Henry Korir

The brain almost exploding, heartbeat racing, and traumatic confusion ensue! Those are the experiences one goes through when one's dear smartphone crashes. I had this experience when I was experimenting with my GT-S5300. It began with a desire to write some Amharic symbols in reply to a friend in Ethiopia. The phone was not able to display and write Amharic symbol. Therefore, I had to find a way to root my phone so that I could Install Amharic fonts. The onset of the doom began as follows: Download RootExplorer.apk  Install the RootExplorer in the smartphone. Now download custom DroidSans.ttf font. Open RootExplorer application in the phone and browse to root/system/font then paste DroidSans.ttf  Download and install Keyboard-latest.apk  I blissfully followed the above procedure gracefully. I then tinkered with the phone writing Amharic for six hours. When the Amharic urge died I needed a way to revert back to the default Android fonts but I did not know how. Wi...

For some time I decided to be The Darwin of Microsoft Operating System. Unlike Charles Darwin, I need some kind of time machine. Actually , I hoped into VMWare virtual machine and with awe thrill, I landed on MS-DOS 4.0! At first, the entire experience was like looking for a needle in an hay stack. The installation process was hectic, I felt how Mark Zbikowski went through while implementing this evolutionary software architectural piece. The Command Line interpret ing my commands was akin to holding rocket launcher on my shoulders - talk of big guns bro when describing this. Much as it has a lot of power ; it likes to nag, no wonder it was dumped. who would like nags? NOT Me. The Orangutan MSDOS 4.0 lost its hunch back and became MSDOS 6.22. Just like its predecessor, it nags a little but with a lot of commands. No mouse support to issue commands. I toyed with it a little and send it to extinction. Windows 3.1. This is the homo errectus version of windows operating sy...