By Arun, 2 years ago

Ubuntu Edgy upgrade pain in my Acer Travelmate 8204

You might have read my earlier post about (the pain of) upgrading/fresh install from Dapper to Edgy beta and Edgy release candidate in my laptop. I wanted to do a fresh install of Edgy after it was officially released. I downloaded the install CD from Ubuntu download site. I wanted to boot with the live CD to make sure it's working because the beta and release candidate live CDs didn't work. I booted with the Edgy live CD and to my surprise it booted fine.

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By Arun, 2 years ago

mpire - Comparison shopping from major online retailers

mpire is an online comparison shopping site written in Ajax. The site helps sellers sell their stuff and buyers to compare and buy. Buyers don't have to pay anything, but sellers have to pay for the goods they sell through the site. Sellers can also advertise based on the product search results.

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By Arun, 2 years ago

Apple's New iPod shuffle Available Worldwide This Friday

Apple Computer announced today that Apple's new iPod® shuffle, the world's smallest digital music player, will be available in Apple's retail stores and Apple® Authorized Resellers this Friday, November 3. Nearly half the size of the original, the new iPod shuffle is just half a cubic inch in volume, weighs just half an ounce and features a minimal aluminum design with a built-in clip, making it the most wearable iPod ever.

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By Arun, 2 years ago

Microsoft Office Accounting Express 2007 free

Microsoft is giving it's Office Accounting Express 2007 for free. You can download the software from Microsoft's Ideawins website. It's basically for small business owners to perform the following tasks:

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By Arun, 2 years ago

Ubuntu Hoary's life cycle ends today

Today is the last day in Hoary's life. It's reaching the end of the cycle today which means it won't get any security update or support. Canonical announced the date last week. Hoary was the first Ubuntu version I tried (2nd for Canonical). It was a good experience installing and using Hoary and much better than the current Edgy.

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By Arun, 2 years ago

Amarok 1.4.4 released

Amarok 1.4.4 was released today. With 1.4.4 comes basic support for the Rio Karma. Over 100 bugs were fixed in this release. Click here to download.

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By Arun, 2 years ago

Windows Media Player 11 officially released

Microsoft has released Windows Media Player 11 today. It has a new UI which is better than the older one and has MTV's Urge integrated. Click here to read FAQs and Click here to get the skins and plugins.

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By Arun, 2 years ago

Another IE7 flaw discovered

Another Internet Explorer 7 vulnerability was found today within a weeks of finding another flaw. Secunia rated this one moderately critical. The description of the flaw as per secunia:

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By Arun, 2 years ago

What happens if you don't shutdown Windows

This is what happens when you go to bed at night and forget to shut down your computer. Do you know where your icons are and what they are doing?

By Arun, 2 years ago

BeGreen

BeGreen Carbon Offsets is a product/website offered by Green Mountain Energy Company which helps you offset your carbon footprint. Once you sign up and enter the information about the amount of electricity you use, the vehicles you drive, the distance, the amount of natural gas you use etc., It'll show you the amount of Carbon footprint you are creating or polluting the environment with. Once you figure out the estimated amount of emissions your lifestyle puts into the atmosphere each year, you can become carbon neutral by paying (helping) for projects like renewable energy facilities, tree-planting etc. your purchase goes toward a combination of the following:

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