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Search on Ripple = Make the world a better place
2007-07-09 21:09:00 Have you seen Ripple? It is a custom search engine based on Google Search . So what’s different, you may ask. Well the difference is that all earnings of ripple go to organizations which are bent on making the world a better place. They are working towards the utopian goal of eliminating poverty by providing Food, ... More About: World , The World , Make , Place
Akismet ? The Spam Buster
2007-07-09 13:24:00 I used to get between 10-100 comments in a day on my blog. And they were almost always all spam. These comments would be anything from Viagra ads to people talking about their website/blog. Since I installed Akismet it has stopped around 9000 spam comments and occasionally I do check the comments marked as Spam , ... More About: Buster
Passwords on the Internet
2007-07-05 07:58:00 Scott Hanselman recently made a post about his experience with certain financial/budgeting software for home use. He encountered a problem while choosing a password, where he got a message: “Please enter a valid Password (Password should not contain any special characters, symbols or spaces)”. Shocking, eh? These days when everything is open for hacking, why would ... More About: Internet , The Internet , Intern , Sword , Swords
Passwords on the Internet
2007-07-05 07:58:00 Scott Hanselman recently made a post about his experience with certain financial/budgeting software for home use. He encountered a problem while choosing a password, where he got a message: “Please enter a valid Password (Password should not contain any special characters, symbols or spaces)”. Shocking, eh? These days when everything is open for hacking, why would ... More About: Internet , The Internet , Intern , Sword , Swords
To iPhone or Not To iPhone
2007-07-03 06:58:00 The Apple iPhone is out and it looks like it might be available in India soon enough. Now, I continue to be wowed by the gadget and it’s really cool. I would love to get one and the first thing that my wife said is to wait for the next generation. I am probably going ... More About: Iphone
To iPhone or Not To iPhone
2007-07-03 06:58:00 The Apple iPhone is out and it looks like it might be available in India soon enough. Now, I continue to be wowed by the gadget and it’s really cool. I would love to get one and the first thing that my wife said is to wait for the next generation. I am probably going ... More About: Iphone
Personal Blog Hosting what are the options
2007-07-02 14:23:00 More About: Personal , Hosting , Blog , Options , Al B
Three Things I Learned About Software WHILE NOT in College
2007-06-29 09:45:00 Scott Hansleman caused me to right this post (by writing a post by the same title). Here are my 3 learnings: 3 things I learned in College Three best books in the world are “The C Programming Language” by K&R, “The Art of Computer Programming 1″ by Donald Knuth, and “Object Oriented Analysis & Design” by ... More About: Software , Things , While
Three Things I Learned About Software WHILE NOT in College
2007-06-29 09:45:00 Scott Hansleman caused me to right this post (by writing a post by the same title). Here are my 3 learnings: 3 things I learned in College Three best books in the world are “The C Programming Language” by K&R, “The Art of Computer Programming 1″ by Donald Knuth, and “Object Oriented Analysis & Design” by ... More About: Software , Things , While
Google Adsense for Search
2007-06-29 09:27:00 Most of us have Google Adsense enabled some way or another on our blogs. I put it on with the goal that I would like to get my annual hosting cost out of it. Looks like I will make it this year. Anyway, someone asked me about Adsense for Search , recently. So in helping them ... More About: Google Adsense , Sens
Google Adsense for Search
2007-06-29 09:27:00 Most of us have Google Adsense enabled some way or another on our blogs. I put it on with the goal that I would like to get my annual hosting cost out of it. Looks like I will make it this year. Anyway, someone asked me about Adsense for Search , recently. So in helping them ... More About: Google Adsense , Sens
Microsoft Surface ? The Future is Here
2007-06-29 08:49:00 I love it when all these new technologies are unleashed upon us. Apple with the iPhone definitely wowed me. But Microsoft Surface is really light years ahead. I have been following it up and it’s much more than a glorified touch screen as I heard someone say. The possibilities that it offers are amazing. I can ... More About: Future , The Future , Microsoft Surface
Microsoft Surface ? The Future is Here
2007-06-29 08:49:00 I love it when all these new technologies are unleashed upon us. Apple with the iPhone definitely wowed me. But Microsoft Surface is really light years ahead. I have been following it up and it’s much more than a glorified touch screen as I heard someone say. The possibilities that it offers are amazing. I can ... More About: Future , The Future , Microsoft Surface
Brand New DesiLassi
2007-06-28 10:00:00 I have, in the past, talked about PlanetRead and their effort to improve literacy rates in India through SLS techniques on Music Videos. As part of that effort, they had launched DesiLassi.com some time back, and recently it got a complete facelift. Head over there to check it out; if you are a Bollywood fan, ... More About: Brand , Sila
Brand New DesiLassi
2007-06-28 10:00:00 I have, in the past, talked about PlanetRead and their effort to improve literacy rates in India through SLS techniques on Music Videos. As part of that effort, they had launched DesiLassi.com some time back, and recently it got a complete facelift. Head over there to check it out; if you are a Bollywood fan, ... More About: Brand , Sila
