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How to open each link click in a new IE Window/Tab?
2007-05-28 20:20:00
Any link in your outlook or any other application when clicked opens up in Internet Explorer (assuming default browser is IE). The annoying part is that the click ends up using the same Internet Explorer window that is already open (instead of opening the site in a new window or tab) and you lose the site ...
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Find the running status of trains in India
2007-05-28 19:55:00
It is always frustrating to call the railways enquiry number to get information about train arrival as no one picks the phone. After having similar experience yesterday, I started looking for any websites which provided an updated status information on trains in India . The quest led me to this page: http://www.trainenquiry.com The site asks you some basic ...
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Want Free Games For Windows? Try Windows Marketplace
2007-05-28 19:46:00
I was experimenting with my Windows Vista based Ferrari 5000 laptop when I ran across this site: Windows Marketplace They have a huge archive of games for download, some paid but lot of them are free! you can sort by price to get the free ones come up on the top. I downloaded my childhood favorite ...
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Collection of Shoe company Advertisements
2007-05-27 20:08:00
This is a collection of advertisements from shoe companies and covers Nike, Reebok, Addidas and Puma.   Nike basketball commercial   Nike celebrates 25 years of Air Force 1’s with a new commercial featuring Steve Nash, Jermaine O’Neal, Rasheed Wallace, Paul Pierce, Tony Parker, Kobe Bryant, Amare Stoudemire, Shawn Marion, LeBron James and Chris Paul, with music from Just ...
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Some Fun and Useful Google Map Apps
2007-05-25 20:37:00
I have been experimenting with Google Maps for a recent project and needed a tool to get latitude and longitude for any location. Here are two tools written to get the same: Get Latitude and Longitude for any address you enter Get Latitude and Longitude for any place you click on the map These should be fun to ...
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Moving To Bangalore: Choosing an International Moving Company
2007-05-22 22:15:00
My wife (Archita) and I worked real hard to organize things around our move and so we thought it was best if she wrote about some of the experiences herself. This post has been written by her. We had been nurturing the dream of coming back to India for a few years and April 2007 saw ...
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Moving To Bangalore
2007-05-20 06:49:00
It has been more than a month since I moved from Michigan, USA to India. I spent couple of weeks in Noida and rest of my days trying to figure out things in Bangalore .  We have been living in the US for around 8-9 years and even though we visited India, those were mostly few week visits. Our move was a ...
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Simple Fast Loading HTML UI For Gmail
2007-05-18 10:59:00
There are times when you are connected through a very low bandwidth network (dialup, wireless carrier card etc.). If you try and open Gmail , it is a pain and despite hitting that refresh button over and over again nothing seems to happen and patience does not help either. There is a way to access the basic ...
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Free Online Courses On Technology and Variety Of Other Topics
2007-05-17 22:19:00
There has been a steady stream of sites coming up with online classes for the public which spread awareness around PC, technology, web, electronics etc. The ones that I have come across and have found useful are: CNET: It provides online courses on topics related to technology and electronics. They have a team of SME (Subject Matter ...
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Free Support For Windows Vista and XP
2007-04-29 21:53:00
Having problems with Windows Vista and/or Windows XP? Do not know what to do? Try Tech Support Guy Forums where you get free help for Windows Vista , XP and much more. It is a forum where you can register for free and post your troubleshooting or general question(s) and get answers for free. The quality of answers is pretty good. You can also browse the Microsoft Vista Support Forums for answers to your questions or post your questions. Assisted vista support from Microsoft (email, chat, phone) is also available, some of which might be free depending on your Vista license and when it was purchased. They have a tool which takes the product identification number of your OS and tells you if you qualify for free support.   Technorati tags: Free Vista Support, Vista Help, XP Help, Microsoft, Tech Support Guy Forum

