July 2007

What’s with Akismet ?

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“, [...]

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Live TV on Konkan.tv

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 [...]

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Eclipse Europa – Features worth checking out

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 [...]

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Domain Tools

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 [...]

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June 2007 Roundup

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 [...]

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PortableApps – Alternative to U3

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 [...]

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Sandisk Cruzer Micro

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 [...]

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