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Google knows what the world is thinking
2008-04-21 21:21:00 Google gives us a sneak peek into what’s on the top of people’s minds from around the world. Google Labs used to have an experiment called Google Suggest. This was a type of Google Search which suggested keywords as you typed in the search box (presumably based on what people are searching on Google). ... More About: Google , Funny , World , The World , Thinking
Learning Computer Science without Computers
2008-04-16 13:17:00 For me, computer science always existed outside a computer. Or maybe I was taught that way. I learned about binary numbers in my mathematics class and I also learned about what makes a computer tick, I learned all about AND gates, and Flip Flops, and what not. Programming a computer came naturally and I never ... More About: Science , Computers , Computer , Musings , Learning
How to make the battery last longer on your laptop
2008-04-15 20:58:00 All of us laptop users have at one point or another wished that our battery last a little while longer when a power source is not readily available. There are many things that you can do to ensure that you get the maximum out of your laptop’s battery. And all of these are easy things. Below ... More About: Laptop , Battery , Make
Running multiple WordPress installations using the same MySQL Database
2008-04-14 21:04:00 Did you know that you can host multiple WordPress installations on the same MySQL database? If no, then this article is for you. There can be many benefits of hosting multiple WordPress installations on the same MySQL database. Usually hosting providers have a limit of how many databases you are allowed to create with their service. ... More About: Wordpress , Running , Database , Mysql , Installations
Resize your pictures in a snap
2008-04-11 13:30:00 I regularly need to resize pictures that I have for various reasons (sending emails, embedding into documents, embedding into blog posts, etc.). This usually requires opening up some image editing software to resize the images. This can get painful if there are multiple pictures to resize (suppose I had to share pictures I took from ... More About: Pictures , Snap , Resize
Further clarification on various versions of .Net
2008-04-09 07:18:00 Scott Hanselman has an excellent post clearing the confusion surrounding .Net Framework versions. Although, I did take a shot at explaining my understanding of them, but I guess I wasn’t entirely correct. Here’s a summary of Scott’s explanation: So, the CLR in 3.5 is still the same one as 3.0 and 2.0. The difference is ...
Compare Documents Side-By-Side in Excel and Word
2008-04-08 21:47:00 A post earlier on How-To Geek reminded me of a function that I use very frequently when I need to work with multiple documents in Word or Excel . The How-To Geek post talks about how you can select multiple windows on the taskbar and then right-click them to tile them vertically (a technique that I ... More About: Office , Compare , Side
Accessing Session from inside a HTTPHandler
2008-04-08 12:37:00 Here something I didn’t know before. By default, you cannot access the session from within an Asp.Net HttpHandler. To be able to do that, your handler class has to implement an extra interface: System.Web.SessionState.IRequiresSessionS tate So, the declaration of your class looks like this: If you don’t do this, and try to access Session object from within the ... More About: Programming , Inside
Live Search scores one over Google? for now
2008-04-07 20:34:00 Versus I have always liked how Google Search can be used as a command prompt on the Internet. However, here’s something I discovered today which Google Search doesn’t do while Microsoft ’s Live Search does. Microsoft Live Search solves Algebra. Yup. That’s right. Look at the screen shots below: I guess kids can check their homework ...
Geographic distribution of blog readers
2008-04-05 10:56:00 Where do your readers come from? Readers for this blog are from all over the world. Some are of course regular readers, other come and go. This is what Google Analytics shows me of my blog visitors over the past month: As can be seen, the visitors are from all over (most coming from the ... More About: Blogging , Musings , Distribution , Blog
Google adds scrolling to its ad units
2008-04-03 22:25:00 I recently noticed that the AdSense ad units that display on my blog had funny arrows in them. Earlier I thought that they were some bad Html code creeping in somehow (angled brackets) but these were appearing consistently I dared to click on one, and the moment I did, the ads displaying in the unit ... More About: Google , Musings , Units
WordPress 2.5 - will the fun never end: Gravatar Support
2008-04-01 20:06:00 For some reason (call it my naivety) I don’t like to install plugins to my WordPress installation unless absolutely necessary. I also always wanted Gravatar integration in this blog, but didn’t want to install the plugin. So, imagine my joy when i discovered that there is built-in support for Gravatars in WP 2.5. Well. it ... More About: Wordpress , Support
Zooming really is smart in FireFox 3
2008-03-31 20:00:00 I run my laptop at a resolution of 1920×1200. Given this low resolutions some sites are nearly unreadable and so I usually have to zoom into the page (Ctrl+Scroll Wheel) till I can read it comfortably. What was irritating is that if I zoom into a page and then on the same tab I navigate to ... More About: Firefox , Smart , Firefox 3
A review of the latest WordPress: 2.5
2008-03-31 14:22:00 Yesterday, I installed the latest WordPress release (release 2.5) and now that I have had a chance to play around with it, its time to quickly talk about the first impressions. And it’s all good. Brand New Dashboard: Most of the visible changes in WordPress are around the administration side. Here is what the new Admin ... More About: Wordpress , Review
Upgrading to WordPress 2.5 - it?s all good
2008-03-31 09:46:00 WordPress 2.5 just got out and I decided to upgrade as soon as possible (I was also getting some weird database errors all of a sudden and most evidence pointed towards WordPress code not able to handle newer MySQL databases - after upgrade the issues are gone). It went simpler than the last time I upgraded. As ... More About: Wordpress , Good
Why are we Indians like this?
