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My very own Facebook App
2007-08-05 10:30:00 I thought I would try out my hand at a Facebook app. So, I got coding on the weekend and came up with a fairly simple application. I have created an Outlook 2007 plug-in which syncs your Facebook Event Calendar with a calendar in Outlook. The details can be found here: http://blog.gadodia.net/index.php/faceboo k-eventsync-for-outlook-2007/ Now the problem is ...
Technorati is out of whack
2007-08-05 00:13:00 Technorati is out of whack (by their own admission, by the way). I logged on to Technorati, and was greeted by a dark band on top announcing maintenance under way: Of course, before I even saw that, I was surprised to see this: What a laugh? My blog shows as Rank 1 (and in Top 100) on ... More About: Funny , Technorati , Whack
6 tips for success in the software industry
2007-08-04 23:39:00 Actually this post should be titled “6 obvious tips?”, but through experience I have found that there is nothing obvious in the world and common sense is not quite so common; and also, there is a certain benefit in sometimes stating the obvious. Another thing to point out is that these tips are for the ... More About: Software , India , Industry , Tips , Musings
Future of Spam and chain letters
2007-08-03 06:31:00 Another funny from brainstuck.com: Funny More About: Spam , Future , Letters , Chain
Now the advertiser point of view
2007-08-02 21:01:00 I have blogged a couple of times before about doing sponsored reviews and payperpost.com, but that was always from the blogger point of view. So what is it that advertisers gain from paying a blogger to blog about their products and services? If statistics don’t lie, then it turns out that the advertiser gains a ... More About: Internet Marketing , View , Point , The A , Advertise
Satellite TV in India - Dish TV versus Tata Sky
2007-08-01 13:58:00 In India , Direct-To-Home Satellite television is a recent phenomenon. The majority of the people still use a signal provided by Cable Operators. So did I till earlier this year. There are several problems with this: The quality of signal is almost always a problem. The availability is dependent upon the power backup situation of the cable provider ... More About: Review , Versus , Dish
Do you feel the same way?
2007-08-01 12:24:00 This daily Dilbert is bang on target for my organization at least. Can you relate to it? Funny More About: Feel , Same
Outlook email attachments temp storage
2007-08-01 08:32:00 I open attachments directly from my emails all the time (as opposed to copying them locally first and then opening them). Now, it turns out that Outlook first copies the attachments to a local folder and then opens them. Sometimes, you may want to get access to that local folder. Here’s how: Open up Registry Editor: ... More About: Email , Storage , Tips and Tricks , Look
Some great blogs that I have been following recently
2007-07-31 10:41:00 So, I have added to my reading list and I would like to share the list with everyone. Maybe I should make a Facebook app which allows you to share which blogs you are reading with your friends (if there is not one already). Well here’s my list: Computer Zen ? Scott Hanselman is my all time ... More About: Reading , Blogs , Great , Recently , Been
SyncMyCal syncs with 30Boxes
2007-07-30 14:28:00 My favorite Outlook plug-in now supports sync with 30Boxes. Sync MyCal now brings all the goodness that it has developed into its Google Calendar sync plug-in to SyncMyCal30Boxes. It supports full two-way calendar synchronization date range synchronization auto-sync multiple Outlook Calendar to your one 30Boxes Calendar and other such goodies Go get it. SyncMyCal, Tools and Utilities
iRazoo ? yet another search engine
2007-07-30 13:02:00 Have you visited http://www.iRazoo.com? Well, I have and I won’t recommend it. It’s the latest in a line of people powered search engines (I blogged about a few sometime back). The way Razoo works is very similar to Url.com. You search for something and get search results which are pulled from existing search engines. You then visit ... More About: Internet , Search , Search Engine , Engine
Steps to move your blog
2007-07-29 14:34:00 I posted earlier about changing my hosting provider from WebHostASP to BlueHost. During this process I wanted to move my blog to the new host and wanted to make sure that I don’t have any downtime and I don’t lose anything. Here are the steps I took: Backup: First, FTP to the hosting space and ... More About: Blog , Tips and Tricks , Move , Steps
My experience with Bank Loans
2007-07-27 22:08:00 The Indian banking environment should start taking a cue from its western counterparts. I have a home loan with a prominent bank in India, and it has been the most difficult and painful experience of my life. First up, I had to run from one bank to another to try and get a loan in ... More About: Loans , Musings , Experience , Bank , Peri
Changed hosting provider
2007-07-27 21:43:00 I just did two things simultaneously. I upgraded to the latest version of Wordpress : 2.2.1. The second this I did was to change my hosting provider from WebHostAsp to BlueHost. Well, why did I change? Mostly because WebHostAsp wasn’t working out for me at all. I repeatedly had the following problems: Intermittent availability on the website. At ... More About: Hosting , Provider , Chang , Chan
Filing your taxes can be easy
2007-07-26 16:35:00 It’s that time of the year when we file taxes in India. For people like me, it’s a big pain; I have no idea what kind of forms are needed; I don’t know what each form means; I got no clue on how to calculate my taxes. So, as do a lot of people, I ... More About: Taxes , Easy
Hosting your blog is not all that easy
