June 2006

Sony Ericsson Black Diamond

June 30, 2006

I was checking out the Top 10 Coolest Designer Gadgets at TechEBlog. The one which caught by eye was the Sony Ericsson Black Diamond mobile phone. Check this.. Looks cool..:) The phone is designed by Singaporean Industrial designer Jaren Goh. The coolest feature is the borderless screen The latest model which I would like to [...]

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IE7 Beta 3

June 30, 2006

Microsoft has released the Beta 3 of IE 7 Browser. I did try the Beta 2 of IE7. Most of the feature that are already there in Firefox/Opera has been added in IE7. The only feature that I liked the most is the ClearType font rendering technology used in the browser. About ClearType ClearType is [...]

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Google Checkout

June 30, 2006

Yesterday Google released Checkout, the online transaction service and was intially code named as GBuy. It was touted as a direct competitor to eBay’s PayPal. However the initial focus is more on Online merchants rather than consumer to consumer payments, which is Paypal’s strength. As of now, most of the merchants supporting/using this service are [...]

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Linux Command Line and Shell Scripting

June 29, 2006

Check out this link to learn more about Linux Command line and Shell scripting http://gd.tuwien.ac.at/linuxcommand.org/index.php The content is nicely organized and should be very useful for Unix/Linux newbies and probably even for people knowing Unix Tags: Linux, Shell scripting, Linux Command

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WP Video

June 28, 2006

Trying out new things in WordPress is really an interesting and a challenging task. Few weeks back I tried to embed videos using Extreme Video Plugin. After a lot of tries and forum digging, I somehow couldn’t get it working. Today I found one more plugin called WPVideo. Installation/Activation of the plugin went on fine [...]

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Setup your local WordPress Blog

June 26, 2006

One of the most frequent things you do after setting up a blog is posting content (Obvious you might say). I initially started posting content using the WYSIWYG editor built into WordPress. However the editor was very slow especially when you try to edit an already existing post and this used to discourage me from [...]

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Gravatar

June 23, 2006

Finally after banging my head for a week or so, I finally got Gravatar (Globally recognized avatar) working on my site. Before I recount the story of how I got it working, a quick intro of Gravatar. This is what wikipedia has to say about Gravatar: A gravatar is a globally recognized avatar. They follow [...]

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Why Opera 9 ?

June 22, 2006

In my previous post , I asked my dear friend Vasuki to comment more on the release of Opera 9 and its features. He has left a comment on that post. So for those who are lazy to click and view the comment here is the text . Also if you are contemplating on whether [...]

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Opera 9

June 21, 2006

Opera 9 is out of its BETA. The new features offered includes built in Bittorrent downloader, tab previews and widgets. Download Opera 9 from this link. I would let my friend Vasuki to comment more on this. His post on opera did inspire me a lot, to try the browser, but mentally not able to [...]

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Yahoo Messenger 8

June 21, 2006

Yahoo has released a new version of Yahoo Messenger (Version and it’s a BETA (The Beta keyword seems to have caught up everywhere) Compared to the earlier version (7.5) these features have been added: (Content Taken directly from yahoo web site) Make it yours with plug-ins Get the content you want, delivered right to Yahoo! [...]

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