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Linkedin's April Fool Hoaxes
2011-04-01 19:29:00
Every year we want to know Google's april fools' hoaxes. This year was no different. But has anyone noticed linkedin ? This is what I found on linkedin from my People You May Know section.(Click on the image to view the full "resume")
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Google Agarbatti (Incense)
2010-10-27 10:55:00
My friend Sudhir bought this from the local store.Read : Google Agarbatti. (Agarbatti = Incense)Update : Thanks to Sumit Ashok Kesarkar for the clarification. its Gugal which means Guggul == made from the sap of the plant "Commiphora mukul"

Email Newsletter Subscription via GFC & GAE
2010-07-28 03:11:00
There is one major limitation when sending out legit mass emails via SMTP ("compose") - a daily cap on the number of emails allowed to be sent from a mailbox. This applies to most e-mail service providers.Google Apps Standard, the free edition, allows a maximum of 500 outgoing mails per day for each user id.Even the Primier edition which costs $50 per user a year limits outgoing mails at 2000 per day for every email id.There are two cost-effective ways to send out newsletter emails via Google's services - Google Friend Connect (GFC) and Google App Engine (GAE).Google Friend ConnectA lot of people are not unaware of the fact that you can actually send out newsletters for free to your subscribers via Google Friend Connect (GFC).The catch is that the users have to be susbcribed exclusively via Google's Subscribe button without which there is no way for the newsletter to reach the user.This is really a tough catch as you got to have it's subscribe button right from launch date.Its a ...
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To WWW or not to
2010-07-26 13:08:00
I've always been fond of naked domains. (FYI, http://mydomain.com is a naked domain, since it doesn't have www in front of it).Lesser characters to type, see, spell out, hear and read. Much lesser overall energy.I've always wondered why google.com always redirected to www.google.com and why Google App Engine stopped supporting mapping of an app to a naked URL. May not be the reason as mentioned here, but it does have its advantages.So I joined the party a bit too late, but I am glad that I was not any later.One of the advantages of using a subdomain (www is also a subdomain, it just so happens to be the default typing scheme for a website when the World Wide Web was born) is that cookies, if any, are transported to and forth - in the request and response headers - for that subdomain only.If you have Web Developer, a FireFox addon, you can view all the cookies associated with a URL in the address bar.Here is a one liner php script to demonstrate this :<?php setcookie("UserID", ...

Dual-Monitors on Ubuntu
2010-06-05 17:28:00
I recently got a second LCD monitor for my Ubuntu 10.04 64-bit machine and now I am using dual monitors which is pretty cool.The first one is a 22" LG Flatron L222WS (1680 x 1050) and the recent one, which is now the primary one, is a 23" Dell SP2309W (2048 x 1152).I had these connected to a 1GB nVidia GeForce 8600 GT graphics card. The LG via VGA (blue cable) and Dell via DVI (white cable).Dual monitors don't seem to be enabled automatically. It has to specified in the graphics card's control panel. The following is for NVidia. Sytem > Administration > NVIDIA X Server Settings Enable your disabled monitor ! Enable Xinerama. Save to Configuration File. (Click the button Save to Configuration File) Logout & Re-Login to restart X - (CTRL + ALT + BACKSPACE may or may not work) Now, to get the panel onto the second monitor so that everything doesn't show as tabs on one monitor, you need to actually set a new (separate) panel for that monitor. Right click on t...
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Faster & Now Even Faster
2010-05-31 14:20:00
Navi Mumbai is really a happening place.Now that I am in office all day long, I decided to downgrade my internet from 1Mbps unlimited to a 6GB per month limit. And the latter is at 4Mbps ! And for Rs 500 (~$10) a month. Last time I checked with almost every ISP in Navi Mumbai, a 1Mbps was like Rs 5,000 (~$100) a month ! I tried to get this at office, but the ISP is providing this only within Navi Mumbai. 10Mbps at Rs 1,400 (~$30) ! Now we are getting somewhere to afford what once was a luxury.Update : 10Mbps at Rs 1000 (~$20)