Road Warriors: How To Stay Connected Anywhere
2007-04-29 20:05:00
Wifi has penetrated lot of cities in US and other countries but it is still not everywhere and there are times when you have to be content with not being connected to the Internet. It happens on roads, some hotels, public places, cafeterias etc. If you are a road warrior and have the need to be always connected then you should try mobile broadband cards or your cell phones. These cards fit into your laptop’s PCMCIA slots or USB slots and connect to the wireless carriers network to provide you with Internet connectivity. Cell phones can be hooked onto laptops and used to connect to the Internet. Some options which you have in US are: Sprint’s Mobile Broadband Card: providing download speeds upto 600 kbps Cingular’s LaptopConnect —Wireless Laptop Solutions: features laptop connect cards and some laptops with the card built into them. Verizon’s BroadbandAccess PC Card or BroadbandAccess Built-in or BroadbandAccess Connect: get a card and plug it int...
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Stock Performance And Future Price Movement Indicators: Moving Average
2007-04-29 08:13:00
I was reading today’s issue of the Financial Times and came across this interesting article by Kavita Sriram where she outlines few technical indicators which can be applied to analyze stock market movements. I decided to dig in and find more about those measures and in this post I share what I learnt. In this post I talk about the indicator: moving average. Moving average One of the easiest and most popular indicators to use and serves as the foundation stone for various other indicators. Using this measure charts are built which indicate if a stock price is on its way up or down. One can choose to buy if the stock price rises above its moving average and one can sell if it falls below its moving average. Simple Moving Average (SMA): It is calculated by taking the average of price over a given number of periods. For example: a 5-day simple moving average is calculated by adding the closing prices for the last 5 days and dividing the total by 5. 10+ 11 + 11 + 13 + 1...
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The Technorati Favorites Exchange Experiment
2007-04-27 15:40:00
Recently I came across this post on Dosh Dosh about Technorati favorites exchange experiment and since I am a regular user of Technorati, I was intrigued by it and decided to participate in it. Before going into the details of the contest let me give you some background information. What is Technorati? On the World Live Web, bloggers ...
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Joost Invites To Share
2007-04-24 21:23:00
I have three Joost invites to share. I will randomly select three people from the ones who comment to this post and give them the invites. For those wondering as to what is Joost: Joost is a new way of watching TV on the Internet. With Joost, you get all the things you love about TV, ...
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Collection of Tools/Sites to Create Tag Cloud
2007-04-22 12:07:00
A compilation of tools, sites and code snippets to create tag cloud: ZoomCloud s: create a tag cloud using any RSS feed. Using a small snippet code embed the cloud on any web page (e.g. TechCrunch tag cloud). It has its API using which you can have better control over the cloud you create and also build ...
More About: Tools , Sites , Lists , Loud

How To Create A Tag Cloud?
2007-04-22 08:36:00
What is a tag cloud? A tag cloud is a weighted list of words used on a website. The font size of the tags vary from largest (most frequently used tags) to smallest (least frequently used tags). Tags can be arranged in any order but they are generally arranged alphabetically. They aid in navigation and clicking ...
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Car of the future (toy version)
2007-04-19 12:17:00
This toy version of hydrogen cell futuristic car uses next generation reversible Polymer Electrolyte Membrane (PEM) fuel cell.  (click on the image to enlarge) Add water to the water tanks located in the back of the car Uses the water (H20) to produce and store oxygen (02) and hydrogen (H2) The car can turn around obstacles by itself, ...
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Technacular Placed Second in the Firefox Add-ons Review Contest
2007-04-17 03:32:00
The Adblock Plus review by Technacular was placed second in the Fire fox add-ons review contest held by 7is7. Here is a list of Firefox add-ons reviews with jury points: 23 Forum Additive - reviewed by Mozilla Links 22 Adblock Plus - reviewed by Vikas Sah 19 ScrapBook - [Spanish] reviewed by Leandro Ardissone 18 CoLT - reviewed by ffextensionguru 14 NewsFox - reviewed by ...
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Making The Move: Selling Used Books
2007-04-11 09:14:00
I had a huge collection of books (had because I had to sell and donate most of them when I moved from US to India) and I had to sell them off on a very short notice. I went through the pains to create a an excel sheet with the ISBN numbers of all the books ...
More About: Selling , Books , Book , King , Move

Did you know
2007-04-05 17:01:00
I am in the process of moving back to India after having studied and worked in US for about 7 years. The blog is not getting updated that frequently but will be as soon as I settle down in Bangalore, India. I will share my moving experiences over here soon. I was trying to sell my ...
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Find number of years, months and days between two dates using C#
2007-03-29 06:07:00
Recently I ran into a situation where I had the start date and the end date and had to store the start date and the difference between the end and the start date (in terms of years, months, days) as string. Here is a C# code to do that: public static string DateDiff(DateTime startDate, DateTime endDate) { ...
More About: Dates , Find , Numb , Between , Sing

Gliffy : Create And Share Diagrams Online
2007-03-17 05:05:00
Don’t have Visio to create your UML model/ network diagram/ flowchart, no problem, try Gliffy, a web-based diagram editor which supports rich diagramming capabilities right in your web browser. It is available for free. Besides the rich drawing capabilities with support for Flowcharts, UML, Network Diagrams, User Interface, Floor Diagram, it also allows you to ...
More About: Online , Share , Line , Agra , Create

Collection of Firefox Wallpapers
2007-03-17 04:29:00
Firefox has been generating waves and has been getting lot of acceptance within the user community. I am a Firefox fan and decided to look for Firefox wallpapers for my desktop. I decided to share my collection of Firefox wallpapers from various sites out here. The images link to the wallpapers on the site or ...
More About: Wallpaper , Firefox , Wallpapers , Wall , Fire

