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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
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
I am off to the moon
2008-05-10 01:59:00 I am going to be on board the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) which will be launching for the moon later this year. Or, at least, my name will be. The LRO is NASA’s maiden mission in their Vision for Space Exploration. Launching in late 2008, it will travel to the moon to find safe landing ... More About: Moon , The Moon
Get the right data on your Feed Subscriber Numbers
2008-05-09 15:01:00 A few days ago I discovered that your Feed Burner stats may not be reflecting the true number of subscribers that subscribe to your blog feed. I found out that the problem was that most WordPress themes have the RSS links embedded in the templates and most of us forget to change that. Check post here. However, ... More About: Wordpress , Data , Numbers
Tips to fight comment spam on your blog
2008-05-05 10:32:00 If you feel this way, you are not alone. There is a lot of comment spam on the Internet these days and blogs which allow anonymous comments (Such as mine) bear the worst of it. According to Akismet (one of the best Anti-Spam service around) more than 90% of the comments that are left on blogs ... More About: Google , Tips , Blogging , Blog
A different way to upgrade your WordPress
2008-05-02 09:20:00 I have tried my best to keep up to speed with WordPress upgrades over the various releases since I started this blog. But I have been lazy about upgrading minor releases because it’s always too much work. The scary part is that it is the minor releases which are the most important as they are usually ... More About: Wordpress
How to ensure that your FeedBurner stats are correct
2008-04-30 11:30:00 I publish my blog feed using Feed Burner . And I always used to think that the statistics shown in my FeedBurner account for the number of subscribers is correct. Well, as it turns out I was completely wrong. And your statistics shown in your FeedBurner account could be wrong as well (especially if you are ... More About: Feedburner , Stats
Google and Page Rank
2008-04-30 10:36:00 Earlier this year I lost my Google Page Rank . It went from 3 to 0. Now, as the owner of a personal blog, that shouldn’t have mattered to me, but it still felt bad. Later I figured that loosing that Page Rank was not such a bad thing after all because it helped me fight ... More About: Musings
You can NEVER BE TOO CAREFUL when it comes to PHISHING
2008-04-29 22:37:00 Notice the caps in the title of this post. You can never be too careful when it comes to Phishing . As the Wikipedia link suggests: “Phishing is an attempt to criminally and fraudulently acquire sensitive information, such as usernames, passwords and credit card details, by masquerading as a trustworthy entity in an electronic communication“ This ... More About: Internet , Careful
Fixing IE7 once and for all
2008-04-29 21:42:00 A while back, I wrote about the steps I took to speed up a really slow IE7 installation that I had on my laptop. Although I use Firefox most of the time (though I am not very happy with that these days), I do need to use Internet Explorer every so often (there are certain ...
Stupid Windows Trick - Mass Renaming
2008-04-28 11:47:00 Here’s a trick which you don’t use every day, but I believe that every thing you know can come in handy some day. This is a stupid little trick that I discovered quite by chance. I am not sure where anyone would want to use this, but here’s a trick to rename multiple files in ... More About: Windows , Stupid , Trick , Mass
Exporting your Google Analytics data
2008-04-26 09:36:00 Google Analytics is such a neat tool for tracking how your website or blog is doing. Sure, there are many tools out there which claim to be so much better, and some of them are even free (though most are paid), but I still find Analytics to be a much better overall package. I was ... More About: Google , Data , Google Analytics
One of those posts about self?
2008-04-26 09:11:00 My newfound friend on the blog-o-sphere decided to tag me, and now I guess, I need to write about myself a little (and I need to remember to link my About page to this post when I am done). It’s the hardest thing to write about yourself, but thankfully there is a template going around ... More About: Musings , Self , Posts
FeedBurner BuzzBoost Tips
2008-04-24 16:51:00 I have said this before, Feed Burner is the best way to publish a feed for your website, blog, podcast, whatever. It’s not because it’s so easy to use. It’s not because it’s so cool. (It is all that). It’s because of all the features that you have available to you for your feed. Features such ... More About: Tips , Feedburner
It?s raining traffic around here
2008-04-23 21:06:00 Take a look at my Google Analytics visitor graph for this blog. That is yesterday. I posted this reply to a post on the Gmail blog and that resulted in this traffic spike. I usually get around 100 visitors a day mostly through Google search, but this was too much. Almost 3000 visitors in one day. ... More About: Traffic , Blogging , Musings , Raining
My two cents on the OBC reservation issue in India
2008-04-22 21:16:00 A lot has been said about the Supreme Court’s ruling regarding the 27% reservation in educational institutes for students which belong to OBC groups. I don’t want to give an opinion on this (as whatever my opinion might be, it’s been given by others so many times). What I want to talk about is ... More About: India , Musings , Cents , Issue
Gmail: 9 reasons not to archive messages
More articles from this author:2008-04-22 05:11:00 The official Google blog posted about why you should NEVER delete your gmail, and instead should archive it: 9 reasons to archive. I don’t know why they want people to use more and more storage space on their servers (it’s almost as if they were making money by occupying more space). Anyway, for any argument there ... More About: Gmail , Archive , Messages , Reasons 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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