Archive for February, 2011
Friday, February 25th, 2011
64-bit Adobe Air for Ubuntu
I have been using 64-Bit Ubuntu for a while and all the apps that I was using were available in 64-Bit version. Until I was to install Adobe Air. The binary provided on Adobe’s side is 32-Bit only. Found this nice blog post which explains how to make it work on 64-bit Ubuntu, this documentation […]
6 Comments » - Posted in Linux by Prakash
Wednesday, February 23rd, 2011
New patch to improve graphic performance by upto 60 percent
There is new patch for the X, which can improve the FPS (Frames Per Second) by upto 60 percent This will benefit applications that use indirect rendering only which means it only affects applications which don’t directly write to the frame buffer. Which most of the high end games do, to get optimal performance. It […]
1 Comment » - Posted in Linux by Prakash
Tuesday, February 22nd, 2011
LibreOffice 3.3 offers more than OpenOffice
After Oracle’s acquisition of Sun, OpenOffice was forked to create LibreOffice. Since LibreOffice is derived from OpenOffice, they have all the feature of OpenOffice plus more. Here is full list of features and few useful ones: Import SVG pictures* into Draw and edit them interactively. Import MS Works, Lotus WordPro and Wordperfect files. Presentation view extension bundled […]
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Monday, February 21st, 2011
Intel CEO says Nokia should have picked Android
Intel CEO Paul Otellini agrees with me 🙂 Otellini said Nokia’s Chief Executive Stephen Elop received “incredible offers — money” from Google and Microsoft to switch. “I wouldn’t have made the decision he made, I would probably have gone to Android if I were him,” Otellini said Nokia would find it hard to differentiate using […]
1 Comment » - Posted in Gadgets and Deals by Prakash
Friday, February 18th, 2011
Yet another dual-OS phone
After the Motorola Atrix which runs both Android and a Linux based OS, ARM showcased a TI OMAP4 based phone that runs Ubuntu and Android. Todays phones have become powerful enough to as a phone as well as provide basic PCÂ functionality. This should get more PCs accessible to People, as more people today have mobile […]
1 Comment » - Posted in Gadgets and Deals,Linux by Prakash
Tuesday, February 15th, 2011
50 Open Source Applications for Sci-Tech Education
This article has a nice list of 50 open source applications for science education. Open Source: Astronomy and Space Exploration 1. Celestia A perennial favorite, Celestia allows users to view the night skies from any point on earth at any time or to see how the sky would look from any point in the known universe. […]
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Monday, February 14th, 2011
Nokia: MeeNoGo?
Nokia has been losing marketshare in the last few years and has been trying a few things. In 2010 Q4, They lost the title of being the number 1 smartphone to Android. This was after having this lead for 10 years. They tied up with Intel for Meego, which is Linux based OS for smart […]
2 Comments » - Posted in Gadgets and Deals by Prakash
Friday, February 11th, 2011
Ubuntu Developer Day a huge success
We organised the Ubuntu Developer Day in Bangalore and received 350+ attendees. We had people travel all the way from Sri Lanka, Himachal Pradesh, Kerala, Mumbai, Chennai, Hyderabad and elsewhere.. Most of the people were already Ubuntu users and I was happy to see the laptops people were using, all of them running Ubuntu. This […]
1 Comment » - Posted in Linux by Prakash
Thursday, February 3rd, 2011
ASUS RT-N16 wireless gigabit router with DDWRT rocks
When I was looking at getting a new wireless router, I started looking at what users had to say about their experience. The first user reviews said the ASUS RT-N16 Wireless-N Gigabit Router is an excellent hardware with poor software. So it suggested to flash the firmware with DD-WRT. So I decided to get this […]
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Wednesday, February 2nd, 2011
Motorola defy launched in India
Motorola has finally launched the Defy in India. This is 3 months after it was launched in US by T-Mobile. Motorola is improving, some of their other phones, took 4-5 months to be launched in India. Lets hope they launch the Atrix sooner in India. Here is whats cool: Waterproof, scratchproof, dust proof. Should I […]
