I recently came across a site called Librivox which has a large collection of audio books. All these audio books are in public domain and they are all free to download and use without any restrictions. The reason is that, these books are long past their copyright limit. I found that there are many Sherlock Holmes stories, as well…
All the components arrived in the week of Sept 4. My PC was assembled and running by the weekend. I was disappointed at first because no matter what I tried, the OCZ memory won’t run at the rated 400MHz. It only ran at 266. After searching through Abit forums I found that the BIOS version…
Well, I think as long as people find it useful. Of course there is the other question of how long Microsoft will provide support for the OS. In today’s connected world you can’t have a computer connected to the Internet if you don’t receive regular updates for your OS. Take the case of Windows 98…
Well, whenever I think of a problem, I always check if anyone else encountered it before. And Google is your friend here. Drupal doesn’t appear as one of the supported interfaces under Writer wizard. But it actually works. This (and the last blog entry) was created using the Windows Live Writer and posted directly to…
This sounds interesting. Now all the Microsoft “Live” programs come bundled into one nice “suite“. The writer looks really polished. Interesting part about it is that when you create a new blog it copies the style sheet from your blog so you can actually see how the text (including all the formatting) will look before…
Compared to Windows Vista I find that Ubuntu’s user interface is much more elegant and doesn’t come in your way of doing useful work. If I had to rate the OSes for desktop today, I would rate them as: Windows XPOS XUbuntu 7.04Windows Vista I have been playing with my Mac-mini for a couple of…
At last almost 5 years after Canon brought it’s full frame DSLR to market, Nikon has announced a full frame DSLR camera of its own, D3. It is a 12 megapixel camera that can shoot 9 frames per second and sports a HUGE 3.0 inch monitor. There are other nice features like enhanced 3D Color Matrix…
Accessing internet after a long long time… at least that’s how it feels like. We both (me and Shraddha) are so addicted to the net that now even a few day’s away from the net feels like long. My last blog was from Pattaya after which we visited Bangkok, Genting and Kuala Lumpur in Malaysia…
Day 4 since we started our south-east asia trip. We left Pune late night on 22nd. On day 2 we took a Mumbai-Kolkata-Bangkok flight and then a bus ride to Pattaya. Day 3 we went to Coral Island for some water sports. Both of us did para-sailing and then went to the beach. I was…
Very heavy rains are affecting normal life in many parts of India.