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BlackBerry and Vodafone in India
2007-11-16 12:48:00 I got a BlackBerry and life has changed (for better or worse). But this post is not about that, it is about my first impressions with the device, the software, and the service. I got a BlackBerry Curve 8310. I have a plan from Voda fone (which recently acquired Hutch, my previous service provider). Since this ... More About: India , Gadgets , Blackberry
Google OpenSocial - bringing social networks together
2007-11-02 18:25:00 Well, don’t know about that, however, I can’t help but fall in line with all the Bloggers, and talk about Google OpenSocial . Google has launched OpenSocial which according to them “provides a common set of APIs for social applications across multiple websites.” Let me try to figure out what this means. So, if LinkedIn implements this API ... More About: Social Networking , Social Networks , Networks
Genetics and where we are going with it
2007-11-02 11:24:00 I have recently finished reading an excellent book by Michael Crichton called “Next”. It’s about the crazy world of genetics and what are the various things happening around the world using the newly discovered techniques and exploring a yet unexplored territory. As usual, it is hard to tell fact from fiction in this novel. Anyway, a ... More About: Reading , Genetics , Going , Goin
It happens only in India
2007-11-01 13:19:00 On my way to work a couple of days ago, I witnessed a couple going on scooter. I decided to take a picture: This lady is sitting on the back seat, and there is a guy in front who is actually riding the scooter (not visible). I am going to run a caption contest for this ... More About: India , Funny
The best Feed Readers round up
2007-10-30 19:30:00 As some of you may know, I serve my feed through Feed Burner and so, even though I don’t have a lot of readers, I still check on my Feedburner stats from time to time. Well, today was amazing. I recorded an all time high number of subscribers, a number which is around double the average ... More About: Readers , Blogging , Round Up
Halo 3 vs Bioshock - Bioshock wins
2007-10-28 13:08:00 This post was a long time coming but I had to make it. I have owned both the games for some time now and I got both of them together (I live in India and so games don’t become available immediately, and since I bought my XBox in the US, I have to buy them ... More About: Halo , Halo 3 , BioShock , Wins
WordPress 2.3.1 to support tags in Windows LiveWriter
2007-10-25 08:37:00 Well we all now know that to be able to insert tags in WordPpress 2.3 when using Windows LiveWriter we can use the keywords feature: However, now WordPress 2.3.1 will have support for using the Insert Tags feature in Windows LiveWriter. Good to see this as it allows me to set a reminder to ... More About: Wordpress , Blogging , Support
How to see when Google crawled your site
2007-10-21 20:18:00 Just in case you want to know when Google last indexed your blog, site, page; here’s a fairly quick and easy way to get that information. (I am sure there are many ways, but this works the fastest for me). Go to Google.com (or use your Browser Search Box if it is configured to ... More About: Site
Meet the Wumpus
2007-10-18 15:14:00 This is a Wumpus and if you don’t know what a Wumpus is then you need to start reading one of the best blogs (I think) on the Internet. It is called Coding Horror. Jeff Atwood, the author, calls this his power animal. It’s his personal brand. He has it on his car, his clothes, ... More About: Musings , Meet
How not to gain an extra day per year
2007-10-17 20:49:00 I posted a while ago about how to gain an extra day per year. This post is to tell everyone how bad an idea that was. I posted that we should always stand by our laptops rather than hibernate them or shut them down. This way, when we open the lids again, it takes very ... More About: Extra , Year
Today is Environment day in the Blogosphere
2007-10-15 19:48:00 Today is the day. The 15th of October. The day where we all talk about the environment. My blog is personal, so anything I put on it is my opinion. And today I am going to be opinionated about the planet, ecology, environmentalism, nature. Who was it who said: “We do not inherit the earth ... More About: Environment , Blogosphere , Today , Envi
Akismet versus Comment Spam
2007-10-10 10:36:00 I have ranted in the past about how Akismet misses some Spam comments. (Just in case you don’t know, Akismet is the best anti-spam service in the world, so you should find the plugin for your blogging platform and install it). But it’s about time I talk about how helpful it is. I went through ... More About: Versus , Comment
Intelligent World Time in Google
2007-10-06 22:53:00 I used to have a shortcut on my FireFox tool bar to http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/. The reason I say, ‘used to’ is because now it’s gone. I recently discovered that Google has a world time feature built into it’s search. I love it. So now if I need to know what time it is in Munich, Germany; ... More About: World , Time , Intelligent , Gent
Microsoft .net Framework code available
2007-10-06 17:20:00 Microsoft went and did another good thing. They have made the source code for the .net framework available, though not at Open Source. It is available for reference and you can configure your Visual Studio so that your debugger will step into the framework source code while debugging. However, since everyone loves to bash Microsoft, there ... More About: Microsoft , Code , Framework , Ework
Now the bad about Windows LiveWriter
2007-10-06 14:59:00 I posted before about switching to using LiveWriter for posting to my blog and all the good things that LiveWriter offers. Well, now that I have used it to write a lot of posts on my blog; I am going to talk about the bad things in LiveWriter. Of course, most of the bad ... More About: Windows , Blogging , Musings
All about blogging - tips, tools, and musings
2007-10-03 22:14:00 I thought I would do a nice round up of the posts that I have written over time on the blog on the topic of blogging. (as a side effect I get to build some nice internal links)Overall, my posts about blogging lie in the following categories: Tools Tips Making Money Let me round these up one by one. More About: Blogging , Musings , Sings
