Archive for September, 2010
Monday, September 27th, 2010
Android to have 500 Million Users by 2015
“In terms of sales, smartphones powered by Android are expected to surpass these of Symbian as early as 2012,” he said, reports the Telegraph. Its time Nokia considers offering Android based phone. “If Nokia joins the Android party, the support of this eco-system by all key players could help the mobile smartphone industry to potentially […]
1 Comment » - Posted in Gadgets and Deals,Linux by Prakash
Friday, September 24th, 2010
Canon SX30 offers 35X Optical Zoom
Canon has announced the SX30 at Photokina 2010. This is new addition to the super zoom family. Earlier Canon was still limited to 20X while competition had gone to 30X. With this release canon has now beaten most of the competition by releasing a 35X Optical Zoom. Here are some cool features. 14 Megapixel HD […]
No Comments » - Posted in Photography by Prakash
Thursday, September 16th, 2010
Broadcom plays good samaritan by Open Sourcing their WiFi chipset drivers
Broadcom which until now refused to open their Wi-Fi drivers, has released their Linux WiFi Drivers under Open Source. This is great for Linux users, as Broadcom was one of the few chipsets for which there were no open source drivers. While you could use Windows drivers on Linux using NDIS wrapper, it had its […]
No Comments » - Posted in Linux by Prakash
Wednesday, September 15th, 2010
Finding IP addresses of devices in your network using port scan
I was trying to find the IP address of a device which was connected to the network and had secured the IP address using DHCP. The easiest way to check was to look for the DHCP Server logs, but since that was not possible I did a port scan. Here are the simple steps on […]
1 Comment » - Posted in Linux by Prakash
Friday, September 10th, 2010
Converting your Ubuntu Notebook into a Wifi Hotspot using Network Manager
I came across an interesting article on how to convert your Ubuntu Notebook into a WiFi Hotspot so that you can connect other devices to your Ubuntu Notebook for sharing the internet connectivity. You don’t need to install any fancy software, in fact the functionality is built into Network Manager itself. Its very easy and […]
4 Comments » - Posted in Linux by Prakash
Wednesday, September 8th, 2010
VOIP cordless phone for your home: Siemens Gigaset A580IP
I have been using Siemens Gigaset A580IP for couple of months now. I find it works well with Nonoh.net, Voipbuster.com and Asterisks based system. Here is my brief review. Excellent voice quality. has both VOIP and land line option. Connects to multiple VOIP service providers (upto 6). Can easily switch VOIP provider. Can connect to […]
