After years of sleeping with Windows and Mac OS, I’ve lately turned my roving eye toward Linux. I can’t tell you precisely when I embarked upon my affair with Linux, but my new passion is at least six months-old and you’ll be glad to know it’s lately moved into full thrust. 😉 For reasons that […]
Not a day passes that I don’t hear of Mera Bharat Mahaan getting shafted by someone or the other. I just completed Glenn Greenwald’s No Place to Hide, the new book on Edward Snowden and the massive spying apparatus built by the U.S. spy outfit National Security Agency (NSA) in my adopted homeland Amreeka and […]
The tech world generates more hype than Bollywood babes Katrina Kaif, Sonakshi Sinha and Deepika Padukone combined. If you listen to the tech mavens, the Utopia of cheap and wonderful gadgets is always just around the corner for Indians. A decade back, the made in India Simputer was all the rage. Pundits prophesied that the […]
Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul. Lo-lee-ta: the tip of the tongue taking a trip of three steps down the palate to tap, at three, on the teeth. Lo. Lee. Ta. She was Lo, plain Lo, in the morning, standing four feet ten in one sock. She was […]
If you schmucks thought all the cool products in the world emerge only from the womb of giant corporations like Apple or Sony, you’d be so wrong. Thanks to the paradigm shift wrought by the Internet, even unknown individuals with limited resources but bright ideas can get funding to realize their giant dreams. In 2014, […]
The big question looming on the minds of hundreds of millions of computer users worldwide is: Will Microsoft stop providing Security Updates for PCs running Windows XPÂ from April 8, 2014? Launched in October 2001, Windows XP, a PC operating system from Microsoft, is considered a reliable platform unlike some of its successors like the […]