October 2006

Suggest new features for GMail

October 19, 2006

GMail a.k.a Google Mail is still in Beta even after 2.5 years in service. However the application is evolving continuously based on user feedback. This is a snapshot of some of the suggestions that have already been implemented based on user feedback You can suggest more features to the GMail team via this link. I [...]

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The longest URL on web !

October 17, 2006

StumbleUpon is a nice way to find new sites and today I stumbled upon PCNames.com. Its a domain search engine which uses Ajax to display the domain status (i.e taken, available etc). So in a sense its one of the “web 2.0″ domain search engine. I started typing in random words like Googled,Googler etc. Then [...]

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LinkedIn – Is it really useful ?

October 17, 2006

Recently I started using LinkedIn and sent out invites to a bunch of guys I know. For those who are new to LinkedIn, this is the Wikipedia definition: LinkedIn is a business oriented social networking site, mainly used for professional networking. As of September 2006, it had more than 7 million registered users, representing 130 [...]

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Add Reader into GMail with GreaseMonkey

October 15, 2006

Google Reader, the online RSS reader from Google had a major upgrade in terms of features and UI. The most useful features included folder-based navigation and the expanded view of posts. Overall the UI looked a lot similar to GMail. Even while writing about Google Reader, I was wondering why Reader was not integrated into [...]

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New look and feel !

October 15, 2006

Since I wrote this post , I have been constantly searching for a good 3 column wordpress theme. I found a few good themes, however when I compared them with the K2 theme, something was always missing ! Today I have finally upgraded to a new theme called Freshy. Thanks to Thilak for finding out [...]

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Damn Yahoo !

October 14, 2006

As mentioned in one of my previous posts, my Yahoo account was compromised because of possible a phishing attack. Other than being my first email ID on Internet, many services like Flickr (fortunately not a pro account), yahoo photos etc were linked with this account. To make things worse I am not able to reset [...]

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Google Docs & Spreadsheets

October 12, 2006

Writely , the online word program from Google is now integrated with Google spreadsheets and is now known as Google Docs & Spreadsheets . I guess this is the first product from Google making use of “&” for combining 2 products and in a way combining word and spreadsheet does make sense. (However as of [...]

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MediaMonkey – AutoTag MP3

October 10, 2006

I stumbled upon MediaMonkey few days ago and if any of you guys are managing tons of MP3, this is one cute little application you should try ! I am still trying to figure out as to how I found this ! Doesn’t matter Managing MP3 media files is always a pain. Usually you end [...]

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Eclipse.org – “New” look

October 7, 2006

Eclipse.org, the official site of Eclipse had a “look and feel” upgrade yesterday. Unlike the Eclipse platform, the site was not so usable, it was always a pain searching for information in the website. I still have to explore the new interface and see whether they have improved on these aspects. From what I observed [...]

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Ping Google

October 6, 2006

When it comes to searching content in Blogs, the default search engine many people prefer is Technorati. The Technorati engine is totally dedicated for searching within blogs. Bloggers/Publishers can ping the Technorati service to notify Technorati of new content in your blog. In many of the publishing software including WordPress, this can be be done [...]

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