2008-03-29 09:27:00 I recently read a blog post at The Naive India n talking about why we Indians don’t need to spend any efforts on initiatives such as the Earth Hour (although the comment is made in a jovial tone, rather than a serious one). Why do I have a problem with this? The reason is that most Indians ... More About: Musings
OpenDNS Performance in India
2008-03-19 09:39:00 A post at Digital Inspirations (a blog I frequently read) inspired me to finally get down and measure the performance of Open DNS as an alternative to your ISPs DNS Server. I live in India and since there are no OpenDNS servers in India, logically, despite the massive hardware behind the OpenDNS offering, the local ISP’s ... More About: Performance
Firefox 3 Beta 4 makes me happy
2008-03-19 08:01:00 I use Firefox exclusively for my surfing needs. I only use IE when I need to test a site that I am developing. Even though I am a die hard Firefox user, I still have had a love-hate relationship with Firefox so far. I like to never close my browser window. I usually have at ... More About: Beta , Firefox 3 , Happy
Speed up your Windows XP Start Menu
2008-03-14 07:12:00 If you are anything like me, you must have literally hundreds of software installed on your computer. Even though I have a large number of applications installed on my laptop, 80% of the time, I am only using 20% of them. One side effect of having so many installed is that your Start Menu becomes humongous, ... More About: Windows , Speed
Stop Comment Spam using WordPress
2008-03-08 12:54:00 I love Akismet for battling comment spam. But ever so often, Akismet also slips up. Now, you can help Akismet by tweaking some settings in your WordPress settings and further reduce your comments spam. There are two ways you can do this, both involve using your WordPress Admin Panel. Go to Options, and then go to ... More About: Wordpress , Spam , Stop , Comment
Windows Live Writer Spell Check
2008-03-06 12:42:00 I really feel a little dumb today. My biggest complaint against Live Writer has been that it doesn’t have a spell check feature. Finally Google tells me that it does have a spell check, but then why can’t I see it. So I search again. I find this post from months ago which says the problem ... More About: Windows , Windows Live , Check
Google helped me beat Comment Spam on my blog
2008-02-28 15:04:00 Here is a sure shot way to get rid of comment Spam on your blog. Take Google ’s help. Recently, my Google Page Rank was dropeed from 3 to 0. I still feature in the Google Index and search results, so I guess my site hasn’t been banned. Anyway, ever since I dropped to PR 0, ... More About: Musings , Blog , Comment
Quick Send Gmail using SlickRun
2008-02-15 14:17:00 I use SlickRun to speed up my life on my laptop. An article on LifeHacker inspired me to create a new magic word. If you are the kind that always keeps yourself logged in to Gmail (or Google) in your favorite browser, then this will be really useful for you. Now, to create the magic word, ... More About: Quick , Send
Human Computation
2008-02-14 09:36:00 Luis von Ahn gave a talk a couple of years ago on Human Computation. Basically, harnessing human power to solve problems computers can’t solve. Just to demontrate how much unused human power is available for harnessing, here are some figures he threw up on the screen: Here’s the video, do watch it if the topic ... More About: Video , Funny , Technology , Games
Another picture, with a little twist
2008-02-04 12:08:00 Here’s another picture that I took on my visit to the Sultanpur Bird Sanctuary. The picture had not come out very nice because of lighting reasons. But, the form of the bird was too good, so I decided to fire up photoshop and worked on it a little: This is a painted stork that I ... More About: Photography , Photoshop , Animals , Picture , Twist
The Flying Ducks
2008-01-29 09:30:00 I took this picture on my visit to the Sultanpur Bird Sanctuary near my home. More About: Photography , Animals , Flying
Wordpress Installation Hangs on Step 2
2008-01-23 13:20:00 I have been trying to install the latest Wordpress (2.3.2) on our Windows Server for a long time. The famous 5-minute install keeps failing me for some reason. My installation hangs/fails at Step 2 (where it is supposed to show me the admin password). Well, the solution to my problem turned out to be in php.ini. ... More About: Blogging , Alla
3 most useful Browser Shortcuts
2008-01-21 08:29:00 The help file in Firefox lists about 58 common shortcuts (I guess the total number must be much bigger). I am pretty sure IE has a similar number of shortcuts. But who wants to learn all these shortcuts. I use 3 shortcuts and that is all I need: Alt + D - This takes you to ... More About: Browser , Shortcuts
A day out with the birds
2008-01-20 20:50:00 It has been some time since we have been planning to visit Sultanpur Bird Sanctuary and finally today, along with some friends, it happened. The place is about 20 minutes driving from home and there really was no excuse to delay it for so long. For those living in Gurgaon, India , it is about 30 ... More About: Photography , Wildlife , Birds
The Magic of Stumble Upon (or is it?)
More articles from this author:2008-01-17 12:04:00 Everyone would tell you that one of the best ways to build up popularity on your site over the long term is to get it Stumble d Up. And I saw the magic first hand yesterday on my blog. Below is my visitor graph: Now, if you see, my number of visitors just sky-rocketed. And sure ... More About: Magic , Musings , Blog , Upon 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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