What happened when I heard about a raspberry Pi

The enthusiast inside me was just sleeping for a while (possibly around 3 years due to the damn corporate IT culture). And technically that was the reason why there wasn't enough posts recently. Suddenly last month on a trip to Coorg with @asuthoshjg & @nikhilkv, I heared about this little nasty motherboard from @asuthoshjg. The whole reason for the raspberry pi to hit our conversation was just my concern about a 4GB SD card in dslr that will easily run out of memory before we reach Coorg via Mysore. And pi just got hooked enough into my brain that browsing about it was the first thing that I did when reached back home after a sleepless night of driving and hunger.

The one best paragraph that explains everything about the pi in their community website is added below.

The Raspberry Pi is a credit-card sized computer that plugs into your TV and a keyboard. It is a capable little computer which can be used in electronics projects, and for many of the things that your desktop PC does, like spreadsheets, word-processing and games. It also plays high-definition video. We want to see it being used by kids all over the world to learn how computers work, how to manipulate the electronic world around them, and how to program.

It was one of the interesting things that I heared recently apart from the understanding that Saturday and Sunday are holidays at my workplace (sigh - literally). The another thing that increased my anticipation was that pi was available for online purcase at lot of sites. And I started getting excited about a pocket cpu that is powered by ARM6 700 Mhz processor with 512MB RAM, 4 USB ports, ethernet port and hdmi out at 4k-5k along with accessories. The plan was to replace the  plan of purchasing a vaccum-cleaner ( countless requests from my mother since last months) with the raspberry Pi. 

The funniest part was, Pi will just improve the count of number of computers (used and unused) at my home by 4. Four is a good number, by the way. It was not the Pi alone, but it was the enthusiasm and same old interest to these kind of stuffs when i was at my college, that is coming back to home along with the Pi soon.

Hopefully another post will be ready soon in a week when I get my hands on the Pi...

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6 best practises for a good kowledge researcher on internet

The century where we defined the meaning of 'www' and 'internet' were over. Now these technologies turned to be the best flavour tied up with our life. A child even before he stands up for the first time in his life comes in touch with the latest flavour of technology by watching tv and playing with the mobile phone. So the internet is being a big phenomenon.

Internet offers the best services that connect and educates people across the world. Majority of the internet users utilizes internet as a tool for social networking and chatting only. While internet remains the best knowledge pool, we must follow some good practises to utilize and extract the best from it. Worldwide acceptance of free software and the sharing concepts might have played the key role in fuelling the era of blogs and forums. 

I have always amazed at seeing the number of peple writing and contributing on free software platforms like ubuntu. Everyday how many tweets fly over the internet carrying links?? it might be millions..We have to break the rule that 'internet is nothing but a Goooooooogle search'. As the digital media is rapid and feature rich than the traditional and conventional printed media, we should follow a proper guideline for using it in better manner. My intention is nothing but introducing before you the best practises for online reading and keeping always in touch with the latest technology through this blog post.


1. Dont be the usual guy always :)

Find a little time for spending with the latest stuff in your favourite blogs and webpages other than facebook and myspace. Let's close the tabs of your favourite social networking sites while you read. Dont mix up the everything togeteher, instead find time for everything. You can make a better environment for learning, only if you have the gutz to do that...


2. Subscribe the best (its free of cost) 

Whenever you move over an interesting and 'followable' web page, don't forget to use the subscribe button to subscribe to the feeds from that blog. Feeds are the topics that are written in that blog or web page that will be available on your feed reader (such as google reader) and can be organized as you wish. If you are using an online feed reader service, the advantge is that you don't have visit your favourite blogs individually everytime, every stuff will be available on the feed reader's inbox. That makes all your faourite contents from many web pages under a single roof. Its better to use an online feed reader rather than bookmarking the stuffs with your browser. Bookmarks will be lost on a system crash unless otherwise it is not backed up properly, and it is better for websites rather than blogs.

I have been sticking on to the Google reader for a while since it provides better services to organize and manage my feeds. It have features like slideshow, collections and more to make reading attractive and easy.   


3. Inbox is not your waste box !

Many of the blogs and websites will allow you to subscribe contents through email also, along with the feed subscription. Think before you subscribe via email weather the contents are so important to sit on your inbox. Otherwise your inbox will flood with unimportant mails of blog subscriptions and that may be the reason for losing your job because of unnoticing the appointment order. It took almost one and half weeks for me to remove the unimportant subscriptions from my email inbox. I was forced to do it when my inbox crossed 4000 mails and lion's share of the subscriptions are 3-4 years old and are unread...


4. Comment on !! are you dead???

When you move over a blog post, just take a pause and comment if you have something to add up with the content described in the post. Most of the blogs allow the commenting feature to make discussions live. Remember your comments are always valuable to and useful for the next guy visiting the same post. I usually check for the comments area of the blogposts before reading the content of the post. My intention is nothing but to watch the feedback given by other readers. Soemtimes the trick given on that post might not work and may be the same is commented by someone. So a hawk eye view on comments section will let you decide weather to spend time on reading the post.


5. Share the spirit !!

Whenever you finds an interesting content don't forget to share that link to your friends also. Major social networking sites (twitter, facebook) and online bokmarking sites (delicious,digg) provides facilities to share the links. While sharing a link try to encourage your friends to read that post also. I think youtube videos are shared more than any other links in most of the social networking sites...


6. Watch it on your desktop

 You can use applications for reading the feeds in on your desktop. In a better way. Many feed reader application and widget are available. Google gears can be used to read contents offline from your blog. Some of the applications for Ubuntu distributions are Akregator, Yarssr, Liferea, Blam ...

Hope u like the post. Bye till the next one !!

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Quick tips : Internet

Tip1 : Use firefox / chrome to surf the web

Firefox and chrome are the fastest browsers to surf the web. A little amount of coniguration can further increase the speed of firefox. 

Click on the link to see how http://1024bitez.blogspot.com/2009/06/fire-fox.html

Tip 2 : Search in webpages of other languages

If you can't find out the right page or your search keyword, Use the google's language translator tool to widen your search over diffrent languages. Google will show you the result in english, whatever may be the source language.

Tip 3 : Blog search

If you dont find enough data after googling, try searching over the blogs also. Click on the more link on the top of the google's simple home page to get the blog option. You may feel it a powerful source for data

Tip 4 : Blogger or wordpress ?

Are you planning to start a new blog? Which service will you choose? blogger or wordpress? If you are planning to make some money through some advertisements  then move on with Blogger. Wordpress does not support advertisements, but it will give you a professional blog with a wide variety of elegent themes. Also if you aim at readers from google, it's better to go on with blogger since google will index pages on blogger frequently than wordpress..

www.blogger.com                           www.wordpress.com

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