Archive for January, 2010
Wednesday, January 20th, 2010
Skype to go Open Source
This is awesome News. Skype is planning to open source its Linux client. The current Skype client on Linux is functional but buggy and it lags behind the Windows version in terms of features. Now if Skype opens up, it will make the client development go faster, people will be able to fix bugs faster […]
No Comments » - Posted in Linux by Prakash
Tuesday, January 19th, 2010
5 More Reasons Why IE6 Must Die
“There are at least 142 vulnerabilities in IE6, 22 of which are not yet patched.” Read more. If you are still using IE, time to switch to Google Crome or Firefox. I have been using Firefox for a while now, find it very good. Off late I have been trying out Crome and find it […]
1 Comment » - Posted in General by Prakash
Friday, January 15th, 2010
Cost of External Drives
I was comparing the pricing of External drives and here are the results. Its Amazing to see how we used to talk in MBs, then GBs and now TBs. GB 500 1000 (1TB) 1500 (1.5 TB) 2000 (2TB) Price in US$ 73 95 135 200 Cost per GB 0.15 0.10 0.09 0.10 The cost per […]
No Comments » - Posted in Gadgets and Deals by Prakash
Wednesday, January 13th, 2010
Pen gets a viewfinder
Olympus has launched the E-P2 soon after they launched the E-P1. E-P2 has an electronic view finder which was absent in the E-P1. Rest of the specs remain more or less the same as the E-p1.
No Comments » - Posted in Photography by Prakash
Tuesday, January 12th, 2010
Sending emails faster with Thunderbird
Here is a tip to save time while sending emails using Mozilla Thunderbird. If you compose an email with Thunderbird, you do not come back to the inbox immediately, unless the email is sent which take a few minutes. A solution to this is to use the add-on Sendtools. Once you install this, your emails […]
No Comments » - Posted in General by Prakash
Monday, January 11th, 2010
My Next Notebook or Netbook?
Two years ago, I said good bye to my lone Desktop. I wasn’t sure how I would survive 🙂 since I had so many peripherals, but I am doing pretty well so far. I only use a Notebook these days. Would I still buy a Notebook or a Netbook would fit the bill? Was just […]
