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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 […]
No Comments » - Posted in Linux by Prakash
Tuesday, August 30th, 2011
HP should open source webOS
Looks like HP is going to kill webOS. HP webOS as a part of the Palm acquisition. I sometimes wonder why did HP acquire Palm in the first place?  anyways,  webOS is the new operating system which Palm decided to ditch their OS kernel use Linux as their kernel as Linux has mult-tasking. Since webOS is […]
2 Comments » - Posted in General by Prakash
Sunday, August 21st, 2011
Learning something new today from KhanAcademy
KhanAcademy a non profit offers free courses in every possible subject right from Biology to Maths. I found it very interesting. The best part is the content is all under creative commons, free to use and share. Even Bill Gates is endorsing it! Have a look: KhanAcademy.org
No Comments » - Posted in General by Prakash
Sunday, August 21st, 2011
The Story of Linux: Commemorating 20 Years of the Linux Operating System
Nice video created by Linux Foundation to celebrate 20 years of Linux. 20 Years of Linux
1 Comment » - Posted in Linux by Prakash
Saturday, August 20th, 2011
KDE and Google Crome coming to Wayland
After KDE announced that they will support Wayland in 2012, Google Crome browser will also support Wayland, which means you could run Google Crome directly on Wayland without X? Sounds like fun. 2012 looks exciting if the world doesn’t come to an end 🙂
No Comments » - Posted in Linux by Prakash
Friday, August 19th, 2011
Linux in 20 years
Image by Linux Foundation
No Comments » - Posted in Linux by Prakash
Thursday, August 18th, 2011
Motorola Defy +
Motorola has updated the Defy with Defy + which is scheduled to launch in September. Most of the specs remain the same of the earlier one like Gorilla Glass a 5-megapixel camera with autofocus and LED flash. The size and dimensions also remain the same with 3.7″ screen. Like the Defy, the Defy + is also waterproof, […]
1 Comment » - Posted in Gadgets and Deals,General by Prakash
Wednesday, August 17th, 2011
Google acquires Motorola Mobility for patents
Google has acquired Motorola Mobility essentially for its 24,500 patents. Google has been bogged down by patent hoarding companies which have put pressure on Android as a platform. They decided instead of focusing on innovating, they would focus on building a patent portfolio. Google had no choice to pay for patents,else they would end up losing […]
1 Comment » - Posted in Gadgets and Deals by Prakash
Thursday, August 4th, 2011
My Kindle review
I have been using the [amazon_link id=”B002Y27P3M” target=”_blank” container=”” container_class=”” ]Kindle[/amazon_link]Â for a few months now, here is brief review. Its very easy to use thanks to the e-ink technology which doesn’t emit light and feels just like paper. Very good if you like to read a lot. With 3GB of space, you can carry […]
2 Comments » - Posted in Gadgets and Deals by Prakash
Wednesday, August 3rd, 2011
Olympus E-P3 is here
[amazon_link id=”B0059589OU” target=”_blank” container=”” container_class=”” ][/amazon_link]Olympus E-P3, the third generation of Micro four-third camera is now available.This is a perfect camera for someone who wants a professional camera in a compact body. Whats nice: Built in Flash Fastest auto focus Built-in auto focus illuminator light 12 Megapixel Touch sensitive LCD. What would be better if they […]
No Comments » - Posted in General,Photography by Prakash
Tuesday, August 2nd, 2011
My first video on YouTube
During my interview with Hindu Business Line, they also took a video about Ubuntu.
No Comments » - Posted in In the News,Linux by Prakash
Monday, August 1st, 2011
11 features Apple copied from Android
[amazon_link id=”B00414WBT4″ target=”_blank” container=”” container_class=”” ][/amazon_link] Congratulations Apple users, you are soon going to have 11 new features which Android users already enjoy 🙂 Many Apple fanboys find Android a copy of the Apple.. now its Apple who is copying from Android. Apple iOS5 has copied 11 features from the Android platform which will show […]
2 Comments » - Posted in Gadgets and Deals by Prakash
Thursday, July 7th, 2011
Lenovo X1 is a strong competition for MacBook Air
[amazon_link id=”B00535BU38″ target=”_blank” container=”” container_class=”” ][/amazon_link]Lenovo has launches the Lenovo X1, which is the slimmest Think Pad and one of the slimmest Notebooks around. Finally we have some competition for Macbook Air. Here are the specs. 13.3″ Screen 3.7 Pounds/1.6 Kgs weight Gigabit Lan port 10/100/1000 Optional SSD which can be combined along with Hard Drive […]
No Comments » - Posted in Gadgets and Deals by Prakash
Wednesday, July 6th, 2011
Sony HDR-PJ50 is a camcorder and projector
Sony has launched a new camcorder which is can also project the videos that you have taken. All you need is a flat surface, a screen/wall or just carry a white paper. While the projector is LED based and has only 10 Lumens. So it won’t be very bright.. but good enough to review your […]
No Comments » - Posted in Gadgets and Deals by Prakash
Tuesday, June 28th, 2011
A window to open source OS
From my interview in Hindu Business Line: “I have been using the latest Ubuntu 11.04 on a laptop that’s almost three years now and I don’t see any degradation of performance,†says Prakash.
No Comments » - Posted in In the News by Prakash
Sunday, June 19th, 2011
Nikon Coolpix S9100 18x Optical Zoom in a compact boday
[amazon_link id=”B004M8SVFM” target=”_blank” container=”” container_class=”” ][/amazon_link]The Nikon Coolpix S9100 is a Super Zoom in a compact body. The advantage of a Super Zoom is you can take wildlife photos without getting too close to your subject such that you get extinct. The problem with existing Super Zoom were that they were big and bulky which […]
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Saturday, June 18th, 2011
Why America Is Second Best after India With Its Innovation Culture
Forbes has this interesting article on why USA is second after India for Innovation. USA is a clear second to India and that the USA’s innovation interests tended to veer towards incremental change and efficiencies (Six Sigma) rather than the more open, greenfield area of creativity and ideation. Read more.
No Comments » - Posted in India by Prakash
Friday, June 17th, 2011
Whatsapp a nice cross platform instant messenger
[amazon_link id=”B00414WBT4″ target=”_blank” container=”” container_class=”” ][/amazon_link]Do you envy when your Blackberry friends talk about BBM, short for Blackberry Messenger. Time to show them Whatsapp. What is Whatsapp? Its a cross platform instant messenger, think SMS/BBM. It works on iPhone, Android, Blackberry and Nokia. Currently BBM is restricted to Blackberries only. It offer messages, videos, photos, […]
