Archive for August, 2005
Wednesday, August 31st, 2005
The next generation Web development platform – OpenLaszlo
OpenLaszlo is an easy way to create rich internet applications, that can be played on any platform with any browser. The platform is now open source and competes with Macromedia’s Flex platform. With simple scripting you can create very powerful web applications. Check out the impressive demos.
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Monday, August 29th, 2005
Now a 19″Wide screen laptop!
The world is moving to Wide Screen Laptops, now Samsung has release the World’s First 19†Laptop. The beauty of this laptop is that the screen can be detached and also used as an external monitor. Expect to see more 19″ wonders from other manufacturers too. Related Posts: Toshiba Qosmio Wide Screen Notebooks/Laptops comparison
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Saturday, August 27th, 2005
Are you always in a hurry?
We often find there are people who always seems to be in a hurry. It may appear that they are hard working since they are trying to squeeze maximium out of time, but in reality they may be inefficient and may be cutting it too close!. Seth Godin’s blog has an interesting post: There are […]
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Wednesday, August 24th, 2005
Everything happens for the good
Interesting story that I came across.. This Is Good An old story is told of a king in Africa who had a close friend with whom he grew up. The friend had a habit of looking at every situation that ever occurred in his life (positive or negative) and remarking, This is good! One day […]
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Tuesday, August 23rd, 2005
Konica Minolta DiMAGE Z6 vs DiMage Z5
Good, full of features and inexpensive digital camera
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Monday, August 22nd, 2005
Its del.icio.us !
del.icio.us is an online bookmarking services. Its easy to use and has a simple interface. It is the best way to have your bookmarks accessible from anywhere. You can also see other’s bookmarks and others can see yours too. Check out my bookmarks.
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Saturday, August 20th, 2005
Linux car PC
Linux is everywhere. You can have a Linux phone, home security system, PVR and now a Car PC. Looks very interesting, hope I can build one someday.
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Friday, August 19th, 2005
Is digital camera sales slowing down?
As per an article: 9.7 million digital cameras were sold in the United States in the first half of 2005. This showed 20% growth but comparatively, in the year 2004 the growth was 50%. The reason for the slow down is because people are now buying camera phones so consumers aren’t buying stand alone digital […]
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Wednesday, August 17th, 2005
Wikipedia – World’s Biggest Encyclopedia
Wikipedia is the World’s biggest encyclopedia. Anyone can edit or contribute articles. Articles are under GNU Free Documentation License. As of now: It has over 16,00,000 articles 12,00,000 visitors It has editions in about 200 different languages There are 26,000 contributors and most contributors are anonymous
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Tuesday, August 16th, 2005
SD Memory Card + Thumb Drive?
If you are looking at buyging a SD memory card which is a standard memory used by most digital cameras, then SanDisk Ultra II SD Plus is an interesting product. It is a standard SD Card but also has a USB port. So it can be directly connected to the PC to transfer images, without […]
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Saturday, August 6th, 2005
Maruti Suzuki Swift – First impressions
Maruti has recently launched Suzuki Swift in India, I have seen the car, haven’t had a chance to test drive it yet but here are my first impressions of the Car. After a long time Maruti has had a Model which has a good response. Most of the other models that they launched hasn’t done […]
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Friday, August 5th, 2005
Need to know how fast is your Internet connection?
If you need to test if your boadband connection is really broadband then Cnet Bandwidth testing is a good tool to use. It will ask you for a zip code, if you not in the US, just put any zip code and that should work. My home connections shows a decent 25 KBps.
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Wednesday, August 3rd, 2005
Is Microsoft following Google?
Is Microsoft a leader or a follower? They are just doing what Google is doing. Microsoft got into search to compete with Google. Google started Gmail with 1 GB email (now 2 GB and still growing!), so Microsoft’s Hotmail also announced that they are also going to offer 1 GB email. Earlier Hotmail users were […]
