Archives for the Month of March, 2010

Kubuntu is not Ubuntu

Ever wondered why Kubuntu doesn’t get the same attention from Canonical. Good read!

Happy IPL from Airtel – free upgrade to 2mbps for all

Starting today, all IPL matches will be broadcast live around the world through Youtube. Well that is a known story. Now Airtel joins the party by announcing that all broadband connections will be upgraded to 2mbps for the entire duration of the IPL and it’s free of charge. If there are no major showstoppers, this [...]

Opera Web Browser: GTK / KDE Integration – File selector windows

My Opinion: Opera is a great browser. It’s fast, elegant, very original, first to the market with new features and it’s feature rich out of the box! To me it’s mail client is very slick and fast and outshines most competitors. It also allows you to shift between operating platforms like Windows, Mac and Linux [...]

Tandy Trower: Magnificent Insight from Windows 1.0 Product Manager

Must Read. I liked this part At that point Windows was no longer considered the company’s star project, as it had become a bit of an embarrassment. Even internally there were doubts among some in the company that Windows would ever ship. Also, because Ballmer had already burned though four product managers to try to [...]

Opera behaves: Says Google’s Sputnik test!

Well we’ve been saying that for long now! Now even Google is saying that! http://blog.chromium.org/2010/03/does-your-browser-behave.html

Tethering Apple iPhone 3.0 + with Ubuntu

If you’re like me you have an iPhone and a portable computer running Ubuntu and you would like to have mobile internet without paying for an extra data plan from your carrier. Thanks to a few devoted individuals tethering the iPhone to Ubuntu is simple. The only prerequisite is that you must have an iPhone [...]