer. I really love this app (especially Scooby). Unfortunately, it doesn't support Vista properly. I have fairly good knowledge of C++ & Java and basics of C#. But learning is not at all an issue...

Using LastScrape, I downloaded all my listening history from Last.fm. Now, I want to create different types of reports from it. For example: 1. top 100 most listened tracks 2. top day of the week/day of month with highest number of songs played 3. a time line 4. top artists/albums 5. my mood...