Google Chart API : An overview
Written on June 1, 2009.
I was recently going through the various Google APIs that are available when the Google Chart API caught my fancy.
According to Google
The Google Chart API lets you dynamically generate charts. To see the Chart API in action, open up a browser window and copy the following URL into the address bar:
http://chart.apis.google.com/chart?cht=p3&chd=t:60,40&chs=250×100&chl=Hello|World
Press the Enter or Return key and – presto! – you should see the following image:
So i thought why not try to use it and let you know how to use it.
So firstly i got the “OS Distribution” and “Browser Distribution” data for this site.
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XBMC and Music Album Art
Written on April 27, 2009.
I am a big fan of XBMC for a long time. The work these guys have done is truly recommendable.
Having shifted to Ubuntu i thought of converting my Ubuntu box into a Media Center using the XBMC. Everything worked fine except the Music Album Art.
What i saw was that for a few of the albums the Album Art was showing. But the rest of the folders despite having an image the Album Art did not show up.
This led me into investigating the matter and what i found out was that, the albums for which the Cover Art was showing had the image file named as
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Tata Nano : My First Impression
Written on April 16, 2009.
The recently launched Tata Nano which created quite a stir throughout the country was today showcased at our office.
Though people were allowed to site in the car to get a feel of it none were allowed to test drive it. But bookings were open for the employees.
So I thought why not go and get a glimpse of the car which caused so much of a headline.
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Shubho Poila Boisakh
Written on April 15, 2009.
A very warm and happy bengali new year greetings to all you readers of 4 Geeks From Net out there. Hope the new year brings joy and prosperity to all of your lives.
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Written on April 4, 2009.
After having shifted to Ubuntu from Windows for quite a long time, I was looking for a no nonsense Bandwidth Monitor. It was during this time that I came across vnStat.
vnStat in the makers word :
vnStat is a network traffic monitor for Linux that keeps a log of daily network traffic for the selected interface(s). vnStat isn’t a packet sniffer. The traffic information is analyzed from the /proc filesystem. That way vnStat can be used even without root permissions. However, at least a 2.2 series kernel is required.
This program is open source/GPL’ed and can be installed either as root or as a single user. Better instructions are included in the README.
So I installed vnStat using
:~$sudo apt-get install vnstat
The first step in using vnStat is to initialize it and configure it to read your Internet bandwidth usage.
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