May 2006

Riya – CEO Munjals Experience

May 31, 2006

Riya, the photo search and face recognition site is now almost 60 days old. Munjal Shah, Founder and CEO of Riya mentioned in one of his blogs that almost 7.23 million photos were uploaded in the last 7 weeks. (Flickr took 2 years to hit 10 million). Dan Farber has more on Riya at this [...]

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Blog using MS Word 2007

May 29, 2006

One of the nice feature built into the new Word 2007 is the support for blogging. There are quite a few desktop based blogging tools, but the text editing capability provided by those is very limited. Here are the steps to setup your blog account in Word 2007. 1. First you need to setup the [...]

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Office 2007 Beta 2 Released

May 24, 2006

The Beta 2 of Microsoft Office 2007 is available at this link. The load on the server might be too high (I tried for 1 hour yesterday), in which case you might need to try at a latter time. The download size of Microsoft® Office Professional Plus 2007 is about 450 MB. This package includes: [...]

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Something Is Broken At Google

May 24, 2006

There is a post at digg which is worth checking out. An online privacy service portal Cotse.net found that one of the main keyword in google search that bought users to their portal was “privacy service“. In recent days they found that none of the search results for the keyword “privacy service” was pointing to [...]

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Eclipse..

May 22, 2006

A lot of people know and love Eclipse as a great Java IDE. However, the real impact Eclipse has had on software development is providing the platform for ISVs to build and integrate software development tools. Developers, architects and testers benefit from an ecosystem of over 100 ISVs and hundreds of products which allow development [...]

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Windows Media Player 11

May 19, 2006

As we all know the release of Windows vista is delayed till next year. However Windows Medial Player 11 which was supposed to be shipped out with Vista is not planning to wait till then. The beta version of the player is available for download here The new version has a file indexing feature which [...]

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Goooo Daddy !!

May 18, 2006

When I wanted to host my own web site, I did scout a lot of hosting providers like Directi , Jodohost , Yahoo, Net4Domain. Either the price was too high or the features provided were limited. The best offer I could get was from GoDaddy.The features I got on GoDaddy Economy hosting was: 5 GB [...]

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Yahoooo

May 18, 2006

Yahoo has launched its new home page at yahoo.com/preview. Currently the page works only with IE 6 and Firefox 1.5. There are loads of cosmetic changes and usage of AJAX is very much noticeable. Whatz New ? Personal Assistant – This is a preview area displaying recent messages from Yahoo! Mail, an online friends list [...]

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Google Notebook – Revisit

May 18, 2006

Google Notebook (Online Bookmarking app) is now live at google.com/notebook . With Google Notebook, you can browse, clip, and organize information from across the web in a single online location and the important thing it that its accessible from any computer.The feature is very much similar to del.icio.us however the way its accomplished is typical [...]

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Minefield – Firefox 3 !!

May 15, 2006

I was searching for the alpha release of Firefox 2 (Bon Echo) and I landed in a link to Firefox 3(MineField). I guess the installable available at this link of Firefox 2 which I guess is used as base for the next version of Firefox i.e. Minefield. I went ahead and installed the same and [...]

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