Google Wave, a product that launched with so much fan fare, has no future as a standalone product any more. Or at least in the eyes of Google. Here’s what they say.

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/08/update-on-google-wave.html

Remember what Bill Gates had to say on Google.. the best day for many of their products is the first day. Ironical!

Here is an amazing chart… Opera mini tops all country charts in the app store

Click here to see it for yourself!

Opera released their wildly popular and vastly useful Opera Mini 5 for the iPhone as of today. Well rather, Apple approved Opera’s Mini web browsing client as of today.

Go get it in your app store now!

For people having problem where Opera Mini get’s stuck in the loading page upon first use, please try to access Opera Mini with Edge or 3g upon first use and then enable Wi-fi after the first page is loaded. Also, go to settings–>Advanced–>Protocol–>Select HTTP and things work fine for me. At least this did it for me. There seems to be some problem with proxy or firewall not able to access Opera Mini’s server for the first page.

Other than that, My first impressions: Wow. (more…)

A thoughtful article on the state of affairs with Flash and the way Web standards like HTML5 are shaping up. Interesting read!

Read here

Ever wondered why Kubuntu doesn’t get the same attention from Canonical.

Good read!

Starting today, all IPL matches will be broadcast live around the world through Youtube. Well that is a known story. Now Airtel joins the party by announcing that all broadband connections will be upgraded to 2mbps for the entire duration of the IPL and it’s free of charge. If there are no major showstoppers, this will surely go down in the history books and I’m sure it will be a first.. First major sporting event broadcast live on the Internet!

P.S. For all you nasty downloaders, this is application only for www.youtube.com and not for any other site.

Happy IPL from Airtel!

My Opinion:

Opera is a great browser. It’s fast, elegant, very original, first to the market with new features and it’s feature rich out of the box! To me it’s mail client is very slick and fast and outshines most competitors. It also allows you to shift between operating platforms like Windows, Mac and Linux (I use Kubuntu) seemlessly. It absolutely makes the learning curve – zero when it comes to your critical daily chores. Sometimes I’ve felt it makes working so boring, because it’s got most things you need for your daily activities and there is absolutely no switching between applications. It also works great as a web browser. Most of the problems people report with Opera are mostly due to non-standard compliant web pages and they’ve patiently warded through this and now even the world is thinking about web standards, compliance and reliance on open web technologies and Opera has been doing this for as long as I can remember.

That said, in Linux, there are some minor things that might irritate you like the file selector boxes still using the QT toolkit, which by the way is very primitive. After some working around and googling and binging (!), here are some solutions. These tweaks worked in OpenSuse and Ubuntu’s latest iterations, can’t say about the previous versions as of now.  (more…)

Must Read. I liked this part

At that point Windows was no longer considered the company’s star project, as it had become a bit of an embarrassment. Even internally there were doubts among some in the company that Windows would ever ship. Also, because Ballmer had already burned though four product managers to try to get there–people who now had been either reassigned or were no longer at Microsoft–the product was developing a reputation for career death.

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Well we’ve been saying that for long now! Now even Google is saying that!

http://blog.chromium.org/2010/03/does-your-browser-behave.html

If you’re like me you have an iPhone and a portable computer running Ubuntu and you would like to have mobile internet without paying for an extra data plan from your carrier. Thanks to a few devoted individuals tethering the iPhone to Ubuntu is simple. The only prerequisite is that you must have an iPhone 3G or 3GS running OS 3.0 or higher. If you’re running 3.0 then you can do this without jail breaking your phone by installing a modified carrier profile. However, if you’re on OS 3.1+ then you will need to jail break your phone to install the modified carrier profile.

This tutorial is written for those who are not familiar with Ubuntu/Linux and is very detailed. If you are experienced feel free to just grab what you need from it.
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