A container for all my views with excerpts from technology, travel, films, books, kannada, friends and other interests. I am Thejesh GN, friends call me Thej.
Table of Contents1 PINs for both your phone and SIM2 Full disk encryption3 Public Wifi and VPN4 Apps, software maintenance5 Mobile browser, add-ons6 Password managers7 2FA or two factor authentication8 Messaging Like every geek, I have been asked to set up computers for family and friends. These days I get asked about mobiles/web...
For a long time my father has been a Nokia customer. He used a Nokia-X2. Things he liked were features like legit font, sharp screen, backlit hardware keyboard and call quality. He didn’t really use any other feature. Recently after about five years of usage; that phone conked out and with that we...
The biggest pain w.r.t phone while traveling is network and battery. I got a new phone for the last year’s epic drive, just for the trip. I paid about 10k and it was a bad phone. It would restart all the time, couldn’t focus etc. or let me just say it was disaster....
We have been working hard at Mavrix. We have been releasing new features almost every month. But this time its bigger. Now we have shiny new MySwar app for Android and IOS. Both of them are free at this point. Go ahead and install them. I am happy about the way apps have...
It wasn’t well planned. I got my visa through fast track process and four days from then I was in London. Only thing that I researched well was mobile data connection. During my research I settled on Huchison 3 data only plan. I paid £20 for SIM and 1GB. But my Nexus One...
For last six months I have been collecting the data about my internet usage on phone. I was doing this to decide on data plan. This is related to only the data usage on cellular networks and not on WIFI. Its 2G only and was captured using 3G watch Dog. What does data...
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Thejesh GN (ತೇಜೇಶ್ ಜಿ.ಎನ್) "Thej" is an Independent Technologist, Hacker, Maker, Traveler, Blogger, InfoActivist, Open data and Open internet enthusiast from Bangalore, India. He loves experimenting with all things life and hence some times he is called hacker and other times duct tape. You can read more about him here. Email [ i @ thejeshgn dot com]. PGP/GPG Keys are here.
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