Category: Opinion
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Making of a Maker Party
Mozilla is asking all of us to throw parties all over the world from July 15 to September 15. Webmakers all over the world are responding by hosting “Maker Parties” wherever they can. I did one too. This is a report for the sake of other webmakers. To begin with there was me. I have…
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A Smartphone in ₹2000 – What is Firefox OS?
Mozilla is all set to sell Firefox OS smartphones that costs $25 (~₹1500) in India. Who is Mozilla? Mozilla is to Internet what WHO is to world’s health. Mozilla is a community of “Mozillians” from all over the globe with a common mission – to build a better internet. Most of us know Mozilla as…
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How and Why To Switch to Zsh from Bash
Ubuntu comes with Bash as its default “shell”. So, when you’re running `gnome-terminal` (the default terminal emulator) it actually sends the commands to ‘/bin/bash’ which interprets your command and displays output. What is the difference between shell, console, and terminal? Zsh is an improvement on bash. It adds more functionality, and better ways of doing…
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A Eulogy to Orkut and an Introduction to the Importance of Social Networks
“Orkut is dead. Facebook murdered it” – read the name of a facebook page which had millions of likes around the time I started using facebook. If we can fall in love with social networks, Orkut was my first love. And like all firsts, Orkut was very special to me. Everyone on Orkut had a…
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Why I Love Telegram Messenger and Love Not Whatsapp Messenger
Whatsapp is huge. There is no argument against that. Everyone who has an Android phone is using whatsapp. And this post is not about why you should stop using whatsapp. This post is about why I love Telegram Messenger. Open Source Telegram Messenger is open for anyone to crack, or hack, clone, and improve. This…
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“Share” Button is the Biggest Threat to the Human Capacity to Think
The ability to read and rationalize is unique to human beings. It could be the so called “fast paced environment” in the 21st century that caused it, but we do not read things carefully these days. In ancient past the only way for people to communicate was to talk to each other – in sign…
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How To Never Lose Your Contacts or Data on Your Smartphone
This post will tell you everything you need to know about: Having to never lose any of your contacts Having to never lose any of your chats/messages/whatsapp conversations, etc. Required: An android phone (though the concepts presented in this post will apply to other smartphones like iPhone, and Blackberry too) What you need to know…
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What I Learned From Deactivating Facebook for 83 days
That it is not about the social network, it is about me. I had just one thing in my mind when I took a break – “focus on studying”. I thought facebook was the reason why I could not focus on textbooks, that I would automatically start doing better when I stop using facebook. And…
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How Journalism Can and Needs to Change and Adapt to the Web
Internet has made traditional journalism obsolete. But we have not realized it yet. Newspapers in print were limited by space and functionality, which restricted the stories they covered to only those very few important ones and some fresh stories. Today’s first page news would be buried inside the daily tomorrow, and will be forgotten the…
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Men May Now Wear Veils
The law is clear. IPC 354A 1) A man … iv) making sexually coloured remarks, shall be guilty of the offence of sexual harassment. … 3) Any man who commits the offence shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to one year, or with fine, or with both.…