We all who have been working on Ubuntu 10.04 have given Gwibber a try. Gwibber gets installed with Ubuntu 10.04 and it is a social media desktop client for using Facebook and Twitter apps.While TweetDeck an Adobe Air apps works with Linux well but the issue here is about the Twitter clients which gets installed easily and works smoothly.
Could not load file or assembly Microsoft.SQL Server.Management.Sdk.Sfc, Version=10.0.0.0 error. This error continues to haunt the web developers who have Visual Studio 2008 Express installed on their computers and decide to connect SQL Server 2005 database with that. While the solutions are available on the internet but some specifics are missing.
Indian IT companies have reacted sharply to the executive order issued from Ohio. While initially the IT companies have tried to play down the development but the later on the feeling has started sinking in. Ban by one state may not matter much but if other states takes cue from this development and start issuing similar notifications then only the real problem would arise. It’s election year in US and politicians do resort to such moves but what has made this move all the more important is that it has come after the sharp increase in H1-B and L1 categories.
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IITs in India have remained an island for excellance. Very few of the budding engineering graduates make it to the IITs. But NPTEL, the National Programme on Technology Enhanced Learning which is a join venture by IITs and IISc has made the mission impossible possible. Now the undergraduates in not so illustrious Engineering colleges in India and elsewhere can resort to Video Tutorials and lectures which are available on YouTube as well as on NPTEL website. The objective of NPTEL program is to enhance the quality of engineering education in the country by developing curriculum based video and web courses.
Top 25 Android Apps courtesy JasonHiner.com. No doubt Android store presents a pale shadow when it gets compared with iPhone apps but nevertheless the Android apps store is growing quite fast and has many applications which can keep you engaged and spell bound for hours. Continue reading
I recently bought an external HDD with the sole purpose of using it for keeping my work safe and at the same time using it to work with Ubuntu during office hours. I used Gparted for creating partitions. On one partition ext3, I installed Ubuntu 10.04 and the other two partitions were formatted to FAT32 for storage purposes in either Windows or Linux environment. I had made my ext3 partition on which I had installed Ubuntu bootable. Though I had planned meticulously about which partitions to use for storage and which one to be used for OS but still I had some major issues. Continue reading
Blogging has today become very common. Persons from all walks of life blog today. While most of bloggers resort to Windows Live Writer while working on Windows OS but Linux users are not that lucky. There is certainly no comparable equivalent in real terms as far WLW is concerned but there are many alternatives which can be resorted to. One such blog writer is ScribeFire which is available as add-on and extension in Chrome and Firefox. Continue reading
