Last night like everyone I downloaded Instagram for my Android phone with really high hopes. But it seems they built the app in such a hurry that they forgot to adapt to the ways an Android app works.
How aware are you of what’s going around you?
Tonight I came across few youtube videos that pointed out how we tend “not to notice” things that we’re not expecting. I’ll say no more and let you watch them and see for yourselves. [Read more...]
Education, how I wanted it to be.
The other day I was chatting at SuperUser chatroom and @studiohack mentioned that he had a Intro-to-Mac class that evening. That sounded funny as it was completely strange to me, having studied here in India. The closest subject I had to that was “Introduction to Computing” which was boring, and boiled down to C lessons, nothing more. I felt interested. And we started talking about how we taught ourselves. [Read more...]
My Life, Nowadays.
Thing have changed a lot, since the time, almost a year back, when I wrote about getting a new job and leaving the city. I was all excited about going to Nagpur and staying around Karthik, Akshay and others. But (there is Always a but) things didn’t go as I planned them. [Read more...]
My Website’s New Homepage
I always get stuck when I try to find a template for my website’s homepage. I’ve tried lot of templates, designed some myself(which sucked a lot), even tried using services like About[dot]me. But none of them truly satisfied me. [Read more...]
Making Skype usable on Fedora 14 and maybe later versions too
I use Skype a lot. But although Skype has a fantastic version for Windows, the Linux part is a bit weak. I run Fedora 14 on my laptop(Compaq CQ42 173TU) and for some reason, Skype wont run on it. With the RPM package of 2.2 Beta, it gets installed but never runs. So I installed the static version of it following this instructions here. But when I would try to run skype from terminal, this error would occur –
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[root@localhost ~]# skype
skype: error while loading shared libraries: libXv.so.1:
cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory |
So to check which dependency package I was missing, I searched with YUM –
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[root@localhost ~]# yum whatprovides libXv.so.1 |
and found that this specific package libXv-1.0.5-1.fc13.i686 has that specific file. So although I’m running Fedora 14 and it’s of x86_64 architecture, I installed that package which was meant for Fedora 13 and i686 architecture. Then ran skype from terminal and it worked!
Interfacing external GSM modem with Android Workbench
This video shows the demonstration of interfacing external GSM modem with Android Workbench and controlling it from a Android mobile over bluetooth communication. Here, the android mobile DONT HAVE GSM SIM CARD. The call is processing from external GSM modem connected on the ADK board. [Read more...]
Firefox Tilt 3D add-on
This Firefox plugin can help you view any website in 3D, layered according to DOM elements.
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