February 2008

In one of my earlier post I covered some of the tools that can be used to copy songs from iPod to PC. Most of the tools available are shareware and there are very few free quality applications. Sharepod is one such quality application for iPod. It's a lightweight music management tool for iPod which you can run from within the iPod disk. This circumvents the necessity of having iTunes on every other system for managing your iPod. Below is the list of Sharepod features which might motivate you to install and use it :-) Track tag editing Video import support iPod Shuffle supportDrag and drop tracks to Explorer Completely rewritten codebase to safely ...

Moneycontrol.com which boasts itself as an end-to-end business and financial portal is a perfect example of showing how you can screw up a web site by putting too many ads.

When you first type in the URL in the browser, you have a full page Ad with the link to "continue to Moneycontrol". Once you continue, this is what you see: (Click on the image for a bigger picture :) )

I agree that the page is well designed and at first sight, the page layout might actually look cool, but if you inspect the page more deeply, its just filled with ads; There are Google Ads, sponsored ads, flash ads, budget

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Many a times I have been in a situation where I need to delete a windows service and every time I end up "googling" to find the easiest/fastest way of doing this. Most of the posts in the search result talk about modifying the windows registry to delete the service, which isn't always foolproof.

The easisest way of deleting a service is by using the sc.exe command line tool. This tools comes bundled with Windows and is probably the easiest way of maintaining and administering Windows Services.

Lets take an example of a totally useless service on Windows: Windows Search Service.

The first thing to do is to get the name of the Windows Service; What is shown in

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Recently Raj found out that he was color blind and requested his readers to take the color blindness test on Flixter. When I first scrolled through the quiz questions, I thought it was some kind of fun since I wasn't able to find numbers in those circles.

After spending considerable amount of time, I finally came up with 6 correct answers out of the 10 questions. The 4 failed ones had single numbers and even if someone showed me where the number was I couldn't see it!

I still thought that the quiz was some kind of fun and that very few people would have scored 10 out of 10. But I was

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