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Nokia the world’s largest mobile devices company has lately been on receiving end with regard to smartphone segment owing to their ageing S60 platform. Apple changed the way people looked at smartphones after they launched iPhone; after iPhone’s launch every new smartphone is always benchmarked against the iPhone. The iPhone was innovative and surely did capture huge chunk of the smartphone market segment.

Nokia introduces the N900 which is a smartphone rather a mobile computer that is powered by Maemo OS which is based on Debian Linux and the GUI is derived from various frameworks and libraries from Gnome project. Maemo uses the Matchbox window manager, and GTK-based Hildon as its GUI and application framework.

The Nokia N900 is basically a internet tablet with telephone functionality and it is the successor to the internet tablet N810 which also powered by Maemo OS.

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ExtractItAll is a freeware utility using which you can batch extract / unpack multiple password protected archives using a list of passwords. This tool can also be used to extract archives which are not password protected, these days huge files in rapidshare and other file sharing sites are stored in multiple parts. A 700MB file will be stored in 7 parts of 100MB each with file names file.rar, file.r01 .. file.rn etc so this tool also extracts files of those type as well.

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Now most people have more than one computer at home with a home network, which gives rise to share and map folders across computers. Share Manager is a free software that allows you manage mapped and shared drives in your windows computer.

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Recently Google added the Explore feature Google Reader which displays popular feeds that you may have not yet subscribed, this feature may be useful and there may be many people who don’t  like this feature. I wanted to get rid of the Explore feature and found that there was no way to do that from the settings. There is a excellent greasemonkey script called “Google Reader Remove Explore” that removes the explore feature in Google reader.

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WinRaR is a java application that can be used with Nokia N97 or 5800 or any phone that supports J2ME phone. WinRaR can be used to create archive, extract, compress and decompress rar / zip files in your mobile phone. This application supports zip, jar and rar file formats.

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There were recent enhancements to Adobe Flash player installers owing to which you cannot uninstall Adobe Flash from your computer from Windows control panel. In the event that you need to uninstall the Adobe Flash player completely it has to be accomplished by using official tool provided by the Adobe.

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Google reader is a fantastic feed reader for managing all your RSS feeds and is used by many of us. If you subscribe to lot of RSS feeds then you will receive thousands of updates daily but Google reader displays 1000+ as the total count of the unread items when the unread feed item count is more than 1000. There are instances when you would like to know how much unread items you have if you are clearing your RSS feeds after a long time like me.

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When Ubuntu Linux and Windows are used together and if the time zone is not UTC and when the computer is rebooted into Windows after Ubuntu Linux is used the time gets changed as the BIOS clock gets reset to UTC. For example if the time zone that is set in Ubuntu Linux is GMT +5.30 hrs then after Ubuntu Linux’s usage the time in BIOS clock would be set to UTC time i.e. the BIOS clock would be +5.30 hrs behind the Ubuntu Linux’s time but if you boot into Ubuntu Linux it will automatically adjust to the local time where as the time on Windows will be the UTC time which can cause issues with Windows.

The difference is the way Ubuntu Linux and Windows handle time, Windows considers the BIOS clock of the computer to be the local time where as Ubuntu considers it as UTC time. To solve this we would have to set Ubuntu Linux to consider the hardware or BIOS clock as local time

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