Archive for March, 2010
Thursday, March 25th, 2010
Does Oracle mean it’s the end for MySQL?
I was quoted in this article: Prakash Advani of Canonical said, “It is unlikely that Oracle will be allowed to close down the open source version of MySQL. The open source community had submitted suggestions to the European Union commission that looked into the Oracle-Sun acquisition which specifically aimed at removing the possibility of such […]
No Comments » - Posted in In the News by Prakash
Tuesday, March 23rd, 2010
Panasonic’s two new cameras: G2 and G10
Panasonic is expanding their micro-four third lines by introducing two new cameras. Both these: 12 Megapixel Support high-definition video 3″ LCD Screen 1:1 Aspect ratio for square photos Here is a comparison between the two: Features Lumix G2 Lumix GMC-G10 Video Mode Motion JPG + AVCHD (smaller file size) Motion JPG Interface First one to […]
No Comments » - Posted in Photography by Prakash
Monday, March 22nd, 2010
Possitive affirmations
What is Positive affirmations? Its a positive thought that you say/write/think. How do I create one? It has be present tense. It has to be positive. It has to be personal. It has to be specific. Why present tense? Because you want to start working on it right away, you want to send a message […]
1 Comment » - Posted in General by Prakash
Sunday, March 21st, 2010
Optimise your photos before you send them
People often send large photos via email. These file sizes are usually large, typically a few megabytes because they are taken from multi-megapixel camera. The more the megapixel, the larger the file size. I prefer to reduce the image size before I email or post on the web, these file sizes are small (couple of […]
3 Comments » - Posted in Photography by Prakash
Tuesday, March 2nd, 2010
Mozilla Thunderbird 3 rocks
I have been using Thunderbird 2 for more than 2 years now, I recently upgraded to Thunderbird 3 and found it very well designed. Here is what I liked: Has an attachment reminder, so if you write “please see the attached… ” and then forgot to attach, it reminds you. Neat! Tabbed emails. Used to […]
