Akhil Saji

UBox and UPack Review

Moving is a stressful process no matter how you cut it. In the last few months, I have had to move out of two separate apartments as well as furnish a new home by moving across the continent (twice). I used two popular pod services called UPack by ABF Freight

On independence day

"Gentlemen,” he said softly, “You will permit me to put on my spectacles, for I have not only grown gray but almost blind in the service of my country." -George Washington, 1783 Source

How to download streaming video from any website

Have you ever encountered some web video you find immensely helpful but can't bookmark or save for later viewing? Most streaming plugins prevent saving of such video contents for later viewing; however, there are ways to save such content for offline viewing and personal consumption. Below is a

Editing Photo EXIF Data

There is currently no easy way to edit EXIF data especially in batch fashion on Mac or iOS devices. Importing photos into your iCloud photo library with incorrect Date Time information can result in the disaster of your photo timeline being bombarded with photos from incorrect dates. I recently had

Home server project (2021)

Introduction One of the items on my long term to-do list was to put my old hard drive collection to use by creating a network attached storage (NAS) machine. Over several upgrades over the past few years, I had amassed several 500gb-1tb drives both in 2.5' and 3.

How to merge MP3 files together

This is a quick tutorial on merging mp3 files together. Like many seemingly trivial computing tasks that one would imagine are easy to perform in the year 2021 this is remarkably not easy to do. This is the fastest route I discovered and I hope it's helpful. Requirements

Utility of a VPN

The importance of having access to a VPN recently dawned on me as I noticed several of the WiFi networks I rely on (primarily at work) block access to several critical tools including e-mail, Google Drive and even certain academic websites that are likely deemed traffic hungry. One way to

Intake Fan Mod for Dell PowerEdge T20

I purchased the Dell PowerEdge T20 several years ago for an Unraid server build that I use to back up my data. One of the unfortunate design flaws of this system is the lack of an intake fan for system and specifically hard drive cooling. I had completed this mod

How to create a bootable Windows 10 usb on MacOS

I was recently putting together a low cost Windows 10 Machine for my dad (post on that to follow) and realized how non-trivial of a task it is to create a bootable windows 10 usb drive using a mac. (If you have a windows machine availiable, simply use the windows

How to create a clean Windows 10 install

Microsoft bundles fresh installations of Windows 10 with a variety of junk software including free trials and small games that most people have no intention of using. Uninstalling this mess of software even on a "fresh" installation can be challenging. Luckily, there are some tools that can help.