Archive for December, 2009
Tuesday, December 29th, 2009
Brewing your own herbal tea
Making your own herbal tea can be fun and keep you healthy too. Here is Herbal Tea-HOWTO. Herbal teas boosts your immunity, maintain general good health and can be useful in curing common cold, cough, allergies and indigestion. For best results drink early in the morning.
Ingredients
5 Lemon Grass – Good for Digestion and cold.
Slice of [...]
No Comments » - Posted in General by Prakash
Monday, December 28th, 2009
AWN Manager – Mac OSX like dock for Ubuntu
I installed AWN Manager on Ubuntu, following the instructions here.
Here is what I liked.
It looks cool
Can auto-hide, giving you more desktop real estate.
Has cool applets like fortune which I enjoy reading and reminds me of bash days.
What I didn’t like
It crops up when you don’t want it to.
A little buggy, it doesn’t show [...]
2 Comments » - Posted in Linux by Prakash
Saturday, December 26th, 2009
Enabling professional features on Canon point-and-shoot
If you have a point-and-shoot and long to have more professional features, you don’ t need to buy expensive new cameras yet. You can just enable many new features:
With this tool, you can enable advance features in any Canon Camera.
Supports advance features such as RAW support, additional to jpeg. This makes it easy to change [...]
No Comments » - Posted in Photography by Prakash
Friday, December 25th, 2009
Nikon P90 alternative to an SLR
Nikon has released P90, which is a prosumer camera, featuring functions found in professional cameras. This is a good alternative if you need more than a point-and-shoot but are not yet ready for an SLR.
Many people buy an SLR and then they continue to shoot in auto mode because they don’t know how to use [...]
No Comments » - Posted in Photography by Prakash
Monday, December 21st, 2009
Ubuntu vs Windows Hardware Requirements
I compared the hardware requirements of a popular Linux Desktop: Ubuntu 9.10 with Windows 7 both of which were released last month.
Hardware
Windows 7
Ubuntu 9.10
RAM (MB)
1024 MB
256 MB
Processor (MHz)
1000 MHz
300 MHz
Disk Space (MB)
16 GB
4 GB
Ubuntu 9.10 remained a modest 265MB memory with 300MHz computer. Also Ubuntu can run on lesser hardware as well, if you [...]
7 Comments » - Posted in Linux by Prakash
Thursday, December 17th, 2009
Canon first to reduce megapixel in G11
After all the megapixel race where camera manufacturers were increasing megapixels with each new model, Canon is the first to reduce 14.7 megapixel to 10 megapixel.
I have been saying this all this while, that megapixels don’t matter any more and I am happy that Canon is doing the right thing.
When Canon came up with a [...]
