An IT professional living far away from the pearl of Indian ocean. A Telecom nomad moved towards networking & hospitality IT building elegant resort in the romantic island of Maldives. An open-source fanatic, a geek and yes! a minion fan. I prefer football & popcorn ^_^
Xiaomi Redmi Note 3 – Contacts issue with WhatsApp
Xiaomi is a privately owned Chinese electronics company who’s located at Beijing. Being the 5th largest smartphone maker, they have been invading the most part of the world selling their products which states nearly around 70+ million sells. Their hardware, operating system, accessories… etc are way better than a [...]
Sending GIFs on Viber is now supported [Update 6.1.1]
Alright folks! The wait is over. Viber allowed few features with its new update, and one of them is a killer competition as users are vaguely requesting the popular messaging platforms for a while. However, after a struggle; Viber considered the value and patched its messaging platform allowing GIFs to be used in conversations. [...]
Viber – What’s new with the latest desktop update
Viber is by far the greatest desktop app (instant messaging) I’ve seen after Yahoo! messenger. At least that is what I feel when using it. And the best part of it being the coolest while having the required features pushed with each and every update. According to the official support, they have released some of the [...]
WhatsApp Desktop App arrives for Windows and Mac
WhatsApp had taken over the internet once again surprising its users with the new desktop for both Windows and Mac Operating systems. If you were not aware, It is a popular IM (instant messaging) platform used by billions of users to send texts, videos, images, calls… etc over the internet and not to mention, the very [...]
Exchange aliases being forwarded to external addresses
Exchange, also abbreviated as Microsoft Exchange is a service provided by Microsoft as In-house and hosted… etc. You may refer to this Wikipedia article which gives a broader explanation on the product line. Since the beginning of the cloud computing era, all the services offered by various providers started to get faces [...]
Viber end-to-end encryption with the latest build
We’re living in a world where technology became a part of our lives. As a matter of fact, we are controlled by the Technology. Without technology, we’re just another handicap who’s left in the dark. Along with WhatsApp‘s latest security implementations a.k.a the end-to-end encryption that rolled out past [...]
pfSense – Access your firewall from anywhere with your Dynamic DNS host
In my previous article, I have explained about configuring Dynamic DNS with pfSense. My next article ideally should be using VPN with the DynDNS configured as I promised. However, that requires a complete explanation along with a careful consideration to make sure I don’t miss anything. I’m half-way through the [...]
pfSense – Configure Dynamic DNS with NoIP
pfSense is few of the most powerful yet, open-source software based firewall you can ever find. It serves and consists of most of the requirement an individual or an SME requires. However, I would not recommend such solutions for an enterprise level use with much higher expectations as pfSense might not fit into the bucket. [...]
Transport rules with Office365 Exchange
When you’re into Technology and when you’re so enthusiastic about learning the new trends, you’ll be the first preference always when there’s a new study involved. Likewise, I’ve been handed over to a project where I had to migrate a complete domain from Google Apps to Exchange online (Office365). [...]
Terminating tasks on remote computers [Windows only]
Recently, I’ve been asked to do some trace and backup a user’s information that are related to the work environment. By the time this was requested, I knew using a “$” mark following with either PC (FQDN) name or its IP address at the end of the destination will give me complete access to the contents [...]