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Play Around with Google Nexus One


I received my Nexus One today which I ordered from Google on Saturday. The FedEx delivery of the device was earlier than I expected. They delivered my order 10 AM in the morning, nearly 5 hours earlier than the estimated … Continue reading

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Finally Ordered Nexus One (Updated)


Update: I received the phone. Please read this post for more information on my first hands-on of Nexus One. After I heard this morning that Google will stop selling its Nexus One once the final set of devices is sold … Continue reading

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More Than One Month Usage of Chromium


I used Google Chrome on Ubuntu 9.10 and switched to Chromium on Ubuntu 10.04. Apart from being open source, I can’t tell any difference between Google Chrome and Chromium. During the switch process from Firefox to Chromium in the web … Continue reading

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Ubuntu One Contacts iPhone App (Updated)


UPDATE: Screenshots from iPod Touch uploaded Ubuntu One is a cloud service similar to DropBox. It syncs files in Ubuntu One folder between computers that are running Ubuntu. Recently I discovered an iPhone app called Ubuntu One Contacts that allows … Continue reading

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Ubiquity Experiment was Ended For Now


Ubiquity was an experiment Firefox add-on released by Mozilla back in 2008. It basically added a command line interface to the browser to search almost everything on the web using Google search engine. According to the Ubiquity homepage, the first … Continue reading

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The FSF Open Letter to Google


The following is the email I received from FSF about Google’s recently purchased On2 video codec maker. I already talked about Google’s usage of On2′s VP8 codec might come true in the post “The future version of Youtube might not … Continue reading

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GNU/Linux is Slow to Compete Against Mac Mobile (Updated)


Apple announced the release of iPad during the event last Wednesday. That puts the GNU/Linux platform behind the mobile computing. Come to think of it, GNU/Linux haven’t even had any open source device that is equivalent to the iPod Touch. … Continue reading

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Google Toolbar has slowed my Firefox Performance


I installed Google Toolbar Firefox extension today to see how does the new Google Toolbar affect the performance of Firefox. I tried the earlier version of Google Toolbar before to use Page Rank and it slowed my Firefox performance. Since … Continue reading

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Microsoft Gazelle – a new browser OS based on Internet Explorer


Microsoft announced Gazelle secure web browser Operating System concept back in 2009. When I first came across an article that talks about it on buntfu.com, I realized that Microsoft might borrow some code from Internet Explorer to build the OS. … Continue reading

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All of the Web Browsers have Security Vulnerabilities


While many countries around the world urge their citizens to stay away from Internet Explorer because of recent GMail attack, Alastair MacGibbon stated that there is no totally secured web browser. The important consideration is “how quickly the browser provider … Continue reading

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