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Poshd: Showcase Real Estate Website
2007-09-16 09:16:00 Poshd is a site dedicated to showcasing best of the real estate sites. The sites which break the mold and make the for an exciting real estate experience for everyone are the ones which qualify. The main page features snippets of pages from the sites which are short listed and every month there is one ... More About: Website , Estate , Real Estate , General , Real
Yahoo Open Hack Day Coming to Bangalore
2007-09-16 07:07:00 Yahoo’s open Hack Day is coming to Bangalore on the 5th and 6th of October 2007. Here is what Yahoo has to say about the event: We?ll be inviting 200 developers to attend the event, which will begin with hack-related presentations from some of the Web?s most respected developers. We?ll then dive into 24 hours of ... More About: Yahoo , Open , Ming
Demographics Prediction Using MSN Tool
2007-08-19 17:48:00 Want to know the demographics data for any web site? Just visit: http://adlab.msn.com/DPUI/DPUI.aspx and enter the URL of the web site. Here are the demographics data (only Gender distribution) for some popular blogs: http://www.techcrunch.com : Male (0.62), Female (0.38) http://www.mashable.com: Male (0.60), Female(0.40) http://www.smashingmagazine.com: Male(0.61), Female(0.39) http://www.lifehacker.com/: Male(0.73), Female(0.27) http://www.engadget.com: Male(0.66), Female(0.34) http://www.boingboing.net: Male(0.56), Female(0.44) http://gizmodo.com: Male(0.75), Female(0.25) http://www.huffingtonpost.com: Male(0.51), Female(0.49) http://perezhilton.com: Male(0.27), Female(0.73) http://www.problogger.net: Male(0.61), Female(0.39) From ... More About: Tool , Demographics , Graph , Demographic , Predict
Ten Tips on Link Building
2007-08-19 17:28:00 Links are the basis for ranking in search engines. But over the years Google and other search engines have tweaked their algorithms so devalue paid links and are continuously working on counting only links which are legitimate. John Scott has a nice article on Link Building . You can read it here but the 10 tips to ... More About: Link Building , Tips , Link
Yahoo Shopping Integration into Facebook
2007-08-19 05:51:00 No need to visit Yahoo Shopping site for your social shopping needs. Now you can do it right from Facebook . Yes, Yahoo Shopping has been integrated into Facebook in the form of an application titled “Favorite Things“. The app allows you to send virtual gifts to your friends, add to your favorites, monitor your friends favorite things, search for ... More About: Integration , Yahoo!
How to Detect Internet Explorer Memory Leaks
2007-08-08 09:37:00 With web applications pushing the technology to the limits, memory leak issues have gained prominence and need to be dealt with. What is IE Memory Leak? To begin with let me clarify that memory leaks are not restricted to Internet Explorer but it can happen in any browser. We are talking primarily about IE as over the course ... More About: Internet Explorer , Tips , Tech Talk
Smart Page Rank
2007-08-07 18:54:00 Google Page Rank is used by various sites as a parameter to evaluate your blog/site. Several advertisers look for pages with good PageRank value to advertise or to get a link back from. For details on PageRank, please refer to this article. http://www.smartpagerank.com/ is a web site which allows you to enter the URL of any domain and ... More About: Page Rank , Smart
Compress your Images to Decrease Load Time
2007-08-07 14:23:00 With increasing use of Ajax, lot of data is rendered using JavaScript and even though you have a friendly “Load ing …” message for the user, it is a must to render the content fast. This is applicable even to sites which do not use Ajax but have images on them. Recently I was working on developing a ... More About: Tips , Time , Images , Ease
