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EAMCET counseling hiccups

August 2, 2009

Last week, there was a technical outage that halted the EAMCET counseling in Andhra Pradesh, India. Servers were overwhelmed by the sheer volume of traffic at the AP State Council of Higher Education (APSCHE ) and now the seats allocation process for students seeking admission into various engineering and medical colleges has been rescheduled. Though [...]

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Windows guy becomes a Mac guy…

June 8, 2009

I have been a PC guy with Microsoft windows OS all these days until a couple of months back. Now I have started loving Mac more than anything! Not that I hate windows, but  just that I am enjoying to work more with Mac. Thankfully, I don’t see any more ‘Blue screens of Death‘. I [...]

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Mac OS X and Indic Fonts

April 5, 2009

Most of the regional language news websites in India have very poor compliance with UTF-8 encoding. The list includes Telugu sites like Eenadu and Sakshi, Kannada sites like Prajavani and Kannadaprabha, etc., Atleast those are the sites which I frequenty access for regional news. However, these sites do provide their own ttf (True Type Font) [...]

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Apple MacBook with No Keyboard

January 6, 2009

Apple unveiled a new laptop with no keyboard yesterday.  Can you think of a laptop without a keyboard? Well, that is hard to imagine for sure. Having said that, Apple has gone ahead with its innovative range of products to introduce the ‘MacBook Wheel’. Take a look at this video to know more about this [...]

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