Tech Force One is my web log related to technologies, I use day to day.
Mono 2.0 released »
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- Mono 2.0 has been released! For some of you who don’t know much about Mono, it is a cross-platform, open-source, .Net development framework. Simply put, we can now also code applications using .Net Framework on Mac and Linux.
Linux, a Seventeen year teenager »
Time just flies by. Linux is now 17 years old and it has turned out to be a responsible teenager. Almost every company today uses Linux one way or the other. It boosted the open-source movement and made almost all big, commercial companies to embrace it in one way or the other. Here is the original post where Linus Torvalds announced Linux on 5th Oct 1991. I am sure Linus would not have visualized this kind of global approval to his OS; but he must be a very satisfied man today and…so am I, for foreseeing the potential in Linux and using it in the last 12 years. I am sure there will be lot more good things to happen to Linux in the next few years, saving us all a lot of money and time.
Microsoft and Nokia Adopt OSS JQuery Framework »
Nokia Comes With Music »
Nokia is launching a new music service , called ‘Comes with Music’. Quite late, but pretty interesting. I am sure you know that iPod is not successful because of its cool looks. It is successful because of the way it integrates with iTunes. In fact, the older version of iPods (before the touch series) are quite dumb – they cannot record audio, take pictures, not bluetooth compatible and many other things my smart phone can do. But the video iPod I have is lot more expensive than my phone, with lot less features. But….I still love my iPod. I download lots and lots of podcasts and listen to them in my car. And iTunes does a great job downloading stuff from the store to my iPod…all within the same window. It is so simple and seamless and I believe thats where the magic is. I also believe that Apple did a great background job getting the iTunes model correct before it launched the iPod. And today, Nokia seems to launch a similar service, but it did take lot of time to do all this. I am sure other players, like Sony, Motorola will try some thing similar very soon. They got to. In fact, I believe they should integrate with other photo sharing sites seamlessly, to have an edge. Choice is always good for the consumer, so I will give it a try, even if I have to dump my SE phone.
Java Applets with JNLP »
Web page with an applet embedded in it is painfully slow to load. We were using java applet to play videos online and we have lots of issues with browsers freezing up…in all browsers and on all platforms 
I always wondered why people did not re-think the JVM in the browser all along.
