[SOLVED] Storage Space Running Out on Galaxy S2

First of all, Hands Down, Samsung Galaxy S2 is the best phone I have ever used and it still ranks among the top smartphones available in the market. Even Samsung kept it alive for 3 years by feeding it Gingerbread (Android 2.3) to Ice Cream Sandwich (4.0) to Jelly Bean (4.1).
Although at one point of time the phone was working smoothly with over 450 applications installed in it, but suddenly somewhere in October, 2013 with just around 100/150 applications, my phone started showing the device storage issue message frequently whenever the available space went below 200MB.
Let me first tell you that this problem is not an issue of rooting the device or does rooting will fix it. You don't even have to Factory Reset your device to get back the storage.
The solution is much simpler than that:
1. Press *#9900* on your device keypad to enter SysDump.
2. Select the second option displayed on the screen: Delete dumpstate/logcat

That's it. I recovered almost around 1 GB by doing this.

A Quick Tip: Avoid Crashing of Firefox 15 by KIS 2013

Kaspersky Internet Security 2013 has been released into the market. And almost at the same time Firefox launched its latest stable version 15.0
As of now, although no major conflicts have been reported by users on online forums, but a glitch is crashing browsers for some users as soon as they enable the Kaspersky plug-ins for Firefox.

Reason:
Firefox remembers the last page/tab opened by you. So if the last page that remained in the browser was the permission page generated by Kaspersky Internet Security, then the browser closes itself (may be it is trying to restart the browser).

Fix:
The moment Firefox opens and before it closes again automatically(within a second), hit "CTRL+N". That will open a new tab and it will remain in the memory of Fireox from now on. And you can work normally.

Check & Download DDA 2011 (DDA 2010 HOUSING SCHEME) Draw Result Now

Off Topic Alert: This post is not about blogging.

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Download the complete list of DDA 2010 Housing Scheme Successful Applicants
[2.2 MB PDF File]

The draw was conducted on 18th April, 2011 at the Sector-62 office of the Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (CDAC).

Right now the servers of DDA are unable to take the load of curious applicants trying to check their results.
So, if you want to check the status of your applications, then download the complete list of successful applicants right now from this link:

List of DDA 2010 Housing Scheme Successful Applicants
[2.2 MB PDF File]

Wishing You Best Of Luck :)

Cloud Computing - for The NOT SO Technical Netizens

For the last several months, I have been using and suggesting my readers to use OpenDrive to host their files online, which also allows them to hotlink their files; An important requirement if you want to host and embed MP3 players in to your blogs.
While using this service I got a chance to use their cloud computing based OpenDrive Desktop too. Here, in this article, I am not going to tell you the technical basics of Cloud Computing, viz. IaaS, PaaS, SaaS etc. but just the basics - how can a person with a PC and an Internet connection get the benefits of it. Before I explain "how to use OD-Desktop", have a look on the basics...

So, what exactly is Cloud Computing?
In cloud computing all your data is stored in clouds (okay, it's not actually "clouds", but these are "servers" installed in several countries across the world). The data is updated in real-time when you update the files on your PC (provided you have an active Internet connection). And finally, you can access these up-to-date files from anywhere & anytime.

FFF - Firefox Turned Five !

This great open source browser, is not just recommended to webmasters but to every Internet user. According to the global stats from Statcounter, the overall share of Internet Explorer is already down to around 50% (15% down from last year) and that of Firefox has increased to around 30% (20% growth from last year). Check out "The Story of FireFox" on Youtube.