June 2007

Lewis Hamilton – Next Schummi or Jacque ?

June 11, 2007

Of the few sports that I love watching, F1 and Tennis tops the list. Regarding the latter, its not just restricted to watching, I play the game a little bit too . Yesterday’s French Open final between Roger Federer and Nadal was supposed to be a clash of the “titans” and I expected at least a 5 [...]

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Website Load Time Tester

June 11, 2007

Pingdom is a service which provides tools to monitor web sites, E-Mail Servers, FTP servers and a multitude of other services. Though I didn’t find the service that useful, they do seem to have introduced a nice little tool (free) to check the page loading speed. http://www.pingdom.com/tools/fpt/?url=www.venukb.com/blog (Replace the “url” parameter with the URL of [...]

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Active@ File Recovery – Recover deleted files and partitions

June 10, 2007

Contrary to what most people think, deletion of file on windows does not mean permanent loss of the data.  When the file is deleted, its not “shredded”; Instead, the table of contents that points out the location of the file is erased.  To put in more simpler words, the attribute of the space used by the [...]

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Linux Command Line Tips

June 10, 2007

PixelBeat has nice compilation of some of the commonly used Linux terminal commands. The commands are also categorized and should help in finding the right command/command usage for the task at had. Link: http://www.pixelbeat.org/cmdline.html Also note the comment in the above page: Examples marked with • are valid/safe to paste without modification into a terminal, [...]

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Backup Platinum – Professional Backup Tool

June 8, 2007

Backup in the world of Information Technology refers to the process of making copies of data. This copy of the data would be useful in the event of a data loss.  Virus attacks, hard disk failure or accidents are the primary reasons for data loss. Most of the PC users have one PC at max [...]

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How To: Browse remote files in Eclipse IDE

June 6, 2007

Eclipse.org always amaze me with the kind of tooling that they go on adding to the Eclipse Platform. Few months back when I was browsing the different projects in Eclipse, I stumbled on Remote System Explorer (RSE) Remote System Explorer is part of Target Management which in turn in a subproject of Device Software Development [...]

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Movavi Video Converter

June 3, 2007

In recent times Videos, especially streaming videos are becoming extremely popular. There are hundreds of video sharing sites that want to become the Flickr of online video world. Most of the videos on these sites are encoded in Flash and if someone is interested in downloading the videos, he has to start searching for a [...]

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Search for “Desktop Search”

June 2, 2007

The other day I was reading about the popular Desktop search tools on a popular technology site. The 3 tools featured were Google Desktop Search Microsoft Desktop Search Yahoo Desktop Search I was immediately keen to know as to how Google, Microsoft and Yahoo display their respective desktop search products on their search engines. Search [...]

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Feedburner FeedCount

June 2, 2007

The RSS subscribes for this site is tracked using the Feedburner service. From the past week I have been observing an change in the way the feed count is reported/calculated. I am not sure if I am the only one seeing this change. The site had an average reader count of around 130 feed subscribers. [...]

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Windows Live Writer Reloaded

June 1, 2007

Microsoft‘s Windows Live Writer is a powerful desktop based weblog client and is currently the only product I like from Microsoft’s stable. The initial beta had lot of interesting features which made it a must have for any blogger. Review of Windows Live Writer Beta 1 There are lot of free and licensed desktop weblog [...]

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