Category: General

General Nov 15, 2010

Hacked Kinect Brings Futuristic User Interface

The video above is a picture browsing application running in Ubuntu controlled using Microsoft’s Kinect. It allows for a multi-touch like control without touching the...

General Nov 13, 2010

Wayland Will Support GPU Hot-Swapping

A major gripe I have with X.org is the state of GPU hot-swapping. With new laptops coming with dual GPU – a performance oriented one...

General Oct 29, 2010

What Better Way To Kill Firesheep Than With FireShepherd?

A few days back, a new Firefox add-on called Firesheep was developed which lets anyone with the add-on installed capture other users' cookies over WiFi. It essentially meant that anyone on the network can hack into anyone's Facebook, Twitter etc. whenever they login to it over the network. Scary stuff indeed!

Articles Oct 28, 2010

Yahoo! Still Rules E-Mail, Followed By Hotmail & GMail

So you have completely moved to GMail and think Yahoo! mail is a thing of the past. Even I had a similar feeling that GMail is now the most widely used web mail service, but only till I came across some statistics published by Hitwise according to which Yahoo! Mail is still the most widely used web mail (e-mail) service around the world.