Archive for August, 2006
Wednesday, August 30th, 2006
3-D desktop from Novell
From CIOL’s article.
Talking to Cyber Media News on the sidelines of the SUSE 10 road-show in Chennai, Prakash Advani, Linux Practice Head, Indian Subcontinent, said that the latest offering was part of the ‘Better Desktop’ project, and the suite contains various performance-enhancing features such as the Beagle – desktop search, apart from the Novell version [...]
No Comments » - Posted in In the News by Prakash
Wednesday, August 30th, 2006
25 things you must know before buying digital camera
Interesting article on things to check before buying a digital camera.
Top three things that I liked the most:
Don’t Get Caught Up in Mega-pixels - just because the camera is higher Mega-pixel, doesn’t mean its better. 4/5 Mega-pixels is more than enough for every day use unless you want to take very large (poster size) prints.
Ignore [...]
1 Comment » - Posted in Photography by Prakash
Sunday, August 27th, 2006
Canon Powershot S3 IS vs. Konica Minolta Dimage Z6
After having used both Canon S2 and Konica Minolta Z6, here is my feedback.
Note: Canon S3 is a 6 Mega Pixel while S2 is 5. Other than that I haven’t noticed much of a difference.
Features which are common to both the models:
6 Mega Pixel
12 X Optical Zoom
4AA Batteries
Image Stabilisation
Picture quality of both are similar.
Advantages of [...]
No Comments » - Posted in Photography by Prakash
Thursday, August 24th, 2006
The competitor to Windows Vista now in India
From Moneycontrol.com article.
Linux Practice Head at Novell, Prakash Advani told moneycontrol, “The SUSE Linux Desktop 10 makes sure that along with being user-friendly and having better features, it provides complete inter-operability to its users. So, never again would you face a problem when operating on 10 different applications or windows at the same time.”
No Comments » - Posted in In the News by Prakash
Monday, August 14th, 2006
Yet another mind mapping software
Mind mapping software caught my fancy a little while ago when I tried out Freemind.
Now I came across another one KDissert - Which seems to be better.
Check out the flash demo.
No Comments » - Posted in Linux by Prakash
Sunday, August 6th, 2006
Cross platform app development
I have been looking for tools which allows you to create cross platform applications as well as be able to host the same application on the Web.
I came across XAMPP which run on Linux, Mac, Windows and even Solaris!
Its a bundle of Apache, MySQL, PHP/Perl and other goodies to all these platforms. If you can [...]
No Comments » - Posted in General, Linux by Prakash
Tuesday, August 1st, 2006
Virtualisation article in Network computing
From Network Computing article:
Virtualisation is the abstracting of the software from the underlying implementation. Server virtualisation has been around for decades now, and it is a mature technology,” comments Prakash Advani, Linux Practice Head, Novell India.
