Animesh Kumar {itsAnimesh}
I'm an IT professional/FOSS Geek living and working in New Delhi, India. Currently for the most part I work as a Technical Consultant developing Open Source ICT solutions for social and societal inclusion. I am a a FOSS enthusiast, I want to create an awareness about FOSS through the work I do. Below are the latest updates from a some social networks I subscribe to.
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Thoughts on Chromebook…
One of the biggest mistakes that people make is to take a product that may be important to a few people in their world and assume it is important for everyone… I believe this is what is happening to the new Google Chromebook… I see Chromebook as the evolution of the netbook, its what i …
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Why Isn’t Google Chrome A Part Of Android??? »
An excellent article by MG Siegler over at TechCrunch…
Unsurprisingly, the question came up once again at Google I/O last week. During a panel with a bunch of engineers on the Chrome team, it was one of the first questions asked. The response? “It’s not something we’re talking about right now.” Ouch.
“I don’t know how to answer that,” the engineered continued. Okay…
Another team member, probably realizing those answers sounded both cryptic and harsh, chimed in. “The important thing at the end of the day is to make browsers better. While it’s not strictly Chrome, we share a lot of code with the Android team. We’ll share more over time.” Okay, that’s better. Still, a bit odd.
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How Google Instant Mix compares to iTunes’ Genius Mix… »
A nice article by Paul Lamere on how the playlist generation tools of iTunes and Google Music compare to eachother…
“Evaluating playlists is hard. However, there is something that we can do that is fairly easy to give us an idea of how well a playlisting engine works compared to others. I call it the WTF test. It is really quite simple. You generate a playlist, and just count the number of head-scratchers in the list. If you look at a song in a playlist and say to yourself ‘How the heck did this song get in this playlist’ you bump the counter for the playlist. The higher the WTF count the worse the playlist. As a first order quality metric, I really like the WTF Test. It is easy to apply, and focuses on a critical aspect of playlist quality. If a playlist is filled with jarring transitions, leaving the listener with iPod whiplash as they are jerked through songs of vastly different styles, it is a bad playlist.”
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Howto : Longitude and Latitude from Google Maps…
One thing that is missing from Google Maps is point coordinates (Longitude and Latitude)… There is no way to get the coordinates of a point in the map… A very simple JavaScript i recently found was : javascript:void(prompt(”,gApplication.getMap().getCenter())); Just create a new bookmark on your bookmark bar and add the above code… It’s obvious that …
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The Battle of Mobile OS…
I don’t really know why news agencies and users keep pushing either to Android or iPhone side, why there is no acceptance of healthy competition??? As a user, I don’t care which mobile platform is the world’s no.1 or no.999, because I get what I want from the platform I use, then there is no problem …
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Features Needed on Android…
Andriod is a great smartphone operating system no doubt… I’m sure that it is the only competitor to the iPhone and in couple of years time would definitely overtake the IPhone OS… Google hasn’t yet announced anything about Andriod 3.0 aka Gingerbread and I don’t think they are going to say anything about it as …
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NoSQL Movement!!!
There is a community thats been buzzing for quite a while now… Its called NoSQL… As well all know Relational databases are a pain (you know where)… They force us to twist are object data to fit a particular RDMS (Relational Database Management System)… Well then why use it???
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Android App : Google Translate for Animals!!!
Looks like what Darwin wasn’t able to do, Google has done it with an Android App… Google today released Translate for Animals on the Android Market, marking the groundbreaking app that finally lets us humans communicate with our two-, three- and four-legged brethren… The revolutionary applications — which is free, despite the centuries of development …
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Store Absolutely in Google Docs!!!
Do you use Google Docs to store your files??? Google announced in January that Google Docs is able to store any file, whether or not its a document… In addition, the maximum file size was increased to 1 GB… Could it actually get any more amazing than that??? Well now it just did…. …
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Youtube turns Five!!!
5 years ago Chad Hurley registered a URL that has revolutionized the way we see online videos… More than 20 hours of video are uploaded every minute on YouTube… Personally i think that if it wasn’t for YouTube, we might not be as far down the road as we are with online video… From the YouTube …