Logitech is undoubtedly a world leader in input devices and they have a good history of providing quality products. Using their MX 518 Gaming mouse left a good impression about their line of input devices and provoked me to go for K340 when I was searching for a good wireless keyboard. What I was looking for is not something funky looking or highly customizable multimedia keyboard, but something streamlined and compact which is portable enough to be used some 5 meters away from my computer. And off course, I had a budget to stay into, between Rs. 1500 and 2500.

Logitech Wireless Keyboard K340


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When designing a website, apart from the usual gradients and other graphical elements, the single most important constituent is the Font. It takes a hell lot of trial and error to get the right font for your website, you need to try different ones, look at them from different angles and decide if they’ll work for you or not. On the other hand, since the browsers will be finally rendering whatever you’ve chosen as your favourite, a designer also has to keep in mind how different browsers are generating the fonts according to the underlying code. That’s why I decided to give the 3 most popular browsers a go on their own capabilities of font rendition. And here’s the result,

Font rendering comparison

As you can see, Google Chrome 4 Dev builds have some problems with Font Anti-Aliasing, while IE shows a bit more blur than anyone else. In my opinion Firefox 3.6 Beta 5 gave the best results with both Serif and Sans-Serif fonts. [click to continue…]

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Return of the long lost Nerd

September 4, 2009

It is always hard to initialize an article and when you return to blogging after almost two months’ inactivity, it’s really tough. People have asked me within this period with a complaining mood that why I’m taking too long to write some new posts. There was a main reason and so many sub reasons that [...]

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Google Chrome OS: Hype Demystified

July 10, 2009

Human beings often show some ridiculous ways of celebrating a complete non-issue, fuelled by hype and anticipation. And when the events are caused by some big guns, hells break loose beginning a mass hysteria. Looking into the world of tech industry, one can’t deny but accept the fact that Google is readily gobbling up everything [...]

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NVidia Tegra: A tiny mobile Super-Powerhouse?

June 24, 2009

June saw several technological breakthroughs this year, ranging from amazing battery life on Apple Notebooks to iPhone 3G S. While WWDC’09 caught most of the attention, Computex didn’t just go unnoticed. While it didn’t announce some glamorous spotlight-hopping products, NVidia’s demonstration of Tegra platform did mark a serious development in mobile computing.
Does 720p and 1080p [...]

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Parallel Processing and GPGPU support in Snow Leopard and Windows 7

June 13, 2009

Going through 2008, hardware vendors like Intel, NVidia and AMD buzzed off the terms Multi Core Processing and GPGPU support several times over various keynotes and presentations. While we had multi-core processors for last few years, none of the current operating systems can leverage that hardware power rightfully in multi-threaded applications. On the other hand, [...]

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