Linux And Friends

Adobe Photoshop CS4 is a fabulous graphics suite. After watching the video of Adobe creative suite, I was really looking forward to trying out this software. Recently I got lucky and was able to spend some time – a few hours really, in trying out Adobe Photoshop CS4 on a friend’s computer. And to put [...]

I enjoy playing online games. This is because they are free, and the game play is simple. Wagner James Au at GigaOm.com concurs with me. He has put together a collection of ten most popular games played online for 2008. Check out the list. My favourite from the list is obviously Papa’s Pizzeria. Which is [...]

Trek bicycle corporation is United States largest bicycle manufacturer. It is known for its association with Lance Amstrong – the seven times winner of Tour de France. But Trek bicycles are also considered by many the world over, to be top notch in quality and design.

Editors used for editing text are dime a dozen. But if you are looking for a text editor which satisfies all your text editing needs, then you should give Scribes a serious try. Scribes is an open source, lightweight and sleek text editor which has a whole lot of features built-in. It is developed using [...]

This article explains how to change the default text editor in Linux. It also explains an easy method of changing it in Debian and Ubuntu.

Recently when I installed Arch Linux on my machine, I was on the lookout for a lightweight calculator to be used on my LXDE desktop. My search led me to SpeedCrunch. SpeedCrunch is a light weight, fast, precision scientific calculator released under GPL. The first time I ran this calculator on my machine, I found [...]

Since the day I bought a bicycle, I have been spending time on the saddle for atleast one hour every day. One thing I have noticed since then is that, prior to starting my cycling regimen, I used to have no problem attending to the call of nature.  But now a days even though I [...]

I came across this very interesting and inspiring article on the Bridgestone 1994 Catalog via the Sheldon Brown website. It provides tips to aspiring bicycle riders on how to truly enjoy their rides. Ride when you like. Don’t be a compulsive rider. Go slowly. To truly enjoy your bicycle ride, you should not be tempted [...]

OpenSolaris is Sun Microsystem’s Unix operating system which is released under an open licence.  That means a majority of the OpenSolaris codebase is distributed under an OSI approved Open Source license. OpenSolaris has a 6 month release cycle and the latest version namely 2008.11 has been released a few days back. 2008 stands for the [...]