9 tips to keep your Outlook 2007 Kicking
2007-10-02 22:23:00 Everyone knows that Outlook 2007 is slow, it freezes, it hangs, and it basically sucks. Yet, there are a lot of people out there who use it on a daily basis. I am one of these people. There are a few tips to minimize the pain here. However, to make sure that the pain ... More About: Office , Tips , Outlook 2007 , Kick
Productivity Tip for those who use their desktops
2007-10-01 12:50:00 This I am a heavily desktop oriented guy. I put all my icons on my desktop. I like to be able to find everything quickly by using my desktop. To others my desktop is 1920×1200 sized garbage can. To me, it’s my life blood. Of course, when you look at it like this, you ... More About: Productivity , Desktops
Upgrading WordPress to 2.3
2007-09-30 01:16:00 Phew… after about 4 hours of grueling work, I have finally managed to upgrade my WordPress installation to the latest version: 2.3. Major steps followed: Find a 2.3 compliant theme for the site. Customize the theme to put in all the little changes that I had so painstakingly put into the last theme. Backup current WordPress Install: Database, Install ... More About: Wordpress , Blogging
Indian Government inspired by Orwell
2007-09-24 09:28:00 The powers that be in Mumbai must have recently been gifted copies of 1984. According to this article, the Mumbai police has made it a mandate for all cyber cafes operating in the city to install KeyLoggers. As soon as I read this, several alarm bells started ringing in my head. Primary question being ... More About: India , Government , Indian , Musings , Indian Government
Excluding certain categories from your blog main page
2007-09-23 17:15:00 This post only applies to people who are running a WordPress blog and have access to editing their template pages. A few days ago, I had a requirement where I wanted to prevent posts in certain categories from showing up on my blog’s main index page. There are a couple of ways mentioned on ... More About: Wordpress , Blogging , Page , Blog , Tips and Tricks
The Joys of Blogging
2007-09-20 12:32:00 A lot of people have asked me why I blog. I have tried to tell them why, and most of the time the answer is, “I blog, because I like to”; I blog, because I would like to help others with what I have learned through my experience. Well, recently there was a comment left on ... More About: Blogging , Musings
Writer?s block - what is that?
2007-09-17 15:34:00 Almost every blog about blogging that I have read till date talks about how to combat the Writer ?s block. Well, I thought that I really need to add my two bits. First of all, you need to answer this question: ?Why do you blog?? If your answer is something along the lines of ?I blog ... More About: Blogging , Musings , Block
My feed will be free of Sponsored Posts
2007-09-16 23:01:00 I would like everyone to know that I have finally made the changes to my RSS feed. As some of you might have realized that I take on sponsored posts from time to time. These posts are done with the best of my ability and I only take them on and make them part of ... More About: Free , Sponsored , Feed , Posts
Using Windows LiveWriter to Publish Blog Posts
2007-09-16 22:04:00 I have been using Word 2007 to blog to my WordPress blog for a long time now. However, today I finally decided to give Windows LiveWriter a try. This posts comes from Windows LiveWriter. There are many things that are immediately apparent as being better than Word 2007: Free: First up is the fact that it ... More About: Blogging , Blog , Publish , Posts
NYTimes - Double Click a word to get its meaning
2007-09-16 21:25:00 Here is something interesting that I didn’t know till I discovered it by accident. I was reading an article on the New York Times website and I double clicked a word (I sometimes do that to highlight words while reading). The moment I did that, a new window opened with the definition of this highlighted ... More About: Word , Musings , Double , Click , Meaning
Leading Payment Gateway disallows strong passwords
2007-09-14 09:16:00 I was recently looking to create a merchant account at CCAvenue, which is a leading Payment Portal for online payments in India. Part of this process is a requirement where you have to provide a username and a password for accessing your merchant account. Below is a screenshot of an error that I encountered while ... More About: Musings , Gateway , Leading , Strong
Hiding icons in your desktop on Windows XP
2007-09-13 13:47:00 Sometimes things are so simple and yet you take forever to get them done. This post is probably more for helping me remember next time then to teach anyone for I am sure that everyone probably knows this already. I wanted to hide all the icons on my desktop and set about finding where I can ... More About: Windows , Desktop , Icons , Tips and Tricks , Windows Xp
Hiding icons on your desktop in Windows XP
2007-09-13 13:47:00 Sometimes things are so simple and yet you take forever to get them done. This post is probably more for helping me remember next time then to teach anyone for I am sure that everyone probably knows this already. I wanted to hide all the icons on my desktop and set about finding where I can do that from. I looked at the various properties and settings dialogs but couldn’t find it. Now I KNEW that there is a way to do it and it is a fairly standard way. Well the way is to right click the desktop, go to Arrange Icons and Uncheck “Show Desktop Icons”. Nice and simple (and of course to bring them back, do the same thing again): Tips and Tricks More About: Windows , Windows Xp
How to free 5 GB on your hard drive in 10 minutes
More articles from this author:2007-09-12 14:17:00 I know there are tons of articles out there on this subject, but here is a list of things that I did to reclaim 4-5 GB of space from my hard disk. I also understand that this article is useless for most desktop users where Hard Disk space is no longer a consideration; but I ... More About: Drive , Free , Tips and Tricks , Hard Drive 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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