new flickr with 1 TB storage

Personally, i always preferred flickr over google photos or picassa in its earlier avatar. For some reason, flickr never found quite the love it deserved from +Yahoo! .
Now flickr is changed with 1 TB storage and new user interface. And the new interface is really looking great; though its a little heavy on the bandwidth.....
My page is now looking like this

The page showing my result when i tried +Google vs bing test result. The score was 5-nil in favour of google. Also showing myself with banikda, parthada, +Nabarunda. One image is showing +Nabarun da giving gopalda a packet of cig ,errr something!
Though this comes with an invisible price tag. The photostream is now mixed with ads. One could get an ad-free experience with $50/year (approximately ₹3000).

google celebrating Satyajit Ray's 92nd birthday with a doodle

This is a screenshot of the google search page. This doodle depicted scene from পথের পাচালী (panther panchali) - an award winning movie by satyajit ray - to celebrate his 92nd birthday. He simply was the genius. 

firefox 20 not supported by samsung galaxy ace

+Mozilla Firefox believe that the Web shouldn’t be subject to any restrictions! And for them one way to achieve this is to provide a good browser to every platform which could be used to access internet. Its a good goal, undoubtedly. Praise to the +Mozilla Firefox developers for their effort to bring the browser into +Android .
But this could not be achieved without providing trustworthy information to the consumers. That is a point where firefox needs much work. For example, they are claiming in this support page that firefox 20 could be used in +Samsung Mobile - galaxy ace (S5830).

Unfortunately that is not the case. Whenever i tried to check in my galaxy ace, i could even not find the application! And that is because firefox does not support ace. This could be checked through playstore also.

                                                  

User have posted about it into +Google Plus firefox community also, but so far no response. Keeping my fingers crossed for someday when finally it'll be possible to install firefox in galaxy ace! In the meantime, firefox should change the support page ASAP; otherwise its only increasing the confusion. Although don't know what is the problem with Ace ; after all it has more than the minimum configuration needed by firefox 20.
So, to answer +Mozilla's question, no i do not use firefox on android and this is the reason for it. :(

how to write bengali in ubuntu 12.04

In +Ubuntu  , its very easy to write bengali. One should enable bengali keyboard layout option from the settings. The attached video is showing just how to do that.
After enabling the bengali keyboard layout (my personal favourite is provat as its very easy to remember), the keyboard layout could be changed simply form the keyboard icon present in the global menu bar. Following the layout chart, could easily write bengali. It should be true for all indian languages but never tried them myself.

google released zopfli, for a faster web

+Google unleashed a new data compression algorithm called zopfli. Apparently this is a swiss bread recipe which looks something like this

 

image is taken from google search result

This is compatible with the normal decompression mechanisms already present in web browsers but  uses a much slower compression algorithm (almost 100 times slower). The output generated by this open-source algorithm though is 3–8% smaller compared to zlib at maximum compression.

Google ended the announcement with

Due to the amount of CPU time required — 2 to 3 orders of magnitude more than zlib at maximum quality — Zopfli is best suited for applications where data is compressed once and sent over a network many times, for example, static content for the web. By open sourcing Zopfli, thus allowing webmasters to better optimize the size of frequently accessed static content, we hope to make the Internet a bit faster for all of us.

More information could be found here.

Libreoffice 4.0.0 with 3.6.5 in ubuntu 12.04

+Ubuntu 12.04 does not have the latest +LibreOffice in its repository. After searching for some time, found this repository for v3.6.5. Updating the repository upgraded the package to v3.6.5. After that libreoffice released version 4.0. Downloaded the tar.gz file from the download page and followed the instructions.
The problem with two versions installed was that only one could be integrated with desktop properly. To start the version installed following the above instructions, we need to do -

 it is easy to start any of the LibreOffice apps by opening a shell, changing to the "program" folder beneath the above-created installation folder (called "install") [the whole path might look like install/opt/libreoffice3.4/program] and starting the desired application

 To launch the program simply, i have added one more item in the +Ubuntu Unity quicklist following these instructions (though they are very old;not advisable to follow them any more; but the idea remains the same). So, now the entry in unity looks like this

The only problem with this is that the program is launching directly. Not through the terminal.

gedit ~/.local/share/applications/libreoffice-startcenter.desktop

[Writerbeta Shortcut Group]
Name=LibreOffice4.1
Exec=/home/dr/media/tordld/uncategorized/LibreOffice_4.0.0.3_Linux_x86_deb/DEBS/install/opt/libreoffice4.0/program/soffice
TargetEnvironment=Unity

funny experience with train service

Today was fun - mostly except the email from nepjol ,but that's a different matter.
Most of the fun provided by the +Indian Railway . Today morning, when i was trying to catch the barrackpore local, the train seemed a little bit small. Was wondering what actually happened; but then forgot about it totally. The thing cleared up at the time of return. When the train reached barrackpore , i was unable to recognise the station. Was scared for sometime. After sometime, i understood the problem.
Actually, the train crossed over the spot where it should have stopped.
As could be seen in the image, the train should have stopped in the red spot, closer to the overbridge; the usual stoppage point for train at barrackpore. Today, the train stopped at the green mark. Overstepped by at least 3 emu coaches' length! Naturally i was unable to recognise the station!
Was really scared for sometime!