Some Interesting T-shirts Designs
2007-08-07 06:55:00 A UNIX way of removing Bin Laden. Will you also work for Bandwidth? clueless? (SQL T-shirt) Click on the images above to go to http://andrewhitchcock.org where he maintains server more such T-shirts. Technorati tags: SQL T-Shirt, work for bandwidth, rm -rf More About: Interesting , Shirts , T-Shirts , T shirts , Designs
Technacular Down for 48 hours
2007-08-07 06:48:00 I apologize for my mistake which resulted in the loss of entire Technacular web files. The blog was down for around 48 hours. The culprit was force remove command which I thought I was running under a sub directory but instead it was in the main root directory. The result, all my domains’ web content just disappeared. Unfortunately, UNIX does not ... More About: General , Hour , Hours
Bangalore Bloggers Join Blogalorean
2007-08-04 17:43:00 Bloggers of Bangalore are actively building a blogging community aptly named Blogalorean. I have created a Feedburner network called Blogalorean and an writing this post as an open invitation to all Bloggers (blogging on any topic) who are in Bangalore to join this network. If you are interested in knowing more about Feedburner Network then ... More About: General , Join , Bloggers , Blogg
Test Drive Visual Studio 2008
2007-08-02 19:50:00 Beta 2 version of Visual Studio 2008 is out and can be downloaded for free from Microsoft’s Visual Studio Developer Center. Since this is a prerelease software, you are not advised to install it on your primary development machine as it might break things. Microsoft is even providing links to VPC images for the Visual ... More About: Drive , Test Drive
Make Your RSS Feed Available as a Button on Google Toolbar
2007-08-01 10:22:00 For any browser on any machine which I own, the first thing I install is the Google Toolbar. It is a very useful tool and I like to search directly from there as well as monitor various sites, my Gmail, my Google bookmarks and of course PageRank for web sites. Google toolbar is being used by millions ... More About: Tips , Button , Feed , Make
Why Linux is Better
2007-07-31 06:07:00 If you ever wondered why people would want to use Linux when there is windows around, then please head over to http://www.whylinuxisbetter.net/ and Manu Cornet will give you more than a handful of reasons to use Linux. Assuming you would be very eager to switch to Linux after reading it, or you would be wiling to give ... More About: Tips
Test Your PC Site For Mobile Readiness
2007-07-30 21:13:00 With increasing acceptance of smart mobile phones, web browsing over mobile phones has gained prominence. Researchers at IDC say that 1.3 billion people will connect to the Internet via mobile phones by 2008. Which means your site needs to be mobile ready. You can obviously spend time and energy coming up with mobile version of your ... More About: Mobile , Tips , Site , Tech Talk , Test
Check Your Reaction Time
2007-07-30 20:40:00 Check your reaction time using this flash game from BBC. Shoot the sheep leaving the flock using the tranquilizer. The faster you shoot the better you are. You have to shoot five sheep (beware of the penalty!) I was very slow and rated lowest. I hope you have better luck. Best time to try: after ... More About: Time , Check , React , Reaction
Top 101 Ajax/JavaScript/DHTML Demos No One Should Miss
2007-07-30 20:06:00 JavaScript/Ajax libraries and RIA applications are springing up everywhere. I love to go through the demo pages of these applications and libraries. Here is a collection of demos from some of the best Ajax/JavaScript/DHTML library sites: script.aculo.us It is one of most popular and best JavaScript library present out there. It is an add-on to the Prototype framework. ... More About: Lists , Collections , Javascript , Demos , Miss
What is SMS Gateway?
