Spotlight has one of the best made search algorithms of all times. It gives you instant search results so as you start typing in something relavent data starts showing up. All this is true for the mac but for any resource outside the mac spotlight does not work by its self. If you try to use spotlight in a network drive or folder it will show no results.

You can over come this problem by manuallytelling spotlight to index certain network drives.

Open terminal and issue the command
mdutil /Volumes/{volume_name} -i on

Replacing {volume_name} with the actual name of your network drive or folder.

You can check the status if spotlight is indexing the drive by

mdutil /Volumes/{volume_name} -s

Apple devices have a feature called AirPlay in them which allow you to stream audio as well as video (from newer devices) to some AirPlay enabled device such as an Airport Extreme. But buying an airport device and also a separate set of speakers unique with it just to stream music seems useless. To get around this condition all you need is an old windows machine. You can disguise your windows machine as an Airplay device and the mac or your iphone will wirelessly send the audio to the windows machine.

To do this all you need to do is download ShairPort4w from here. Download the zipped files extract it and run it on your windows machine. Once up and running come back to your Mac and while pressing alt/option key and clicking the sound symbol in the notification area and then select Shairport4w.

Turn on your iTunes and play any song. You will notice the the audio is been streamed to the PC wirelessly.

In this example I will use μtorrent as it is a cross-platform software and is an efficient one.

First you need to download and install μtorrent. One up and running go to File->New Torrent or press Crtl+N (for Windows) / Command+N (for Mac) . Select the file or directory you want to send. Yes you can send a whole directory without compressing it. Next we need to add a tracker. You can choose from a list of public trackers available but technically only one would be sufficient but personally I adding multiple trackers is always good. You can select trackers fron the following list of public trackers :-

http://open.tracker.thepiratebay.org/announce

http://www.torrent-downloads.to:2710/announce

http://denis.stalker.h3q.com:6969/announce

udp://denis.stalker.h3q.com:6969/announce

http://www.sumotracker.com/announce

 

Next just click create and save as, start seeding the torrent. Share te link with your friends and they would be able to download the file.

Okay so let’s get started. So first find out how to forward ports on your router. This tell your router to allow traffic from certain ports and redirect it to a given IP. Go here and find out how to forward ports on your router. Click on the Default Guide for a general instruction guid for port forward.

Now go ahead and forward ports 137(TCP/UDP) , 138(TCP) , 139(TCP) , 445(TCP) to the ip of the computer you are hosting the SMB server on. This pity much completes the job the only thing you now need is your external IP. You can go to ip.pixeltine.com or if you are a Linux/Mac user you can give the command

curl ip.pixeltine.com

Now mount the partition using this external ip and you are done.

If you want help mounting these partitions I found these posts helpful.

• Linux
• Mac

Just use the external ip the we derived above instead of the local ip suggested in these posts.

Before you had to go to the privacy center to control all the minute details about your profile, but now Facebook has integrated the privacy settings in your profile its self. Now while editing your profile only you can chose who can see that in your profile.

Facebook also introduced a new feature know as “Profile Tag Review” . Now if some one tags a photo of you, you can decide weather it will be visible on your wall or not. You would first need to activate this new feature from your Privacy Settings -> How Tags Work .

Turn on Profile Review and Tag Review. Profile review will allow you to choose if a post has to be shared on your wall or not while Tag review will enable you to select if you want to publish a picture tagged by someone.

All these will fall under the Pending Post category just below your wall.

Tagging also got a advanced. With the introduction of the much awaited white picture viewer came some drastic changed in the tagging system. Now if you want to remove tags the procedure got just a bit longer. You can learn more about tagging from the following video

The View as tool is now available on your profile its self , providing you with easy access and knowing who can see your profile.

There are some more cool feature introduces I’ll be writing a post on them in coming days.

Some channels do give out a live stream but wouldn’t it be nice if you had to your wish approximately all of the popular news channels in India at one place where you can browse through a list of channels if you want.

Doing it is pity easy. First we need silverlight, a product of microsoft,Click here to download.

Install it and the go to this link on India times website. Here you can browse from a list of channels including Times Now, India TV, ET Now, Star Ananda , Star News , Aaj Tak , Headlines Today , Sahara Samay , Manorama News

To download JRE, Linux users car do here. Or you can go to Ubuntu software center and install OpenJDK Java 6 Runtime.

Windows users who are having a problem with heartbeat can also use this software. Windows users can download JRE from here. If you gave any queries feel free to post a comment

Google’s People widget is a sidebar widget which you would be able to see right of your email’s. This new widget will show you the previous email’s between you to , recent buzz’s from the user , Calendar events if you share some ,  the Documents that you share.

I tell you an easier way to check your wordpress stats direct from your Google chrome window while browsing.

Now to do that you would need the latest Google Chrome browser(Click here).

• Once you downloaded and installed Google chrome we need to install wordpress stat plugin(Click here)
• Once installed you will be able to see an icon like this ()beside the address bar. Click on it will ask ,you will be asked to enter your blog URL and API key. You can get the API key from here

Once done you will be able to get your wordpress blog stats in your google chrome its self.

So first let’s begin with installation of wordpress on your system(Installation on a remote server is approximately similar to this only).

WordPress needs 3 major components : an SQL server to store all the data like the Posts,Comments and other configurations, a PHP server to be able to query data from the SQL server and display it on an a web page and the last thing is an apache server(You know what apache is use for :P)

So you can install all these servers individually or as I recommend install WAMP (Windows Apache MySql PHP) Click Here. Download it and install anywhere on your system. Once done click on the wamp server icon on the notification area and put it online.

Now we are ready to install the wordpress. So go to WordPress.org and get yourself a brand new copy of WordPress. Extract it and place it in the www folder of the wamp installation we just did(usually it is C:\wamp\www).

Let us now configure the wordpress so the first thing we are gonna do is to create a new database for wordpress. To do that follow the steps:-

• Open your browser and type in http://localhost/phpmyadmin/
• There is a text box under the heading Create a new database. Type in your desired name and click Create.

To install your wordpress go to http://localhost/. Under the Your Projects section you will see the folder we extracted before named wordpress. Click on that. It will ask you to configure the wp-config file click on Create a Configuration File. Now replace the field designated as Database Name to the one you made before in phpmyadmin. In place of Username type root which is the default leave the password filed blank and click Submit. In case of users who want to install this system on a remote server you password will be the same of that of your admin login name. Click on Run Install. You would be prompted to add your blog name ,username,password and Email-ID. Click install and you are up.

Login using your username and password.

Once done now there are some things you would like to change like your ssl security(Which allows you to open your admin page with https protocol). So for this you would need to open the wamp version of MySql Console.

Press enter when prompted about entering password. Issue the command

connect yourdatabasename

Once the above screen is displayed issue the command

UPDATE wp_usermeta SET meta_value=1 WHERE umeta_id=8;

and now your admin page will have ssl encryption.

By default wordpress shows only 10 of your last feeds in the rss. If you want to increase it issue the following command in the MySql Console

UPDATE wp_options SET option_value=20 WHERE option_name=”post_per_rss”;

For any queries feel free to post a comment