Guest Post :- Jyothi M John (Botswana) Linux is becoming quite popular now a days. A derivative of Unix – Linux is one of the most stable operating systems available and it all comes free. The most popular distribution of Linux is the Red Hat (Now the free version is called Fedora). The biggest draw back that Linux used to have was that it was not user friendly, but with the advent of other distributions like Ubuntu and...

Now we are having lucnch break. Before lunch break, we had 2 more sessions. Introduction to Asterisk by Bipin (works  with me in mobme) Introduction to QT by Dhaneesh and Dev. Asterisk is one cool software that we use in our company to power many of our voice services. Its a software pbx and is very much suited for small and medium businesses. QT is a programming framework. I works with many operating systems, but to me its major...

Just now I noticed an incoming activity on my wordpress dashboard. I visited the site and I was surprised to see a post about our first barcamp in Kerala there.  Check out the post here http://www.webyantra.net/2007/11/24/barcampkerela-todaysecond-tier-tech-centers-take-to-the-event/ As I am blogging live, I would like to thank everyone who came from far off places to attend the barcamp. People have really started to notice the...

The third session is over just now. It was a demo of a small prototype developed by Leads Technologies, a electronics device that can accept commands from a bluetooth remote or a bluetooth application that can run on mobile phones. Basically they have developed a bluetooth home automation system, where the remote is your mobile phone. The session was taken by Hari who is the operations manager at Leads. The session saw some real...

Two Sessions are over now. I was the one to begin, and I presented the opensocial app we developed for orkut. Its a simple application to show images from mobshare in orkut. I also talked about the concept of platforms and application. Check out my post. – A platform always beats an application. The next one was Vishnu with a cool game called N3TON.  It was developed completely in ruby using the gaming framework GUSO. It...

I am blogging live from BarCamp Kerala Venue. This is the situation at 8:45 AM. We expect more people to turn up soon.

Going to buy a Hard Drive or a digital camera? Wait Prices will be dropping soon Hard Drives, Digital Cameras and LCD Screens. On the hard drives the 80GB hard drives will be replaced by 160GB (around Rs. 2400). Watch out for the drop in digital cameras – they are substantial. 6MP cameras should be around Rs. 5000. Again on the LCD’s 17″ screen’s will be replaced by 19″ wide screen (Rs. 9000). Laser...