October 2006

Adobe Digital Editions

October 31, 2006

Adobe labs has come out with Digital Editions which is supposed to be a completely new way of reading and managing e-books. Digital Editions is built from the ground up as a lightweight, rich Internet application (RIA). Digital Editions works online and offline, and supports both PDF and XHTML-based content. This is an early Windows [...]

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Michael Schumacher – What Next ?

October 29, 2006

As many of the die hard Formula 1 fans might be knowing, last weeks Brazilian Grand Prix was Michael Schumacher’s last career race. I have been watching F1 from around 1995/96 and till now I have watched almost all the races with great enthusiasm. With Schumachers exit, I am not sure If I will ever [...]

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Problem with Graphics Card

October 27, 2006

My Acer notebook has a ATI Mobility Radeon X700 Graphics card with 256MB VRAM. Playing games with this high end card is always a treat ! However from the past few weeks, I am facing a weird problem. It all started when I was playing one of my favorite games : Railroad Tycoon 3. This [...]

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RSS Feeds – Update

October 27, 2006

As I mentioned in one of my earlier post, there was an update in the RSS feed URL of this blog. Old Feed URL http://feeds.feedburner.com/venukb/zrq New Feed URL http://feeds.feedburner.com/OnlineDiary However my feedburner stats suggest that many are still using the old feed URL. Request those readers to please shift to the New Feed URL. As [...]

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Funny Picture

October 27, 2006

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Mozilla gets a cake from Microsoft

October 26, 2006

I am not sure how true this is, but it seems that Mozilla got a cake from Microsoft IE Team for the release of Firefox 2.0 ! Checkout some interesting comments for this post on Digg even their cake probably has bugs in it It was a nice gesture from the IE7 team. I guess [...]

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Steve Ballmer

October 26, 2006

I am not sure if this guy is crazy or over energetic ! Check out these videos Steve Selling MS Windows 1.0 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gqH2XrteqRc Steve Ballmer Dance http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9KVlEmYZjw0 Steve Ballmer “singing” developers ! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ftsByyqazF0

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Firefox 2 is out !

October 25, 2006

Firefox 2 (codenamed Bon Echo) is now officially released and is available for download here. I checked for updates from within the browser, however I was prompted with a message saying that no new updates were available. This means that Firefox 2 is not being pushed via the update mechanism as of now ! I [...]

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PicLens

October 25, 2006

Alec from CoolIris mailed me regarding PicLens, a new product from CoolIris. (Check my post on CoolIris here) PicLens is a first-of-its-kind browser plug-in that transforms your browser window into an immersive cinematic experience for viewing web images. Compared to the traditional, sluggish way of viewing of images of the web, the PicLens viewing experience [...]

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IE7 out of Beta

October 20, 2006

IE7 is officially out of Beta and every other blog in my RSS feed is talking about this ! One post which is worth reading : Chris Messina – The beast has awoken; or, The beginning of Web 2.0 Also checkout the official post on IE7 release here ! I have been looking at every [...]

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