Firefox 3.6.13 released, still awaiting Firefox 4
While Google's Chrome is blazing through version numbers, Firefox 4 has a drawn out roadmap ahead of it. On December 9 2010, Firefox released 3.6.13 update, with some security and stability...
View ArticleYoutube to support longer videos for users with a clean track record
Youtube will now allow users with a good track record to upload videos longer than 15 minutes. While youtube has been largely free from pirated movies and full length TV episodes (recently ofcourse),...
View ArticleWill Wikipedia reach fundraising goal for 2011?
Jimmy Wales and friends have been appealing to users of Wikipedia for donations to the Wikimedia Foundation to fund Wikipedia and sister projects through 2011.Wikimedia Foundation runs various sister...
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Co.cc affiliate page labeled as Malware
Recently affiliates of co.cc might have received a "Malware Detected" page on browsing to the Referrals section of the co.cc website.The screenshot attached is from Google Chrome.On browsing to...
View ArticleHow mflow can change the music scene?
People have had enough of 30 second (90 seconds in some places) previews before deciding whether or not to buy a song. Unless the song is on radio, which most album-only songs aren't, chances are that...
View ArticleNokia Keep MeeGo - Sign the Petition
Nokia is planning to use the Windows Phone 7 OS for its future mobile offerings. That means no more Symbian and Maemo(and now MeeGo). While Symbian had its shortfalls and had a very successful run,...
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Windows 8 Developer Preview on Acer Aspire One AOA150
Update November 1st 2012: Windows 8 on Acer Aspire AOA 150Update: October 31st 2012Since posting this article about over a year ago, the said AOA 150 is still alive, although with some changes. I have...
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New Look Blogger: Promising Dynamic Views lacks options for customization,...
Blogger released a Dynamic Views template recently. Dynamic Views is a set of seven(7) different ways to display the posts of a blog.The official post about the launch of the new look mentions the...
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Blackhole Exploit Kit threat surfaces at the Wampserver English Website
AVG is reporting and blocking access to the website of Wampserver at wampserver.com/en citing a Blackhole Exploit Kit threat.The Blackhole Exploit Kit surfaced late in 2010 on file sharing websites...
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Ubuntu 11.10 Oneiric Ocelot on Acer Aspire One ZG5 AOA 150 ( with a...
We recently did a review of Windows 8 Developer Preview on Acer Aspire One ZG5 AOA 150. In a similar vein, we will be reviewing the October 13 release of Ubuntu's latest stable offering, the Oneiric...
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Tablets compared! Kindle Fire, Nook Tablet, ASUS Eee Pad Transformer , Acer...
Kindle Fire:Kindle Fire is to movies and rich media, what Kindle was to ebooks. Kindle FireSpecDetailsPrice199 USDDimensions190 mm x 120 mm x 11.4 mm (7.5" x 4.7" x 0.45") (H x W x T )Weight413 g...
View ArticleSlashdot Mobile Dying?
The minimal "palm" mobile version of Slashdot[http://slashdot.org/palm] stopped getting new stories on the 29th of May 2012. The latest story posted was "TomTom Flames OpenStreetMaps".Hopefully, this...
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CS50: "undefined reference to `GetString'" and other errors
I was going through the CS50 lectures of Fall 2011. CS50 recommends using the CS50 Appliance which is a VirtualBox installation of Fedora with libraries and software needed for the CS50 course....
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Chinese Android Debugging: How to use a Unbranded Android Device for...
developer.android.com has a nice writeup on how to setup a hardware android device for application testing on the Using Hardware Devices page. It also gives a list of USB Vendor IDs, which are required...
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AppEngine: Redirect naked or non-www domain to www domain on App Engine using...
Problem Statement:Your appspot domain: example.appspot.comYour custom domain: www.example.comnon-www/ naked domain: example.comHow to redirect naked/ non-www version of your custom domain to the www...
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AppEngine : Migrating to High Replication Datastore and retaining old...
Let me begin by saying that, if you have a memorable application id on appengine's *.appspot.com, but the application uses the now deprecated Master Slave Datastore and you would like to move to the...
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Windows 8 on Acer Aspire One AOA 150 - a 4 year old netbook
OS: Windows 8 RTM 90 day Evaluation 32bitPC: Acer Aspire One AOA 150CPU: Atom N270Graphics: Mobile Intel 945 Graphics Chipset with 256 MB memoryHDD: 500gb 7200rpm SATA(custom)Screen Resolution:...
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Getting Back Ubuntu after Installing Windows 8
So you installed Windows 8 on your system which had a Windows 7 and Ubuntu dual boot working nicely. And now Windows 8 is running well, but you can no longer boot into Ubuntu - the boot menu is...
View ArticleAppEngine: Migrating from Python 2.5 to Python 2.7 on Google App Engine in...
I tried moving an old app on Google App Engine from Python 2.5 to Python 2.7. Google Developers has provided a nice writeup, with all the prerequisites. However, being a noob, I found it rather...
View ArticleAppEngine: Python 2.7, Django Custom Template Filters without webapp, errors...
Part of the move from Python 2.5 to Python 2.7 on Google App Engine, included moving from Django 0.96 to Django > 1.2. Another part of moving, for me atleast, included leaving webapp behind. I moved...
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