The Document Foundation has launched the free office productivity suite LibreOffice 3.3, now available for download. LibreOffice 3.3 is it’s first stable release for Windows, Macintosh and Linux. Document foundation is an independent self-governing meritocratic Foundation, created by leading members of the OpenOffice.org Community. You can download, install and distribute LibreOffice freely, with no fear of copyright infringement. What’s outstanding about LibreOffice? LibreOffice is a feature-packed and mature desktop productivity package with some really great [...]

This SDK enables PHP applications to simply utilize SQL Server Reporting Services, Microsoft’s Reporting and Business Intelligence solution. These scenarios can be done using the free SQL Server 2008 Express with Advanced Services edition. This edition includes the SQL Server 2008 Express database engine as well as graphical administration tools and the Reporting Services server components for creating, managing, and deploying tabular, matrix, graphical, and free-form reports(SQL Server 2008 Express Advanced can be downloaded here). [...]

NetBeans IDE 7.0 Beta introduces language support for development to the Java SE 7 specification with the JDK 7 platform. The release also provides enhanced integration with the Oracle WebLogic server, as well as support for Oracle Database and GlassFish 3.1. Additional highlights include Maven 3 and HTML5 editing support; a new GridBagLayout designer for improved Swing GUI development; enhanced support for executing and debugging standalone Java EE applications; and enhancements to the Java editor. [...]

“20 Things I Learned About Browsers & The Web” is a web application which looks like a book. This book is a short guide for anyone who’s curious about the basics of browsers and the web, and it is created in HTML5. Book : http://www.20thingsilearned.com/ The book contains the following 20 articles What is the Internet? (or, “You Say Tomato, I Say TCP/IP”) Cloud Computing (or, why it’s ok for a truck to crush your [...]

Yesterday I tried Google Maps India to get the directions from one place to another. I tried few routes. It is not very accurate but very helpful to get an idea about the route. Not accurate means, the route is correct but there may be other short routes. 1st I tried to get directions from my home to my office at Technopark, Trivandrum. We have 3 main routes to reach there. Thiruvalla -> Kottarakkara -> [...]

Technorati Profile Windows XP Mode (formally Virtual XP) is a new feature in Windows 7. It’s a licensed, virtualized copy of Windows XP Service Pack 3 running inside Microsoft’s own Virtual PC framework. Windows XP Mode is specifically designed to help small businesses move to Windows 7. Windows XP Mode provides you with the flexibility to run many older productivity applications on a Windows 7 based PC. When I heard about this feature I thought [...]

Chromium is an open-source project- for the Mac OS X/Linux versions of Chrome. I tried Mac OS X version of Chromium. Download the zip file, unzip it and run Chromium.   The first site I tried is google.com. But got the error message “The webpage is not available”. So i thought it is not working and then after some time I tried my site and it loaded without any problem . Then I tried many [...]

I tried setting my display language and menu language to Malayalam in Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty Jackalope. I played around it for some time but then i switched back to English interface. It was fun reading all those terms and all but I faced bit difficulty in the interface.  Not all menu or text changed to Malayalam and come text was in Malayalam but English term. Checkout these screenshoots. .

Today morning downloaded and installed Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty Jackalope in my Dell XPS M1530. I downloaded the .iso file and burbed it into a cd. 1st burning failedand I lost that cd. I burned again in a new one and it worked. I loaded the CD in to the drive and booted from the CD. 1st I checked CD for any errors, it took around 2-3mnts. Then I searched for an update option and i [...]

MSN Web Messenger is  integrated with your Hotmail account yesterday(April 21st). You can use integrated web msn messenger and talk to others while checking/ mail. To send IM to your friend, go to contacts, click on the person you would like to talk to and click on “Send an Instant Message (Available), IM window will appear in a pop up window. Check out the screen shoots. I also added screen shoots of Yahoo and Gmail. [...]