Windows Explorer Tips For XP
2007-03-14 04:24:00
Some useful settings for windows explorer on Wind ows XP: Launch Windows Explore r Shortcut: “Windows Key” + E Show full path in the address bar: Tools -> Folder Options -> View (Tab) -> check the checkbox “Display the full path in the address bar”   Show extensions for files in the Explorer Window: Tools -> Folder Options -> View ...
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IE7pro : IE7 Comes Closer To Firefox
2007-03-09 20:23:01
Wouldn’t it be nice if IE7 provided more control over how you want to use your tabs, had an ad filter like AdBlock Plus for Fire fox , allowed crash recovery, move the IE menu bar above the address bar, may be even allow mouse gestures for navigation, and how about “find as you type” (nice to have). Well, that is not a lot to ask and guess what, you can have all that now and much more (capture a webpage as an image, view page info, save flash/video, custom User Agent, “Open in New Tab” in context menu when Drag & Drop URL; new Tab from search bar etc.) with this free tool called IE7Pro. IE7pro is an add-on for Internet Explorer 7 which adds lots of features and extras that make your IE easier, more useful, more secure and more customizable. This tool brings Internet Explorer experience to a much higher level and much closer to Firefox 2.0 but I wish they could integrate few more must have tools - spell checker...
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Hear Any RSS Feed
2007-03-09 20:23:01
Recently lee in a comment on the article Let The Computer Read PDF Docs For You wondered how nice it would be to have blog postings read out loud (may be mp3 on a CD). I thought may be I should try and work on it. I wrote a rudimentary application to which you can feed any valid RSS feed and it will read the feed to you (yes you will hear sound!) For this application I used ASP .NET 2.0 along with Microsoft Speech API. Here is the main snippet of code: private void SoundFeed (string url, int itemCount) { try { RssFeed feed = RssFeed.Read(url); RssChannel channel = (RssChannel)feed.Channels[0]; if (channel.Items.Count > 0) { SpVoice readr = new SpVoice(); readr.Speak(“Your are listening to “ + channel.Title + “.”, SpeechVoiceSpeakFlags.SVSFDefault); int counter = 1; // num of items tracker ...
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Programmatically Change The Data Range For A Chart In Excel
2007-03-09 02:21:01
Sometime back I had to figure out a way to change the data range for a chart in excel dynamically at run-time based on certain conditions being met. This post covers provides a simplified version of the code with essential items and logic in it to help you put with the process. The following function runs when the excel file is opened. It runs through a loop for all the charts in ”Sheet1″ and then finds a specific chart using the chart name (.Name). It reassigns a revised range for the various series of data in the chart. Code: Sub Auto_Open() Dim chartCount As Integer Dim i As Integer Dim colName As String Dim rangeStr As String Dim chartOnSheet As Chart chartCount = ActiveWorkbook.Worksheets("Sheet1").Chart Objects.Count For i = 1 To chartCount With ActiveWorkbook.Worksheets("Sheet1").Chart Objects(i).Chart If .Name = "Sheet1 Chart 103" Then colName = "D" rangeStr = "A84:" & colName & "84" .SeriesCollection(2).Values = Wor...
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Open Source Windows - Free, Open-Source Software For Windows
2007-03-09 02:21:01
There are tons of software available for Wind ows out there but today I came across a site which lists the best free and open-source software for Windows, aptly named Open Source Windows.  What I also liked was their six point advice on how to increase downloads of your software: if you have a nice icon, show it off prominently. put a download link and a screenshot on your front page. if you use mirrors, use a script to pick a random mirror and just give people one link that says ‘download now’. if there’s any way you can avoid sending people to the sourceforge download mirror page, you should. if you really want to make things easy for people, and you have a cross-platform app, detect what OS they are on and give them the correct link. test your page on a novice! Very good points there. One another thing they mentioned was to put a big prominent button on the page which says “Download”. They have split the page into 2 pages. “Bas...
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Google Summer of Code: Now Accepting Applications From Mentors!
2007-03-08 08:19:01
Recently I wrote about Google Summer of Code 2007 (GoSC) and how it is giving students a chance to contribute to remarkable open source projects and make money as well. Today Google announced that the Summer of Code is accepting applications from mentoring organizations. What is the deadline for applications? The deadline is March 12, 2007 Who can apply? Currently, GSoC is accepting applications from open source organizations. Where can I find details on applying? GSoC Mentor Organization Application Instructions FAQ Google Summer of Code Discussion group Project Wiki By what time will I know who got approved? March 14, 2007. List of organizations approved will be listed on the GSoC site. Students can start submitting applications March 15, 2007. Source:(here) Technorati tags: SoC, GSoC, Google Summer of code 2007, Mentor Applications , Open Source Organizations, Google
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Send Google Maps Business Listing Directly To The Car
2007-03-08 08:19:01
Google maps is providing another level of interaction between local businesses and consumers. Not only can you list businesses on Google maps but now you can even connect to those businesses from anywhere. Google map users can send a business listing on Google Maps Deutschland directly to cars equipped with BMW Assist. This saves the driver the pain of writing down the address and re-entering it. The driver can set the address received as the destination for the in-car navigation system. The users can also call the businesses from within the car. You click the “call” link next to the phone number of the local business you found on Google maps, enter your phone number and click “Connect For Free”. Google calls your phone number and connects you automatically to that local business. After you have entered your phone number once, it can store it so you do not have to enter it again. Here is a video demonstrating the feature: The call featur...
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