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Taking screenshots on a Mac

The most commonly use key combination for me is Command + Crtl + Shift + 4. This combination turns the mouse pointed into a cross which shows screen pixel count as we move it around. With a mouse drag, I can select the area that I want to capture on the screen – while I drag, the cross shows pixel count of selected area.

Apple does it. Again.

Apple launched it’s new iPhone yesterday, named the iPhone 4. With several new features including an all new design, high quality display, dual 5 MP camera’s, the new iOS etc, the iPhone is way ahead than anything that’s available today. Watch this launch video that Steve Jobs showed at WWDC :

Try out the new Moodle 2.0 !

Come July 20, 2010, Moodle will be releasing a version 2.0 of it’s platform. There is excitement amongst all Moodle users because ver 2.0 comes with huge number of changes in the core platform itself.

First off, the biggest pain in working in Moodle – Navigation – is completely revamped. Then, there is integration of external repository content.

Competition should be welcome…always.

Now, new generation businesses should welcome competition with open arms. There is no better example of this trend changing, than Apple welcoming Google in the cellphone market, recognizing the power and potential of the Android OS and the Google’s Nexus One phone

Microsoft today is like the old IBM…

At today’s launch of the new Micorsoft Office 2010 in New Delhi, India I was reminded of that scene. All the Microsoft employees were wearing black suits and the event was in a star hotel with elaborate decorations etc. It looked exactly like the scene in the movie – except the sides had changed.

Mac : Aperture 3 speed increase

Since the upgrade from Aperture 2 to 3, I was struggling with a slow and often hanging system. The moment Aperture was turned on, it was as if the entire system would go into a momentarily lapse and then sort of freeze. …this is what has finally made Aperture work happily on my Macbook Pro :

Latest Nokia N8 and Apple iPhone’s lost !

It’s strange that days after Apple claimed that it’s latest iPhone prototype was lost / stolen, Nokia has claimed the same for its new Nokia N8. It’s also strange that Apples lost iPhone found it’s way to a blog site www.gizmodo.com and Nokia’s N8 found it’s way to another site www.mobile-review.com. What are the chances of 2 such prototypes being lost almost around the same time, then being found by almost similar review site