Technology

  • How long will Windows XP live?

    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…

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  • How to use Windows Live Writer to publish to Drupal

    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…

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  • Trying out the new Windows Live Writer

    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…

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  • Desktop Operating Systems

    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…

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  • Nikon announces full frame DSLR

    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…

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  • Daylight Saving Time (DST)

    It’s March 11 already and at least for me everything seems fine. This year the clocks in US changed 3 weeks earlier than normal due to a new legislation by US congress. All my computers (Linux, Windows and Macs) had been patched and they adjusted for DST correctly. But PC World is reporting that some people had problems…

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  • SMS through email

    SMS has become very popular now a days. But what I don’t like about SMS is typing a long message with the 12 key keypad on a cell phone. If given a choice I would quickly send an email rather than SMS. But what if your recipient is away from computer and you quickly want…

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  • Roll-up fry-pan

    Now that is one cool idea! Isn’t it? Handy when you go for hiking… I wonder how heavy it is though!Roll-up fry-pan Cory Doctorow:The Scroll Pan is a roll-up nonstick frying surface — unroll it over the burner and use it to cook your omelets and suchlike.Link(via OhGizmo)

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  • My new PC (Core 2 Duo)

    So I’m all excited again to build yet another PC. If you’ve been paying attention you already know Intel has released a new CPU with new architecture called Core 2 Duo . It’s been getting rave reviews all over the internet. So I decided to jump in and have some fun of my own. I decided to build my own new Core 2…

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  • My backup solution

    I have been hosting my web site since Dec 2000. I have a huge collection of photos. Photos scanned from film before 2002 and photos from digital camera since September 2002. I also have a huge collection of MP3s ripped from my collection of CDs (3500+ songs). All this data is stored on my home…

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