TV Ad Sound Levels

By Ashutosh in Entertainment on

Have you ever noticed and wondered, why do TV adverts sound louder than the shows they interupt? The volume is the same, but they sound louder, but alas the UK regulator is planning to try and even things out a bit.…

PHP Caching with APC

By Ashutosh in Linklog on

Caching PHP scripts (intermediate opcode) in memory can make dynamic pages load fast and exert less load on the server resources (primarily the CPU usage). Typical PHP caching engines and accelerators are Zend, eAccelerator, xCache and APC (a PECL extension). Here’s a nice tutorial on APC-driven caching. Also…

iPhone II already under way

By Ashutosh in Business on

The elusive Apple iPhone will hit US retail stores within a month, but manufacturing contracts have already been signed for iPhone 2. Its reported that a Taiwanese manufacturer, Quanta, had secured contracts to start producing the iPhone’s successor from September. Quanta – the world’s largest laptop…

Optimizing Apache and PHP

By Ashutosh in Linklog on

Since I’ve been doing some LAMP development lately, I thought this article might be interesting to share. Applications using the LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP/Perl) architecture are constantly being developed and deployed. Everyone from Google to Facebook is using LAMP as part of their system architecture. But…

Temporary and Disposable Email Services

By Ashutosh in General on

One of the best solutions to spam is to get a temporary or disposable e-mail inbox which automatically expires after a certain time period. Checkout the Top 20 Temporary and Disposable Email Services. My personal choice is Jetable – its simple to use and does what its meant to do.…

Windows Longhorn Resurrected

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While Windows Vista no longer has the Windows File System (WinFS) feature and its core has been built starting from the Windows Server 2003 kernel, the Joejoe group have gone back to the pre-release Build 4074 of Longhorn and took it from there. Microsoft has so far failed to react…

What You Think is Right is Wrong

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A cognitive bias is something that our mind commonly does to distort our own view of reality. Here are the 26 most studied and widely accepted cognitive biases.…