April 2006

Disable USB Drives

April 30, 2006

In windows xp, its easy to disable the floppy or cdrom from the Bios. Disabling USB is also possible, however it disables all the USB ports and this become difficult if you are using a USB mouse or keyboard. There is a simple registry change that will keep the USB storage drivers from starting when [...]

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How to setup your own web site !

April 29, 2006

If you search for the “title” string (i.e. Setup your own web site) in Google, the first result you will get is of Blogger. Blogger is a free service and its very easy to setup your own blog. Even I started with hosting my site on Blogger. But I did have some bad experiences with [...]

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Google Sketchup

April 27, 2006

Google has released Sketchup, a free version of google’s 3-D modeling software. The pro version is still available at http://www.sketchup.com You can add details, textures and glass to your models, design with dimensional accuracy, and place your finished models in Google Earth, share them with others by posting them to the 3D Warehouse, or print [...]

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Get Yahoo Mail Beta !!

April 26, 2006

I read in digg on a way to enable the Yahoo Mail Beta ! Here is the procedure explained again (in case you have not clicked on the digg link) 1. Login to your yahoo mail box 2. Go to Options -> Account Information 3. Go to Member Information->General Preferences->Preferred Content 4. Choose either of [...]

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Barcamp Bangalore

April 25, 2006

On Saturday I attended the Barcamp Banglore ! I know many of you guys might be wondering what this Barcamp is. I too hadn’t heard of this word till Tara Hunt of Riya invited me over to Barcamp Bangalore ! As usual I had to look up in wikipedia and it came up with the [...]

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Welcome venukb.com

April 24, 2006

As mentioned in my previous post, I  moved my blog to wordpress. However later I found that the functionality provided in wordpress.com was very limited compared to functionaly provided by wordpress.org. In wordpress.com, your blog is hosted free by WordPress (like Blogger), but you cannot add extra themes or plugins. You can only select from [...]

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Contemplating ….

April 23, 2006

I have stuck to Blogger for blogging for quite some time. Very few people know that I have a synchronized blog at venukb.wordpress.com. Now I am seriously contemplating on a move to wordpress due to number of reasons. WordPress is pretty powerful and allows tagging and categorizing of blogs. And again if someday I have [...]

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Riya – Photo Searching Redefined

April 20, 2006

Few weeks back I blogged on "Photo Uploading" portals. Flickr was the best, however there was a upload limit in the free version and the number of albums you could create also was limited to 3. At that same time, the google search had come up with a link to Riya. The portal boasted of [...]

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Operating System By Oracle !

April 18, 2006

Oracle was the first company to release a commercial database Oracle8i for Linux. Today, all key Oracle products are available on Linux. Now the database giant has more aggressive plans and wants a place on the desktop PC. To counter Microsoft Windows’ dominance among corporates, Oracle revealed plans to create and sell their own Operating [...]

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Calendar – Google Style !

April 17, 2006

Google has now introduced Google Calendar – a “Google” tool that simplifies keeping track of events, special occasions, and appointments. Its integrated with GMail and you can add appointments directly from your Gmail messages. More information can be found on this link Now I can see one more features of MS Outlook being put on [...]

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