July 2006

Introducing Tag Cloud

July 20, 2006

It’s been almost 3 months now, since I started this blog and as of now including this post, there are about 65 posts. As the posts keep increasing, having an “Archives” section becomes a necessity. A nice user interface is a must for the Archives section to be more effective. A good interface will help [...]

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Blog sites BLOCKED in India !!

July 19, 2006

Yesterday I noticed that some of the RSS feeds were not working in my feed reader (Outlook 2007). I thought it was some problem with the client and I never took the pain of checking further. Today I realized that many ISP’s in India have blocked blog sites and this was the reason for the [...]

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Install Vista using Microsoft Virtual PC

July 15, 2006

The Beta2 version of Windows Vista was released a few weeks back. I had quite an adventure installing the Vista on my notebook. Check this post for more on this ! One of the requirements for Vista installation is that it requires a NTFS primary partition. I was so enthusiastic that I formatted my XP [...]

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Vista Wallpapers

July 14, 2006

Grab hold of the Vista Wallpapers at this link http://www.flickr.com/photos/stephensilber/

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Get Clear with ClearType

July 14, 2006

I have been a big fan of ClearType fonts and it was one of the features that I liked very much in IE7 and Windows Vista. For those who have not read my post on IE7 Beta3, here is the excerpt of ClearType: ClearType is a software technology developed by Microsoft that improves the readability [...]

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Colibri

July 12, 2006

One of the features I liked in Google Desktop was the Quick search. Using this, I could quickly invoke the programs in the Start Menu, other than searching the files in my computer. But there were other reasons for me not using Google Desktop in the first place. It didn’t work well in my office [...]

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Zidane ..

July 10, 2006

If you guys missed the Zidane incident in yesterday’s final match, watch these videos. Video 1 : Zidane headbutting Materazzi http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j1i_l0OeeMc Video 2: More about Materazzi http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EpG4AHlZrL4 Video 3: An old video of Italian training (Not sure how genuine this video is , but it is supposed to be taken during the Euro 2004) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0do5xlE9C_A [...]

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Saarr Beta

July 10, 2006

Google as of today is undoubtedly the best/fastest search engine. Its also a well known fact that for any search in Google very few people go beyond 2 pages of search results. Even though each search result in Google includes a “keyword related” excerpt, the data is always not enough to decide whether to click [...]

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Lightbox JS

July 7, 2006

One problem that I always faced while posting articles was with embedding images. SnagIt did ease this a little bit, but I still had the problem with the sizing of the images. I had to accommodate the image within the width set by the theme . If the image size exceeds this width, I have [...]

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Typing Speed !

July 5, 2006

Check out this link to test how fast you can type ! http://labs.jphantom.com/wpm/ Of course you might find a lot of free tools to test your typing speed/skills. But the one created by Joshua Rennet is simple in usage and gives a quick feedback on your typo skills . You have to click on a [...]

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