Archive for July, 2010
Monday, July 26th, 2010
HTC Android phones: Wildfire, …
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Monday, July 26th, 2010
HTC Android phones: Wildfire, Legend and Desire
What happens when a Taiwan ODM (Original Device Manufacturer) starts making their own phone? Result is you get good value for money, it start selling well and as a result they also get sued! For those who came in late, ODMs are the actual manufactures of the device sold by the likes of Apple. ODMs […]
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Thursday, July 15th, 2010
Android crosses iPhone OS Market share
Android has overtaken Apple OS (iPhone,itouch,iPad) to be number 2. Blackberry RIM is still Number one, however they are quickly loosing marketshare to Android. RIM’s BlackBerry OS at 36 percent; Android at 28 percent; Apple iPhone OS at 21 percent. Read more.
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Monday, July 12th, 2010
WordPress scaling new heights
WordPress is scaling new heights! For those who came in late, WordPress is the best blogging platform and it open source. You can either use their free blog service at wordpress.com or download WordPress and setup your blog on your own domain. WordPress Vital Stats: WordPress 2.9: 10.3 Million Downloads WordPress 3.0: The recently released […]
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Wednesday, July 7th, 2010
BtrFS to butter your files
BtrFS is the newest filesystem for Linux. Its is likely to replace ext4 at some point of time. Ubuntu 10.10 will include this in October this year. Here is what is interesting about it. Compression on the fly. If you remember Stacker days when you could double your disk space without buying a new disk, […]
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Tuesday, July 6th, 2010
Hybrid drive to provide a cost effective alternative to SSD
Our plain old hard drive is getting increasingly replaced by SSD, now Seagate is soon going to announce Hybrid drives (Momentus XT) which take advantage of both these technologies to give you the best of both world. Here is a summary. Hard Drives (spinning Disk drives) Advantages: Lowest cost per GB Easy availability Fairly reliable […]
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Monday, July 5th, 2010
Best Buy is not best anymore
Best Buy is firing its employee who made this funny video comparing iPhone 4 with HTC Evo. Perhaps Apple didn’t find the video funny and is pressurising Best Buy to take action. Here is the scoop. The video has already had 2.3 Million views and growing rapidly. Its funny 🙂
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Saturday, July 3rd, 2010
Building a media center with Ubuntu + XBMC + Zotac
If you want to build a Media Center PC to play your movies, music and photos on a high definition TV. Here is a simple way to build so. Step 1 First get the tiny Zotac Media Center PC. Step 2 Install Ubuntu, which is very easy just download from Ubuntu.com and follow the simple […]
