Monthly Archives: September 2006

Mobile Core 2 Duo slightly better than Core Duo

I bought a Mobile Core Duo laptop (Acer Travelmate 8204) 7 months back. Core Duo just came to the market at that time and the performance review was pretty good. I’m using it for the past 7 months and it’s … Continue reading

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Google Talk – Now anyone can talk

Google Talk is a free instant messaging service. To use Google Talk, he or she needs to have a GMail account. It’s not true any more. Anyone can now signup for Google talk with your existing email address. You don’t … Continue reading

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Ubuntu Edgy Eft Beta released

Ubuntu has released Edgy Eft beta, their next version of Ubuntu Linux. Some of the new features include New Bootup Splash Gnome 2.16 Tomboy Evolution 2.8 Firefox 2.0 Open Office 2.0.4 RC2 Gaim 2.0.3.1 beta New login screen and much … Continue reading

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IBM, Lenovo is recalling Thinkpad notebook batteries

IBM and Lenovo announced today that they are recalling 526,000 laptop batteries made by Sony corporation. This follows the earlier recalls from Apple and Dell. Lenovo will offer customers free-of-charge replacement batteries for all recalled batteries. IBM and Lenovo sold … Continue reading

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Sharp develops world’s first triple vision LCD

Sharp Corporation of Japan said on Wednesday that they have developed World’s first triple vision LCD panel that allows you to view three different images on one screen, all at the same time. Sharp already had unveiled LCD panel last year … Continue reading

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New version of Windows Live Writer Beta available

Microsoft has released a new beta version (version 1.0.141) of Windows Live Writer. The new beta contains: Tagging support – You can see insert tag button on the right side Categories are now sorted Better startup – much faster than the … Continue reading

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Add Netscape News Scroller to your blog or webpage

lemieuxster has a neat little script to add Netscape News scroller to your blog or web page. Add the following code to your blog or webpage: <a href=”http://www.lemieuxster.com/netscape/scroller/”></a><embed src=”http://www.lemieuxster.com/netscape/scroller/scapebar.swf” wmode=”transparent” quality=”high” bgcolor=”#666666″ name=”Netscape Scroller” type=”application/x-shockwave-flash” pluginspage=”http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer” align=”middle” height=”300″ width=”195″></embed>

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Mona Lisa Pregnancy Theory Mooted

Canadian scientists using laser and infrared scans to produce a 3D image of the painting have suggested that the famous smile on Mona Lisa could be because she was pregnant or she just had a baby. Using the laser and … Continue reading

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Bleezer – Blogging tool for all OSes

I don’t like the way Microsoft and it’s softwares work, but that shouldn’t stop me from appreciating Windows Live Writer (beta). It’s a pretty neat product from Microsoft, which is a surprise. It’s simple, easy to use with quite a … Continue reading

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Mozilla told Debian not to use Firefox name and logo

Mozilla’s Mike Connor had told Debian not to use Firefox name and logo in it’s distributions as it violates trademark policy. He wrote that “ Firefox (the name) is equally protected and controlled by the same trademark policy and legal … Continue reading

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