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Thursday, June 16th, 2011
Patents hoarders are the new age mafia
[amazon_link id=”0470339454″ target=”_blank” container=”” container_class=”” ][/amazon_link]Earlier Microsoft sued Android phone makers, now Oracle is suing Google for Android. Patents were to protect innovators instead its being used to stop innovation. The big old daddies of the IT industry are going after the new companies. The old ones have nothing new to innovate. Thy are too comfortable […]
No Comments » - Posted in General by Prakash
Wednesday, June 15th, 2011
Dark Clouds Over iCloud, Apple Sued
I have been quoted in this article. Apple released a feature of its Mac OS named LaunchPad. LaunchPad is a development, bug tracking platform of Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu. Canonical doesn’t seem to have deep pockets to sue Apple over the usage of name LaunchPad. Canonical’s Prakash Advani told our editor that “We are glad […]
No Comments » - Posted in In the News by Prakash
Saturday, June 4th, 2011
1Gbps Internet for US$20 (Rs. 900)
Hong Kong Broadband Network Limited is offering high speed 1Gbps Internet at Rs 900 only! at that price I get a 4 Mbps connection. What if we had such a high speed?
No Comments » - Posted in General by Prakash
Monday, May 30th, 2011
Panasonic Lumix G3 has some interesting new features
[amazon_link id=”B005058BRY” target=”_blank” container=”” container_class=”” ][/amazon_link] This is Panasonic’s third generation of mirror-less Interchangeable Lens Camera. The Panasonic LUMIX DMC-G3. Whats cool: 16-megapixel 3D photos with optional lens 3.0-inch free-angle LCD with touch control New Pinpoint AF feature, just touch anywhere on the screen to select a focal point 1080/60i HD video capability in AVCHD format ISO […]
1 Comment » - Posted in Photography by Prakash
Thursday, May 26th, 2011
Solution for CUPS: Printer Not ready
At times I am not able to print, on typing lpq it gives and error message “Printer not ready”. I don’t know why this happens, but created a simple script which just resets the print and then its ready to print. This is what the script looks like: sudo sed -i -e ‘/StateMessage .*lpd failed/d’ […]
1 Comment » - Posted in Linux by Prakash
Saturday, May 14th, 2011
USB size PC for $25
. Raspberry Pi Foundation is offering a $25 Ubuntu PC. Its very tiny, has an HDMI port at one end and USB at the other. This brings in a very low cost computing solution to the market. Its also low power consumption due to the ARM processor. Vital Stats! 700MHz ARM11 128MB of SDRAM OpenGL […]
No Comments » - Posted in Gadgets and Deals,Linux by Prakash
Friday, May 13th, 2011
Slashdot: Ubuntu Aims For 200 Million Users In Four Years
I have been slashdotted! “Delivering the keynote at the Ubuntu Developer Summit at Budapest, Hungary, Canonical Founder Mark Shuttleworth has announced that Canonical’s goal is to have 200 million Ubuntu users in four years. Canonical has not officially provided any data on how many Ubuntu users there currently are — in fact, the number is […]
No Comments » - Posted in In the News by Prakash
Thursday, April 28th, 2011
Ubuntu 11.04 Natty Narwhal now available for download
[amazon_link id=”B003QNLTLC” target=”_blank” container=”” container_class=”” ][/amazon_link] Here is direct Torrent and download links for Ubuntu 11.04, have fun 🙂 I have provided both Torrent links (which I prefer) and directly downloads: Note: With this release, the Desktop and Netbook releases are merges with a single Unity interface, hence there is no sepearate Netbook edition. If […]
No Comments » - Posted in General by Prakash
Friday, April 22nd, 2011
Setting up your Siemens Gigaset VOIP phone with Nonoh.net
I have been using the Siemens Gigaset A580 with Nonoh.net for a while. It works well, and allows you make inexpensive calls. The voice quality is also good. What also worked was if another user using Nonoh can call you. For example if your nonoh ID is user1@nonoh.net another user called user2@nonoh.net can call directly […]
1 Comment » - Posted in Gadgets and Deals by Prakash
Wednesday, April 13th, 2011
Panasonic GH2 brings advance video shooting capabilities
Ever since Panasonic started offering their first micro four-third, interchangeable lens cameras, they have been rolling out  models with lots of features.  They call this the Lumix G Micro-System. The Panasonic Lumix DMC-GH2 is the latest in the family, its got more advance video capabilities than the G2, whcih is primarily for still photography. Advantages over its predessor GH1. […]
No Comments » - Posted in Photography by Prakash
Wednesday, April 6th, 2011
HTC incredible D provides an update to HTC Desire HD
HTC has launched the HTC Incredible S, which is an update over HTC Desire HD. Here are the improvements of HTC Incredible S over HTC Desire HD. Its lighter, 135g vs 165g Incredible S has 4″ display, while the HTC desire is 4.3″. Incredible S however has better quality Super LCD with the resolution remaining […]
1 Comment » - Posted in Gadgets and Deals by Prakash
Tuesday, March 15th, 2011
Get an Open PC
What is special about the Open-PC? Hardware and Software is selected by the Linux Community The PC is preconfigured and easy to use by everybody Telephone and Email support is included. Only free software is used, including the drivers Only fully documented hardware is used There are different manufacturers who build and sell the Open-PCs […]
No Comments » - Posted in General,Linux by Prakash
Monday, March 14th, 2011
10 reasons why I like Android more than Apple iOS
I have been using an Android phone for more than month now. I used the original iPhone which I upgraded upto iPhone 3.0. I have used newer iPhones 3GS, 4Â occasionally. Here is what I find better in the Android platform: No Need for iTunes: Apple insists for syncing music, video and other things, you need […]
No Comments » - Posted in Gadgets and Deals by Prakash
Saturday, March 12th, 2011
Motorola Atrix now available for $599, $129 with 2 year contract
Motorola Atix the most powerful Android phone is now available for purchase. US$599 without any contract and $129 with 2 year contact with AT&T. Order Motorola Atrix on Amazon.
No Comments » - Posted in Gadgets and Deals by Prakash
Tuesday, March 8th, 2011
Samsung Galaxy S II coming
Samsung has announced the I9100 here is whats new.. 8 MP Camera 4.3″ Super AMOLED Plus capacitive touchscreen 16 or 32GB memory HSDPA 21 Mbps for high speed data downloads USB on the go, so you can connect other USB devices Full HD, with 1080p video recording Gyroscope sensor for gaming and other applications which […]
1 Comment » - Posted in Gadgets and Deals by Prakash
Monday, March 7th, 2011
Samsung Galaxy S replaced by SL
Samsung has discontinued Samsung I9000 Galaxy S and has replaced it with Samsung I9003 Galaxy SL, here is the difference: Sumer AMOLED display is replaced by Super Clear LCD. Resolution remains the same. Slight heavier 131 grams vs. 119 grams. Preloaded with Android 2.2, while Galaxy S has 2.1 but is upgradable to 2.2 Has […]
No Comments » - Posted in Gadgets and Deals by Prakash
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 […]
1 Comment » - Posted in General by Prakash
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 […]
