September 2006

FeedButton

September 16, 2006

Has anyone noticed something new in the sidebar ? There was a section in the sidebar which looked something like this The buttons could be used to subscribe for the RSS feeds of Online diary. I am not sure how many of them really used that feature, but that section did add a good visual [...]

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iTunes 7 – New Features

September 14, 2006

iTunes, the proprietary digital media player from Apple had a major version upgrade from 6 to 7. The same was released yesterday and I went on a hunt to find out the supposedly cool new features of iTunes. When I connected my iPod, as expected iTunes launched automatically and came up with this screen ! [...]

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iTunes 7

September 13, 2006

iTunes has a major upgrade and version 7 is now availabe for download here. So what the are major changes in the new version ?  Here is a complete rip off of “Whatz New” from the Apple site: Movies Buy Disney films from the iTunes Store and go to the movies without leaving your comfy chair. Cover [...]

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How video games are made !

September 11, 2006

A “video” of How video games are designed (Its a part of one of the episode of Discovery Channels “How Its Made” Series) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5fFPEMHxKDY

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Ping Online Diary

September 11, 2006

I have noticed from quite some time that my blog loads up very slowly. I have got the same feedback from some of my visitors as well I have raised the ticket with my hosting provider i.e. GoDaddy many times, and every time they ask for a trace route for venukb.com I promptly sent the [...]

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Tracking Comments

September 10, 2006

User A leaves a comment on a blog User B (can be another user or the author of the blog) responds to the comment There is no reponse back from User A on User B’s comments ! This might happen due to 3 reasons User A saw User B’s response, but was not interested in [...]

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Google Yahoo Maps

September 9, 2006

Here is another mashup which puts both Google Maps and Yahoo Maps together. When you scroll a map in one of the maps, the other map is also automatically updated. One thing you immediately notice is that the level of detail in each map is different. In some cases, Google Map seems to have more [...]

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Adding Top Posts

September 8, 2006

As you can see from the Archives section of my blog, I have compiled about 109 posts over the past 4 months. One thing I could make out from Google Analytics statistics is that the entry and exit posts were same for most of the visitors. i.e visitors rarely check the other posts in the [...]

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Like Ping Pong ?

September 7, 2006

Here is an video showing Top 10 ping pong rallies of all time. The top 2 are worth checking out, in fact the Top 1 rally extends for about 49 seconds !!  There is a nice song playing at the background, don’t forget to switch on your speakers http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k6BzyN5p4aM

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GMail – Unlimited Email Addresses

September 7, 2006

This has to be the coolest feature of GMail. This post at Modern Day Alchemist explains how you can have unlimited GMail Addresses by using a plus-addressing scheme, i.e adding a + after your GMail user name. Though the post covers details on how to use the feature, I will reiterate it again. (I had [...]

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