Every other day, we see a Mac vs PC ad popping up from either company that leaves no stones unturned in ridiculing the rival’s products. Apple’s ads are all about a cool Mac guy humiliating a PC nerd in every possible manner. And then Microsoft brings up a bunch of people, all of whom reject [...]
VLC is my favorite app for watching movies and videos, but the ridiculous bugs in the latest 0.9.8a Grishenko release has forced me to look for other options. It simply fires up and gets stuck if I double click on any compatible file; the workout is to manually open VLC and drag the file into [...]
It’s been two months since Intrepid was released, and soon we’ll be jumping on our toes for the next Ubuntu – Jaunty Jackalope. I’ve been an avid Ubuntu user since Feisty and I’ve always waited excitedly for new releases, until now. Seeing almost the same desktop for almost two years is kind of killing [...]
We all Linux users have to agree that there isn’t a proper substitute to the fully loaded download managers (read FDM, DAP) available for Windows. I happen to be a dual user, using Ubuntu within Windows through Wubi. With my broadband plan now upgraded, I can download anything from 1:00 AM – 7:00 AM everyday [...]
Canonical has made my birthday for the second year running (today’s my 18th birthday, by the way). Last year I had received the wonderful Feisty Fawn (Ubuntu 7.04) CD s via their ShipIt! service on my 17th b’day, and today I received my Hardy Heron CD! I have read a lot about Hardy since it’s [...]
Grisoft AVG Technologies released the free version of AVG antivirus on 24th April. With added spyware cleaning and link scanning capabilities, the latest version of this popular antivirus has got positive reviews from all over the tech world. I was myself a fan of AVG’s earlier versionsand happily recommended it to all. However, the [...]
