by venukb on July 10, 2007
Akismet, one of the best anti-spam webservice has helped lot of websites including mine in identifying and blocking spam comments and trackbacks. However from the past few days, I am spending more time deleting spam comments and these comments are also making way as comment subscription notifications.
The comment text is generally the same: "Nice", "Interesting" etc.
Is anybody else facing the same problem ? Guess I should switch on the
Bad Behavior plug-in
by venukb on July 9, 2007
The success of
YouTube has spawned a lot of clones in India. My earlier post
here covers some of the popular video sharing sites in India.
Konkan.tv one of the popular sites among that list has now launched "
Live Television". This is what the owner of the site, Rohan Pinto had to say about the new service.
The Live TV service is 100% free and is aimed at bridging the east and the west. There are "desi" channels for folks far away from home to connect with, and international channels for folks back home to enjoy western broadcasts for free.
Streaming speeds are totally dependent on the end users bandwidth speed. Also some channels are not 24/7 and may ...
by venukb on July 8, 2007
Eclipse 3.3 code named Europa was
released few days back and this annual released featured a simultaneous release of
21 projects. I took Europa for a test drive and it feels much faster than Callisto (Eclipse 3.2)
Here are some of the new features worth making a note of:
Java Perspective Changes
In the default Java Perspective, the link to "New Java Project" has been added; This makes project creation faster; In 3.2, you had to select the option from the "New Project" Wizard page.
Also the New project wizard now allows you to choose a host of Java Execution Environment. Previously this was available only in ...
by venukb on July 6, 2007
Amit of Labnol suggested couple of useful sites on this post which help you to get more information about a domain. I particularly liked Whoishostingthis.com which helps you to quickly have a look at the hosting provider of a particular domain.
I would like to recommend the following 2 sites.
Whois.sc
Whois.sc was recently renamed to Domain Tools. Domain Tools has been tracking whois history for quite some time now (since 2000). The information provided by the Domain tools whois service is exhaustive.
The information is categorized into
Front Page Information - Website Title, Title Relevancy, SEO Score etc Indexed Data - Alexa Trend and Ranking Server ...
by venukb on July 5, 2007
I started the "Roundup" from April and somehow missed it in May. The roundup gives readers a second chance to have a look at some of the popular posts and also helps new readers to catchup on some of the interesting posts.
So why just do roundup for the previous month ? Since this site is already a year old, I am including some of the popular posts of June 2006 as well :D
Popular posts - June 2007
Source Control in Eclipse IDE
List of Team Plugins available for
Eclipse
How To: Browse remote files in Eclipse IDE
This post details the method to install RSE plugin and using the plugin to connect ...
by venukb on July 3, 2007
In yesterdays post on Sandisk Cruzer Micro, I was mentioning how U3 Smart technology allows you to carry your favorite PC programs on the flash drive.
Turns out that U3 is not the only technology available to accomplish this task. There is an open source project called PortableApps using which you could turn any flash drive/iPod into a "U3 smart" device.
A portable app is a computer program that you can carry around with you on a portable device and use on any Windows computer. When your
USB flash drive, portable hard drive, iPod or other portable device is plugged in, you have access to your software
...
by venukb on July 2, 2007
I have been planning to buy a USB flash drive from quite some time now. My current 256MB flash drive is of no use in the sense that it runs out of space too quickly.
My 30GB iPod could have served as an alternative; however its little bulky to carry around and the "proprietary" cable that has to be tagged along with the device makes it much more difficult.
Transcend and
Sandisk are the 2 major vendors of USB Flash drives. I had a look at the products offered by both vendors and was more impressed with the Sandisk range.
Sandisk flash drives looked much better; cute and compact. However compared to Transcend they are priced on the higher side.
The other reason for choosing Sandisk was because of the 2 Year International warranty. Transcend provides lifetime warranty only at the place/country where it is bought (The one I got was bought in Taiwan :D )
After going over the entire product portfolio, I finally settled on a 4GB Sandisk Cruzer Micro.
Let's go over the specification first :)
