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The minimal "palm" mobile version of Slashdot[http://slashdot.org/palm] stopped getting new stories on the 29th of May 2012. The latest story posted was "TomTom Flames OpenStreetMaps". Hopefully, this is a temporary issue. (Update: The text only version is back up!)

Kindle Fire: Kindle Fire is to movies and rich media, what Kindle was to ebooks. Kindle Fire Spec Details Price 199 USD Dimensions 190 mm x 120 mm x 11.4 mm (7.5" x 4.7" x 0.45") (H x W x T ) Weight 413 g (14.6oz) Display Size: 7" IPS multi-touch display. Resolution: 1024x600 169dpi Storage 8GB fixed CPU TI OMAP 4 4430 (dual core) RAM 512 MB Battery Life 7.5-8hrs. (7.5hrs of video playback or 8hrs of reading.) OS Android 2.3 (Customized) Connectivity 1.Wifi (No adhoc connection support) 2.USB Additional Points 1.Amazon App Market 2.Amazon Silk Web Browser Kindle Fire is ready to be released for the holidays. Priced at less than 60 percent of the iPad and based on Google's Android operating system, the Kindle Fire is not a Kindle - the easy on the eye, e-ink based, month long battery wielding e-book reader. However, Kindle Fire is to movies and rich media, what Kindle was to ebooks. Upside:  Pric...

We recently did a review of Windows 8 Developer Preview on Acer Aspire One ZG5 AOA 150. In a similar vein, we will be reviewing the October 13 release of Ubuntu's latest stable offering, the Oneiric Ocelot. Ubuntu's dreamy cat-leopard is available as 1) Ubuntu Desktop 32bit and 64bit 2) Ubuntu Server 32bit and 64bit 3) Ubuntu Alternate installer 32bit and 64bit The Alternate installer  is for those who cannot run the desktop version of the installer or for those whose systems failed to login after installation due to driver or other issues using the default installer. The alternate installer has a text based installer. For installation along with Windows, a WUBI installer is available. Official Derivatives: Ubuntu recognises 6 derivatives 1) Kubuntu - KDE desktop with Ubuntu 2) Xubuntu - XFCE desktop with Ubuntu 3) Lubuntu - LXDE desktop with Ubuntu 4) Edubuntu - Ubuntu for education with Unity desktop 5) Mythbuntu - Ubuntu for HTPC with  XFCE desktop...

AVG is reporting and blocking access to the website of Wampserver at wampserver.com/en citing a Blackhole Exploit Kit threat.The Blackhole Exploit Kit surfaced late in 2010 on file sharing websites under the guise of security software.  More about the Blackhole Exploit Kit at Websense .

Blogger released a Dynamic Views template recently. Dynamic Views is a set of seven(7) different ways to display the posts of a blog. The official post about the launch of the new look mentions the following benefits The Benefits: 1. Infinite scrolling: Views: Classic 2. Images that load as you browse 3. Integrated search  4. Sorting by date, label and author Views: Flipcard 5. Lightbox-style posts  Views: Snapshot, Flipcard and Timeslide 6.  Keyboard shortcuts  7. One-click sharing to Google+ and other social sites on every post Out of these features, the lightbox post view and keyboard shortcuts are new and interesting.  Gmail shortcuts work, like j and k for previous and next post respectively. The Lightbox view is available in some views. Sort by date, label and author is available in the Flipcard view only. Integrated Search(3), Infinite scrolling(1) and One Click sharing(7) Lightbox style posts in some views ...

Update November 1st 2012: Windows 8 on Acer Aspire AOA 150 Update: October 31st 2012 Since posting this article about over a year ago, the said AOA 150 is still alive, although with some changes. I have added a 500gb 7200 rpm HDD(ST9500420ASG) to the netbook. The netbook now runs a Windows 8 Release Preview with Ubuntu 12.10 as the main OS.  Windows 8 Release Preview apparently runs faster than Developer Preview. I might buy an upgrade license to Windows 8 pro, but with a resolution of 1024x600 and metro(windows 8) apps not working, I don't see much point. But I do need something to run my Nokia Music on... Other updates on Windows 8 1. License types available for Windows 8:   a. Upgrade License - $39.99 till January 31 2013   b. OEM License (The license which vendors will use when they bundle Windows 8 with your new PC)   c. System Builder License (Similar to the OEM license, but you can purchase this to build your own PC. Single PC/Virtual Environment u...

Nokia is planning to use the Windows Phone 7 OS for its future mobile offerings. That means no more Symbian and Maemo (and now MeeGo ). While Symbian had its shortfalls and had a very successful run, Maemo had just started and was(or is) a lot more promising than Symbian and even comparable to other mobile OSes on offer. Nokia going the Windows way may even turn out to be the right decision for Nokia and Symbian might have just run its course, but nipping MeeGo in the bud seems hasty and cruel.(Nokia released N9  which runs a MeeGo instance ) Wish to support the " We want Nokia to keep MeeGo " petition over at twitition. Follow the link and sign in  to support. Spread the message on twitter and facebook too.