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Review: Logitech Wireless Keyboard K340

by Debsuvra on February 6, 2010 in Computing

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 [...]

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Font rendering comparison

Cross browser font rendering comparison

by Debsuvra on December 22, 2009 in Computing, World Wide Web

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 [...]

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Google Chrome OS: Hype Demystified

by Debsuvra on July 10, 2009 in Computing, Google, World Wide Web

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?

NVidia Tegra: A tiny mobile Super-Powerhouse?

by Debsuvra on June 24, 2009 in Computing

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 [...]

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Parallel Processing and GPGPU support in Snow Leopard and Windows 7

Parallel Processing and GPGPU support in Snow Leopard and Windows 7

by Debsuvra on June 13, 2009 in Apple, Computing, Microsoft

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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