HDD Media Cable Burnt !
2010-04-11 09:41:00
I came back from office yesterday night, left my Ubuntu 10.04b1 PC switched on the whole night for an OS update and even though the update as like 30 mins tops, I was so sleepy that I didn't bother to wait that long.When I got up in the morning, I had to reboot after the update, but I had to cold-reboot for some reason (GNOME was working with wierd characters).But my machine never booted - and this was not at even the OS level as I was getting this message. PXE-E61: Media test failure, check cable PXE-M0F: Exiting Intel Boot Agent. No bootable device - insert boot disk and press any key So no grub or bootloader missing fix etc. I went to BIOS > Boot Boot Menu Type : Normal Boot Device Priority : <CD/DVD-ROM Drive> <Hard Disk Drive> <Floppy Drive> <Ethernet> Hard Driver Order : No Hard Disk Drive CD/DVD ROM Drive Order : <PT-TSSTcorp CDDV> Removable Drive Order : No Removable Dr...

E-Commerce Setup Costs based on Magento
2010-02-25 05:36:00
Money Suckers ! Thats the idea most clients seem to get when proposing a rough cost estimate range (±25%) for an e-commerce website based on Magento Commerce .If you are dead serious about selling online, you should also be ready to invest a fair amount on a system that is run by an organization which is dedicated in making the best possible open-source e-commerce platform available. Open-Source does not necessarily mean free, though most are. Magento comes in two flavours : Community and Enterprise.The Enterprise has some additional features which are lacking in the Community edition, but because both are open-source, ideally you could make an Enterprise edition from the Community edition if you got that much time and energy. Here is a rough annual cost for just setting up an online store based out of Magento Commerce. (raw material) Note : Magento has the ability to run multiple websites (e-shops) running on a single Magento installation. An SSL Certificate and a unique IP ...
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SMS Gateways and Services for Indian Businesses
2010-02-07 18:46:00
If there one thing that is really booming in India right now, recession or no recession, its SMS - Short Messaging Service. The boom is evident straight from Twitter - Twitter users have grown phenomenally in India in 2009 especially after Twitter securing an SMS deal with India's largest mobile-service provider, AirTel at 110+ million userbase. With the Twitter model, its easy to subscribe to updates. Google recently joined the race in SMS at Google India Labs : SMS Channels. Both these services require users to subscribe before any updates can be sent. With SMS solutions becoming a major player in India, various SMS service providers have sprouted quickly. General facts on SMS solutions : Most of these SMS Solutions have a 160 or 320 character limit and cost 1 SMS credit for every 160 characters. Most of them support all networks : All India GSM + CDMA Coverage including BSNL and Reliance IndiaMobile & TataIndicom. Some support international networks as well, but for USA...
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Pipex & AirTel Logos
2010-01-23 21:23:00
I just couldn't help noticing - two of the biggest broadband companies in the world have their logo themes in inverse.

Dog Catcher
2009-12-14 04:32:00
I was on my way back from CARBO XXIV recently and I got a shot of a dog-catcher (animal control) putting away stray dogs at Ahmedabad station. This video I got a shot of was at the reservation counter.
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Webfaction
2009-08-25 06:29:00
I am not going to get into another general shared-hosting review. Infact this is something in between shared-hosting and a VPS. I signed up for 2 webfaction accounts - I was primarily looking for a VPS switch, for which I already decided on SliceHost. But there are 2 challenges to SliceHost - one, it costs $20/month for 10GB/100GB space/bandwidth which is still pretty expensive for Indian standards. Two, since its unmanged, a fair amount of linux sys admin skills is required to keep it up and running without downtimes. WebFaction is mainly known for its Python hosting (previously python-hosting.com), but the best part is that you can run it like a VPS. The base install managed by the hosting company itself and the custom installs mananged by the customers themselves. For example, you can install another version of MySQL in your HOME directory and run it at a custom port (each user account gets a predefined range of ports for use in custom setups). And yes, you can install anything...

