April 2007

Fight for the Indian Skies

April 29, 2007

This is one picture doing rounds in the E-mail forwards. Worth putting it down here. As seen from the above photo, the skirmish in the skies is now turning into a war of words. Kingfisher and Jet Airways are now fighting each other on the streets, in an advertising battle. GoAir, one of the new entrant [...]

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SimpleCSS – Making CSS Simple !

April 27, 2007

Simple CSS is a style sheet creator for Mac and Windows. It supports CSS 2.0 specification and is a great tool for CSS beginners and experts. The tools lets you to create a project and input all the different CSS properties via tabbed pages. You can even import a existing CSS page and edit the [...]

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Technorati Favorite Exchange

April 25, 2007

Kawaiikuma at DoshDosh has been running a interactive experiment from some time called as “Ultimate Technorati Favorites Exchange“. (Thanks to Garry for pointing me to this programme) After I left a comment in DoshDosh’s post 100 people have add this blog as their favorite. (Before I “enrolled” for the programme, the count stood at 7). [...]

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Automated GUI Recorder

April 24, 2007

Eclipse Testing and Performance Tools Platform Project project has a great write-up on using TPTP’s automated GUI recorder. TPTP’s Automated GUI Recorder (AGR) works by registering listeners with the SWT’s display instance to record all incoming UI events that directly correspond to user’s actions. The recorder keeps track of the context of the events and [...]

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Bose SoundDock – Speakers for iPod

April 24, 2007

Apple’s iPod has become a huge cultural phenomenon similar to what Sony’s walkman created few decades back. The success of iPod also has bought in a lot of players in the iPod accessories market. The Bose SoundDock digital music system is one of the accessory specifically designed to expand and enhance your enjoyment of the [...]

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RSS Bandit – Alternative to FeedDemon

April 17, 2007

FeedDemon, the popular RSS feed reader for windows is/was one of my favorite application. It has a clean user friendly interface and reading/managing the feeds is a treat with this application. Its also one of the few desktop based readers which can synchronize with an online service -Newsgator. However FeedDemon comes at a price (30$) [...]

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Checking backlinks

April 16, 2007

Backlinks are the incoming links to a website or web page and the number of backlinks is an indication of the popularity or importance of the website or a web page. Search engines often use the number of backlinks that a website has as one of the factors for determining the website’s search engine ranking. [...]

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Landing page for the blog

April 11, 2007

A landing page is the first page seen by a visitor visiting a site. (Generally from a search engine) Seth Godin hailed as the ultimate entrepreneur of Information Age has a very interesting say on Landing pages. Taking a cue from that article I integrated the “Landing Site” plugin for WordPress. The plugin does the following tasks: [...]

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Sticky Cat

April 10, 2007

Guess how this cat is stuck to that wall ! 2 more pictures  

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Acer – Upgrade to Vista

April 9, 2007

In spite of hearing all the negative feedback on Windows Vista I am still very keen on upgrading my Acer laptop from XP to Vista. I had tried the Beta version of Vista on the laptop and worked pretty well. I got my Acer 1690 laptop in the first quarter of 2006 and wasn’t aware [...]

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