What is Open Source?
Yes, what is open source? A lot of people will answer differently to that question and quite large is the number of people who mistake Open Source to be a synonym of FREE(as in beer, meaning free of cost). These kind of people are really annonying, especially when they make statements like they prefer FireFox [...]
Typing in Hindi becomes easy!!
If you’d remember, sometime back I posted a link to an online Hindi keypad which allowed you to type hindi in unicode using your mouse. But that’s still a bit of bother as you’ve to be pretty handy with your mouse & still it’ll take some practice to get used to the onscreen keyboard.
But now [...]
Review : Shutterbook
For as long as I can remember, Flickr has been the most popular way of sharing photos online, but some people have decided it’s time to change all that. Step in Shutterbook ! Shutterbook is currently providing a mammoth 20 GB of storage space, unlimited bandwidth, and the slickest interface of all photo sharing websites.
Features [...]
Google Analytics
Remember Urchin, the web statistics provider that Google bought some time back. Google seem to have followed the Keyhole-Google Earth conversion path and have made Urchin’s powerful tools freely accessible. What’s the catch ? You may ask ! Well, nothing is evident yet. This gives me an opportunity to venture a few guesses.
Google Analytics provides [...]
Grandpa to pay for Grandson!!
Yeah, a grandfather is being sued over a crime which his grandson did, as Yahoo! reports!!
The The Motion Picture Association of America is suing a 67 year old man called Fred Lawrence of Racine, USA for $600,000 in damages as his grandson downloaded four movies through the P2P file sharing service called iMesh. [...]
Windows going Live!!
You might’ve heard of Xbox Live if you’ve any interest in gaming or internet, now the next you’ll hear is Windows Live & Office Live, the offerings of the same giant, Microsoft, reported Yahoo! Reportedly, Microsoft is trying hard to fend off threats from Google, Yahoo! & other small upstarts that are thriving on the [...]
Sify Sold !
Sify, One of India’s largest Internet firms has been sold. Indian software services firm Satyam Computer Services Ltd. said on Thursday it had sold its entire 31.61% in Internet firm Sify Ltd. to US-based Infinity Capital Ventures Ltd. for $62.62 million.
Infinity also bought an additional 6.7 million new shares of Sify worth $37 million [...]
Compaq’s Common Body Strategy
Many of you may have noticed that several of Compaq’s Presario notebooks make use of the same body these days. For example, the V2000, V2300 and some V2400 laptops make use of exactly the same body. The advantage is obvious - like a platform car concept, a lot of money is saved from production costs, [...]
Microsoft Office 12 Screenshots
Paul Thurott’s Supersite for Windows has put up a new gallery showing Office 12 screenshots from the installation, Word, Excel, Powerpoint and Outlook. These galleries are of a pre-BETA version of Office 12 which is not yet available to the public.
Click here to view Office 12 screenshots.
Happy Deepawali!!
A very very Happy Deepawali to all of you, from all of us here at diGit Blog!! Light up the night but not with crackers, the environment is already very much polluted, don’t pollute it anymore!! I stopped burning crackers 7 years ago, & this will be my 8th deepawali without crackers!! I [...]