Category: Technical

Compiling and Using Phonon on Linux

Phonon is a neat framework for multimedia applications on Linux. To top that; it is written using Qt. Like Marble; it does not need KDE to work. Recently Trolltech announced Phonon backends for Linux, Windows and Mac; which means that…

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Something for Women on IRC

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Vilayanur Ramachandran: Brain expert

This will really interest you. http://www.ted.com/index.php/speakers/view/id/164 Powered by ScribeFire.

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FOSS.IN 2007…..

FOSS.IN is always a fun event. This year it was no different; although I am beginning to feel that even this year the talks were mostly “intro-type” in nature. The good thing about FOSS.IN however is that one gets to…

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VTK Designer has been nominated for FOSS India Awards

Our VTK Designer project has been nominated for FOSS India Awards 2008. Please cast your vote for our software so that we can win it ;). http://www.openitis.com/openitis/project_view.php?id=113PS: For people who are wondering who nominated it and why… I got an…

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FOSS.IN starting tomorrow!

The best part of December is about to begin from tomorrow: FOSS.IN. Apparently 2700+ people have registered themselves for the conference this year. Thats like 800 people more than last year!. Considering that there will be last minute registrations, there…

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Microsoft Office 2007

I bought Microsoft Office 2007 a couple of days back. I was in dire need of some templates that MSOffice came with (or provided access to). It costed me quite a bit; but it seems worth it. I hope I…

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Cricket Score Card on Google News

Google is one kewl company :). Every now and then they provide interesting add-ons to news, mail and their other products. Today I noticed this on my news page. Thats right :). It is the India-Pakistan Test Cricket score card….

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Ivan Sutherland’s Sketchpad

Alan Kay presenting Ivan Sutherland’s Sketchpad, one of most influential programs in the history of graphical user interfaces. Sutherland developed Sketchpad in 1963. Watch this video; its really interesting. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mOZqRJzE8xg Powered by ScribeFire.

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Optional Plugins for VTK Designer 2 now available

Optional plugins for VTK Designer 2 are now starting to become available. Like I said in a previous blog entry, we had to stripout several components from the final release of VTK Designer 2 because they were not release ready….

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VTK Designer 2 – Data File Loaders

VTK Designer 1.x had a category of modules called “Data File Loaders” or DFL as I used to call it. DFLs could basically load data files of different formats. With DFL you never had to construct pipelines for loading data…

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VTK Designer 2 – HOWTO Series

I have decided to write a series of HOWTO documents for developers interested in getting started with VTK Designer 2 development. As a start, I have included two HOWTO documents. How to compile VTK Designer 2 on Windows How to…

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VTK Designer 2 for Mac – Not happening this week :(

I could not get to compile VTK Designer 2 fully on the Mac today. Everything else but the scripting framework compiled perfectly. I guess I have to postpone this for next week now :(. Powered by ScribeFire.

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VTK Designer 2 for Mac

There has been quite a few times when I have got emails from VTK Designer users asking me about a Mac version of VTK Designer. Now that we have VTK Designer 2 for Windows and GNU/Linux, it makes sense to…

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Windows Live Writer

I was reading some news items about Windows Live, so I decided to see what the whole deal was. This blog entry is just to test whether the Windows Live writer works or not 😉 UI wise, I think all…

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