2007-07-30 18:39:00 Having recently moved to India after spending 10 years in US, I was fascinated to see how SMS technology has captivated the Indian mass. I used to feel totally SMS-ignorant. To bring myself up to speed and to understand how SMS actually works technically, I began my quest on acquiring SMS knowledge. I will be ... More About: Mobile , Tech Talk , Gateway
Compilation of Free Antivirus Options
2007-07-29 21:06:00 Antivirus is a must for any system these days but do not come cheap. So what do you do when you do not have the luxury to spend money on yearly subscription for the likes of Norton Antivirus, McAfee, CA Antivirus etc? The answer is, you have several options: Go and download Google Pack from Google which ... More About: Antivirus , Tips , Free , Lists , Collections
Creative Solutions to Mathematical Problems
2007-07-26 12:14:00 Recently my wife forwarded me an email which had a collection of funny ways in which students have attempted mathematics problems. I thought it would be something nice to share with my readers. Peter was asked to expand (a+b)^n and here is his sheet for you to review: Some calculus fun: Doing division, the simple way: Solving ... More About: Creative , Problems , Solutions , Solution
Disney Mobics: Disney Comic Strips and Full Length Stories Now Playing on Y
2007-07-22 21:59:00 The Walt Disney Internet Group is making available daily comic strips and full-length stories on mobile phones in India. ‘ In the daily comic category, one can choose “Mickey” and/or “Winnie the Pooh” while the first full book available for download will be “Pirate of the Caribbean”. Aptly called “Disney Mobics”, the daily comics strips will be ... More About: Comic , Stories , Comic Strips , Tech Talk
Weird iPhone Designs
2007-07-20 07:11:00 Rejected iPhone Designs Pictures Gallery has a collection of some very wild and creative iPhone design people have come up with. Some of them are: Lemon iPhone Apple iPhone Please head out to Freaking News for the entire collection. Technorati tags: Freaking News, Weird iPhone Design, iPhone More About: Iphone
iPhone: Blend it to Get iSmoke and iDust
2007-07-13 06:11:00 You might have thought of so many ways you would like to use an iPhone: listen to music, watch videos, surf the Internet, check emails, store files but do you know if you could blend an iPhone in a blender? Check the video below and find it out for yourself: Beware of the iSmoke and iDust it generates! Technorati ... More About: Iphone , Blend , Lend
HeySpread: Submit Your Videos To Best Video Networks In One Shot
2007-07-12 13:18:00 Recently I was introduced to a very useful service for people who are into videos and have a need of submitting their videos to online video networks. You can be an Individual, Company, Marketer, Web Agency or an Artist. It is called hey! spread and using the tool you can submit your video files to the best video networks out there. ... More About: Video , Videos , Social Networks , Networks , Tips
Get Free Norton Antivirus
2007-07-03 19:04:00 I download Google Pack as soon as I install windows on any PC/Notebook. Besides getting lot of useful software, I also get protection for my machine with free Norton Security Scan. This ensures peace of mind from virus, worms and Trojans. Technorati tags: Free Antivirus , Norton Antivirus, Google Pack More About: Tech Talk
Google News: Watch News in Images
2007-06-27 07:43:00 Google news has launched an image version of their news site which can be accessed here. Here is a snapshot of the new interface: When you hover over any image, the animated slider on the right updates to show you the text of the news. you can also click on “related images” (circled in red on the image ... More About: News , Google , Watch , Images , Google News
How To Copy Cells From Excel Which Meet Search Criteria
2007-06-21 18:53:00 You have a huge excel file and you want to copy all the cells in one column which match your search criteria and place it may be in another excel sheet. Here is how you can do it: Select the entire column on which you want to search: Search using Control + F: Select all the rows ... More About: Tips , Meet , Excel , Copy
Web Data Administrator for Microsoft SQL Server
2007-06-20 06:21:00 People who have to manage databases have often felt the need for 24/7 availability of some means to access the database server as they cannot always remotely login. SQL Server Web Data Administrator for SQL Server takes care of that problem. phpMyAdmin, a similar tool has existed for MySQL but I was very happy when a colleague ... More About: Microsoft , Tips , Strato
Monitor Blogosphere For Search Terms Using RSS Feeds
2007-06-13 05:07:00 Google Blogsearch, a search engine dedicated to searching blogs, provides the ability for you to monitor latest and top posts for keywords of your choice by subscribing to RSS feed of the search results. Let us say you wanted to search for “Search Engine Optimization Tools” and want to keep a watch on search results through your regular RSS ... More About: Tips , Blogosphere , Tech Talk , Terms
SEO Friendly Site Using AJAX
More articles from this author:2007-06-06 16:20:00 It is always recommended with AJAX solutions that you put href attribute of the link tag to the server side version of the same functionality and put the JavaScript in the onclick event for that link tag. That way users using your site will get the AJAX experience and the search engines will execute the ... More About: Tips , Site , Cutting Edge , Tech Talk , Ajax 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 |
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