Trying out Zindus which allows you to synchronise address book entries between Thunderbird (my currently preferred email client), Google and Zimbra (which I’ve never heard of till now). It sounded like a nice idea but has resulted in me facing my address book inaccuracies. This dear thing is pre Outlook 95 or something. It’s been [...]
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Digital Game Downloads
If you want to waste time but have fun doing so gaming is a good way to do that. Digital downloads is a distribution method with obvious cost and sales advantages to the companies but they are also advantageous to us as gameplayers too. They are much cheaper even at US dollar or Euro rates [...]
Windows 7 and Ubuntu 10.04
Windows 7 Now that I’m actually using Windows 7 both starter and home premium editions I can say a few things about it. As you know I used the rather icky Windows Vista before. There are two obvious differences: The taskbar has been significantly improved over Vista where now instead of having to click through [...]
Eeepc 1005PE vs iPad
I’ve gotten an Eeepc 1005PE which is a netbook (ie small) computer. I’m very much happy with it so far and am typing this up on the system. I’ve decided to compare it with the iPad which is also recently released. Price was $469. The iPad is $629-$1049 depending on HD space and if you [...]
Windows LIVE, why won’t it DIE?
You know Windows Live is such crap. I mean that. Firstly there’s the email which doesn’t do it’s job on junk mail filtering. Then when you try to mark it as junk the server doesn’t respond. And that’s half the issue with their email, it is frequently down. Nowadays all I get is junk there, [...]
Buzz Sucks because Few Use it.
Google Buzz, like it’s failure before it Orkut (except in selected nations) and Myspace and indeed many other worthwhile social apps, all SUCK. It has nothing to do with their technical wonders or lack of them. It has everything to do with the fact that hardly anyone uses them. Facebook and Twitter are dominant. I [...]
The iPad will be Suckcessful
So I was in JB-HiFi the other day. It is, rather sadly, the last local place one can see a wide selection of PC games. Naturally they sell other junk, their main gig being music. However, I was looking at the Macs and while I know oh so little about the actual use of them, [...]
A Second Life?
SecondLife is one of the most remarkable Massively Multiplayer Online (MMO) games I’ve ever played. I’ve played quite a few too. In many ways it’s like what the Sims Online should have been only better. Better because it’s more freedom oriented and not nearly so slow and also better because anyone can contribute to creation [...]
The Future of Google Wave? A Manhunt?
When one uses Google Wave, like any communication form, there’s the competing elements of signal and noise. Already the signal is quite strong. Most technophiles already have access but we’re all trying to find out how best to use this medium. It’s obviously strong in collaboration and seems to be a great balance of email [...]
Windows Overheads Getting too Heavy
There is a windows nuisance which seems to be getting nearer crisis point. These are overheads, or if you like computer maintenance, which comprises of several wasteful mechanisms which sap you computer productivity, speed, responsiveness and your personal time. What I’m talking about is everything on your system that isn’t core to your service. There’s [...]
Riding the Google Wave
I got an invite from a friend and I am indeed thrilled to get a look at it. If you are one of the extremely lucky people who have escaped the hype and know nothing about Google Wave, allow me to corrupt you. Google Wave is a new communication tool; Real time – what you [...]
Password Overload
I’m sure I’m not the only one struggling with the maintenance of an enormous internal database of passwords. Well… enormous by human standards. I don’t know about you but I have passwords for a gaggle of online games, passwords for even more social networking sites like Twitter and Facebook. Some for Linux and Windows Admin. [...]
Map your Thoughts
When you want to explore ideas it’s often useful to use a graphical form. Because though text has flexibility and is often easier to create our minds seem to absorb graphics elements more easily. An obvious example is the conversion of reams of data into pretty graphs. It is in this graphical format that trends [...]
Googphilia
Lately been trying out several Google tools. Google has an experimental facility called Social Search that allows you to search your ‘social circle’ and hence get relevant search results out of your social networks by using public information in your social networking sites like facebook, twitter and blogs. It does require some configuration to set [...]
Kubuntu 9.10
I upgraded to this new version of Linux and I’m posting from it right now but this was not a smooth process. I used the GUI updater (from 9.04) and it failed at 99% downloads. Restarted it after a reboot and it worked this time. I have no idea what happened. To add insult to [...]
