Linux And Friends

“Sita Sings the Blues” is a feature length film by Urbana native Nina Paley – an independent animator. This film is a retelling of the popular Indian epic “Ramayana“. The producer of the film (Nina Paley) has released the film for free viewing over the internet via a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike License.

Packing clothes and other accessories in a suitcase is a chore you cannot do without when you are going to travel. Most of us just fold all the clothes and pile them one on top of the other inside a suitcase, in no particular order. Experts say there are more efficient ways of  packing a [...]

Nearly a year back, I had bought a Eureka Forbes AquaSure storage water purifier. I even wrote a review of this pure water purifier and recommended it as a cost effective solution to filtering water for drinking purpose. AquaSure is a water purifier for home use and falls under the “drinking water filtration system” category.

Google, in its endeavor in making the web a beautiful place for people spending their time online,  has published a font directory. The Google Font Directory acts as a site directory for all the fonts available via the Google Fonts API. The Google Font Directory provides high-quality web fonts that you can include in your [...]

A few years back, I had blogged on learning to tie a tie. The post contains YouTube videos demonstrating various knots. Now here is an info-graphic which clearly describes the steps involved in putting on a tie.

Facebook team has rolled out a new mobile friendly version of Facebook. People who own smart mobile phones like Samsung Galaxy, Google Nexus and HTC phones can access Facebook via its new address 0.facebook.com.

This is a synopsis of the Dale Carnegie‘s best selling book – “How to win friends and influence people“.

Now a days, information is readily available on the net. And most people find the content in Wikipedia very reliable and useful. Here is some good news. Now you can create your own customized book from the diverse articles in Wikipedia.

Now you can write code in HTML and CSS very fast using a unique plugin. Called Zen Coding, this is a plugin available for many popular text editors which help you to code in HTML, CSS, XML, XSL and so on in very little time. Zen coding is a new way of writing HTML using [...]