Technology Articles
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Forcing Closed Captioning On for YouTube Videos
Apr 15, 2017If you are a YouTube publisher and added closed captions (CC) to your video, you will find that YouTube does not show the closed captions by default....
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A simple WSGI Python utility library
Apr 11, 2017There exists a Python Web Server Gateway Interface (WSGI) utility library called Werkzeug. If you have Python installed on your machine, you just nee...
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Setup Apache/mod-wsgi/Django 1.10 on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
Apr 10, 2017Here are my findings in making Python 3.5, Django 1.10 and mod-wsgi to work with Apache2 server on an Ubuntu 16.04 LTS installation. At the time of th...
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Backing up your ERPNext site
Apr 07, 2017ERPNext assumes that as a site administrator you are well versed with linux (or variants) commands to execute backup and restore procedure. ERPNext ...
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Getting phpmyadmin to work on Ubuntu 16.04
Apr 04, 2017Ubuntu 16.04 is a great release. However it had one strange problem for me. If you install phpmyadmin using a sudo apt-get install phpmyadmin command ...
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Recovering a root file system error in Amazon EC2 Ubuntu instance
Oct 01, 2014First, do not play around with your home directory permissions Recently, I was playing around with my Ubuntu free tier t2.micro instance and used a su...
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A differentiated wearable strategy
Sep 17, 2014In CES 2014, people found wearables to be a new hot trend. Many companies including biggies like Apple, Google and several other startups want to fit ...
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Wearables and the type of health data they collect
Sep 17, 2014In this article I would like to draw a parallel between automobiles and human beings to make a point I seem to have understood well. This comparison m...
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Wearables and Mobile Health market is exploding
Sep 03, 2014In sharp contract to the PC market that is declining at the rate of 6% year on year, the wearables market, albeit small, is growing robustly.According...
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Diabetic? Wear a contact lens !
Sep 02, 2014Many of us have heard of the Google Glass. Have you heard of Google Contact Lens? Yes! One is in the making in a secret lab at MountainView California...
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Data Takes Center Stage
Nov 25, 2011Both you and I leave a big trail of data as we consume information, conduct trade, or interact with our friends on the internet. Take the simplest e...
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A Simple Mobile Application
Dec 24, 2010A mobile application many a time is lot more than just the part of it that runs on the phone. We saw earlier that the central processor and memory n...
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Convergence Explained - With Practical Examples
Dec 24, 2010If we search for the meaning of the word Convergence using Wikipedia, we get pretty serious stuff like Convergence can refer to previously separate ...
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The Smart (Mobile) Phone
Dec 24, 2010We almost went through the anatomy of a mobile phone in the earlier post. To understand mobility applications better, it is important to first under...
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Inside A Mobile Device
Dec 24, 2010Mobile phones are categorized by their capabilities. The initial ones provided just voice communication capabilities along with very limited data co...
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Mobile Service Delivery Platform
Dec 24, 2010To deliver mobility applications, we need an SDP . An SDP is a mechanism which helps configure policies, customizations, service level assurance, s...
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History Of Wireless Mobility
Dec 24, 2010Not so long ago, almost every two way communication device was tethered to a wall socket. This statement will not apply to those roadside payphones....
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What is Mobility
Dec 24, 2010This is a technology blog. Therefore, in our posts on mobility, we are not going to talk about all things that make people acquire the ability to move...
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The Future Of Personal Computers
Dec 23, 2010In an earlier post, we asked a question. "If cloud computing is about feeding computing capability to where you are, why do we still need personal c...
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Service Level Assurance
Dec 23, 2010Let us start this subject with an example. The easiest service level example is in Pizza delivery. When we order a Pizza over phone, we like that P...
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Public Cloud - Sharing and Data Protection
Dec 23, 2010In the previous post, we saw the challenges associated with public cloud computing infrastructure. How are some of those challenges addressed? Let ...
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Lego Blocks Of A Business Application
Dec 23, 2010We are continuing on our discussion from an earlier post that different businesses of the same type do have a strong need to strategize on providing...
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Leveraging The Commality Between Businesses
Dec 23, 2010We saw the level of optimization that one book store chain can accomplish by setting up a private cloud for their applications. Come to think of it.. ...
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Cloud Applications For Business Use
Dec 23, 2010So far we talked about cloud services consumed by individuals. How about people who run businesses? They obviously need a lot of computing to be compe...
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Subscription Funded Cloud Software - Simple Example
Dec 23, 2010The best example is this website. It is hosted on the cloud. I live and operate this website from India. The cloud computer that runs this website is ...
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Who Pays For Cloud Services Like Twitter, Gmail and Facebook
Dec 23, 2010Lots of good things on SaaS today are free services. Google Search, Wikipedia, Facebook, Gmail. Do these corporations run for charity? Some non profit...
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Understanding The Cloud Jargons
Dec 23, 2010We will continue with Gmail as our example. This is a mail software that we consume as a service. The jargon that the techie guys use to represent suc...
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If You Have To Set Up a Cloud Computer, What Will You Consider?
Dec 23, 2010We talked earlier about mail providers like Gmail. Let us take that as an example because most of us are familiar with Gmail. We know that millions of...
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Where Is My Data? Is It Safe? Can I Move It?
Dec 23, 2010Now we understand the different types of cloud applications. We also understand that Cloud Computing is a bidirectional process and we need to transmi...
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Is it as simple as transmitting electrical energy?
Dec 19, 2010While it seems so, in reality there are subtle differences. In any piped utility network (e.g., electricity, water or gas), the produce comes to your ...
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Types of Computing Applications
Dec 19, 2010In an earlier post, we got introduced to Cloud Computing with an example of a gaming application. In real life, we have many other applications for co...
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Cloud Computing - 101
Dec 19, 2010What is Computing ? From an individual perspective, a common personal computing requirement that we are familiar with is a computer game. Most of us w...
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Drawing a parallel - Electricity and its Distribution
Dec 19, 2010In the previous post, we saw a very brief introduction to Cloud Computing. In this post, we will try and understand it better using a parallel example...
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Are We Obsessed with optimization ?
Dec 19, 2010In the previous post, we saw the level of optimization that one book store chain can accomplish by setting up a private cloud for their applications. ...
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Let Us Talk Business Now
Dec 19, 2010So far we talked about cloud services consumed by individuals for personal use. How about people who run businesses? They obviously need a lot of comp...
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Who Pays For Your Cloud Service
Dec 19, 2010Lots of good things on SaaS today are free services. Google Search, Wikipedia, Facebook, Gmail. Do these corporations run for charity? Some non profit...
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Time to talk some serious jargon !
Dec 19, 2010So far, we used Gmail as our example. This is a mail software that we consume as a service. The jargon that the techie guys use to represent such a th...
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A sneak peek into the Service Provider landscape
Dec 19, 2010We talked about Gmail. We know that millions of people around a country use Gmail service. They all access the application that runs on a computer ins...
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When data is not in your safekeep ..
Dec 19, 2010It is evident now that just like your telephone service company or cable service company, there will be a service company that could lend you computin...