Linux And Friends

GCstar is an open source collections manager software. Collection managers are databases optimized for collecting information on similar things. For example, I have a bunch of DVD movies that I have ripped to my computer for easy viewing. Unfortunately, they have been saved in different locations. Using GCstar, I can create a movie collection database [...]

Kindle Format 8 (KF8) is the next generation file format for Kindle books replacing Mobi 7. KF8 is a far superior file format allowing rich formatting and design to be included in the books. Compared to Mobi 7, KF8 adds over 150 new formatting capabilities. Some of them being …

OfflineIMAP is a command line tool that operates on a remote and a local repository and synchronizes emails between them. Using offlineIMAP, you will be able to read and manage your email from multiple computers – with or without an active Internet connection. Any changes you make in your email folders are reflected on all [...]

Apple’s founder and icon Steve Jobs has passed away. He was only 56 years of age. It must seem ironic for a site dedicated to (among other things) mainly Linux to write a tribute to Steve. But the fact is I greatly admire his products even though I don’t own a single one.

India gets the cheapest tablet in the world. The much hyped low-cost tablet nicknamed Aakash (meaning ‘sky’ in Hindi) will be made available to school students at a subsidized price of $35, ~ Indian Rs 1750. Aakash is a collaboration between the Indian government and a small British-based company DataWind.

I came across a nice Do It Yourself (DIY) project namely – Setting up your own Dynamo Bike light which also functions as a USB charger for your gadgets such as your blackberry cellphone, mp3 player and so on. Dynamo bike lights are dime a dozen. So what is so unique about this particular project [...]

Last Wednesday, Amazon unveiled the much awaited, next generation Kindle e-book readers,  and an Android tablet named Kindle Fire. The new Kindle e-book readers and the Kindle tablet are definitely going to be crowd pullers when they hit the retail stores throughout the US somewhere around mid November this year.