[Tool] Backup your Browser with ease using FavBackup
Browser’s have come to become an inevitable part of our lives now. Almost everyday I bookmark so many websites, save new passwords, install and remove extensions. With this changes everyday I was always on the lookout for a reliable and easy backup solution to my Browser data. Till date Firefox along with FEBE satisfied all my needs, but doing backups using FEBE wasn’t easy and had its own share of disadvantages. Also over the years Chrome, Safari also have started to contribute quite a lot to my browser share. So... Read The Rest →
15 Most Beautiful Looking Linux Desktops You’ll Ever See
photo credit: psd Who said Linux can’t look pretty? For long its been said that Linux is the most boring OS ever and is not user friendly. I’ve been a linux user for sometime and I can say that my experience with it was nothing short of marvelous. Linux offers you unlimited amount of control as to how can you customize your desktop. Scoring around the net I found some really fantastic desktops and here is what I feel are the best of what I’ve seen. Certainly not the most... Read The Rest →
The Five Best Twitter Clients
photo credit: carrotcreative As Twitter continues to explode at a rate faster than any other web2.0 app that we’ve ever seen. The reason why Twitter has done so well because of the simple API that Twitter has and the number of apps that have been built on it. I thought with the growing popularity of Twitter it would be a nice idea to showcase some of the best clients for Twitter that have actually outdone Twitter itself. Here they are in what I feel is the best order. From the... Read The Rest →
Awesome Time Tracking Time Software – actiTIME
Everyday I get emails from small startups asking me how to manage time and reduce their expenses. Well I’m not into this startup thingy but I thought I’d do these guys a favor, so I went hunting for the best free time tracking software and stumbled upon actiTIME. In a nutshell actiTIME is basically : “A clear and simple way to register time expenses, analyze employee performance, prepare timesheets for billing your customers” I’ve tried out the demo and the web based app is highly functional and easy to use.... Read The Rest →
Futuristic Next Gen OLPC XO Laptop Revealed
Nicholas Negroponte the founder of One Laptop Per Child Foundation yesterday unveiled the design of their upcoming XO Laptop. Dubbed to be the world’s cheapest laptop ever it is expected to retail about 75$. The designs that were unveiled totally blow the current market, as the design is simply amazing, and looks very user friendly. The only catch is that it will take them till 2010 to bring this design from the artist’s canvas to a real functional device. The laptop to be called XO-2 will have dual touch screens... Read The Rest →
Hack Attack : Run Linux Apps Natively On Windows, OSX
Linux has always been the operating system of the geeks and nerds. For some reason Linux has never been able to capture the market like Windows and OS X have managed to do. The main reason for this has been the so called unfriendliness of the Linux OS. But things are changing now with distros like Ubuntu etc.. For over 15 years now Linux users have been using Wine to run Windows Applications and Softwares natively. With Wine 1.0 scheduled for a early June release things are looking better for... Read The Rest →
Ubuntu 8.04 to be the Greatest Ever!!
The Ubuntu team is at hard work and I must say I’m impressed with the work that has been done so far. Ubuntu 8.04 is on track to be shipped on April 24th 2008, and in the early stages of its development it continues to impress me with the new features being added.. This alpha release comes with HOT new features and improvements, like PulseAudio as the default sound system, the latest and greatest 2.6.24 Linux kernel and Xorg 7.3, with an emphasis on better autoconfiguration without config files “The... Read The Rest →
Miro gets a 1.0 Release, and its Lovely!
Miro, the free open source Video player, just got through a major milestone. The Miro team launched an all new version 1.0 that brings a host of new features that make Miro the best Video Player out there. I just couldn’t prevent myself from trying it out, so I downloaded it, and trust me, it completely blew me off. I was using Joost till now to watch quality Video content online, but now Miro is going to replace Joost, Believe me, its that good. Miro is way better than Joost... Read The Rest →
Mozilla Prism Now Available on Linux and Mac
Mozilla Prism about which I had talked about earlier has just got a fresh release for Linux and Mac OSX. Prism is basically a stripped down version of Firefox that allows you to load a single page at a time. By using minimal resources Prism is able to deliver high performance. No tabs, no useful URL or navigation buttons. But Prism can come in handy if you like to keep a single web site like Gmail open all day, since it uses fewer resources than Firefox.
The Wait is Over : Ubuntu 7.10 is Here
Well the wait is finally over, Ubuntu 7.10 (Gusty Gibbon) was released just a few hours ago. Ubuntu has changed the way we perceive Linux. Ubuntu has taken Linux to new levels taking it beyond geeks to a lot of normal people like you and me. In its 3 years of existence Ubuntu continues to grow as the biggest challenge to Microsoft domination in the Operating System market. Well today marked the day when another version of Ubuntu labeled as Gusty Gibbon present itself. Gusty has brought a lot of... Read The Rest →
