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Geolocation API with HTML5

Gone are the days when the web was a one-size-fits-all kind of global information vending machine. In the past few years, continuous efforts are being made towards making the web as local as possible, with websites being able to present content suited to the users browsing it.

One huge component of this new wave are [...]

Google Goggles sudoku solving skills!!

After seeing twitterati abuzz with claims of Google goggles being able to solve Sudoku puzzles, I decided to verify on my own. Turns out Goggles does solve the puzzles by itself, and within 10 seconds too.

It took artificial intelligence to the pinnacle when it emulated human behavior by changing a number from 6 to [...]

Google Maps for Android 5.0 brings Offline and 3D capabilities

The long standing advantage of Ovi maps touted by the few remaining Symbian enthusiasts was that it doesn’t need a working GPRS connection to run, while Google maps requires a connection to download the tiles. With the latest release, Google has rectified this minor disadvantage too. When Maps is on a wifi connection, [...]

Review: LinkedIn For Android app (Beta)

LinkedIn is the most popular professional social networking site in the world. It covers 200 countries with a user base of 85 million users. The 20th most popular website in the world, LinkedIn boasts of over 50 million unique views every month. Apart from being a very popular website, LinkedIn also has a [...]

Setting up Android development environment in Windows and Linux

The number of apps in the Android market has been growing at a breakneck speed and soon looks to surpass 100,000, giving the iPhone app store a run for its money. The developer community has been showing some serious interest in developing apps for Android as well as contributing to the OS codebase. The lower [...]

Use AndroidVNC on your phone to control Ubuntu running on a Virtual Machine

AndroidVNC is an Android app that can be used to connnect and control a remote machine which runs a VNC server. There are many VNC servers available like RealVNC, TightVNC, X11VNC server etc. The VNC server listens to a port (typically 5900) which the VNC client, can connect to and view/control the machine [...]