Archive for March, 2014
Tuesday, March 25th, 2014
Thunderbird: Sending emails in the background
Mozilla Thunderbird is one of the most powerful email clients. However I used to find that it used to keep the active window open while sending emails. This was a bit irritating specially if the email has large attachments. On searching for background send, I found that the feature exists but doesn’t show up in […]
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Wednesday, March 19th, 2014
11 Percent of Windows XP Users Will Switch to Linux
If you are still on XP, whats your plans ? 11% of the (admittedly small) 641 companies queried stated they intend to switch to Linux. The low-cost, robust security and growing reputation in enterprise use are likely key factors informing such plans. Perhaps more shockingly is that 37% of those asked intend to stick with […]
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Tuesday, March 11th, 2014
Romanian Edu Ministry recommends Ubuntu for schools
Many schools in Romania today are using proprietary software like Microsoft Windows and Microsoft Office — most of which are either unlicenced copies or old unsupported versions, for which the schools may face legal issues, according to the Education Ministry of Romania. To tackle this problem, the Ministry recommends the schools to either purchase newer, […]
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Monday, March 10th, 2014
Huawei MediaPad X1 interesting phablet
Huawei’s MediaPad X1 is not only a good alternative to an iPad Mini but also has phone capabilities. Announced at Mobile World Congress and expected to be launched in March 2014. Claimed to be the slimmest 7″ tablet, Here is what is cool about it: 3G with calling facility 4G LTE (optional) Quad Core Processor […]
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Wednesday, March 5th, 2014
5 things you probably don’t know about Google Cloud
 Google is currently in the best position to challenge Amazon because they have the engineering culture and technical abilities to release some really innovative features. IBM has bought into some excellent infrastructure at Softlayer but still has to prove its cloud engineering capabilities. Amazon has set the standard for how we expect cloud infrastructure to […]
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Tuesday, March 4th, 2014
‘Outernet’ Project Seeks Free Internet Access For Earth
Outernet will provide Free WiFi, across the globe. Will be accessible in all areas, including the difficult terrains and will bypass all the Censorships and Firewalls of different countries. Developers say they are less than a year away from deploying prototype satellites that could someday soon broadcast free and universal internet all over the globe […]
