Sep 26, 2009

Barcamp is back. Barcamp kerala 6 will happen at the serene campus ofRajagiri School of Engineering and Technology, Kakkanad on the 11th of October 2009. Barcamp is not new to Cochin, Barcamp Kerala 2& 3 were hosted by the Cochin University Campus.

For those who raise their eye brows on hearing the word bar.. Barcamp has nothing to do with drinking or bars.

BarCamp is an ad-hoc unconference born from the desire for people to share and learn in an open environment. It is an intense event with discussions, demos and interaction from attendees. Anyone with something to contribute or with the desire to learn is welcome and invited to join. There are no registration fees or any charges for a barcamp as this is a user-generated conference. You are invited to volunteer for various activities for putting up a successful camp.

BarCamp Kerala is your best chance to meetup all the coolest techies from Kerala. If you are a techie of any scale, do make it to BarCampKerala!

Register | Take a Session | Promote | How to reach the location

Do come for the event, also invite your friends to attend…

hoping to meet you at BarCamp Kerala 6.

Official hashtag for the event is  #BCK6

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Sep 18, 2009

reCAPTCHA my favourite captcha has been acquired by Google. This is really help Google on the large scale text scanning projects like Google Books and Google News Archive Search. You can read more about this at http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/09/teaching-computers-to-read-google.html

Well i believe reCAPTCHA can be broken by some programs. Well let’s see what Google is upto…

Sep 4, 2009

Google has received a design patent for its Google Search’s Homepage. Google had applied for the patent five years ago and finally yesterday US Patent Office approved this patent (D599,372) for the design of a “graphical user interface for a display screen of a communications terminal”.

Aug 28, 2009

Awesome, This will be my next laptop upgrade.

The gScreen Spacebook series.
Spacebook planned Specs:
- 2 LED backlit display screens
- Windows VISTA/ WIN XP PRO (optional)
- Intel Core 2 Duo P8400 2.26-GHz
- 4 GB of RAM (2GB DDR2 SO-DIMM x 2)
- 320GB 7200-rpm HD
- NVIDIA® GeForce® 9800M GT with 512MB dedicated memory (or)
- NVIDIA® Quadro FX 1700M Graphics with 512MB dedicated memory
- 9-cell battery
- IEEE 1394 1 Graphics Card Output (15-pin, D-Sub) X 1, HDMI X 1 Mic-in X 1, Line-in x 1, Headphone X 1 PCI Express Card X 1 AC Power Adaptor Output: 19V DC, 90W Input: 100~240V AC, 50/60Hz universal Battery Pack Li-ion 9 cells.

The gScreen Spacebook is the first dual screen laptop with two 15.4-inch identical screens and a full-size keyboard, built into one laptop unit.

Some pics

Dual screen laptops are meant for pros actually,  designers, filmmakers, photographers and really anyone who can’t live without a dual screen for everyday productivity. An extra monitor will cause the total weight of the laptop to increase radically.

The estimated price is around 3000$. Cool deal isn’t it.  Well let’s wait till Christmas to have our hands on it…

Found at http://gizmodo.com/5346996/gscreens-dual+screen-spacebook-coming-soonish

This seems viral and awesome…

Aug 18, 2009

A lot has been talked about individuality and ideas. A lot has been talked about empowering your ideas and being the decision maker. A lot more about being an Entrepreneur. A time when everyone is trying making it big in a cut throat competitive world, get hold of a job to reach the top of the authority responsibility chain; comes an opportunity to fulfil your dreams. Yes, we are talking about “I am an Entrepreneur” campaign initiated by Technopark TBI in association with DST and DSIR, sponsored by AIRCEL and executed by TechnoFIRST magazine. It’s not just another campaign to promote the idea of entrepreneurship but one to make your dreams of being an entrepreneur a reality. A campaign planned across the campuses in Kerala so that we have more entrepreneurs and even more employment opportunities. Under the guidance and support from eminent personalities like Mr Kris Gopalakrishnan, Mr. Shashi Tharoor and many other who’s who of the business and political world, the campaign is expected to be as successful as it could be. The campaign started on 4h august 2009 flagged of by Mr S. Haroon, Business Head, AIRCEL Kerala Circle.

The Rajagiri School of Engineering and Technology got the privilege of being the first college to initiate the campaign and it was grand success at that with a lot of interaction with the students. It is a perfect platform for students to share their ideas and fulfil their dream. The campaign is supported by a number of medias, to begin with TechnoFIRST magazine which is executing the whole campaign undertaken by a young though powerful team, www.iamanentrepreneur.in a website solely dedicated to this campaign with the latest updates about the campaign and tips and advices from the market leaders and business gurus and an interaction forums to be aware about what others think. www.technofirstonline.com is another website closely following this campaign and apart from all these there are communities and groups on networking sites wherein student and professionals exchange their opinion and has received a positive response from the students and others alike.

This campaign has aimed to change the perspective of the youth to accomplish their dreams and has given an opportunity to the students to dream big. It’s a perfect launch for any young entrepreneur because you don’t need to worry about anything whether it’s funding, work space, infrastructural facilities or anything that you need to start a business. The best part is the support you receive in the form of assistance and guidance from the industry experts. This is one opportunity for all those who wish to make it big. “I am an Entrepreneur” campaign is indeed an opportunity to make your dreams come true.