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Monday, October 4th, 2010
Canon Professional Backup Camera: G12
The Canon Photoshot G12 is targeted as a backup camera to professional gear like DSLRs. These have a lot of features found in professional cameras in a compact form factor. Canon was the first to reduce the megapixel with the G11. The reason for reducing megapixel was that with each increase in megapixel, there was […]
1 Comment » - Posted in Photography by Prakash
Monday, September 27th, 2010
Android to have 500 Million Users by 2015
“In terms of sales, smartphones powered by Android are expected to surpass these of Symbian as early as 2012,” he said, reports the Telegraph. Its time Nokia considers offering Android based phone. “If Nokia joins the Android party, the support of this eco-system by all key players could help the mobile smartphone industry to potentially […]
1 Comment » - Posted in Gadgets and Deals,Linux by Prakash
Friday, September 24th, 2010
Canon SX30 offers 35X Optical Zoom
Canon has announced the SX30 at Photokina 2010. This is new addition to the super zoom family. Earlier Canon was still limited to 20X while competition had gone to 30X. With this release canon has now beaten most of the competition by releasing a 35X Optical Zoom. Here are some cool features. 14 Megapixel HD […]
No Comments » - Posted in Photography by Prakash
Thursday, September 16th, 2010
Broadcom plays good samaritan by Open Sourcing their WiFi chipset drivers
Broadcom which until now refused to open their Wi-Fi drivers, has released their Linux WiFi Drivers under Open Source. This is great for Linux users, as Broadcom was one of the few chipsets for which there were no open source drivers. While you could use Windows drivers on Linux using NDIS wrapper, it had its […]
No Comments » - Posted in Linux by Prakash
Wednesday, September 15th, 2010
Finding IP addresses of devices in your network using port scan
I was trying to find the IP address of a device which was connected to the network and had secured the IP address using DHCP. The easiest way to check was to look for the DHCP Server logs, but since that was not possible I did a port scan. Here are the simple steps on […]
1 Comment » - Posted in Linux by Prakash
Friday, September 10th, 2010
Converting your Ubuntu Notebook into a Wifi Hotspot using Network Manager
I came across an interesting article on how to convert your Ubuntu Notebook into a WiFi Hotspot so that you can connect other devices to your Ubuntu Notebook for sharing the internet connectivity. You don’t need to install any fancy software, in fact the functionality is built into Network Manager itself. Its very easy and […]
4 Comments » - Posted in Linux by Prakash
Wednesday, September 8th, 2010
VOIP cordless phone for your home: Siemens Gigaset A580IP
I have been using Siemens Gigaset A580IP for couple of months now. I find it works well with Nonoh.net, Voipbuster.com and Asterisks based system. Here is my brief review. Excellent voice quality. has both VOIP and land line option. Connects to multiple VOIP service providers (upto 6). Can easily switch VOIP provider. Can connect to […]
2 Comments » - Posted in Gadgets and Deals by Prakash
Thursday, August 26th, 2010
Lower-powered ARM processors coming to servers
Smooth-Stone, a chip startup company is coming up with low powered ARM processors to power servers. ARM processors have been very successful in smart phones consuming less than 1 watt at its peak and still running at upto 1 GHz. They have now started moving into tablets (iPad), Netbooks, Plug Computers, personal servers and more. […]
1 Comment » - Posted in General by Prakash
Wednesday, August 25th, 2010
Creating micro products for India the Allianz way
Consumer companies have successfully launched micro products to reach out to Indian customers by having Shampoo sachets. The advantage of this that people who cannot or do not want to invest in the whole bottle , can buy a small sachet for 1% of the cost of a bottle. The end result is more volume […]
No Comments » - Posted in India by Prakash
Friday, August 20th, 2010
HTC Desire HD coming