2007-07-25 13:14:00 I have self hosted my blog since the beginning. By self-hosting, I mean I have not hosted it on wordpress.com or blogger or myspace or other such services. I use the Wordpress Blog ging Software to publish it. Finding the right Web Hosting provider has always been a big challenge. On one hand you want someone who ... More About: Easy
Jessica the Hippo
2007-07-24 02:59:00 Here’s another amazing animal video. I can’t help but post it. I love nature and would like to spread the love. Animals, Awesome Videos More About: Jessica , Jess
Hindi web pages show wrong text
2007-07-21 10:14:00 I always used to wonder why all the Hindi pages I visit on the internet show mistakes in the text. They would always have the vowels placed wrongly. Notice in this screenshot for example (from Google Hindi), I have marked the errant text. The error is consistent throughout in all the web pages in Hindi that ... More About: Show , Text , Wrong , Pages
Update on my tryst with PayPerPost
2007-07-20 12:34:00 As I have mentioned before, I have been using PayPerPost for supplementing the monetization of my blog; end-goal is to be able to pay for the hosting cost of this blog. Here is my experience so far (and I can say this in comparison with another couple of sponsored review sites: ReviewMe and Sponsored Review): Feature PayPerPost ReviewMe SponsoredReview No. ... More About: Payperpost , Update
Microsoft goes mashing with Popfly
2007-07-20 11:56:00 I loved Yahoo Pipes (I still like it). I found the user interface pretty intuitive and smart. But now I have a new favorite: Popfly . Microsoft has entered the race with a completely Silverlight based offering. Popfly is currently in Alpha phase in a by invitation only mode. I was lucky enough to get one ... More About: Shin , Goes , Mash
Have you seen brainstuck dot com
2007-07-19 22:57:00 Someone I know has started this new comic blog called BrainStuck. He publishes a few comic strips every day. He draws these characters himself and each one of these represents a rant which a lot of people would identify with. His topics cover from things happening around us (which are obviously wrong) to things we ...
Google Adsense Referrals
2007-07-19 21:27:00 I recently logged into my AdSens e account to see how much moolah I have accumulated (not much, by the way), and I was presented with a message saying that I now am eligible to use AdSense Referrals. As far as I know, this is something new from Google . In any case, I immediately configured my ... More About: Adsense , Google Adsense , Ferr
PayPerPost? I have arrived
2007-07-19 06:46:00 PayPerPost is definitely one of the best sponsored review site (if not the best). It allows a blogger to choose from amongst many available reviews that they can do. It has a variety of topics for all kinds of blogs and so the blogger doesn’t have to deviate from their main theme of the blog ... More About: Payperpost
From merely Offshoring to really Outsourcing
2007-07-17 11:55:00 Offshore Software Development ? is provision of software development services by an external supplier positioned in a country that is geographically remote from the client enterprise (Wikipedia). However, it is not entirely correct as an organization could be off-shoring its work to its own subsidiary in another country. Of course, the primary driver for off-shoring ... More About: Outsourcing , Really , Ally
Dot net Three Point What?
2007-07-16 12:47:00 Well, .Net? phew? as exciting as it is, it is running away at the pace at which we get new features. I have done some serious projects on .Net 1.1 and .Net 2.0. I have also been part of one project which is using some of the .Net 3.0 technology, and I have only read ... More About: Point , Three
Getting better ads to display on your site
2007-07-16 08:32:00 So, you have a blog like I do. So, you have Google Adsense integrated into it like I do. So, you are bothered sometimes at how the ads that display are totally out-of-sync with the overall taste of your blog. Well, there is a way out and I recently discovered it (though it was staring ... More About: Site , Display
Blogging for Money
2007-07-15 20:24:00 Somehow, I keep running into the topic of Make Money Blogg ing . I might as well open up a blog like the million others that are out there which tell about ways to make money. Except that I should probably talk about all the things that you can do and still not make anything by blogging ...
Tenth Blogging Anniversary
2007-07-15 19:27:00 I had no idea about how old the term blogging is. I stumbled upon this wall street journal article (of all the places) which is proclaiming this year (2007) as the 10th anniversary of blogging. Hurray for all the bloggers out there, our passion, craft, profession (call it what you may) is now 10 years ... More About: Anniversary , Blogging , Blogg , Tent
The online DVD Exchange and much more
2007-07-15 18:48:00 In today’s world there are so many great ideas which embody themselves as online services. These ideas can vary from an online data backup to cloud computing through the power of the internet. The web lately is all about the Social; so you can do business over a social network, or make new friends, or ... More About: Exchange , Online , The O , Chang , Chan
Syndicate your blog by ?burning? a feed
More articles from this author:2007-07-11 11:50:00 So, you have a blog. It probably has a feed (since most blogging engines have in-built support for generating feeds). Which format is your feed in: Atom or RSS or something else? How many of your readers use a reader which only supports one format? How many of your readers care? Well, first of all if ... More About: Blog , Feed , Burning , Cate , Syndicate 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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