Easily regain your disk space with SpaceSniffer

Kirtan Thakkar

Kirtan Thakkar

Life is all about learning

Its not just your smartphone who gives you errors about your disk space. You may have came across memory issues on your laptop or desktop running Windows operating system. Its been always hard to find which files are using your disk space. Here comes SpaceSniffer. A freeware disk analyzer, which shows you what's eating your space how much.

How Photos have changed over the years

Kirtan Thakkar

Kirtan Thakkar

Life is all about learning

Photos have become really important part of our life. We take lots of photos daily. Our photos library has become significantly large. We take lots of efforts to manage and backup our photos these days. And there are many solutions came to help us manage our photos easier way. One of the best solution till date I found was Google Photos.

How to Run your Openshift Application without Idling

Kirtan Thakkar

Kirtan Thakkar

Life is all about learning

OpenShift is great to run your small website or application in the cloud. The main advantage is, it gives free 3 small gears. It can easily handle your personal or small amount of traffic. But it gets into idle mode when not used for 24 hours. So if there isn't any HTTP request in 24 hours, your application will be in idle mode. And next time, when it receives the request it will take a little bit longer to respond as it needs to start your gear and then responds to the request.

Search Files Super Fast with Everything on Windows PC

Kirtan Thakkar

Kirtan Thakkar

Life is all about learning

Searching a file on your Windows PC is sometimes very frustrating. It takes a good amount of time to search a file because of its indexing process. It makes a bit more frustrating when you a need a file buried deep down in your hard-disk or the file you saved 5 years ago and don't have a clue where it can be. Here, comes my favorite Windows search engine, Everything.

Put your Images on a diet

Kirtan Thakkar

Kirtan Thakkar

Life is all about learning

How many times you have faced a situation like this, webpage is loading images and you are waiting for them. Today media rich websites are increasing at rapid pace. And tons of images increases the loading time and bandwidth for users. There are many compression tools available for you to compress images.

RecyclerView : Keep It Simple, Silly

Kirtan Thakkar

Kirtan Thakkar

Life is all about learning

RecyclerView is a more advanced version of the ListView. RecyclerView is used for displaying large data sets that can be scrolled very efficiently by maintaining a limited number of views. To build a small list in RecyclerView, you need to write a lots of code. I have been using RecyclerView from almost 3-4 months, but everytime I just copied the code to get it work. It worked most of the time, but I never understood the code how it works. So when I watched this year’s I/O 2016 for RecyclerView I understood the basics why I need to write that much of code and how it works. It looks complex, but it isn’t.