Knowledge Hunt

December 19, 2007

Digg Survey

Filed under: tech — admin @ 10:09 am

Digg is conducting a survey to know more from the users. The data may be used to make some improvements in the next update and bring in certain new features. As a participant after giving your email id you have the chance to win Eye Fi wireless cards, the winner of which will be chosen from a random draw. They are also giving Digg Hoodies for 5 other winners. Click here to take the survey and hope you are one among the seven winners!

December 18, 2007

The Green PC

Filed under: Musings, tech — admin @ 8:59 am

Few years back the personal computer was a luxury and people had to ditch out thousands of dollars to get a nominal pc. I remember seeing one of the paper ads of the late seventies/eighties where a hard disk was sold at thousands of dollars. I was shocked to see that the capacity as in the tune of MBs. Now the green PC is available at a shocking price of $191. Almost equal to the price of some software. It runs Ubuntu and has all the basic necessities!

Tech disappointments

Filed under: tech — admin @ 8:16 am

Every year new technologies are being developed and as end users we expect a lot. This keeps the momentum and the companies keep coming with something innovative. It is always the case that every product will shine and make it big. Every year some of them don’t live up to our expectations. yahoo has listed the top ten disappointments of 2007 in technology and no doubt Windows Vista tops the list!

December 17, 2007

Open Source CRM

Filed under: tech — admin @ 10:21 am

CRM is a very important aspect which any company should address in order to carry out things smoothly. Most of the Customer Relationship management companies don’t expose their methodologies and the company will also have no clue about it. Ron Bongo is the CEO of CorraTech and they have the credit of being the first company to offer open source CRM package. Read the open source blog by Ron Congo for some interesting information.
*This is a sponsored review.

10 Hot computers

Filed under: tech — admin @ 10:17 am

Many of us don’t feel satisfied with the performance of our computer. You always want to go in for a upgrade and get the latest configuration. The moment you get a new processor another better one pops in the market and within months you will feel the urge to get it. Geeks always want to get the latest! Speed computing has listed the top ten hottest computers in the market and it is really wonderful.

December 6, 2007

OpSource SaaS

Filed under: tech — admin @ 1:48 pm

These days software has eased out the work of human beings and for each and everything people keep on inventing software tools. Over a period of time a company acquires good number of software paying good amounts of money but most of it goes down the drain because they will not be managed properly or they will not meet the purpose for which it was intended to. Now a days Software as a service or Saas is a buzzing word and companies are laying good stress on it. Opsource provides on demand software management services and other managed hosting services. It is totaly secure and they guarantee 1oo% uptime.
*This is a sponsored review.

December 5, 2007

10k Facebook apps!

Filed under: tech — admin @ 9:31 pm

Facebook is the hot and happening thing in the internet now and everyone has got addicted o Facebook like anything. Last week when i went in to meet a few friends for a discussion, one guy greeted me like this
“Hi! Man … How is life? Inside Facebook….Outside Facebook!!”
This small innovation from Mark Zuckerberg is now on the top of the world and top companies are trying to acquire a small portion paying millions of dollars. read Write web reports that “Facebook apps hit 10k” . Will this continue and is this a good sign? Let’s wait and see the future of Facebook. Will it be the next G!!!

Discount Hardware

Filed under: tech — admin @ 11:25 am

One of the basic requirements for a good business concern is to possess good hardware equipments. Only if they are the latest ones and of high end technology the productivity of the business will see new heights. You can’t except the employees to work with age old systems when the outside world is rapidly seeing changes. IT planet offers hardware products at discounted prices and i feel it would be a good time to upgrade or get new systems during the holiday season. They have many equipments randing from bar code readers, security cameras, touch screen systems and many more. The interface of the site is good and it enables good navigation.
*This is a sponsored review.

December 3, 2007

Get the Vista Style!

Filed under: tech — admin @ 8:43 am

It has been quite some time since the launch of the windows version Vista. Of course there have been many reviews about the functionalities of vista and they have been both positive and negative. Some may wantedly have not upgraded to Vista but for many of the people around it is mainly because of the cost involved or their system configuration would not support Vista. For all those peeps check out 5 tools to make XP look like Vista.

December 2, 2007

Top 100 games of ALL time

Filed under: tech — admin @ 12:51 am

Gaming is one of the biggest revolutions the invention of computers brought in. It took people into a different world and all together most of them loved it very much. Recently role playing games have come up very much and i have seen guys in my college recklessly playing MMORPG’s like CounterStrike for hours together. The IGN has released the Top 100 games of all time which was picked by 30 editors of different age groups from across the world. The sad fact which i came across today is that there in only MMORPG(World of Warcraft at #83) in the entire list. This is definitely shocking for all the role playing game fans.

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