India - Vote for Taj
2007-06-26 08:56:00 A country of almost 200 million cell phone subscribers, and we cannot vote Taj Mahal to be included in the list of the next 7 wonders? As some of you may know, a new list for the new 7 wonders of the world is being compiled, and Taj Mahal is one of the contenders. Personally, ... More About: India , Vote
India - Vote for Taj
2007-06-26 08:56:00 A country of almost 200 million cell phone subscribers, and we cannot vote Taj Mahal to be included in the list of the next 7 wonders? As some of you may know, a new list for the new 7 wonders of the world is being compiled, and Taj Mahal is one of the contenders. Personally, ... More About: India , Vote
PDF Readers and Outlook 2007 Preview Handler
2007-06-26 07:17:00 Last week, I updated my Adobe Acrobat to 8.1 (from 8.0). The moment I did that, it was bye-bye PDFs for me; because all of a sudden every time I opened a PDF file I would get an “Invalid Plugin” error and the program would close. I thought that’s it, no more Adobe for me. ... More About: Preview , Outlook , Readers , Outlook 2007 , Look
Gmail and Dots
2007-06-19 06:55:00 My Gmail Id has a “.” in it (vaibhav.gadodia@gmail.com). However, Gmail ignores any dots in the email address field so if you send an email to vaibhavgadodia@gmail.com then I will receive it. If you have a dot in your Gmail id, and you don’t like it, Gmail Help Center explains how to go about that ... More About: Dots
IE vs Firefox vs Safari at rendering HTML
2007-06-18 10:26:00 I use Firefox , but today through Google Analytics I found out that about 55% of my blog readers use IE. On a whim, I decided to open my blog in IE and it was a disaster. The whole site was Center Aligned. I tried it out in Safari , and it rendered fine. Upon investigation, I found ... More About: Html , Ender , Erin
Google Public Calendars
2007-06-18 07:35:00 Since I can use Googl e Calendars to create Public Calendars which others can see I thought that I will create an Indian Holidays calendar so that others can add it to their Google Calendars. But it seems that I was about 50 calendars too late (50 is the number of calendars that Google returns when ... More About: Lend
Display Html in Silverlight
2007-05-14 18:34:00 With Silverlight doing the rounds these days, folks at my workplace decided to build an application (a real-world app which hopefully our customers will use) using Silverlight. I, being always interested in technology, got to talk to them about it and help out wherever I can. At this point in time, all I can say ... More About: Display , Html
Google Analytics Finally Has a New Look
2007-05-12 13:47:00 I use Google Analytics a lot. Not only to track visits to my own blog, but I have access to look at and sometimes manage the Analytics account of our corporate websites, as well as some other public websites that I have helped folks out with. Now the main problem of course with Analytics was ... More About: Google Analytics , Finally , Look
My Top Fivers
2007-05-09 13:27:00 We all need our daily dose of the information highway. This post is a list of some of my top 5 lists. Here we go. Top 5 Podcasts/Online Videos HanselMinutes (Audio) ? Podcast by Scott Hanselman, hosted by Carl Franklin, discussing no-nonsense, quick and dirty, tech topics. .Net Rocks (Audio) ? Richard Campbell and Carl Franklin talk to ... More About: Five
To My Blog Readers
2007-05-03 23:26:00 It’s been over 6 months since I started this blog and along the way it seems that I have picked up a few readers. I get some new visitors every day, but it seems that some of them are readers who are returning. My Feed Reader count shows 7 users who subscribe to my feed, ... More About: Readers , Blog
Bandwidth Upgrade in India
2007-04-30 18:55:00 High Speed Bandwidth is my Holy Grail in India and I have been looking for it ever since broadband was introduced in India. So last week, inspired by Scott Hanselman and encouraged by more plans offered by Airtel, last week I decided to upgrade my internet bandwidth plan. I took a plan which gives me ... More About: Grade I
Outlook 2007 Freezing Minimized
2007-04-27 08:17:00 My earlier posts (here and here) on this topic mentioned the steps I have been taking to improve the responsiveness and performance of Outlook 2007. Well this one is to detail the relief that has come out of these steps. The patch I mentioned in the earlier posts has helped a lot. My Outlook is ... More About: Outlook 2007 , Look
C# and MySQL Point DataType
2007-04-25 23:16:00 Recently I was helping a colleague out with some Data Analysis work. He had some Geographic Coordinate data in a MySQL database on which he wanted to run some calculations. I proposed we write the code in C# and he agreed. He had stored his data in a table with the coordinate data in a column ... More About: Mysql , Point
Announcing the arrival of SyncMyCalMobile
2007-04-24 20:01:00 Well, it’s been a long wait, but finally it has arrived. Sync MyCal has finally launched SyncMyCalMobi le, a Pocket Outlook version of itself which should work on all those PDAs which run Pocket Outlook on Windows Mobile. I hear that they are working on a version which will provide support for other PDAs as well; but ... More About: Arri , The A , Riva
Outlook 2007 Preview Handlers for Windows XP
More articles from this author:2007-04-22 17:31:00 It’s been some time since I have been searching for Preview Hand lers for Outlook 2007 that would work on Windows XP. Stephen Toub wrote an article and also provided a Framework with a lot of handlers in a MSDN Magazine article, but his implementation only works for Windows Vista. I tried following up on Ryan ... More About: Indo 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |



