All things Geeky
I have always been a proponent of making data-driven decisions. While working at New York University as a Web Publishing Consultant, I often found myself writing custom code and SQL queries to gather data around the WordPress multisite installation. In the 2 years since I helped launch this service, it has become the second-largest tech […]
I recently developed a WordPress plugin and published it on wordpress.org. The requirements for this plugin were completely customer-driven. While supporting a large 5000+ multisite installation at New York University, we often got complaints from our site admins (mostly faculties using our service for the course they are teaching) that they were having a difficult […]
As soon as Apple released WatchKit for developing WatchOS Applications, I wanted to learn how to make an app and publish it to the app store. I use a VLC media player to play music and sometimes videos and I use an iPhone application that controls the playback and volume. Unfortunately, the developer of the […]
I’m sorry for taking too long to finish the second part of this series. I realize now that a lot of the media renamer tools from the previous post are obsolete or there are better alternatives. Also, some of them are not compatible across all OS. In this post, I will show you how to […]
I was always fascinated with cloud computing and working with cloud services. That is the reason I took the Cloud Computing class while pursuing my Masters in Computer Science at New York University. Here is a demo for one of the projects I worked on using a bunch of Amazon Web Services, Node.js, and socket.io. […]
Another demo from one of my favorite classes at New York University. As part of my mobile application group project, we wanted to work on a mobile app that solves a common problem among friends when planning a meetup and also combines our learning from the Cloud Computing class. Idea Have you ever wanted an […]
If you have a Macbook with limited storage on SDD and don’t want to install ubuntu on the Mac or you just want to have a movable OS with persistent storage (meaning your settings and files are stored on the drive unlike live CD) in your pocket, you have come to the right place. In […]
Do you want your digital video library to look as good as this? Do you want to scrape your media for metadata (download metadata and artwork of TV shows and Movies) locally so that it is compatible with most media players and media center softwares such as Plex Media Center, XBMC, Windows Media Center, etc.?
For my wedding site, I wanted a simple, yet elegant and fast website. In this post, I am going to share how I went about creating my wedding site and ended up hosting my website on GitHub for free. Step 1: Domain Purchasing a domain was very straightforward I used GoDaddy to purchase the domain […]
I have come across two wonderful services which lets you track emails you send and be notified when, where (city/country) and how (desktop/mobile) the email was read. 1. SpyPig Spypig notification Spypig service comes in handy if you want to track your email and want to know exactly when your email was read. It can […]
