Archive for September, 2011
Wednesday, September 28th, 2011
Ubuntu on CNN/CNBC
Ubuntu has received coverage on CNBC TV18 and CNN-IBN. Ubuntu review
1 Comment » - Posted in Linux by Prakash
Wednesday, September 21st, 2011
Toshiba R835 an affordable light-weight laptop
Toshiba’s Portege R835-P56x is an in-expensive light-weight laptop. Here is what is cool. 13.3″ Â at 1366 x 768 and LED Backlite Dual layer DVD burner Intel i5 (who needs more performance ?) 640GB hard drive 4 GB RAM (enough for atleast us Linux users) Built in webcam and microphone Gigabit Ethernet 6-Cell battery Ample ports: […]
No Comments » - Posted in Gadgets and Deals by Prakash
Saturday, September 17th, 2011
Inexpensive and light weight Netbook Asus X101
Asus has launched the X101 Netbook. This is low cost, light weight netbook. Good for browsing on the go. This comes with Meego, however you should be able to install Ubuntu or other Linux. May not be able to run Windows. Here are the specs: Intel Atom N435 (1.33GHz) 10.1″ LED Backlight WSVGA (1024×600) […]
2 Comments » - Posted in Gadgets and Deals by Prakash
Thursday, September 15th, 2011
Comparing the Olympus PENs: E-P3, E-PL3 & E-PM1
Olympus has released 3 micro four-third cameras with interchangeable lens. First lets see what is common in them. All follow the micro four-third standard which give you small lenses. Being a standard which means you can switch camera body and lens providers easily. All the cameras are 12.3 megapixel. Which is enough for most users. ISO […]
No Comments » - Posted in Gadgets and Deals by Prakash
Tuesday, September 6th, 2011
Quicktext for Thunderbird 7
I have been using Quicktext as an addon for Thunderbird for a while now and find it very useful. Recently I upgraded to Thunderbird 7 with Ubuntu 11.10. The Quicktext download doesn’t work beyond version 6. So I modified it to work with Thunderbird 7. It has been working well for me, if you want […]
2 Comments » - Posted in General by Prakash
Thursday, September 1st, 2011
Ubuntu for Developers’ workstations
In June this year, Eclipse, a popular IDE, published the results of a global survey of its community, which aims to show how people are using Eclipse and other open source software (OSS), and participating in open source communities. The purpose was to create a profile of how open source developers interact with the community. Incidentally, the […]
