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Thursday, November 25th, 2010
Impressive 3d slide transations for OpenOffice presentations
If you want to jazz up your open office presentation, you can install openoffice OpenGL transition library to get very cool 3D transition effects. On Ubuntu, just install this package openoffice.org-ogltrans Now you will have these additional slide transitions which you can use. You would find these at the end of the list of slide […]
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Wednesday, November 24th, 2010
A replacement for X finally!
The good old X Server is finally getting a replacement. Wayland will provide a replacement but can co-exists along side X Server for compatibility and features. It will also reduce the complexity today where for 3D effect, we are running Compiz. The X architecture has been around for a decades now. It has gone through […]
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Monday, November 22nd, 2010
Android will be the dominant smartphone platform says Apple co-founder
Apple co-founder, Steve Wozniak says: The Google OS is likely to win the race similarly to the way that Windows ultimately dominated the PC world. Woz stressed that the iPhone, “Has very few weak points. There aren’t any real complaints and problems. In terms of quality, the iPhone is leading.” However, he then conceded that, […]
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Tuesday, November 16th, 2010
50 Awesome Open Source Apps
Came across this interesting list of: 50 Awesome Open Source Apps You’ve (Probably) Never Heard Of Note: Most of the apps are Windows based..
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Monday, November 15th, 2010
Android is now No. 2 Mobile OS
As per last quarter reports published by Gartner, Android is now number two Mobile operating system with 25.5 percent market share. While Symbian is loosing market share, it still retails the number 1 slot due to Nokia. Android market-share jumped from 3.5 percent to 25.5 percent vs the same quarter last year. Android 2.3 is just round […]
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Wednesday, November 10th, 2010
The new Maslow’s hierarchy of needs
Malsow’s 5 Hierarchy of needs is commonly know to people, this was updated to 8 a while back. 1. Biological and Physiological needs – air, food, drink, shelter, warmth, sex, sleep, etc. 2. Safety needs – protection from elements, security, order, law, limits, stability, etc. 3. Belongingness and Love needs – work group, family, affection, […]
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Tuesday, November 9th, 2010
Should I Buy an iPad?
A while back, my friend Ramnath forwarded me this interesting flow chart, It holds true for iPad and may apply to many of our wants [not needs]. A few people who owned iPads, [althought many would not admit], were finding their iPad had diminishing marignal utility. After a few days of use, they were not […]
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Monday, November 8th, 2010
Google earth on your wall, if you are feeling rich
If you have loads of money to spare, feeling itchy and love Google Earth. You can setup Google Earth on multiple screens, this can be on a full wall or all your walls, depending on how many large screens you can have. Ok, you can still set it up with 2 monitors to try it […]
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Wednesday, November 3rd, 2010
Updated Windows Vs. Ubuntu hardware requirements
I have updated the Ubuntu vs Windows Hardware requirements to include Ubuntu 10.10 and Ubuntu 10.04, memory requirements still remains a humble 256MB which hasn’t changed in the last 10 releases 🙂
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Wednesday, November 3rd, 2010
Google Sues the United States: Department of Interiors
The US Department of the Interior is looking for a mailing solution for its 88,000 employees. Their tender asks for “Microsoft’s Business Productivity Online Suite-Federal (BPOS-Federal)”. They justify by saying: “Based on extensive market research, the Department determined that although many companies can provide messaging services in general, they either cannot provide services that address […]
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Tuesday, November 2nd, 2010
Nokia N8 looks like a desperate attempt
What do you get when you marry a Tata Nano Engine with a Merc ? You get a Nokia N8 :)Â Nokia has been struggling to maintain market share, and this looks like a desperate attempt. As always Nokia has added so many hardware features which others can’t matchup, read till the end before you decide. […]
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Monday, November 1st, 2010
Recycling the Buddha way
Buddha, one day, was in deep thought about the worldly activities and the ways of instilling goodness in human beings. The following is the text of conversation between him and his disciple. One of the disciples approached him and said humbly “Oh my teacher! While you are so much concerned about the world and others, why don’t you look […]
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Saturday, October 30th, 2010
Motorola Android phone to Defy water
Motorola has announced Motorola Defy which is Water Resistant, Dust Resistant and Scratch Resistant. Which is excellent if you had kids around who like to throw phones into the water! Here are some interesting features: 3.7″ touchscreen  display 480X864 resolution screen 5 Megapixel Camera with Video recording LED Flash 2 GB Internal Memory MicroSD Card […]
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Sunday, October 24th, 2010
Sub $200 Android phones hit the Indian market
Nokia has serious competition with Videocon, Mcromax, Acer and Motorola launching sub $200 (Rs. 10,000) phones in India. India already has the 2nd largest number of people accessing the internet from their cellphones. Android should fuel this market as: Its fast. Its excellent at multi tasking. Its easy to use. It has over 50,000 applications in the […]
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Thursday, October 21st, 2010
Donate Your Bandwidth to Support Ubuntu Downloads
Nice article from PC World. In the Ubuntu tradition, you can do your part to make this process go well for all. With just a few mouse clicks, you can donate some of your upstream bandwidth to smooth the process for others to download the open source OS. To do so, you’ll be using a […]
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Friday, October 15th, 2010
The Android Invasion
From a Newsweek article: What began as a trickle now has turned into a tidal wave. In August Google announced it was activating 200,000 Android phones each day. On at least one day since then, that number surged to more than 250,000, Rubin says. Android now has leapt past Apple to become the biggest smart-phone […]
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Wednesday, October 13th, 2010
Running torrent downloads on a remote computer
If you are planning to run torrent on a remote computer which you want to control using a browser, then TorrentFlux is for you. It allows multiple users to use one system as a torrent server. I am running TorrentFlux on the Plug Computer, it works well. Its also easy to use and manage. Its […]
2 Comments » - Posted in Linux by Prakash
Tuesday, October 12th, 2010
Installing Debian on the Plug Computer
I am highly fascinated by the Plug Computer, ever since I got one (courtesy Marvell). Since its small, consumers very little power (2 watts) hence environmental friendly and can do a number of things like downloading latest Ubuntu over night 🙂 I was trying to get Reliance Netconnect data card to setup on the Plug […]
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Sunday, October 10th, 2010
Ubuntu 10.10 (Maverick Meerkat) is released on 10/10/2010
Ubuntu 10.10 is finally here. This new release is more consumers focused and does numerous usability improvements. Here are the download links. I have provided both Torrent links (which I prefer) and directly downloads: Ubuntu 10.10 Version Torrent Links Direct Downloads Ubuntu Desktop 64-Bit Edition Torrent Main Server Ubuntu Desktop 32-Bit Edition Torrent Main Server […]
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Wednesday, October 6th, 2010
PDF presentations using PDFCube
While looking for presentation tools, I came across PDF Cube. To use this, you need to convert your presentations into PDF. OpenOffice.org already has this feature of exporting your presentations as PDFs. You also need to install this utility. On Ubuntu its already there in the repository, for other Operating system you can download it. […]
