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Google Chrome Extension ? Tab Statistics
2010-12-25 07:48:00 Last weekend, I wasn?t feeling very well (and most of the last week too) ? and I couldn?t concentrate on my work either. So I needed some mindless activity to distract myself ? and because I had a bad headache to go with all this, I couldn?t resort to my normal escape of gaming on ... More About: Google , Programming , Fun , Statistics , Extension
Selectively disabling spell and grammar check in Word
2010-12-19 08:08:00 While I have faced this problem many times, it was only recently that I got ticked off by it a bit too much. The problem? If you are writing a document, and you have non-English things such as Code snippets, or foreign language phrases, etc. in it, you will end up with a lot of ... More About: Office , Word , Check
Vacations, travel, fun, gambling, and entertainment
2010-12-15 08:42:00 I have been back for over a week after a long trip out of home; I got to visit a lot of interesting places this time around and had a lot of fun. Here?s a quick log of our recent trip to Vegas, Grand Canyon, and California Bay Area. This was a family outing ? ... More About: Entertainment , Travel , Vacation , Self , Vacations
Chrome vs IE9
2010-09-16 21:20:00 IE9 beta is available, and I finally decided to give it a spin. I wanted to actually title this post: Internet Explorer 9: the complete circle. Why? Because, it is a full circle for me, the moment I downloaded IE9. Let me explain: Years ago, after getting fed up with IE, I shifted to Firefox. ... More About: Google , Browsers , Microsoft , Chrome
Installing PyDev on Eclipse on Windows 7
2010-09-02 18:12:00 I recently got the bug to tinker around with Google App Engine (last night, actually) and then decided that I want to do this in Python (instead of Java which is also supported ? maybe I like snakes better than coffee). So, I downloaded the App Engine SDK, and then realized that I need to ... More About: Windows , Coding , Eclipse
Deleting a dialup connection on Windows 7
2010-02-02 04:18:00 Some time ago, I had the need to setup a dialup connection on my computer running Windows 7 to connect to the Internet. Well, the need was for a couple of days. However, ever since then, I have been bugged by a popup dialog from this connection asking me to connect whenever my computer was ... More About: Connection , Windows 7
An open mobile device control standard
2010-02-01 06:31:00 There are several times in our daily lives that I feel that we lack a standardized way to control mobile devices. Why should there even be a standard? Well, everyone (almost) has a cell phone today. These cell phones have a variety of capabilities ? they have musical ringtones, cameras, music players, voice recorders, internet, ... More About: Technology , Mobile , Musings , Open , Standard
Small productivity tip for Outlook
2010-01-15 16:03:00 I often find myself sending attachments in email, and I very rarely choose the method in which you click on the ?Add Attachment? button in Outlook simply because I find it too slow to find attachments through the browse dialog box that pops up ? usually I already have the files that I plan to ... More About: Productivity , Small
IMO, Google Feedburner just killed TwitterFeed
2010-01-01 09:19:00 A couple of weeks ago, Google added a new feature to Feed Burner called Socialize. It is nothing more than a way to publish your feed items to a Twitter account. But in doing so, it has just threatened to take out TwitterFeed. Or at least, people who don?t do a lot of professional social media ... More About: Feedburner
FlyYouFools ratings ? fallacy, confidence, or something else?
2009-12-21 12:14:00 A lot of the readers of this blog are not from India, but if you are and/or if you follow the Indian comic scene, then you would have heard of Saad Akhtar, the artist behind the web comic Fly, You Fools!. Now, I check out his comics from time to time, and some of them ... More About: Funny , Musings , Confidence , Ratings
Is Google Wave getting desperate?
2009-12-18 23:05:00 A lot of people around the world have wondered how they should use Google Wave . There has been a general trend of people first clamoring for wanting to get invited, and then not knowing what to do with the service once they get in. I am certainly part of this trend. The problem is that ... More About: Musings
When will people stop stealing content
2009-12-14 14:15:00 This post is a rant. Yep, you may want to skip it. But just so you know it involves people who use extensions such as AdBlock (on FireFox) or AdThwart (on Chrome) to block out advertisements while browsing the web. I have never used one of these extensions (never even tried it). The whole idea ... More About: Internet , People , Blogging , Musings , Plugins
Performance comparison of OpenDNS and Google DNS
2009-12-04 10:59:00 Google recently launched it?s own Public DNS offering, allowing Internet users to make use of their DNS servers for resolving address queries on the Internet. I have been a fan and user of Open DNS for quite some time now, which offers the same service with many more options (as compared to Google?s new service). Immediately, ... More About: Google , Performance , Review , Comparison
My 5 most interesting photos on Flickr
2009-11-09 21:33:00 It has been some time since I started posting some of my better photos on Flickr (by mine, I mean photos that I took). And I have enjoyed every little bit of it. I have met some new people, and I really enjoy the photos that they take, and their comments on my photos helps ... More About: Interesting , Photography , Photos
Taking control of your inbox: Inbox Zero
2009-10-22 08:36:00 I have always followed the concepts of David Allen?s GTD (Getting Things Done ), and the various adaptations of it for years. I have even tried out a lot of these from time to time to take control of all the emails that I get every day at work (and I get a ton of them). ... More About: Email , Outlook , Productivity , Control
Gmail Labs? let?s wait and see
