Fix Parallels Desktop on Mac OSX Lion

Most of the Parallels Desktop 6 users are experiencing an issue not finding the virtual machine windows after upgrading to Mac OSX Lion. This might be caused by the Desktop (inwhich Parallels to run on) being set to None during upgrade. Mission Control to blame? But this can be fixed very easily. Follow these steps,

1. Create a Dock Icon for Parallels Desktop if not
2. Launch Parallels Desktop
3. Right click the ...

Meet Raspberry Pi, the $25 computer

No one would have thought that they could ever buy a computer for $25. Thanks to the smart game developer from Frontier Developments, David Braben who designed Raspberry Pi, a $25 dollar computer with the size of a USB Stick, infact it is actually a USB Stick Computer. Have a look,

This tiny device comes with an HDMI port in one end and a USB port on the other. You ...

Scratch - A Magic Tool for Tux Paint

Tux Paint is a drawing software for children that provides a kids-like user interface. Tuxpaint does have some nice tools integrated in it which helps the kids to create their drawing masterpieces using a computer. Simply speaking its the GIMP for kids of 3-12 years.

But what I was excited about Tux Paint is the availability of Magic Tool Plug-in API using which you can create Magic Tools that creates ...

I have an'droid

Finally my wish came true. Now I'm a proud owner of an Android phone. Its LG Optimus One, better known as LG P500. Good that it comes with Froyo and LG promises an update to Gingerbread. Here you can find the phone specs.

This one is a good choice for anyone looking for a budget Android phone (10.8K when I bought) whose battery lasts a complete day with ...

HyperGAE - Use Hypertable for App Engine Datastore

After few days of hacking on the Google App Engine SDK and ProtocolBuffers, finally I succeeded in creating a datastore driver for GAE that talks to Hypertable and stores the data there fully protocol buffer encoded. If you want to checkout this implementation head to HyperGAE repository and see files datastore_hypertable_ht.py and datastore_hypertable_thrift.py. HyperGAE basically uses two methods to connect to hypertable. Using the thrift api and using ...