Whats up with Yahoo!?
2009-06-18 13:16:00
A few months ago, I blogged about Yahoo ! shutting down its Kisckstart service. Well, off lately Yahoo! has been shutting down a whole lot of its services most notably Yahoo! 360 - soon in July 2009. The other common services of Yahoo! that shutdown were : Yahoo! Mash, a social networking service lasted for a year ended in September 2008. Yahoo! Live, a real-time video broadcasting experiment ended after a 6 months stint in December 2008. Yahoo! Content Match, a Google Adsense clone shuts down in Europe. Jumpcut, an online video editing tool closed down just a couple of days back (15th June 2009). Yahoo! Podcasts, a podcasting directory end after 2 years in October 2007. Yahoo! Auctions, an eBay competitor ended in September 2008. Yahoo! Photos shut down in September 2007 but got replaced with their better acquired service, Flickr. Yahoo Briefcase, a free storage service ended after a decade in March 2009. Geocities, the 90's most famous free static website hosting service is closi...

Hiring => Aquiring ?
2009-06-16 23:41:00
With jobs cut stories being published everyday, more and more smaller companies are sprouting up daily. While on the quest for a job myself, most of the recent postings at various job portals like Naukri and Monster are from startups companies with 5 to 25 employees. I was going through various companies' websites and came across many more startup companies and related websites that seems very fascinating. I don't remember all the websites I've been through except for one which was uniquely enough to be rememberable - IonLab. Big companies are now looking to aquire rather than hire. Google and Microsoft have been acquiring constantly in the recent years. But Google has pushed this even further with Google Ventures - a $100 million annual funding for startups and Google App Engine - web hosting on Google's high-end scalable servers. Commenting on Microsoft's Bing, Google CEO Eric Schmidt said that : "We have been wandering around looking at all of the different companies. With ...
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Finally a full-time job
2009-05-18 15:16:00
Last year I worked with a client here in Mumbai for their online store, BombayElectric.in which is based on Magento, an open-source platform. My client was the national winner of British Council's Young Fashion Entrepreneur (YFE) Award 2009.For the last 4 and so years I've always shyed away from a full-time job since I managed to get freelance work right after college. After a ring of uneventful events last year, I decided to shift base and take up the stature of an employee. Earlier last month, I finally took up a full-time job in an internet ad/marketing agency here in Mumbai. To my surprise, I discovered that the guy who runs this small unique company happens to be the national winner of British Council's Young Communications Entrepreneur (YXE) award 2009 !Quite a Coincidence ! Update : I ended up quitting from this awesome advertising firm. This is the longest (just 3 months) I've lasted so far as a full-time employee. Back to job-hunting !
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Wolfram Alpha
2009-05-17 20:34:00
There is a lot of hype on Wolfram Alpha that launched on 15th - a brand new search engine, from the company famous for its Mathematica software. But this search engine is math based (no surprise) - which calculate 'answers' to your questions - or rather tries to figure out answers to the questions you are querying. They even posted their infrastructure details - having the 44th largest supercomputer, mirrored at 5 different locations and can handle 175+ million queries a day. I tried a little more than a couple of queries, most of which returned Wolfram|Alpha isn't sure what to do with your input. I tried queries based on my hometown, Trivandrum, Kerala which I keep track of on the net from time to time. Given "Where is Trivandrum", it showed the map of India with Trivandrum marked. But it doesn't seem to know anything about kerala - one of the top 50 tourist locations in the world (National Geographic). If this isn't in their current database of 10+ trillion of pieces of dat...

