PHP offers a light-weight runtime for small-to-medium sized webapps. If you are not a PHP developer, you will be surprised to know that PHP doesn’t support multithreading natively, though there are ways to make it possible. People have often come up with solutions to mock multithreading but still PHP sucks at performance as far as large applications are concerned. Update: Facebook’s PHP Runtime HipHop, now Open Source Most industry applications fallback Read further »

A typical full-fledged OS could ranges from 1-20GB before/after installation. But How small can it really get? Few Megabytes? Kilobytes, perhaps. BareMetal is an open source CLI-based Operating system. The OS is written entirely in Assembly while applications can be written in Assembly or C/C++. BareMetal is not intended to be a full-featured Operating System by any means. The two main purposes of BareMetal are for educational uses in learning low-level OS programming Read further »

With Microsoft failing to deliver Windows Mobile 7 timely, WinMo users had been looking out for alternates. And who else would they switch to when Android is an option. Until very recently, Android was available on select HTC devices, but now it’s possible to Dual boot them thanks to the latest boot loader Gen.Y DualBoot. How to DualBoot Windows Mobile and Android: Step 1. Get Android OS for your device by finding the Android thread Read further »

It was hardly a few days back when Chrome 4 became stable and now comes the new version. Chrome is growing fast, within time-span of 2 years, it hits v5 in the developer builds. The list of changes so far is fairly small for PC users. But the javascript performance improvement is again noticeable. On the contrary, Mac users will notice a bit more of a difference, with fixes addressing plugin stability and crashing while dragging tabs, a slightly improved cookies manager, and minor tweaks to Chrome’s task Read further »

Curse the iPad but it would still be a Big success. iPhone OS 3.2 contains support for video calling has now been confirmed. There are hooks to accept and decline a video conference, flip a video feed (which suggests a front-facing camera) and — most importantly — run the video call in either full screen mode or in just a portion of the screen. This means a you can video chat and work on something else, and isn’t that multitasking already ? We’re definitely starting to get the Read further »

I happen to use four instances of Firefox- One each on my personal laptop, office laptop, remote desktop and solaris desktop and find it very tedious to have all the same stuff synced across the browsers. When Xmarks came, it solved part of the problem by syncing Firefox and Chrome bookmarks. But I was still looking for a solution that could sync my settings, addons. Mozilla Weave partly solved bunch of it by providing Read further »

Most of us tend to use a different virtual avatar for the online applications like forums, blogs, and social networking. Trying to make it arcade-ish is passion among people. Recently, Microsoft had patented a technology that enables/mandates users to use RealLife-alike avatars for online use. That may be a plan for Xbox 360, but you can build your own 3D avatar that uses a similar Read further »

Windows Home Server, codename Vail (also referred to as WHS version 2), has been under internal testing for a while now, but thanks to the first leak notification of operating system by Mary Jo Foley, it’s now available all over the P2P & torrents. Unsurprisingly, Microsoft still won’t talk about Vail officially: “We are not ready to discuss future products but will certainly let you know as soon as more details become available,” a Microsoft spokesperson told Ars. The leaked copy contains the following Read further »

From what I heard, Steve Jobs had been working hard to develop a killer device that would change the face of the industry. Well, I blogged live for iPad launch event but I didn’t see that coming. Was it really unveiled ? All I saw was a fancy eBook Reader that can’t even run full web. Some one rightly said, iPad is a golden calf Read further »

Nexus one is Android industry accelerator, giving Google a strong hold into mobile market.  The torch is now in hands of Motorola to come up with Next Google Phone: Nexus Two (name not confirmed). Motorola CEO Sanjay Jha confirmed today that his company is working in partnership with Google on an Android phone to be sold directly to consumers via google.com/phone, On a conference call with Read further »