From the monthly archives: September 2010
Version control is the management of changes to documents, programs, and other files. It allows you to recover older versions of your data or examine the history of how your data changed. In this regard, many people think of version control as a sort of “time machine.” Its most common use is to track changes [...]
We recently came across adminer, which is a phpmyadmin competitor and after using it for some time we felt that phpmyadmin is really an old tool and misses lots of features that todays phpmyadmin should have. So, here we have adminer, with much better features and it comes as just a single file (yeah, that’s [...]
Kicking hard and politely in Oracle‘s a**, yesterday OpenOffice.org community decided to part with the Oracle and announced LibreOffice under the organization named as The Document Foundation. It seems that Oracle was trying take away the infrastructure and other facilities from the open source projects which Sun Microsystem provided some time ago in one way or the [...]
It sounds strange enough to hear but it is true that Microsoft will be phasing out its Live Spaces making way for the blogging giant and Open Source Blogging app creator WordPress. Live Spaces, previously known as MSN Spaces, is a blogging and social networking platform by Microsoft. A post written by Dharmesh Mehta which [...]
Blackberry finally has an awesome product out in the market. After the mediocrity of their last big release “Torch” Blackberry has stormed the market with their latest offering. Rumoured for months on end, the product was finally launched-presenting The Blackberry Tablet provocatively titled the “Playbook.” The Playbook was launched at the Research In Motion’s annual Developer Conference by CEO Mike Lazardis.
Recently we came across a brilliant piece of software named Four Seasons of Code. It is a project management system which was built by Gaurav Menghani under the mentorship of Shreyank Gupta, a Red Hat employee and Fedora Contributor. Recently we had an opportunity to talk with Gaurav about FSoC and FOSS in general. Here [...]
Gizmodo‘s recent “Google Is Scaring Me” post got me thinking about Google’s stance on its “Don’t Be Evil” mantra. I have never been the biggest fan of Google but to the company’s credit, their search is still the best in the market. Yahoo, Bing and everybody else need to do a lot of catching up [...]
Yup! We just saw the new interface of the twitter and we really love it. The new interface is more appealing and user friendly. The new UI shows off a two column sidebar which looks more neat and is well arranged. The new bar at the top adds a classy look to the whole website. [...]
The Yaps team is back from OSI Days and all we are in a position to say about it is that it was AWESOME! This year OSI Days saw thousands of audience and scores of powerful speakers. The event had an amazing organization with equally amazing pool of sponsors, giants we’d rather say. Although they [...]
It seems that a very strong rumor about Facebook building a mobile device is circulating these days. We did our research and it seems that the rumors are partially correct. As some sources suggests, Facebook is not actually building a Mobile Phone or similar device. It is building a software, maybe a mobile OS, to [...]
