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	<title>Irfan's Corner on the Web</title>
	<link>http://irfanhabib.com/blog</link>
	<description>On Mac, Linux, Grid, Virtualization and Software Technology</description>
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		<title>Why are most Twitter clients for the iPad just so bad?</title>
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Recently there is has been lots of innovation in App design for tablets. Apps like Qwiki, Flipboard, Zite, Pulse, Reedr have really figured out how to give a good user experience on a tablet. However, sadly, most twitter clients have not. Even iphone twitter clients like TweetBot are better than most iPad twitter clients as [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://irfanhabib.com/blog/2011/06/18/why-are-most-twitter-clients-for-the-ipad-just-so-bad/</link>
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		<title>How cloud computing has transformed the PC</title>
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Yesterday I faced one of the most dreaded events in a laptop users' life: a sudden hard disk crash. I used it in the morning and when I went to my lab and awoke the Macbook Pro from sleep I could hear strange mechanical noises and it failed to boot.

However unlike in the past when [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://irfanhabib.com/blog/2011/05/13/how-cloud-computing-has-transformed-the-pc/</link>
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		<title>Increase Loopback devices in Ubuntu</title>
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I've been using a lot of VMs recently. By default the number of loopback devices set in Ubuntu is just 8. So if you want to mount 10 VM disks, your out of luck.
An easy way I'v found to increase loopback devices is:
edit /etc/modprobe.d/options
and enter the line (replace n, for the number of loopback devices [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://irfanhabib.com/blog/2010/09/29/increase-loopback-devices-in-ubuntu/</link>
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		<title>Apple To Dominate Tablet Market Through 2012, iSuppli Says</title>
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I just came across this analysis. One statement that stands out to be me is:
"While Alexander reports that rivals are developing products that match or exceed the iPad’s hardware specs, she contends that it is “unlikely that any of the competitors will be able to equal the overall performance experience of the iPad.” "

The fact [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://irfanhabib.com/blog/2010/08/25/apple-to-dominate-tablet-market-through-2012-isuppli-says/</link>
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		<title>How to recover data from an formatted HFS Drive</title>
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Last week my Time Machine Backup Hard disk suddenly died! Everytime I plugged the hard disk, my mac did not recognise the file system (it was a HFS+ partition) and asked my to format it. I did format it, only to realise that I had lost some precious data.
How do you recover data from a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://irfanhabib.com/blog/2010/01/14/how-to-recover-data-from-an-formatted-hfs-drive/</link>
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		<title>Is Data Science emerging as a New Domain in Computer Science?</title>
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I've just completed reading Chapter 5 of Beautiful Data. I planned to write a  blog post about this book, however this chapter contained some new insights for me which I thought were valuable to share. This book has some excellent chapters covering significant developments in the domain of data storage, retrieval and analysis. Chapter [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://irfanhabib.com/blog/2010/01/02/is-data-science-emerging-as-a-new-domain-in-computer-science/</link>
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		<title>Making the move to Cloud backup</title>
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My Time Machine Hard disk failed 2 days ago. I lost all my backups! Unfortunately I had reinstalled my system just last week and had not yet fully restored from the latest time machine backup. Fortunately I have recovered everything other than my pictures.
I don't want to experience such loss again, so I'm moving towards [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://irfanhabib.com/blog/2009/12/30/making-the-move-to-cloud-backup/</link>
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		<title>Turing (A Novel about Computation) Review</title>
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I just completed reading Turing (A Novel about Computation). Its a post-modern novel around a computer programme named "Turing". It has a captivating story line that guides the reader through centuries of human ingenuity and intellectual achievement. The book also presents a successful fusion of history, economics, mathematics, computer science that is brilliant and original. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://irfanhabib.com/blog/2009/12/07/turing-a-novel-about-computation-review/</link>
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		<title>Buy Cheap Storage from Google and use it for Online Backup</title>
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Today, Google has dramatically decreased prices for the extra storage you can purchase for Google Services like Gmail and Picasa. The current prices:


Apple also provides upgrade options for iDisk and MobileMe Mail, however their prices are significantly more expensive an extra 60GB from Apple will set you back for an additional £59 (~ $100), while [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://irfanhabib.com/blog/2009/11/11/buy-cheap-storage-from-google-and-use-it-for-online-backup/</link>
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		<title>How to mount your MobileMe iDisk in Linux</title>
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I tried mounting my iDisk about 3 years ago in a Linux system and I had to use Cadaver for it. It was not easy to configure. Fortunately now things have changed. You just need 1 command (or two if you have to install davfs2) to mount a Webdav share (iDisk uses webdav).
1. First install [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://irfanhabib.com/blog/2009/11/11/how-to-mount-your-mobileme-idisk-in-linux/</link>
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