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Linux Mint 8 KDE released

Ujjwal Kanth — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 10:07:42 +0000

Yesterday Linux Mint team released its KDE based distribution and again they have done marvelous job with it. According to DistroWatch there has been ever increasing rise in popularity of this distro and it beats Debian, Mandriva and OpenSUSE by far in popularity rating. My experience with Linux Mint has always been placid. The distro installs [...]

TCS Hacked

Ujjwal Kanth — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 09:09:30 +0000

It was not long time ago when we heard that Orkut Brazil and TechCrunch was hacked, and today India’s largest software vendor and service provider,TCS, was hacked by a French Hacker. These hacks have put up a question mark to the security-services provided by the company. TCS gives its consultancy services to [...]

Synchronize the Web with Weave

Ujjwal Kanth — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 10:07:10 +0000

Mozilla finally released ver 1.0 of its Weave Project. This project is aimed at development of an add-on which could act as a synchronization tool, as in case of Opera with Opera Links. Mozilla has taken it way beyond just bookmark synchronization and incorporated a whole new level of web experience with other features [...]

RSS Subscription Extension for Google Chrome

Ujjwal Kanth — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 09:35:13 +0000

Google Chrome ver 4.0 might be the most stable version so far still its far from being a perfect release. It lacks some basic features which Google hopes to incorporate via extensions. One of the basic feature is auto-detect of feeds of a page. In Firefox or Opera if a page is visited with RSS subscription [...]

Synchronize bookmarks with Xmarks in Google Chrome and Firefox

Ujjwal Kanth — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 21:01:50 +0000

Google Chrome ver 4.0 was released yesterday. A lot many new features were incorporated in this new release. In addition to inclusion of much awaited extension system, Google has made it 400% more stable since it was released last year (source Google). It also has its own bookmarks synchronization, but being primarily a Firefox user [...]

Google Doc Drive but just don’t call it Gdrive

Ujjwal Kanth — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 01:56:35 +0000

Do you carry your zap drive or flash drive with you? Do you leave your important RAW images, Zip files or other important files at the mercy of unreliable and unsafe devices which often are found with someone which it is not intended to or with someone who took the liberty of not letting the [...]