Archive for the ‘Reviews’ Category
Friday, September 5th, 2008
Much like most of Google's projects Google Chrome was launched all of a sudden yesterday. Though it was "discovered" rather "accidentally" by one a Google insider hitting the send button containing the comic-book type images of Google Chrome's workings(excuse me, a Google guy hitting the "Send" button accidentally? Yeah,right! (Santosh ...
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Monday, July 7th, 2008
Admin's Note: This is a guest post by Aditya. Though this post was drafted on 1st July, my work commitments and rather bad memory prevented this post being published. Due apologies.
I know that a title is a bit harsh but I am afraid it is true.
First lets get into some ...
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Thursday, May 1st, 2008
Quite a lot of people have been waiting for the latest release of Ubuntu, version 8.04 dubbed the "Hardy Heron" - primarily because it's a LTS release. So how does the Hardy Heron stack up? I decided to jump into the Hardy Heron brigade and have a look. Is it ...
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Thursday, February 14th, 2008
Yesterday, Mozilla announced that the 3rd beta of the next version of their immensely popular web browser, Mozilla Firefox would be available for download. I'd posted earlier on the impressive changes between Firefox 2 and Firefox 3 Beta 2. So what does the third Beta bring? Let's have a look.
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Monday, December 10th, 2007
Ubuntu Gutsy has been receiving a huge amount of hype and fan fare recently, and I've been following Gutsy closely, from Ubuntu Fridge's 10 Rocking Features in 10 Days to fellow bloggers and Linux users posts on Gutsy. Naturally after their Feisty launch, expectations were high(from my side). Now I'm ...
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Sunday, December 2nd, 2007
Laptop Review:
As few might be knowing I've purchased a Dell Inspiron 1520. Here's a short review on it.
Laptop Specifications:
Processor: Intel Core2Duo T5250 @ 1.5 GHz, 2 ...
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Sunday, November 25th, 2007
Phoronix reports that NVIDIA's 169.04 driver brings out a lot of improvements over its predecessor. This X.Org driver contained a number of GeForce 8 fixes, initial support for the GeForce 8800GT graphics card, monitoring of PowerMizer state information, and other changes.Â
What Phoronix had not tested, however, at that time was ...
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Wednesday, November 14th, 2007
Hakan Bayindir at Phoronix writes about ATI's new drivers, their performance(Non-performance, should I say ?).
It's been nearly seven months since I wrote my first article about ATI drivers and how they literally crippled my computer and my daily life. Last month, ATI had finally released their latest drivers ...
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Sunday, November 11th, 2007
Re-buntu:-The reviewing distro
Finally a distro that beats ubuntu. Hold your breath and witness the miracle
So which one is it? This is a distro that’s been released along with ubuntu 5.10(no it’s not Kubuntu). Though many know about it is seldom used. Ok lets cut the suspense it’s Xubuntu-7.04. No don’t ...
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Wednesday, October 17th, 2007
While I was having a discussion on some of the popular Linux distribution on my favorite forum, CHIP TownSquare one of the members(thanks, Aditya :D) suggested me to try out DreamLinux. And I did that, downloaded DreamLinux 2.2 Multimedia GL edition. Since I was using my office PC, I couldn't ...
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