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The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has lauched its beta version of Bhuvan. As far as I have seen its better than Google Earth, at least on the Indian Subcontinent. The features are pretty much like Google Earth. But sadly, This is what the site has to say “Site is heavily loaded withe users. Please bear with us for the delay. View in IE 6.0 or above only.” How to use Bhuvan [...]

Ever wanted to how old sites looked like? The internet web-archive service lets you do that. It houses information from 1996. It basically has been crawling websites from 1996 and storing it in its server. I always wanted to know how google looked like when it was born. Wanna know how it did? And it didn’t even have its own domain then (google.standford.edu), kind of like mine is nowadays….(Any [...]

If you have a VGA cable, connecting your headphones can be tricky. If you don’t, you can Make a VGA cable for the Xbox 360,  yourself The signal from Xbox 360 is very weak. We need to amplify it. I will be showing ways to amplify the signals. Ways you can do it: 1) This is the easiest method. If you have a decent speaker just connect the RC cables to the line-in port of the speaker. Then, connect [...]

First of all I would like to thank all the people involved on Xbox-scene, Llamma and other forums who have made this repair possible. Disclaimer: Do not use this method if you have the warranty. Use this method as your last resort. What is RRoD? Basically, RRoD (Red Ring of Death) is a name given to Microsoft’s 3 Red light error and is a caused by cheap manufacturing. How do you find out the reason [...]

First of all I thank Xbox-scene and Xbox-experts to make this possible. Possible Defective parts: 1) Power brick/supply 2) Motherboard 3) Mosfets Finding the defective part: Common sense… Use the power brick with any other working Xbox 360 (Just to check, borrow it from your friend) 1) If it doesn’t work – Your Power brick is faulty 2) If its does – Your 360 is faulty. You can also check your [...]

How it works? Primarily, as the heat increases near the CPU, the RPM (Rotations per Minute) of the fans increases. So, lesser the voltage –> slower the fans –> Rapid heat buildup. In this mod, we will make sure that the fan gets 12 V all the time. Materials needed: * Some spare wires * A cutter * Soldering Iron (Optional) Procedure: Assuming you already know to open an Xbox 360, if not one [...]

Recommended reads before reading this article. Reason? Motherboard is in great stress due to flexing of the motherboard. How to fix it? This is the X-clamp replacement method. Note: Its is not a permanent fix. What you need? * M5 5x10mm Machine screws (8 Pieces) * 5mm Steel/Zinc Washers (16 pieces) * 5mm Nylon/Fibre Washers (16 pieces) * Torx 10 and Torx 8 Screw driver to open the 360 and pull [...]

Ad placement is very important for a web-publisher. Good placement of ads can do wonders. So, how do you do it? Well, Here is a neat app which will help you with your decision. It uses artificial intelligence (atleast, thats what they say) to simulate first five seconds of vision. All you need to do is to take a snap of your website and upload it on their website. You will be provided with a heat [...]

Ever wanted to connect your computer to your HDTV? Obviously for better resolution, clarity, etc. You can make a cable for it and again this is just for hobbyists like me. This time I am not going to write a noob friendly tutorial like my previous post because this is pretty simple and straight forward. What you need: 1) A VGA Cable 2) AV / RCA plugs (You can pull this out from spare wires) 3) Soldering [...]

This is part of the “How to connect laptop/ desktop computer to a TV” series I wanted to connect my laptop to my TV so I went to some shop and got a cheap cable. It NEVER worked. I am perfectly sure that they have messed up with the wiring. Anyways, I just pulled out the S Video jack and the AV / RCA jack from it and wired it up. Worked like a charm. What you need: 1) Soldering Iron 2) [...]