December 2006

Linux vs Windows

December 15, 2006

Sorry if you are mislead by the title. Check this image. (Click for the enlarged image) Also this happens to be my new wallpaper on SuSE. I found this image in one of the Novell’s CoolSolution Article. I just couldn’t stop laughing for some time Notice that stare given by the Penguin Now for the [...]

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WP Tiger Admin 3.0

December 14, 2006

WordPress is truly a great publishing platform. It is written completely in PHP and is backed by a MySQL database. The true power of WordPress lies in the extensible plugin architecture. Also you can change the look and feel just by a click ! However the Admin interface of WordPress has always looked dull and [...]

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Search Patents with Google

December 14, 2006

Now you can search/find full text of U.S patents via Google Patent Search. Phil points out that Unites States Patent and Trademark Office does have its own search service and its not that really useful. The first keyword I searched was “Google” and I ended up with this result !! Sanitary Device for Repelling Mosquitoes… [...]

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Flickr – Change in upload limits

December 14, 2006

I was just complaining in my earlier post regarding the 2GB upload limit for the Pro account and today Flickr announced that they have now removed the upload limit restrictions for the Pro Account. And the upload limit for the free account has been upped from 20MB to 100MB With the Flickr Free account you now get: [...]

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Java 6 is out

December 13, 2006

I am still using Java 1.4 and was contemplating on move to Java 5/1.5 and lo Java 6 is out. Ok now if you are confused with these version numbers check this page. I am still to get in terms with the new features of Java 1.5 itself and now Java 6 seems to come [...]

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My Flickr Photos

December 11, 2006

I bought the Flickr Pro account 4 days back and I managed to used 87% of the upload capacity(2GB) for the month !! And I still have GB’s of photos to upload . Shouldn’t Flickr give more bandwidth for the first month after signing up ?? Here is the link to the my Flickr Photostream [...]

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YouTube – Indian Clones

December 10, 2006

YouTube is the most popular free video sharing Web site which lets users upload, view, and share video clips. A slew of Indian video hosting sites are also trying to become the YouTube of India. As of now there are 3 4 players a lot of players in this race ! MeraVideo – Redefining Desi [...]

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Xgl working on Suse

December 8, 2006

I finally got Xgl working on SuSE. I struggled for 2 days to set this up and finally a comment left by a reader(Mahesh) on my earlier post helped me to resolve the problem ! So what was the problem ? Compiz was not installed properly ! Gnome Control Center showed the Desktop Effects tool (confirming [...]

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Adobe Reader 8

December 7, 2006

Adobe Reader 8 is now available for Windows and Macintosh. Download the free copy here The Reader user interface has been completely reorganized; looks much more cleaner compared to the earlier versions. Scoble has a video demonstrating the new feature of Reader 8.

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Flickr Pro

December 6, 2006

Flickr is almost certainly the best online photo management and sharing application in the world. With the Flickr Free account you get: 20 MB monthly upload limit 3 photosets Photostream views limited to the 200 most recent images Storage of smaller (resized) images After doing a lot of thinking I finally decided to go for [...]

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