2006

2Mbps from BSNL

December 30, 2006

BSNL has slashed tariffs on Broadband services which is effective from 1st Jan 2007 The highlight of the new tariff plan is the 2Mbps bandwidth being offered across all plans. However there is also a disclaimer in the form of this statement – Wherever technically feasible ! Unfortunately I use Airtel Service and I am [...]

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Learn PHP

December 30, 2006

Paul Stamatiou has written a nice series on building a web app using MySQL and PHP. How To: Code your First Web App Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 I always wanted to try my hands on PHP and these articles are pretty good to get started on PHP and MySQL. Also don’t forget that [...]

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Camel-Case Search in Eclipse

December 26, 2006

I have extensively used Eclipse for the past 2 years and as with every other IDE, the first thing I do is to find out/use the keyboard shortcuts in the application. Eclipse is a great IDE to work with and I should probably start a series of posts which might help me and others in [...]

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Blogging From Flickr !

December 22, 2006

Originally uploaded by venukb. Trying out the “Blog This” feature of Flickr ! Also ever since I found out about the macro mode in my camera, I have been shooting photos of flowers like crazy ! Don’t believe me ! Check this flickr set  

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bLaugh – Comics 2.0

December 22, 2006

bLaugh is the (un)Official comic of the Blogosphere and as its writer Chris puts it; bLaugh is colorful, satirical and comical ! Brad Fitzpatrick is bLaugh�s artist and as you can make out from the site it is exclusively sponsored by GoDaddy. Here are some of the recent cartoons posted on bLaugh I am sure [...]

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Eclipse 3.3

December 21, 2006

If you didn’t know Eclipse 3.3 is already in progress and you can grab the latest milestone release M4 here. The release is code named as Europa and you can find all the new and noteworthy features here One of the complaints with Eclipse has been the slow startup. There seems to be a major [...]

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Google Search does math too

December 21, 2006

I was talking to my brother the other day on phone and I had to quickly convert 4lbs to Kg’s. I was about to search in Google for a unit converter and he reminded me that I could do this easily in Google Search itself ! I just had to enter “4lbs in Kg“ in [...]

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Del.icio.us Links and Full Feeds

December 19, 2006

I find a lot of nice articles and its difficult to blog/comment about every other article. Sharing these links directly makes more sense and the best way to do is to deliver it as part of your RSS feed. Feedburner is a widely used feed publishing service and even the feeds of Online Diary are [...]

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Digg Reloaded

December 19, 2006

I was surprised to see only 6 posts in the Digg RSS feed;Later I found out that Digg was out of service for a major upgrade ! Checkout this video for more on the new features of Digg. So what is new ? Digg UI now goes widescreen and it looks totally pathetic on my [...]

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Planning to buy a used car ?

December 17, 2006

The present day market in India is flooded with second-hand cars. Also there are plenty of finance options available for second hand cars. Choosing the “right car” is a cumbersome and tiring process. A buyer also needs to be aware of many facts to help him make a right decision. CarWale.com addresses most of these [...]

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