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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
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
Moving To Bangalore : How to decide on Schools in Bangalore?
2007-06-05 20:00:00 Deciding on which school in Bangalore to choose for your children More About: Schools , Moving , Ving , Cide
Excel 2007 : How To Save Excel Chart As Image
2007-06-05 06:15:00 This post demonstrates an easy way to save a chart in Excel 2007 as an image (png, jpg, gif, bmp etc.). Create the chart based on the data in Excel. Right click anywhere on the chart border and say “Copy”. Now open paint (Start-> Programs -> Accessories -> Paint) and say Paste. The chart will be pasted ... More About: Tips , Image , Save , Chart
Search War: Delhi, Bangalore, Mumbai, Chennai and Calcutta
2007-06-03 19:45:00 bangalore delhi calcutta mumbai chennai Above is the snapshot of Google Trends for Bangalore , Delhi , Calcutta, Mumbai and Chennai As you can see, Delhi dominates the search volumes with Mumbai and Bangalore fighting it out for the second place. Chennai is fourth and Calcutta finishes last. In news reference volume, Delhi ... More About: General , Search
HTML Earrings
2007-06-03 11:18:00 For the html savvy girls of today, there is a earring in town. Check this picture: Interested? Check it out here. For ones mathematically inclined: Check them out here. Technorati tags: HTML Ear Ring, PI Ear Ring, Humor More About: Earrings , Earring , Html , Arri
Search Engine Optimization : A Must Know For Bloggers And Web Site Owners
2007-06-03 10:07:00 If your goal is to promote your blog and/or sell your products effectively on the Internet, then Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is a must for you. Search engines are the drivers of traffic and you need to rank well on them to get traffic to your blog as well as product centric web sites. It is not ... More About: Tips , Search Engine , Site
Google Talk Custom Status Message: Show Current Music Track
2007-06-03 05:00:00 Google talk allows you to change your status message to any thing you want. It has also provided a way for you to share the name of the music track your are listening to currently as your status message. The way to do this is very simple: Login to Google Talk Click on the down arrow below your ... More About: Google , Music , Tips , Show , Current
Programmers Classified
2007-06-02 15:58:00 Matt’s life in a post titled The Authoritative Guide to Programme r Classification has classified programmers into three categories: “The Dork“, “The Geek Who Doesn?t Want to Be a Geek” and “The Geek Who Know?s He?s a Geek ? And Loves It“. The post then elaborates on how they go about their daily life. It is definitely a ... More About: Classified , Gramme , Gram
How to setup Fedora 7 as full fledged replacement of Windows
2007-06-02 15:45:00 Fedora is Linux operating system. It came into being when RedHat went commercial with their Linux distribution. It is an open source software. There is a very detailed article (spanning 8 pages with graphic illustrations) titled : The Perfect Desktop - Fedora 7 which shows how to setup a Linux machine and with what software so that it is ... More About: Windows , Tips , Fedora , Tech Talk , Setup
Make More Money By Suggesting Google Adsense
2007-06-02 05:22:00 I have been facing problems recently with Google Adsense . It is not showing contextual advertisement and so the click rate had gone down. I wished there was some way to suggest Google Adsense about what advertisements to show (assuming they do not understand by default). Recently, I ran into this post about a plugin for Wordpress called ... More About: Money , Tips
Check your broadband connection speed
2007-06-01 21:38:00 Speakeasy Speed Test provides a very easy flash based tool to check your broadband connection upload and download speed. You can choose the server which is closest to you and let the tool do the rest. Watch the animation as it calculates the speed. Technorati tags: Broadband Speed Calculator, upload Speed, Download Speed, Speakeasy Speed test More About: Tips , Connection , Check
Custom Status Message : Innovative Way To Promote Your Blog
2007-06-01 19:46:00 You can promote your blog by setting the URL of the blog as your status message in Google Talk and Yahoo Messenger. Both these tools allow you to enter custom status message, thus giving you the power to freely promote your blog. The way to create it is login to Google Talk, hit the down arrow below your ... More About: Promote , Tips , Blog , Message , Status
Robert Alan Soloway : One of the world?s most prolific spammer arrested
2007-06-01 13:58:00 Robert Alan Soloway, one of the world’s most prolific spammer, who was once on the Spamhaus Project list of top 10 spammers, has been arrested (More about Robert Alan Soloway) This does not mean the end of spam. According to IronPort, the spam volume has been unchanged since his arrest and is around 70 billion messages per 24 ... More About: Arrested , World , General , The World , Robert
Swivel: Discover And Share Insights From Data
2007-05-30 10:32:00 Swivel is a California based startup which was founded in December of 2005. It realizes the value of data and allows users to explore data and share their insights with others. Users can: Explore data Compare data Share insights from data Upload data For any data, one can see the graph, the data, cloud view and the map view (newly introduced Swivel ... More About: Data , Disco , Sigh , Sight
Vote For Best Web Services
2007-05-30 10:02:00 Webware is running a awards program Webware 100 for which they are asking users to vote for their favorite apps. The competition is about best web applications. More About The Competition There are 10 categories with 25 nominations in each of them, which makes it a total of 250 entries. Top 10 in each category will be declared ... More About: Contest , Services , Vote , Web Services
StatCounter Increases Log Size To 500
More articles from this author:2007-05-29 13:18:00 Web site stats tracking tool Stat Count er now allows free users to increase their log size from 100 to 500! To increase your log size, Log into StatCounter Click the wrench icon beside your project Click ?Adjust Log Size ?, and enter 500 in the box. Click ?Adjust Project Log? and you?re done! This will enable you to see the ... More About: General 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 |
