June 2006

Speech Recognition in Windows Vista

June 18, 2006

One of the cool new features introduced in Windows Vista is Speech Recognition. The feature allows you to control your computer through voice. You can dictate documents and e-mail messages, fill out forms on the web using voice commands, and manage Windows Vista and applications by saying what you see. In older version of Windows [...]

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Google Talk does not work without GMail

June 17, 2006

From the past few hours the Gmail service is down. This is the message displayed when I try to access my GMail. I tried to login to Google Talk (GT). To my surprise I was presented with a blank buddy list. No contacts were displayed in GT window but my status was shown as �Online� [...]

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Stockhive

June 16, 2006

Today I was guided to a new financial portal called Stockhive. It is founded by Yogi Kulkarni, a software developer by profession and an investor by vocation. Yogi is supported in this venture by Ajey Gore – an IT infrastructure specialist, Ayatana Holdings India Pvt. Ltd. and by ThoughtWorks Technologies (India) Pvt. Ltd. – a [...]

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Picasa Web Albums – Share photos online

June 14, 2006

Google today announced the testing of a new feature in Picasa through which user can share photos online. The feature is called Picasa Web Albums. Picasa is Google’s free desktop photo management software, and I have been using this for quite some time, Other than the basic organizing features, I especially like the “Timeline” feature [...]

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Windows Vista Update

June 12, 2006

Finally I was able to download the beta 2 release of Windows Vista. The ISO was a massive 3.125 GB file and it was quite an adventure downloading such a big file in a bandwidth constrained India. I initiated the download on Friday (June 9) 11 PM and my download manager (Free Download Manager) cribbed [...]

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Zohosheet

June 11, 2006

The launch of Google Spreadsheet (GS) has put more focus on “online spreadsheets”. In my previous post on GS, I had mentioned about the online spreadsheets such as NumSum, ZohoSheet, JotSpot Tracker, iRows. The comment by Zoho in my previous post made me have a look at their application. As of now both GS and [...]

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Windows Vista Beta 2

June 9, 2006

Windows Vista Beta 2 is now available for public download at the following link: http://download.windowsvista.com/preview/beta2/en/x86/download.htm However when I tried to download I got the following message (Guess I need to wait for few more hours) Tags: Windows Vista Beta 2

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Google Spreadsheet..

June 9, 2006

Two days back Google released a sneak peek preview of Google Spreadsheet. Google hasn’t opened up the “Ajax spreadsheet” to the general public yet. In order to try, you need to request an invitation. As of now there have been 4 products released in Google’s Online Office Suite Writely (Word) Notebook (One Note) Page Creator [...]

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Inside Man

June 7, 2006

After a long time I landed in PVR today, with the intent of watching “The Da Vinci Code”. I went at around 7 and I was pretty sure of getting a seat for the 10 PM show. I was surprised to find that it was a total sellout for the complete day. The movie is [...]

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PC World – Top 100 Products

June 3, 2006

PC World has released its annual list of Top 100 products of the year. Additionally it has also listed the Best and Worst companies of 2005. Yahoo has been rated the Web Company of the Year. It has been mentioned that even though Google gets lot of attention, its Yahoo that is getting things accomplished. [...]

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