Archive for October, 2010
Saturday, October 30th, 2010
Motorola Android phone to Defy water
Motorola has announced Motorola Defy which is Water Resistant, Dust Resistant and Scratch Resistant. Which is excellent if you had kids around who like to throw phones into the water! Here are some interesting features: 3.7″ touchscreen  display 480X864 resolution screen 5 Megapixel Camera with Video recording LED Flash 2 GB Internal Memory MicroSD Card […]
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Sunday, October 24th, 2010
Sub $200 Android phones hit the Indian market
Nokia has serious competition with Videocon, Mcromax, Acer and Motorola launching sub $200 (Rs. 10,000) phones in India. India already has the 2nd largest number of people accessing the internet from their cellphones. Android should fuel this market as: Its fast. Its excellent at multi tasking. Its easy to use. It has over 50,000 applications in the […]
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Thursday, October 21st, 2010
Donate Your Bandwidth to Support Ubuntu Downloads
Nice article from PC World. In the Ubuntu tradition, you can do your part to make this process go well for all. With just a few mouse clicks, you can donate some of your upstream bandwidth to smooth the process for others to download the open source OS. To do so, you’ll be using a […]
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Friday, October 15th, 2010
The Android Invasion
From a Newsweek article: What began as a trickle now has turned into a tidal wave. In August Google announced it was activating 200,000 Android phones each day. On at least one day since then, that number surged to more than 250,000, Rubin says. Android now has leapt past Apple to become the biggest smart-phone […]
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Wednesday, October 13th, 2010
Running torrent downloads on a remote computer
If you are planning to run torrent on a remote computer which you want to control using a browser, then TorrentFlux is for you. It allows multiple users to use one system as a torrent server. I am running TorrentFlux on the Plug Computer, it works well. Its also easy to use and manage. Its […]
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Tuesday, October 12th, 2010
Installing Debian on the Plug Computer
I am highly fascinated by the Plug Computer, ever since I got one (courtesy Marvell). Since its small, consumers very little power (2 watts) hence environmental friendly and can do a number of things like downloading latest Ubuntu over night 🙂 I was trying to get Reliance Netconnect data card to setup on the Plug […]
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Sunday, October 10th, 2010
Ubuntu 10.10 (Maverick Meerkat) is released on 10/10/2010
Ubuntu 10.10 is finally here. This new release is more consumers focused and does numerous usability improvements. Here are the download links. I have provided both Torrent links (which I prefer) and directly downloads: Ubuntu 10.10 Version Torrent Links Direct Downloads Ubuntu Desktop 64-Bit Edition Torrent Main Server Ubuntu Desktop 32-Bit Edition Torrent Main Server […]
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Wednesday, October 6th, 2010
PDF presentations using PDFCube
While looking for presentation tools, I came across PDF Cube. To use this, you need to convert your presentations into PDF. OpenOffice.org already has this feature of exporting your presentations as PDFs. You also need to install this utility. On Ubuntu its already there in the repository, for other Operating system you can download it. […]
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Monday, October 4th, 2010
Canon Professional Backup Camera: G12
The Canon Photoshot G12 is targeted as a backup camera to professional gear like DSLRs. These have a lot of features found in professional cameras in a compact form factor. Canon was the first to reduce the megapixel with the G11. The reason for reducing megapixel was that with each increase in megapixel, there was […]
