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Tuesday, March 27th, 2012
The Magic of Doing One Thing at a Time
In my experience if you can absolutely focus on getting one thing done, you can get it done really fast. Now Harvard Business review has a nice article on this. Here are some useful suggestions from the article. 1. Do the most important thing first in the morning, preferably without interruption, for 60 to 90 […]
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Friday, March 23rd, 2012
Android Kernel and Linux kernel merge
Android so far has been maintaining its separate kernel from the mainline Linux kernel. The android kernel forked out of the mainline because of differences in accepting the changes which the android developers were working on. The good news is now with Kernel 3.3 the android specific changes are accepted in the mainline kernel. Ubuntu […]
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Friday, March 23rd, 2012
Ubuntu Cloud Day in Banglore
Ubuntu Cloud Day is coming to Bangalore on April 4th 2012. If you are interested you can register here. http://ubuntucloudday.in Here is a discount code to get you 20 percent off. Have Fun 🙂 LNKD20
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Saturday, March 3rd, 2012
Epson L200/L100 on Ubuntu 11.10, 12.04 and 12.10
Epson L200 is a low cost multi-function device which is good for bulk printing. It offers Printing/Scanning and Copying. A similar model L100 is a stand along printer. Update: Epson has finally released the official drivers for t the Epson L100/L200. The only major problem remaining is that the scanner is not working on a […]
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Friday, March 2nd, 2012
4×4: The battle of the quad-core phones
If dual-core phones wasn’t enough for you, now you have quad-core phones. And many of them have got launched at the Mobile World Congress 2012. Let’s compare a few quad core phones which matters. All of them will run Android 4.0 LG Optimus 4X HD Huawei Ascend D quad HTC One X Samsung Galaxy S […]
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Thursday, March 1st, 2012
Samsung Galaxy S Plus
Samsung Galaxy S Plus is for those who can’t wait or afford the Samsung Galaxy S III . Specifications 1.4 GHz Single Core 4″ Display with 480×800 resolution 5 Megapixel camera, Secondary VGA camera 16 GB inbuilt memory. MicroSD slot for expandable memory Android 2.3 Bluetooth 3.0
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Wednesday, February 29th, 2012
HTC One @ MWC
HTC doesn’t want to be left behind in the Android race. They are coming up with the HTC One in 3 different models. The top end: HTC One X Nvidia quad-core Tegra 3 processor 1.5 GHz 1 GB RAM 4.7″ Display with 1280×720 resolution 8 MP Camera: f2.0 lens and a back side illuminated sensor, […]
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Tuesday, February 28th, 2012
Samsung Galaxy S III coming
The hugely successful Samsung Galaxy family is having a new Galaxy S III. Hold your breath.. 1.5GHz quad-core Samsung Exynos processor 4.8-inch “full HD†1080p resolution with 16:9 aspect ratio display A 2-megapixel front-facing camera and an 8-megapixel rear camera Ceramic case 4G LTE Android 4.0 What more could you ask for ? [amazon_link id=”B004QTBQ2C” […]
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Saturday, February 25th, 2012
Eight features Windows 8 borrowed from Linux
“Good artists borrow, great artists steal!” — Pablo Picasso said it. So did T.S. Eliot. And, more recently, Steve Jobs. Let’s face it: If something makes sense and succeeds, it gets imitated. Though Windows 8 and Linux distributions differ greatly from each other in design, ideology and — last but not least — their primary […]
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Wednesday, February 15th, 2012
Which is less expensive: Amazon or self-hosted?
Gigaom has a nice article comparing the costs of hosting your website on Amazon Web Services or self-hosting your own site. Zynga has made it known that for economic reasons, they now use their own infrastructure for baseline loads and use Amazon for peaks and variable loads surrounding new game introductions. Read more at Gigaom.
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Tuesday, February 14th, 2012
52 Devices That Will Receive Android 4.0 Update
For those who have been waiting for Android 4.0, there is a good news and bad news. Good news for those who’s device will receive the update, bad news for those who won’t get the update! Here is the list. 1. Acer Iconia Tab A200 – mid-February 2. ASUS Eee Pad Transformer – no date […]
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Saturday, February 4th, 2012
How a chef made the move to Linux
Chef Yash Amin, is our guest blogger today. He is greatest chef I have known and has moved to Ubuntu, here is his experience. Why i made the move from being a slave to windows to open source and Linux. For years since I’ve been using computers, windows has been the mainstay of things and […]
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Friday, February 3rd, 2012
MIT Genius Stuffs 100 Processors Into Single Chip
Anand Agarwal directs the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s vaunted Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, or CSAIL. His company Tilera sells chips with 16, 32, and 64 cores, and it’s scheduled to ship a CPU with 100 cores. It is green cause its power efficient. A 400-watt Tilera server provides as much processing power as […]
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Thursday, February 2nd, 2012
Dropping the “L” Word
The root cause is branding. “Linux” (the brand) is muddy, confusing, and unfriendly to the mainstream computer user: those on the other side of the chasm. They are the exact people that we need to embrace Ubuntu and they don’t *get* “Linux”. They don’t know what it is. They get a negative connotation when they […]
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Wednesday, February 1st, 2012
The Ultrabooks are here
[amazon_link id=”B005SRZATG” target=”_blank” container=”” container_class=”” ][/amazon_link]Ultrabooks are thin and light weight Notebooks which has similar look and feel to Apple MacBook Air. Many vendors have started offering these at competitive pricing. These use standard Intel Core i5 or i7 processor, SSD and 12″ or 13″ Display. Advantages: Standard ports: Many of them have USB 3.0 […]
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Tuesday, January 31st, 2012
HTC Inspire 4G a good budget phone
[amazon_link id=”B004T36GCU” target=”_blank” container=”” container_class=”” ][/amazon_link]HTC Inspire is a good budget phone, however I don’t know when HTC will launch this in India. It’s currently available in US from AT&T. Here is what is cool. 4G Capable HSPA+ Android 2.2 upgradable to 2.3 4.3″ Display 8 Megapixel Camera, 720p video recording. Dolby Surround sound Scratch […]
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Monday, January 30th, 2012
Desktop Linux gains market share
As per PC World, Desktop Linux gains market share of more than 1 percent. After dipping to 0.97 percent in July, Linux rose to 1.07 percent in August, 1.11 percent in September, 1.19 percent in October, and 1.31 percent in November, Net Applications reports, followed by the new high of 1.41 percent last month. W3Counter, […]
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Saturday, January 7th, 2012
Cloud Demystified
Cloud is the buzz of today and many people are getting very confused on what is the cloud. To put is in simple way, Cloud is any service delivered on the Internet. Cloud based hosted services have been around for 10 years however now people are calling it Cloud. Lets take an example, if a […]
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Friday, January 6th, 2012
Open Source solution to Microsoft Azure
Build on VMWare CloudFoundry, IronFoundry offers .NET support in the Cloud. Cloud Foundry is VMWare’s PaaS solution which is open sourced. Tier 3 (the company behind IronFoundry) has take the code and added support for .NET.
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Thursday, January 5th, 2012
Why OpenStack is important
OpenStack is the future of Cloud computing. Founded by NASA and Rackspace it aims to provide a fully scalable open source cloud infrastructure. This can be deployed to build a public cloud or your own private cloud. Here are the reasons why I believe OpenStack will be successful. Its completely Open Source, hence it is […]
