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Participants: Sathyajith Bhat
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Moving to Linux
Who should use Linux?
Why one should use Linux?
What to expect?
Substitutes for common windows applications
Browser – Firefox
Media Players – Amarok, VLC, MPlayer, SMPlayer
IM Client – Pidgin, Kopete, Skype
Web Tools – Ktorrent, Kget
WUBI
Tips and Tricks
Downloading or ordering (free) Ubuntu
Installation Screencast and installation guide
Linux Switchover Guide
Enabling cleartype [...]
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Part I : This Year in Tech can be downloaded from here.
Participants: Cijal Raj and Geo Philips
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Facebook Connect and Google Friend Connect – the plan
How Social Computing and Social Network merge.
What kind of applications would we prefer?
Should we trust privacy settings? How much data to put on Social Networks?
And definitely the [...]
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Participants: Cijal Raj and Geo Philips
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Netbook
Will Netbooks replace laptops?
Do we need a dfferent operating system for netbooks?
VAIO P, Toshiba, Asus EEE PC
Operating Systems
What went wrong with Vista?
What to expect from Windows 7?
What advantage does Apple have?
Web operating systems
Cloud Computing
What Microsoft can achieve?
Is Android a step towards cloud computing?
Browser’s role in [...]
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Participants : Thej and Veetrag
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Chandrayaan – impact on common man [1], Thej’s interview at BBC.
Facebook Scribe to go opensource
Yahoo Application Platform, part of Open Strategy
Twitter stops IM service and its impact – part of business plan or they are getting out of business?
Google App Engine to support [...]
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Participants : Thej and Veetrag
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Thej @ Nokia Open Lab, Helsinki
Yammer wins TC50 – Deserving Winner? How different is it from Twitter?
Google Launches Satellite – what benefits will we have?
Call Graph – free skype recording utility.
Motorola MOTO Z9 – first hand experience
Digg This
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Participants : Thej and Nimish
Discussion on Science Fiction with our guest Nimish Batra
Which books to start off with?
What to read and what to avoid?
Genres of Science Fiction?
Types of Science Fiction
The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy
Further recommendations
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Links for Reference
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Participants : Utkarsh and Thej
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Interview with UT, Wikipedia Admin, where he shares his experience:
How did you become an Admin?
What are the responsibilities of Admins?
How do you maintain neutrality of an [...]
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An interview with Alessandro where we ask him about COMET and its application, along with that we discuss Lightstreamer too. Very insightful answers by Alessandro. He is CTO and co-creator of Lightstreamer, and has been working on Comet technologies for nearly a decade.
Interview with Alessandro from Kumar Veetrag on Vimeo.
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We have taken YAP to another level by inclusing some video interviews. In this part we talk with Greg Murray about Ajax, jMaki, Flash and other web 2.0 stuff. Greg Murray is an AJAX architect at Sun. He is known for his contributions to OpenAJAX Alliance and Dojo. He is the architect of [...]
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Participants : Thej and Lakshman
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Thej shares his experience of Europe trip, its not a normal tour its more of a tech-trip
iWordCamp – WordPress camp, Italy.
Gadgets that we should carry while traveling, what to buy from Europe.
Applying for MBA (outside India) – Tips/steps for GMAT, [...]
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