Bike Accident
2008-12-09 20:16:00
I had quite a major bike accident on Wednesday evening at around 5 P.M. A car hit me from the opposite direction while I was making a slow right turn. But luckily the injuries were few. My left arm is completely immobilized. For 2 months max my left arm will be non-functional - had surgery on left elbow for removal of glass pieces (that got entered from the car's side windows). I was EXTREMELY LUCKY to have no other injuries especially on my head considering the fact that I was thrown off my bike and landed on my back. I am typing this from my hospital bed. Hopefully I would be discharged next week. Here are some pics of the operation taken by the surgeon. WARNING ! Some of these photos contain very graphic images. Viewer Discretion is Strongly Advised. Click here to show the photos. The stitches after the operation. The X-Rays
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Yahoo! Kickstart already kicked out
2008-12-07 21:17:00
Its just over year since Yahoo ! launched Kickstart in beta but as of now (probably just a few hours back), its already closed.Kickstart was a Yahoo initiative to compete with Facebook, Linkedin etc but focused specifically on college students, alumni etc to connect them to jobs (professional networking space) to kickstart careers.Right now, Kickstart shows "Thanks for trying Kickstart ! Please check out Yahoo! HotJobs for your job search needs." and links to their hotjobs site.Given the economy slowdown, Microsoft-Yahoo acquisition disagreement, Facebook buyout failure and Y! 360 not catching up, they definitely seem to want to focus on revenue generating products instead.

Busy Dodging Bullets in Colaba
2008-11-29 04:47:00
So I've been real busy on Wednesday night. Believe it or not, on that night I was dodging bullets in colaba causeway at the bomb-blast site near Nariman House.I at my client's office which is right next to the Taj hotel and had left office at about 11pm with my client. We were trying to cross the blast site that happened an hour before when all of a sudden there was firing and was in the middle of crossfire. Apparently the bullets were originating from the 3rd or 4th floor of Nariman House. Though this could have been easily mistaken for police firing back. I was literally running for life !Q: And why was I trying to cross the blast site ? A: In order to reach my friend's house 1km down that lane for shelter as CST station was attacked too and there was no means to commute by train or taxi. Nor was any hotel taking in any new guests. Plus, the level of the intensity of the situation was underestimated at the time.I dont know how the hell it happened, but my phone's camera got dy...
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Tech Contests
2008-11-11 19:13:00
The World Economy has taken a real hit. But this hasn't slowed down IT innovation especially in open-source. Jonathan of Sun has mentioned that this is the time when more of open-source would be adopted with the obvious reason of cutting down cost on proprietary software. Even though the gradual change to open-source software would be hard to gulp down so soon, it would be the only solution to keep their business from going out of business. The current crisis has not stopped IT giants from motivating tech enthusiasts from coding. A couple of contests are currently running which are worth mentioning : Cisco Developer Contest : http://www.cisco.com/web/solutions/axpdev /index.htmlNokia : http://www.callingallinnovators.com/enter .aspSun Code for Freedom Contest (for Indian Students only) : http://in.sun.com/communities/univ/codefo rfreedom/
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Uploading and Extracting files without Shell Access on a Shared Host
2008-09-28 20:10:00
The easiest way to upload a large number of files to your website hosting server is to zip the files first on your local PC, upload the zip file to your hosting account and then use a shell command like unzip to extract. Unfortunately, most shared hosting environments don't provide shell access due to security reasons. But from a business perspective, users who require shell access access would be really requiring a custom setup on a dedicated server.But if you have an entire directory of files to upload to your shared hosting account, there is still a way to extract the contents online using a simple PHP script. For this to work you got to have PHP 5.2 or later enabled.<?php if (isset($_GET['f'])) $file = $_GET['f']; else die("arg 1 required"); $zip = new ZipArchive; if ($zip->open($file) === FALSE) die("Failed to open $file"); if (!$zip->extractTo('.')) echo "Extract not successful"; else echo "Extract successful"; $zip->close(); ?>Zip the folder on your loca...
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Viagara Milkshake !
2008-08-18 20:56:00
At one particular restaurant in Tamil Nadu, I came across a Viagara Milkshake listed on the menu under the "Ice Creams" section !And no, I didn't order it !