After the HTC Desire, HTC has announced the HTC Desire HD. Here are the specs: 4.3 inch LCD screen: Thats big! 8 Megapixel Camera 1 GHz Processor (same as HTC Desire) 720p High Definition Video Capture HD Video Playback DivX playback Surround sound. 4 GB Internal Memory: Nice but more the better. Android 2.2.: Will […]
1 Comment » - Posted in Gadgets and Deals by Prakash
Thursday, August 12th, 2010
98 percent use Open Source
98 percent of people surveyed out of a total of 75,000 users, confirm that they use Open Source. If you still fall under the 2 percent that doesn’t, please do the honours of telling us why. In fact 48 percent says there is no reason not to use Open Source. Reason for using Open Source: […]
No Comments » - Posted in Linux by Prakash
Monday, August 9th, 2010
Automated caching of your Ubuntu updates
If you wish to automatically cache all you Ubuntu/Debian updates on one computer, you can use Squid-deb-proxy. This is useful if you have multiple Ubuntu/Debian clients in your network and they all download the updates. Instead of each system connecting to the internet to get the updates, it will get the updates from the caching […]
4 Comments » - Posted in Linux by Prakash
Wednesday, August 4th, 2010
5 Linux powered e-book readers
Linux powered devices are experiencing an exponential growth. E-book readers are gaining popularity because they can carry huge volumes of books, are environmental friendly and can do other things amongst being a book reader like listen to music or run apps. I didn’t realise that so many of the popular e-book readers run Linux: Amazon […]
2 Comments » - Posted in Gadgets and Deals,Linux by Prakash
Monday, July 26th, 2010
HTC Android phones: Wildfire, …
HTC Android phones: Wildfire, Legend and Desire http://bit.ly/do43VC
No Comments » - Posted in General by Prakash
Monday, July 26th, 2010
HTC Android phones: Wildfire, Legend and Desire
What happens when a Taiwan ODM (Original Device Manufacturer) starts making their own phone? Result is you get good value for money, it start selling well and as a result they also get sued! For those who came in late, ODMs are the actual manufactures of the device sold by the likes of Apple. ODMs […]
2 Comments » - Posted in Gadgets and Deals,Linux by Prakash
Thursday, July 15th, 2010
Android crosses iPhone OS Market share
Android has overtaken Apple OS (iPhone,itouch,iPad) to be number 2. Blackberry RIM is still Number one, however they are quickly loosing marketshare to Android. RIM’s BlackBerry OS at 36 percent; Android at 28 percent; Apple iPhone OS at 21 percent. Read more.
No Comments » - Posted in Gadgets and Deals,Linux by Prakash
Monday, July 12th, 2010
WordPress scaling new heights
WordPress is scaling new heights! For those who came in late, WordPress is the best blogging platform and it open source. You can either use their free blog service at wordpress.com or download WordPress and setup your blog on your own domain. WordPress Vital Stats: WordPress 2.9: 10.3 Million Downloads WordPress 3.0: The recently released […]
No Comments » - Posted in Linux by Prakash
Wednesday, July 7th, 2010
BtrFS to butter your files
BtrFS is the newest filesystem for Linux. Its is likely to replace ext4 at some point of time. Ubuntu 10.10 will include this in October this year. Here is what is interesting about it. Compression on the fly. If you remember Stacker days when you could double your disk space without buying a new disk, […]
2 Comments » - Posted in Linux by Prakash
Tuesday, July 6th, 2010
Hybrid drive to provide a cost effective alternative to SSD
Our plain old hard drive is getting increasingly replaced by SSD, now Seagate is soon going to announce Hybrid drives (Momentus XT) which take advantage of both these technologies to give you the best of both world. Here is a summary. Hard Drives (spinning Disk drives) Advantages: Lowest cost per GB Easy availability Fairly reliable […]
No Comments » - Posted in Gadgets and Deals by Prakash
Monday, July 5th, 2010
Best Buy is not best anymore
Best Buy is firing its employee who made this funny video comparing iPhone 4 with HTC Evo. Perhaps Apple didn’t find the video funny and is pressurising Best Buy to take action. Here is the scoop. The video has already had 2.3 Million views and growing rapidly. Its funny 🙂
