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Notepad++: Its and IDE

Most of my friends know me as a person advocating for Linux and FOSS . But most of them get surpurised to see me using Vista half the time. There are few reason I have for that, but this post is not about that. While I’m on Linux I really enjoy the text editors such as [...]

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  • WebSVN – Web-based Subversion Browser

    I am working on my final year project (Project eID) these days, and I had to setup the SVN repository at our domain, and that worked fine, thanks to Dreamhost One-Click Subversion installation. But then I looked out for a web based Subversion repository browser so things could look a little more nicer and found WebSVN. is [...]

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  • This is not the golden time for tech community. Specially a lot of my friends in US and India are in fear of the recent layoffs of many IT companies. This is just another post October 2008 credit crunch effect, that is mainly affecting the BPO and IT industries which were mainly dependent on US [...]

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  • Record Skype Calls with Call Graph

    Have you ever wondered how to record a Skype call? You might want to record a Skype call to do a podcast, just for fun, or for some other reason. I stated searching on this topic months back and found many Skype plugins that could record calls. But I was satisfied with none of those [...]

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  • I was shopping for a new USB key last week, and went to Unity Plaza (where many local computer shops). I was thinking of getting a 4GB one and many shops had Kingston and Transcend ones all ranging from Rs. 2000 – 2500. So without much care grabbed a 4GB Kingston DataTraveler (DT100/4GB) at “Data [...]

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