Monday, April 23, 2012

How to clear the windows security log?


Note: You need to be an administrator user to perform the following operation.

Control Panel > Administrative Tools > Computer Management

Now select 'Events' on the left hand side. Right hand side you should see 'Security', right click on it and choose 'Clear all evnets'.

How to remove the Picasa synced photos from Android?

Force stop (Kill) the Gallery App and disable the data transfer.

Go to Settings >  Accounts & Sync > your Google account and uncheck the Sync Picasa Web Album option.

Now go to Settings > Applications > Manage Applications > Gallery and clear the cache & data.

Enable the data transfer, open the Gallery again, hopefully you should be good.

Wednesday, April 11, 2012

How to reload /etc/fstab after a change?

Issue the command 'mount -a' to mount all the fstab entries or give 'mount /<newItem>'.

Sunday, April 8, 2012

How to sync Android phone contacts to Gmail

Ah this was a real tough job for me. I hate the idea of Google that sync each and everything we kept with them in all their services. It was so foolish for me to create a Google+ account and see all my blogger pictures in that account as an album and with out a second thought I deleted everything. Bingo! I lost all the pictures I posted in my blogs till that date. Thank you so much dear Google.

Next turn was setting up my android. It pick up all the calender events from Facebook, Google account etc and I just given the option delete all events. Once again thank you so much Google. You have cleared all my calenders. Google also brought all my picasa albums including the blogger once to my android. I really hate that idea too. There is no way to selectively sync the albums. Also, sync my Google account contacts was impossible. They have brought all my Orkut contacts and whenever I reply all to a forwarded mail, the great Google used to add all those contacts to my Google account.

Thats enough. Now on wards I decided to keep a separate Google account for my personal contacts & personal events which I like to see in my mobile as well.

I've created the new Gmail account. Now the question is how to move all my phone contacts to my new account? Well that was pretty easy! Before that make sure that Google won't auto save any contacts in your new account. Go to settings and disable the auto fill (Settings > General Tab > Create contacts for auto complete).

Go to contacts, select send and then select Gmail as the mode of sending your contacts, and sent them to your new Google account. It will email all your contacts as a vcf file. Open the mail, you will see an option to Import the contacts. Now delete all your phone contacts. And just sync your phone with the new Google account. You are done. Now edit the contacts, upload the photos you need in your android etc to the new Google account and sync it. You are all good.

PS: There is no way to delete the primary Google account you have configured in your phone. So may be keep it for the typical use and what ever you need in your future phones, migrate those information to your new account gradually.

If anyone has better suggestions, please drop your comments.