From the monthly archives:
September 2006
Google Reader - Just got better
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F1 Car Guide
If you are a Formula1 fan, you should definitely check this link:
BBC MotorSport - Inside a F1 Car
Lots of information about the Aerodynamics, Electronics and Cockpit is covered in this amazing animation !
If you are not a Formula1 fan, it doesn't mean you shouldn't have a look at this link. Only that I would recommend the links in this order:
BBC MotorSport - Inside a F1 Car
I might be little partial, but I would recommend this link as well
Michael Schumacher - Wikipedia
This is one guy who kept me hooked on the game for 10 years and with Michael announcing his retirement I
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Kicked out of Yahoo ?
Today I received a mail from Yahoo (my-yahoo-register@yahoo-inc.com) with this content:
Your Yahoo! ID is: somethingsomething
Your password for this account has recently been changed. You don't need to do anything, this message is simply a notification to protect the security of your account.
Please note: your new password may take awhile to activate. If it doesn't work on your first try, please try it again later.
DO NOT REPLY TO THIS MESSAGE. For further help or to contact support, please see http://help.yahoo.com/help/edit/
Now the problem is I don't remember changing the password of this yahoo account. The question is:why the hell did I get this message ?
One reason might be that
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CCleaner
In response to my previous post on Disk space, Rahul suggested me to try the CCleaner application. Initially I thought that the functionality of CCleaner was similar to that of Windows Disk Cleanup
I was proved wrong ! First I ran Disk Cleanup to clear the temporary files. Later I ran CCleaner and the tool was still able to find 80MB of crap data. And going by the standards I follow to keep out the temporary files, this was huge !
Here is what the CCleaner site has to say about the application:
CCleaner is a freeware system optimization and privacy tool. It removes unused files from your system -
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Running out of Disk Space ?
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Openlaszlo
One of my colleague introduced me to Openlaszlo today and I should say I was amazed by what all you can do using Laszlo.
This is what the Laszlo has to say about OpenLaszlo :
OpenLaszlo is an open source platform for creating zero-install web applications with the user interface capabilities of desktop client software.
OpenLaszlo programs are written in XML and JavaScript and transparently compiled to Flash and soon DHTML. The OpenLaszlo API's provide animation, layout, data binding, server communication, and declarative UI. An OpenLaszlo application can be as short as a single source file, or factored into multiple files that define reusable classes and libraries.
OpenLaszlo is
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Clickless Browsing
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Poderosa - Alternative to Putty
PuTTY is a free implementation of Telnet and SSH for Win32 and Unix platforms, along with an xterm terminal emulator.
I use PuTTY for 2 primary reasons
It can save the session information and I can quickly load the session of my choice (i.e. I don't need to remember the IP details etc)
The application is a single executable file and its pretty easy to configure and use. A step by step guide for configuring Putty can be found here. The only drawback is that for every session, I have to open a new window, and especially when you
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Running Multiple Instances of Yahoo and Google IM
Check this screenshot:
This is the memory usage of Yahoo IM when its initially started on my machine ! So with this kind of memory usage, why would anyone want to run multiple instances of Yahoo messenger ?
My first E-Mail ID was with Yahoo and was created 8 years back. I recently created a new yahoo mail ID and I wanted to use this as my primary Yahoo ID (including Yahoo Messenger).
I was faced with the problem of moving my buddies from the old ID to the new one. Unfortunately there was no easy way of exporting and importing your chat buddies in Yahoo IM.
(As I am writing, I think
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Planning to upgrade to Windows Vista ?
If you are planning to upgrade to Windows vista, you should also start planning to upgrade your PC hardware ?
But do you really need to upgrade your hardware ? The Windows Vista Upgrade Advisor is the right tool to answer this !
It recently had an "upgrade" to RC and the same is available for download here
The tool advises you on which part of the system you need to upgrade in order to support vista. Its also suggests as to which version of vista will be suitable.
My PC seems to have passed the test and hopefully I can upgrade to vista with no issues ! How about yours ?
More on Vista
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