June 2007

Europa is here !

June 29, 2007

The annual release of Eclipse code named Europa is now available for download. Like last year’s Callisto release, the Europa release is a coordinated release of different Eclipse project teams. This year, the annual release includes 21 projects. By releasing these projects at the same time, Eclipse aims to eliminate uncertainty about version compatibility and make [...]

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Plaxo 3.0

June 29, 2007

Plaxo is an online address book service founded by Napster co-founder Sean Parker, Minh Nguyen, and two Stanford engineering students, Todd Masonis and Cameron Ringand. I have been a loyal user of this service from some time now. I happened to meet a person named Ghanshyam Dass in Shanghai airport (during transit), who later turned out [...]

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Walt Mossberg reviews iPhone

June 27, 2007

Walt Mossberg of WSJ is highly regarded as one of the most influential writers on information technology. After trying out iPhone for 2 week, he has his say on this post Checkout this video too Points to note from the video: He was able to get in terms with the virtual keyboard after 5 days [...]

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Printing online photos

June 22, 2007

My mom still believes that that her roll film camera is much better than the digital camera that I have. The explanation that she gave was that even though digital cameras can store tons of photos on the memory card, she rarely sees any of them being printed !! I did try to explain that [...]

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USB Thumdrive from China

June 21, 2007

Check this picture !   Now read this story Some guy went to China and bought it for very cheap. It is supposed be able to store for several GB of memory. But as much as he tried, it didn’t work so he decided to to open it up and that’s what he saw. So [...]

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Source Control in Eclipse IDE

June 18, 2007

Source Control also known as Revision control or source code management (SCM) is the management of multiple revisions of the same unit of information. Source Control is most commonly used in software development to manage ongoing development of documents like application source code or design documents or any electronic information which is worked on by [...]

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Showing Top Commentators

June 16, 2007

The sidebar now displays the list of Top commentators for this blog. This has been overdue from some time now. Nate Sanden’s Top commentator plugin eased the task of showing the top commentators. It is currently shown only on the home page. In order to accommodate this list on my 2 column theme, I have [...]

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FeedDemon – Worth Buying ?

June 16, 2007

As mentioned in the About Me page, till now I have paid for 2 software which I thought were really worth the price. One was for the Flickr Pro account using which I could archive and share “GB’s” of photos. Its probably the best photo sharing/management application that I have come across. The other application [...]

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BTIS – Bangalore Transport Information System

June 13, 2007

Anyone who has visited or stayed in Bangalore would have definitely experienced the horrible traffic while commuting within the city. Bangalore Traffic Police in association with Mapunity and Airtel have come up with a comprehensive urban traffic information system for Bangalore city know as Bangalore Transport Information System (BTIS) Mapunity Information Services is a Bangalore-based [...]

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Safari – Now on Windows

June 12, 2007

One of the announcements made by Steve Jobs in WWDC was the availability of Safari Web Browser on Windows. As soon as I saw the news (it was around 1AM IST), I was tempted to try it out. The windows installable is around 8MB. The Browser setup optionally installs the following components: Bonjour Networking Service Apple [...]

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