Am blogging after a real long time, sort of had lost interest. It was a good thing that my friend asked me to do some publicity for his forum and I thought it is probably a good idea to get back to blogging with that incentive.
The forum I am talking about is at http://www.techcentral.in . [...]
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TechCentral.in : India’s newest technology forum
Posted by admin on July 9th, 2010
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Mark Zuckerberg in Pune
Posted by admin on January 13th, 2010
Ok, so Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg was in Pune this weekend. Attending one of his friend’s wedding and he also visited the Osho ashram and the Jewish Chabad house in Pune. Here is a pic from his visits.
Tags: Theora, the open video format
Posted by admin on January 11th, 2010
Theora is a royalty-free, open standard, lossy video compression technology being developed by the Xiph.Org Foundation alongside their other open media efforts, most notably the Vorbis audio codec and the Ogg container.
libtheora is a reference implementation of the Theora video compression format being developed by the Xiph.Org Foundation.
Soft power for the masses, Media Lab Asia
Posted by admin on December 23rd, 2009
With an aim of ‘ Technology for all ‘, IT ministry’s Media Lab Asia has developed softwares and gadgets that can empower students, disabled and the unlettered.
ML Asia has come up with 16 special projects to bring the benefits of technology to the common man. These are for improving healthcare, education, empowerment of disabled and generating livelihood according to CEO and MD Shankar N. Goswami.
Facilitate accessible content for visually impaired students : MLAsia
Posted by admin on December 23rd, 2009
Would you like to support Media Lab Asia in facilitating accessible content to visually impaired students. The objectives of the centre is to facilitate books & other study material in E-text, Audio, DAISY & other accessible formats to persons with blindness & low vision.
Media Lab Asia , an intiative of the Union Government of India
Posted by admin on December 23rd, 2009
Media Lab Asia is a not for profit research organisation, started with a goal of bringing the benefits of innovation and technology to the masses. It was formed as a result of a collaboration with the Government of India (Ministry of Communications and Information Technology).
Want to build your own DIY Book Scanner ?
Posted by admin on December 19th, 2009
So would you like to take on Google Books by building your own DIY Book scanner for just $300 ? Well one person did just that by using basic carpentry skills, two cameras and a whole load of common sense.
I think it’s a great piece of machine if you want to digitize your own book [...]
OpenID : What is it , why use it, who supports it, and how to use it
Posted by admin on December 19th, 2009
OpenID is an open, decentralized standard for authenticating users which can be used for access control, allowing users to log on to different services with the same digital identity where these services trust the authentication body. OpenID replaces the common login process that uses a login-name and a password, by allowing a user to log in once and gain access to the resources of multiple software systems. The term OpenID can also refer to an ID used in the standard.
In simpler terms, it is to get rid of having multiple logins and passwords for various websites, by replacing it with just one OpenID
