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Tuesday, February 16th, 2010
30X optical zoom cameras from Olympus and Fuji
Olympus and Fuji have both released 30X optical zoom cameras. This is amazing amount of zoom for those wildlife enthusiasts Here is a comparison between the two: Features Olympus SP-800UZ FinePix HS10 Optical Zoom 30X 30X Digital Zoom 5X 2X Megapixel 14 10 Image Stabilisation Dual Triple Display 3″ LCD 3″ Tilting LCD Movie Recording […]
1 Comment » - Posted in Photography by Prakash
Monday, February 15th, 2010
The affordable Olympus Pen
Olympus has been bringing Micro Four-Third cameras to the market faster that expected. After the E-P1 and E-P2, they have now released E-PL1 which is cheaper by US$ 200. Here are the specs. Kit includes 14-42 Zoom lens 12 MegaPixel 2.7″ LCD HD Video support List price US$ 599 E-PL1 has a few advantages over E-P2: […]
No Comments » - Posted in Gadgets and Deals,Photography by Prakash
Sunday, February 14th, 2010
OpenOffice Marketshare India and other countries
WebmasterPro has an interesting way to calculate the percentage of people using OpenOffice. Poland & Czech Republic lead in OO usage and have 22 percent people using OpenOffice. Germany 21 percent and France 19. UK/US at 9 percent. India is low at 5 percent. See more at WebMasterPro.
No Comments » - Posted in Linux by Prakash
Tuesday, February 9th, 2010
USB 3 is here
 USB 3 devices have finally started showing up in the US and expect them to be more widely available everywhere else in the world, later this year. USB 2 has been around, but with serious bottlenecks. Its slow and gets slower when you connect multiple peripherals. Is USB 3 going to solve the problem? […]
No Comments » - Posted in Gadgets and Deals,General by Prakash
Sunday, February 7th, 2010
Avatar was created on Ubuntu
What common between Avtar, King Kong, Lord of the Rings, Fantastic Four, X-Men, i-Robot? They were all created at Weta Digital in New Zealand. Now some vital stats: 2 Petabyte disk array 10gbps networking 10 TB Ram 35,000 cores (4,000+ blades) Ubuntu 🙂
No Comments » - Posted in Linux by Prakash
Saturday, February 6th, 2010
Why Microsoft can’t be creative anymore
Here is a nice article posted in New York Times written by a former Microsoft Vice President. “Microsoft has become a clumsy, uncompetitive innovator. Its products are lampooned, often unfairly but sometimes with good reason. Microsoft never developed a true system for innovation. Some of my former colleagues argue that it actually developed a system […]
No Comments » - Posted in General by Prakash
Friday, February 5th, 2010
Symbian goes Open Source
After Google Android, now Symbian has decided to go Open Source. Since Android is Linux based and this had a good chance of Linux becoming the de facto operating system in Cellphone too. So Symbian reacted and released all its source code too, in the hope that their customers don’t switch to Linux and they […]
No Comments » - Posted in Linux by Prakash
Thursday, February 4th, 2010
My take on Apple iPad
Now that the dust has unsettled on the iPad and more anxiety is being generated :), I decided to write my two cents. Apple is known to be an innovative company and they have done exactly that with this device, however they could do better. What they seems to have done is just zoomed up […]
2 Comments » - Posted in Gadgets and Deals by Prakash
Monday, February 1st, 2010
Good morning Mumbai
Here is a photo taken during a sunrise in Mumbai. Have fun!
No Comments » - Posted in General by Prakash
Wednesday, January 20th, 2010
Skype to go Open Source
This is awesome News. Skype is planning to open source its Linux client. The current Skype client on Linux is functional but buggy and it lags behind the Windows version in terms of features. Now if Skype opens up, it will make the client development go faster, people will be able to fix bugs faster […]
No Comments » - Posted in Linux by Prakash
Tuesday, January 19th, 2010
5 More Reasons Why IE6 Must Die
“There are at least 142 vulnerabilities in IE6, 22 of which are not yet patched.” Read more. If you are still using IE, time to switch to Google Crome or Firefox. I have been using Firefox for a while now, find it very good. Off late I have been trying out Crome and find it […]
1 Comment » - Posted in General by Prakash
Friday, January 15th, 2010
Cost of External Drives
I was comparing the pricing of External drives and here are the results. Its Amazing to see how we used to talk in MBs, then GBs and now TBs. GB 500 1000 (1TB) 1500 (1.5 TB) 2000 (2TB) Price in US$ 73 95 135 200 Cost per GB 0.15 0.10 0.09 0.10 The cost per […]
No Comments » - Posted in Gadgets and Deals by Prakash
Wednesday, January 13th, 2010
Pen gets a viewfinder
Olympus has launched the E-P2 soon after they launched the E-P1. E-P2 has an electronic view finder which was absent in the E-P1. Rest of the specs remain more or less the same as the E-p1.
No Comments » - Posted in Photography by Prakash
Tuesday, January 12th, 2010
Sending emails faster with Thunderbird
Here is a tip to save time while sending emails using Mozilla Thunderbird. If you compose an email with Thunderbird, you do not come back to the inbox immediately, unless the email is sent which take a few minutes. A solution to this is to use the add-on Sendtools. Once you install this, your emails […]
No Comments » - Posted in General by Prakash
Monday, January 11th, 2010
My Next Notebook or Netbook?
Two years ago, I said good bye to my lone Desktop. I wasn’t sure how I would survive 🙂 since I had so many peripherals, but I am doing pretty well so far. I only use a Notebook these days. Would I still buy a Notebook or a Netbook would fit the bill? Was just […]
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Tuesday, December 29th, 2009
Brewing your own herbal tea
Making your own herbal tea can be fun and keep you healthy too. Here is Herbal Tea-HOWTO. Herbal teas boosts your immunity, maintain general good health and can be useful in curing common cold, cough, allergies and indigestion. For best results drink early in the morning. Ingredients 5 Lemon Grass – Good for Digestion and […]
1 Comment » - Posted in General by Prakash
Monday, December 28th, 2009
AWN Manager – Mac OSX like dock for Ubuntu
I installed AWN Manager on Ubuntu, following the instructions here. Here is what I liked. It looks cool 🙂 Can auto-hide, giving you more desktop real estate. Has cool applets like fortune which I enjoy reading and reminds me of bash days. What I didn’t like It crops up when you don’t want it to. […]
2 Comments » - Posted in Linux by Prakash
Saturday, December 26th, 2009
Enabling professional features on Canon point-and-shoot
If you have a point-and-shoot and long to have more professional features, you don’ t need to buy expensive new cameras yet. You can just enable many new features: With this tool, you can enable advance features in any Canon Camera. Supports advance features such as RAW support, additional to jpeg. This makes it easy […]
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Friday, December 25th, 2009
Nikon P90 alternative to an SLR
Nikon has released P90, which is a prosumer camera, featuring functions found in professional cameras. This is a good alternative if you need more than a point-and-shoot but are not yet ready for an SLR. Many people buy an SLR and then they continue to shoot in auto mode because they don’t know how to […]
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Monday, December 21st, 2009
Ubuntu vs Windows Hardware Requirements
I compared the hardware requirements of a popular Linux Desktop: Ubuntu 9.10 with Windows 7Â both of which were released last month. Hardware Windows 7 Ubuntu 9.10 RAM (MB) 1024 MB 256 MB Processor (MHz) 1000 MHz 300 MHz Disk Space (MB) 16 GB 4 GB Ubuntu 9.10 remained a modest 265MB memory with 300MHz […]
