From the monthly archives: November 2009
Many times, after a Linux install Windows partition i.e. NTFS file system becomes inaccessible through Linux. In these cases if you can make appropriate entries on your /etc/fstab you can recover these partitions. Although tools like ntfg-3g and ntfs-config are already there. And these tools are easy to use but knowing the innards never hurts, [...]
Pranav Mistry, the genius MIT grad had decided to go the open source way with his “Sixth Sense” project. Sixth sense is rhe closest we have got to realising the awesome coolness of Tom Cruise in Minority Report flicking away screens with his fingers using gestures . Sixth Sense is the
We just had an urge to look around the new website a bit and what we discovered is a bit disappointing. We found that several pages are incomplete. The most ironic thing we found was that W3C website is not able to validate its own CSS.
This just in that facebook is trying to build a XMPP interface so that you will be able to use facebook chat on clients like iChat, Kopete, Empathy and Pidgin. What’s more, you will be able to
In last few days we have seen a lot of pressure building upon Google due to Bing’s quest for releasing new features. After Social Search and Personal Mobile Search Google brings to you a new feature to search music, Music Search. According to the post on Google’s blog, “when you search for a band, singer, [...]
According to the co-founder Biz Stone “We’ve been taking our time rolling out the lists feature to make sure things go smoothly and developers have a chance to begin experimenting with our Lists API”.
This is one big problem that has been bugging me since that past couple of days. After some research, it was found out that we need to have the two files in the sites/default folder. default.settings.php settings.php. So, renaming the file will not work, it is mandatory to copy the file and rename it, that’s [...]
Came across some images (courtesy Gizmodo) of the unheralded Windows Tablet interface concept pics. Wow it does look good, with such good pics I’ve stopped expecting anything from the Apple tablet. Go Microsoft!!
Yesterday Bing announced some new features for its mobile search which includes flight status reports and support for touch devices like iPhone.
Although local searches were offered by m.bing.com already but now they have decided to put some real time data as well.
VMWare Fusion 3 for Snow Kitten and Win7 came out last week, not taking long out came Parallels 5. It’s also fully 64-bit, with Windows apps that behave like native ones, including full multitouch gestures, and zoom. Like Fusion, Parallels supports OpenGL 2.1 and DirectX 9 Shader Model 3.0 for the full Aero 3D interface [...]
