Linux And Friends

Google has released a new open source project named Google Chrome Frame which aims to remove a huge burden from the web developers’ and web masters’ shoulder.  In a nutshell, Google Chrome Frame is an early-stage open source plug-in that seamlessly brings Google Chrome’s open web technologies and speedy JavaScript engine to Internet Explorer.

pngcrush is a command line image optimizer for PNG graphics files. It optimizes a PNG graphics file by reducing the size of the file’s IDAT chunk. Pngcrush is not installed by default in Linux, but it is available in the repositories of most Linux distributions. In Ubuntu Linux, you can install pngcrush by running the [...]

Shutter is a free screenshot capture tool for GNU/Linux. It has almost all the features of professional screenshot tools such as SnagIT. Shutter was formerly named GScrot (Not to be mistaken with scrot ). Using Shutter, you can take a screenshot of a specific area, window, your whole screen, or even of a website – [...]

Is our response to music hardwired or culturally determined ? Is the reaction to rhythm and melody universal or influenced by environment? Join host John Schaefer, Jamshed Barucha, scientist Daniel Levitin, Professor Lawrence Parsons and musical artist Bobby McFerrin for live performances and cross cultural demonstrations to illustrate music’s note-worthy interaction with the brain and [...]

Panasonic has unveiled an LED bulb which has a lifetime of 19 years assuming 5 1/2 hours of use every day.  That is 40 times longer than incandescent bulbs. The screw-in bulbs are a part of EverLed line and will be initially marketed in Japan with eventual expansion to USA, Europe and South East Asia.

Good Google vs Evil Google – This thought has often entered many of our minds at one time or the other. Considering the pervasive reach of Google in all of our Internet dealings, we sometimes wonder if we are doing ourselves good by storing all our data on Google servers.What if Google turns evil ?

Google has unveiled what is touted as a revolutionary way of reading news. The name of the technology is called Fast Flip. Google Fast Flip combines qualities of print and the Web, with the ability to “flip” through pages online as quickly as flipping through a magazine. It also enables users to follow friends and [...]

Bhuvan is a geoportal that provides medium to high resolution satellite imagery of virtually the entire India over the internet. You can “fly” around using mouse and keyboard on a simple desktop computer with virtual globe in front draped with IRS images over Indian region. Many other features are built in, including 3D terrain and [...]

Journalism – especially the modern kind is not what it seems to be on the surface. There are a number of ugly facts about journalism especially how it is practised. Here are 10 ugly facts about journalism which will keep you wondering …