July 2006

Find Sounds !!

July 31, 2006

I am sure very few people know about the existence of this site. As the name suggests, this site helps you in finding sound effects and musical instrument samples on the Web. It is a Web search engine, like Google and AltaVista, but with a focus on sounds. Snapshot of different search engines and their [...]

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Google Talk Reloaded

July 28, 2006

Few days back I happened to see the statistics for different Instant Messengers in Techcruch. Google talk was way behind in 4th place holding just 1% of the total IM market. Here is the statistics for the month of May 2006. MSN is still way ahead of Yahoo and Google. However this count doesn’t include [...]

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StumbleUpon

July 28, 2006

Few days back I stumbled upon an interesting website. Incidentally its name was “StumbleUpon”. It’s an application which helps you to find new sites of your interest. StumbleUpon lets you “channelsurf” the best-reviewed sites on the web. It is a collaborative surfing tool for browsing, reviewing and sharing great sites with like-minded people. This helps [...]

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Rappai

July 25, 2006

Wondering about the title ? Rappai is the name of the champion eater who is currently resident in Thrissur. Also known as ‘Theetta’ (monstrous eater), this guy shot to fame after he took on a Thrissur hotel that offered an all-you-can-eat buffet. He polished off everything in the kitchen, and finally the hotel owners asked [...]

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Secure Browsing

July 25, 2006

Search engines are the entry points for most sites. Recently I found 2 tools which scan the search results and protects you from visiting sites that spread malicious viruses or spyware. 1. Scandoo Scandoo integrates with all the popular search engines i.e. Google, MSN and Yahoo. Recently support for Ask.com was also added. When you [...]

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coComment

July 23, 2006

If you are tracking a lot of blogs and additionally also leave comments in the blog, one problem you always face is tracking these comments. You never know if anybody has replied to your comment unless you bookmark the site and open it again at regular intervals. But again how many website posts can you [...]

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Tiger woods..

July 23, 2006

Tiger knocks a 4 iron shot in the hole from 209 yards, for an eagle on #14 at the British Open on Friday !! Brilliant ! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JGZtkEzC7fw

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Planning to upgrade to Vista ?

July 23, 2006

Microsoft has released instructions for users planning to upgrade to Windows Vista.The upgrade options are dependent on the version of Windows that you are currently running. The table below outlines the upgrade options mapped to the different Windows Vista editions The two upgrade options available are described below:

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Odeo

July 23, 2006

Odeo is a podcast service that lets users search, find, and subscribe to podcasts, as well as a tool to create your own podcasts with minimal hardware. I am not much of a podcaster or a podreceiver. One feature that I liked in Odeo was the ablility to send voice messages. You can embed the [...]

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History of Eclipse

July 21, 2006

In the late 1990s, IBM began development of what we now know as Eclipse. In the mid-1990s, a number of powerful commercial development environments were available; Microsoft Visual Studio was becoming a more general-purpose tools platform. A number of Java-based IDEs were also coming into play, including Symantec’s Visual Café, Borland’s JBuilder, IBM’s Visual Age [...]

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