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I have a number of old phones. Mostly they just hang around in a box of all other computer hardware. I have two smartphones, one feature phone and one dumb phone.  First one is Intex Aquafish. Great phone, but since it can't connect to my office network (Crazy!!!), can't really use it.  Next one is Karbonn S1 Plus which is ancient now. Gifted this to sister, she used it for 2.5Yrs., and by then it was quite busted. Battery gone, frame cracked, power button barely working, and horizontal white lines on screen. I gifted another phone to sister. But this phone is not totally dead. I replaced the battery for 300Rs and reset the phone. Turns out it works fine as a standalone GPS navigator. So that's it. Its hanging around like that.  Next one is a Nokia C5. This was the first phone I gifted to sister, before the Karbonn. It works fine, but no it's quite obsolete. No wifi, Symbian etc etc. But the thing is it's still a fine phone. I use this as mp3 player these days. Work...

Never thought I'll say bye bye to Firefox ever. But this week I did say bye bye.  On pc Firefox is too slow and often unresponsive. Clearing profile and fresh install didn't help.  On the other end, Vivaldi is so much more responsive, fast and light. Damn good.  On mobile Firefox often won't connect to net. Don't know why. I'm using dolphin browser. Not as polished and with some weird preferences. But it works faster and is much lighter.  So that's it. Adios Firefox. 

I am an exclusive user of Firefox. Recently I got the Quantum upgrade. Firefox seems to have become faster. But it seems to have become more bloated. On my 1GB RAM entry level android, it often seems to be crawling. Same situation is on my laptop with 2GB RAM. The sites load fine but it just gets unresponsive once in a while. I have only one plugin - that is uBlock origin. And it's a necessity. So I have decided to try other browser - something that's light and doesn't eat away the RAM like it's donated freely. Lets see if I find anything. The first one I tried out is Vivaldi. It's from Opera's former team. And it looks promising. I loaded gmail and google drive. It loaded quickly since I have good internet here. And the browser did not seem to be all that slow. Then I opened my tech blog and later opened one planning sheet which has quite a few excel formulas. At this point Firefox starts hitting RAM ceiling and starts getting slow. No such thing for Vivaldi. T...

Not many posts for Dec 17. Well, 2017 was a good year for tech in my perspective. Not many things broke. The Lenovo G580 is still going strong, so is Sennheiser HD439. The pair of Soundmagic ES10's is holding out. Damn! They are one of the best cans I got hold of. These days I use them with an old Nokia C5 and they work beautifully. So that's it! Bye bye 2017. Resolutions for 2018? Well, a lot of things need to change. I need to fix my health. That means getting couple of festering health issues treated. And start exercising. Well that's all for now. Adios!