2008-06-06 12:32:00 Do you remember Google Labs ? Well, now there is Gmail Labs. Volumes have been written on how Google is lagging behind on innovation when it comes to Gmail. While this is not a major innovative move, it?s a step in the right direction. To access Gmail Labs, simply go to your settings page after logging ... More About: Wait
Simplest way to add a Watermark to your image
2008-06-03 19:18:00 Some time ago, I wanted to add a simple watermark to an image I was going to post on this blog. And I went through hoops trying to get that done. I read a number of tutorials on how to do this using Photoshop and so on. I finally did end up putting a ... More About: Blogging , Live , Image , Writer , Watermark
Google has a new favicon
2008-05-30 23:21:00 I noticed this yesterday (and maybe the day before as well) and dismissed it as some problem with my browser. Since i am running a pre-release version of FireFox, this wasn’t a far-fetched thought. But today, again I saw that all Google sites are displaying a different Favicon . Looking at the icons to the left, you ... More About: Musings
Use Gmail filters to get rid of annoying spam counts
2008-05-29 07:40:00 If you use Gmail then you must have noticed that sheer number of Spam email that Gmail filters out for you. It is particularly good at doing this. However, all this spam ends up as unread email in the Spam folder. And I don’t know about you but at least when I log in to ... More About: Filters , Annoying
Creating unlimited Email Ids with a SINGLE Gmail account
2008-05-29 05:48:00 I have blogged before about a couple of ways using which you can have many different email Ids using your single Gmail account: Using the “+” symbol Using or not using the ‘.’ Today, I tell you about a third one. Gmail allows you to change the domain name in your email id to googlemail. So, my address which ... More About: Google , Email , Creating , Single
Beauties and the Beasts
2008-05-28 09:56:00 A while ago I posted photographs I had taken during a thunderstorm. Those came out nice according to my standards. This caused me to go back over other photos that I have taken in the past and put them up on the blog. I have put together some pictures I had taken last year during a ... More About: Photography
The state of things - Firefox rules
2008-05-27 20:58:00 Here are some very quick-fire statistics from my blog for a browsing period of the last couple of months. These statistics are revealing as they are a reflection of the type of users that visit my blog. And since there are not too many regular readers (more than 80% of daily visitors on this blog ... More About: Firefox , Blogging , Rules , State , Things
Google Treasure Hunt - use logic to solve 3rd question
2008-05-27 19:27:00 The third installment of the Google Treasure Hunt is live. I have been through the first two challenges and been successful at solving them correctly. However, the third one seemed as if it required knowledge of networking and how routing tables work. Of course, I have no idea about these things, but I think I ... More About: Fun , Question , Logic
Reading popular magazines for free
2008-05-27 08:43:00 Zinio is a leading online magazine subscription provider. You can subscribe to online versions of your favorite magazines and read them from your laptop. Interestingly, Zinio offers you a free subscription to a select number of magazines if you are an iPhone user. Why I am interested is that this subscription includes one of ... More About: Reading , Magazines , Free , Popular
Silver lining in the cloud - taking lightning photos
2008-05-22 08:17:00 The weather in Delhi has been super freakish lately (for this time of the year). Daily thunderstorms have become a norm and it’s getting to be quite a nuisance. However, for every dark cloud, there exists a silver lining. Last night when the rain gods were having a party, I decided to take out my ... More About: Nature , Photography , Photos , Silver Lining , Lightning
Handling very large numbers in .Net
2008-05-20 19:53:00 My recent attempts at playing the Google Treasure Hunt found me looking for ways to work with very large numbers. My solution to the first puzzle was consistently giving me the wrong answer. After a while I stopped looking at my solution for mistakes and started looking at the answer closely; it turned out that ... More About: Programming , Numbers , Large
Google Treasure Hunt - No solutions here, only hints
2008-05-20 09:55:00 Google is holding a treasure hunt and I took a look and decided to give it a shot. I probably won’t make it all the way through, because I don’t have any low-level Linux knowledge (since low-level Linux trivia will be part of the treasure hunt). But the rest is fun. So, begins the quest by ... More About: Google , Fun , Hints , Solutions , Hunt
Google finally does something about usability
2008-05-19 09:18:00 While Google has been talking about how they have made things faster on Gmail , and how much quicker it is to load now, there is another little change that they have made to Gmail, which is much more useful. It is the addition of a progress bar where there used to be a non-helpful, red, “Loading…” ... More About: Usability , Finally
When should you use nested comments on your blog?
2008-05-15 09:37:00 I read a lot of blogs and they all have their own comment systems - most commonly people have the standard stuff like I have on this blog: simple, unthreaded, linear comments. Then again other blogs have nested comments which allow you to reply to a particular comment, and it forms a thread. Of ... More About: Blogging , Musings , Blog , Comments
Customizing Vertigo?s Slide.Show
More articles from this author:2008-05-13 12:28:00 Slide .Show is an open source Silverlight control for publishing highly customizable photo slide shows on the Internet. It has been developed and released to the open source community by Vertigo Software. And since it’s open source, it allows people like me to extend the control for our purposes. One such purpose that I came across while ... More About: Coding 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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