Archive for July, 2009
Wednesday, July 29th, 2009
Nice quote on living
Do not lose hold of your dreams or aspirations. For if you do, you may still exist but you have ceased to live. – Henry David Thoreau
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Friday, July 24th, 2009
Fuji launches 3D camera
FujiFilm has launched a 3D camera which has two lenses and two sensors. One captures the foreground and the other the background. To actually get a 3D picture, you need to send the photo to a special lab to process and send the photos back to you. Looks innovative, initial pricing seems to be high, […]
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Thursday, July 23rd, 2009
OpenOffice extension has an edge over MS Office
It was Firefox which popularised the concept of plugins and now OpenOffice too has come up with nice extensions. With the OpenOffice extensions, OpenOffice.org has an edge over MS Office. Here are some nice extensions that I liked. Sun PDF Import Extension : To edit PDFs. Sun Presenter Console : Makes it very easy to […]
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Monday, July 20th, 2009
Love and the Indian Economy
Some time back, I read an article in the Hindustan time about a person spending Rs. 45,000 flowers on 14 foot bouquet for Valentines Day and the article title “In times of meltdown, a Rs 45,000 bouquet” sounded like it was criminal to spend so much money in Economic Downturn. First I would like to […]
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Monday, July 20th, 2009
Funny quote from Albert Einstein
“You see, wire telegraph is a kind of a very, very long cat. You pull his tail in New York and his head is meowing in Los Angeles. Do you understand this? And radio operates exactly the same way: you send signals here, they receive them there. The only difference is that there is no […]
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Thursday, July 16th, 2009
Editing PDFs in OpenOffice
If you thought PDFs are read only, guess what you can edit them. To edit PDFs, install this plugin in Openoffice: Sun PDF Import Extension Once installed, you can open .PDF files in OpenOffice Draw, edit and export back as PDF.
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Thursday, July 16th, 2009
Why the Hindu Muslim Divide?
Before the British left India, they created the Hindu-Muslim divide in India. Unfortunately this divide still exists. Governor-General Lord Canning wrote to Vernon Smith, President of the Board of Control, on November 21, 1857: “As we must rule 150 million of people by a handful … of Englishmen, let us do it in a manner […]
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Tuesday, July 14th, 2009
Nice Ubuntu user guide
My friend Ramnath Shenoy, pointed me to this excellent Ubuntu guide for beginners. Its quite detailed and covers a lot of what the beginners would needs to know. Check it out.
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Monday, July 13th, 2009
Google announces new operating system
Google has announced a new opeating system: Crome OS. The interesting bits. – Open Source – Linux based – Free of cost – Working with various partners for bundling – Designed for Google Crome Browser Read the rest of the announcement
