Time and again many of my friends ask me these questions - Which Microsoft office version should they buy for their laptops? Which anti-virus to use?

So I want to share something many of them dont know. We have free version of office from Sun Microsystems (Oracle bought Sun Microsystems recently) that can be downloaded from Internet for free. Free is absolutely free, you don’t have to spend a penny! Still dont believe it?

Please download the latest Openoffice 3.2 from the below link.

http://download.openoffice.org/

The product is compatible with Microsoft Documents and is pretty good. It is available for all the operating systems Windows, Linux and Mac OS. The product is also supported with security updates and patches.

If you liked this tip, please do share it with your friends.

Youtube has launched exclusive bollywood channel. Right now the catalog does not have many movies, but in the near future we can expect something similar to Netflix. So stop burning CD’s/copying movies from your friends just sit back and enjoy connect streamed in high resolution.

http://www.youtube.com/movies?s=mvr&b=18

Techcrunch is reporting that Tata Consultancy Services www.tcs.com website is hacked. It was similar to twitter DNS hack last year where the DNS entry of the owner’s domain tcs.com was modified.

Its very clear insurgents are taking “other routes” in disrupting economy.
Will we get to see similar attacks in cyber space now?

Read from the below link for more details.

http://www.techcrunch.com/2010/02/07/indian-it-giant-tata-consultancy-services-hacked/

Update: Looks like the site is back to normal now.

Enjoy the video! Offcourse it was shot by me



Update: Added few MIT,Stanford Campus videos

MIT Campus Video 2



Stanford University Video 1

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9BTUDKX6DKc

Stanford University Video 2

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dRv6432th9Q

Stanford University Video 3

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=itc0ZCRJNNE

The new Striker Hindi movie Starring Siddarth is now availble on Youtube for Rent.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7WVcB-o-Q1I#

It costs 4.99$ dollars to rent the movie. Go ahead and watch it!

I have been using the latest chrome browser for Linux (build 3.0.190.2) in Ubuntu 9.04 - Jaunty Jackalope for the last 24 hours.

Its really awesome fast. I feel its better than the Windows build (Performance on Windows doesnt really beat Linux).To feel it for yourselves checkout the latest build from the below links.

• (for 32-bit systems):
  google-chrome-unstable_current_i386.deb


• (for 64-bit systems):
  google-chrome-unstable_current_amd64.deb

And now the cons:
1) Font rendering for some languages (Indian languages Hindi and Telugu) was missing. (below is screen shot)

2) Although a flash plug-in was installed in Linux on my laptop, was not able to use flash. Reinstalling flash fixed the issue.

To conclude, although its a early dev release the build was really good. It was not as bad as I first thought and did not crash at any instance.

Google Reader is great tool to read latest news and blog contents without visiting the websites. Basically its Web based RSS and Atom feed reader.

Most of the deals portals like woot.com, deals2buy.com, dealnews.com,slickdeals.net,amazon.com, etc support RSS.

To get started

1) Login into your Google Account at http://Google.com/reader (If you havent signed up yet for this service then you need to just agree to the terms of service and proceed)
2) Simply add all the deal related websites using “Add a subscription”
3) Organize all the deal related sites into an folder.

There you go - A search box is available use it to search for what ever you want.