Good Year for linux ?
2008-08-17 11:59:00
This year I'm slowly making a transition to Linux . Though I cannot leave Windows behind as I am too accustomed to it, I intend to spend a lot of time on Linux to be able to get a very good grip of it.I've started off with Ubuntu 8.04 64-bit edition and so far it has been pretty exciting. I've seen many linux users say that we should not think Windows when moving to GUI Linux like Ubuntu - but reality is, Windows GUI has more than 90% marketshare and most people don't like spending time finding alternatives. If Windows users could just seamlessly resume their work on Linux, it would be an ideal solution. So from a practical point of view, Windows users should be able to find most of their stuff on Linux desktops. For example, the "Windows key" is used on Windows PCs to access the Start menu. In Ubuntu this is not the default, but this can be changed in Keyboard Shortcuts (Windows Key is referred to as the "SuperKey" in Linux). On the other hand, to quickly access the desktop usin...
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IFSC Search
2008-03-08 10:42:00
Sometime in November 2007, PayPal added a new feature : Widthdraw funds to an Indian bank account. Theres a fee of Rs 50 for withdrawals less than Rs 7,000 , otherwise there is no fee. You'll need to provide the IFSC (Indian Financial System Code) number of your bank though to get this working.I've created a small form here to search for IFSC codes from 3 separate sources.Reason for 3 databases is that there isnt any official source that has all the banks' IFSC data - so its better off to compare all sources and check if they match. I'll add more database(s) if I find a different source. The most reliable source is, the bank-branch itself - obviously.Disclaimer: None of the information is guaranteed to be 100% accurate.
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Injected JavaScript line : 222360.com & asdafdgfgf.com
2008-02-28 06:11:00
Im a guy who is pretty much cautious about computer security, though Im not a network or security guru. The last time I formatted my hard-disk & installed my OS was sometime in December 2004 when my old PC was no good anymore and had to get a new one in January 2005. It was a HP with Windows XP SP2 OEM pre-loaded. Based on my previous years of experience, I managed to stay away from all possible malicious worms entering my PC. I never login as Administrator except for installation and global configuration settings. I am always logged in under User mode. I guess a Linux user is probably laughing at this saying "thats the way it always was". In Linux, using a non-root user is a standard for two reasons :1. You can login as root in shell within a user environment to care of admin issues. (The same is possible in Windows XP using right-click > Run as)2. Most installations can be done to any location - unlike C:Program Files & C:Windows where many installers require to add ...
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MySQL Road Show India 2008!
2008-02-28 05:48:00
Last week, on Thursday, the 21st, I attended the MySQL Road Show India 2008 in Mumbai. The co-founder and the director of technologies gave their tech-talks. About 100+ database pros attended the seminar. The primary discussion was on their upcoming final release of MySQL 5.1 - new features and functionality : High Availability - stressed a lot on this Clustering Partioning Row-based replication XML : Native support for XML. This is becoming common is every aspect of a coder's life. Event scheduler - crons in MySQL ! Faster ALTER/DROP index Faster data import using threading --use-threads mysqlslap PBXT A bit was also said about MySQL 6.0 & its Falcon storage engine. And the day before yesterday, Jonathan Schwartz announced the acquisition of MySQL for $1 billion. A lot Java enthusiasts are hoping to witness a wave of low-budget Java shared-webhosting.
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My first mobile phone
2008-02-14 06:18:00
A couple of days back, I bought a mobile phone for myself - finally ! (Though I add access to a mobile phone). I was hoping an Android based phone would be out by this year, but Google has a reputation of keeping projects in "beta" for just too long. So I got a Nokia N82 - a 3.5G Symbian 9.2 OS device with a 5MP camera and Xenon Flash ! These days, 5MP mobile-phones are rocketing, after Nokia's N95 launch and the recent launch of Sony Ericsson's K850i & Samsung's SCH-S250. The clarity is pretty good. Original : here. Im not sure if its an update in the latest Nokia PC Suite software or if its harware specific, (though I can't see how it can be the latter), but I now can compose and send text-messages directly from my PC via Nokia Text Message Editor (available as an icon in Explorer > Nokia Phone Browser). Now, this is surely a time saver ! Can we see a 10MP camera-phone in the consumer market by 2010 ?
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