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Thursday, January 22nd, 2009
Open source trading platform
A software startup called Marketcetera has released an open source platform for building automated trading systems. Since the world economy is at a situation where everyone wants to reduce cost, specially in the finance sector, this could be a big win for the company as well as Linux and Open Source.
No Comments » - Posted in Linux by Prakash
Tuesday, January 13th, 2009
Nice Linux desktop wallpapers
Vinayaraj has created some very cool Linux wallpapers. These can be downloaded from here. This ones’ already my wallpaper 🙂
No Comments » - Posted in Linux by Prakash
Wednesday, January 7th, 2009
iPhone running Linux!
The iPhone Dev Team has successfully booted Linux on the iPhone. Its still very rudimentary, no fancy apps or touch yet.. but this is just the beginning. The Dev Team is hoping to run Google’s equally Linux-based but more complete Android mobile operating system on the iPhone and is searching for programmers to help with […]
No Comments » - Posted in General by Prakash
Monday, January 5th, 2009
Nokia hints wider use of Linux in phones
Nokia plans to expand its use of Linux beyond Its N800 series. “In the longer perspective, Linux will become a serious alternative for our high-end phones,” Ukko Lappalainen, vice president at Nokia’s markets unit, told in an interview on the sidelines of the “Nokia World” industry conference.
No Comments » - Posted in Linux by Prakash
Thursday, December 4th, 2008
Two new cameras from Canon
Canon has launched two Cameras: The PowerShot SX10 IS and PowerShot SX1 IS. Both are good choices for people wanting more than a point and shoot but don’t want the complexity of an SLR. Also note, that with features come weight, both these models are around 550gms which is as heavy as an SLR. What’s […]
No Comments » - Posted in Photography by Prakash
Tuesday, December 2nd, 2008
Nokia N97 coming
After the iPhone has shaken up the cellphone market, celllphone manufacturers are desperately trying to create an iPhone killer. Nokia too announced the Nokia N97 to compete in this space and here are the features: 3.5″ Wide Screen (16:9) Symbian WiFi and HSDPA A-GPS 3.5 mm standard headphone jack. MicroSD slot. 5 Megapixel Camera with […]
12 Comments » - Posted in Gadgets and Deals by Prakash
Tuesday, December 2nd, 2008
Bad economy good for Open Source?
As the global economy is slowing down, companies are now looking at Open Source more seriously. With IT budgets experiencing a significant cut, open source is the best way to save cost. So the bad economy is actually working out good for open source. It also breaks the company out of the vendor locking where […]
1 Comment » - Posted in General by Prakash
Monday, December 1st, 2008
Interesting Restaurant concept
My friend Leslie took me to this wonderful restaurant and I really enjoyed the food and the concept. Located in Salt Lake CityĂ‚Â and called One World Everybody Eats. The restaurant has no price, no menu, eat as much as you like and pay what ever you like. They serve only organic food and their […]
No Comments » - Posted in General by Prakash
Thursday, November 27th, 2008
Upgrading iPhone to Firmware 2.2
Apple just released the latest firmware 2.2. I have successfully upgraded my original iPhone to the new firmware. My iPhone came with firmware 1.1 and was updated to 1.1.4. Standard disclaimer applies: If you end up with a fancy looking brick, don’t blame me. This is also known to work only on the older iPhone […]
13 Comments » - Posted in Gadgets and Deals by Prakash
Wednesday, November 26th, 2008
Hyundai i20 coming soon
After successfully launching the Hyundai i10, the team at Hyundai is busy putting their final touches to the i20. Like the i10, the i20 will be manufactured in India and exported globally. The i20 be positioned in the premium hatchback segment (B sgement), just as the Getz. This car with replace the Getz worldwide except […]
3 Comments » - Posted in Cars by Prakash
Monday, November 24th, 2008
Linux development cost statistics
The Linux Foundation published this excellent article:Ă‚Â Estimating the Total Development Cost of a Linux Distribution Some very interesting stats : Linux is the most popular open source operating system today, didn’t you know that already? Total development cost of a Linux distribution in 2002: $1.2 billion Cost to build Fedora 9 in 2008: $10.8 […]
1 Comment » - Posted in Linux by Prakash
Monday, November 24th, 2008
Syncing your iPhone on Linux.
Most end users wanting to move to Linux, expect to play MP3 music and sync their music with their iPods, iPhone, and XXX (put your favourite mp3 player here.) Apple does not have iTunes for Linux, its only available for Windows and Mac, I wonder why. iPhone being extremely proprietary, makes it incredibly difficult to […]
2 Comments » - Posted in Gadgets and Deals,Linux by Prakash
Friday, November 21st, 2008
Review of Panasonic Lumix DMC-G1
Digital Camera Resource Page (DCRP) has a review of the Panasonic Lumix G1. I had blogged about this earlier, when it was launched. Very interesting camera is you are looking to buy an SLR.
No Comments » - Posted in Photography by Prakash
Monday, November 17th, 2008
Did Apple get its India strategy wrong?
Mint has this nice article on how Apple got its India strategy wrong for the iPhone launch: Lost Opportunity | How Apple got its strategy wrong To add to this, Apple charges its customers in India full charges for the handset, which means no subsidisation from the service provide and yet the handset it locked […]
No Comments » - Posted in Gadgets and Deals by Prakash
Saturday, November 15th, 2008
High Dynamic Range (HDR) photography
High Dynamic Range or HDR photography is the latest craze in Digital Photography. How often do you have photos, where parts of the photos were over exposed, while others were underexposed? With HDR you take the same photos at different exposure levels, combine them to get very perfectly exposed photos. See some nice examples of […]
No Comments » - Posted in Photography by Prakash
Friday, November 14th, 2008
IPhone 2.2 Firmware coming
Apple is about to release iPhone 2.2 firmware soon. The Beta is already out. It has Google street view, and the most requested feature: turn off auto correct. Apart from several bug fixes. Cut and Paste is noticeably absent, which was suppose to be added in this release. Read More. It apparently can be jailbroken, […]
No Comments » - Posted in Gadgets and Deals by Prakash
Friday, October 31st, 2008
Installing OpenOffice.org 3.0 on Ubuntu 8.10
As some of you were expecting that Ubuntu 8.10 will be including OpenOffice.org 3.0, but as a matter of fact its still has OpenOffice 2.4.1. If you wish to upgrade to 3.0, check this out. You can still go and upgrade to OpenOffice 3.0. Read the instructions in this article.
1 Comment » - Posted in Linux by Prakash
Thursday, October 30th, 2008
Ubuntu 8.10 Intrepid Ibex released
Ubuntu 8.10 just got released and here is a summary of What’s new: Guest Session: If your friend comes over and wants to use your laptop, you can give guest access which is completely locked down so the guest user can’t see or touch your data. Support for 3G data card. This becomes easy with […]
No Comments » - Posted in General,Linux by Prakash
Monday, October 27th, 2008
Global Warming affects the Valley of Butterflies
The Valley of Butterflies is situated at Rhodes Island in Greece. A popular tourist attraction, which was once full of butterflies. Now its hard to find any butterflies there. And it not just global warming, its also because of increase in number of people visiting the place. I managed to spot one butterfly and a […]
1 Comment » - Posted in General,Photography by Prakash
Monday, October 27th, 2008
OpenOffice 3 sets new download record
OpenOffice.org released OpenOffice 3.0 which reported 3 Million downloads in the first week itself! Way to go OO! What’s interesting is, 80 percent of the downloads were on Windows and price being the major driver since OpenOffice is both Free and free. Free as in Open Source and free as in free of cost too. […]
