Monthly Archives: November 2008

Nintendo not so green….

You might have read my earlier post about Wii being the greenest console among the 3 big gaming consoles. Though that might be true in terms of power consumption, the company that manufactures Wii, Nintendo, scored pretty bad in eco … Continue reading

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Wii the greenest of 3 consoles

I’m happy that I bought Wii instead of Playstation 3 or Xbox 360. Though the graphic quality of the games that came with Wii were not good, it’s much more enjoyable with the Wii remote than the other two. Now … Continue reading

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GMail themes

You might have read all over the net about the new themes setting for GMail. It wasn’t rolled out to everyone. Google is rolling out the themes in stages. Some people got it yesterday. I got it today for my … Continue reading

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OHUG website redesigned with Joomla

I like Joomla, the open source content management system and I use it for the websites I create including my home page. I use Joomlapolis community builder for user management and Fireboard for forums. I got an email today from … Continue reading

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Busy working on user access re…

Busy working on user access restriction

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Google Android Garage Door Opener

Brad Fitzpatrick wrote in his blog that he got his Android phone to work as a garage door opener. He hooked a webserver to his garage door opener. He wrote an Android service which starts and stops wifi scanning task. … Continue reading

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Fashion your Firefox

Fashion Your Firefox is part of the Mozilla addon site, but it tries to simplify scrolling through the addons by picking popular addons and dividing them by category. Though it doesn’t have all the addons and it might miss some … Continue reading

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Virus infects hospitals

This is what happens if big institutions and hospitals run Windows for their mission critical and day to day activities. Windows, Hospital, Virus

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Bought a Wii finally

I finally bought a Wii from Best Buy today for only $9. I paid the rest using my credit card points. I’m eagerly waiting to go home and set it up tonight. Wii, Best Buy

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For a change – 64 bit Flash player in Linux first

Adobe is planning to release an alpha version of 64-bit flash player today. It’s going to be initially released for Linux platform and will be made available for other OSes later. It’s nice to hear that a major application is … Continue reading

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