May 2008

Firefox World Record !

May 30, 2008

Firefox has been the default browser on my PC’s from quite some time now. Firefox for some reason has always been able make its way back every time I try to adopt a different browser ! Flock and Safari were the two browser which gave serious competition to Firefox ! From the past few weeks [...]

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Bangalore International Airport Site is down !

May 25, 2008

The new Bangalore International airport started operating from today and seems to have already handled around 341 flights. I tried to check on the official website to know more about the launch day only to find the website down ! I tried accessing the site contents via Google cache; even that seemed to lead to [...]

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HTC Touch Diamond

May 24, 2008

HTC Touch Diamond was unveiled in London 2 weeks back and even India is part of the global launch of the handset. As with the case of HTC Touch, HTC Diamond will also be available via Bharti Airtel, which means that the device will be locked onto Airtel Network. I am confident that the intelligent [...]

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Bangalore International Airport

May 19, 2008

The Bangalore/Bengaluru International Airport (BIA) is finally commencing operations from 23 May 2008. The switch to the new airport will take place at midnight on May 23. As per the statement from BIAL (BIA Limited) all flights landing and departing after midnight will operate from the new airport. Update: BIA opened on May 24 (Saturday) [...]

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Cleanup your hard drive with WinDirStat

May 14, 2008

At my workplace I somehow managed to eat up almost all of the 40GB on the primary partition and I had no clue as to what directory/file was eating up the space. As usual, Windows XP has no inbuilt tools to accomplish the simple task of finding the culprit directories/files. In my earlier post, I [...]

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YouTube Indian Edition

May 12, 2008

As many of you know, the Indian Edition of YouTube is now live @ http://in.youtube.com. Till now there were a lot of YouTube clones which catered to the local video content and some of them even got considerable funding from VC’s I am not sure if this edition of YouTube is going to pickup in [...]

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Xobni is now publicly available

May 6, 2008

Xobni is an excellent add-on for Microsoft Outlook and has definitely simplified email management for me. Even Bill Gates fell in love with this application and referred it as the next generation of social networking. (Microsoft did try to acquire Xobni and it failed due to various reasons) Xobni was initially invite only and today [...]

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Moving WordPress to a different domain

May 5, 2008

This site is powered by WordPress and when it came online 2 years back for some odd reason I opted to install WordPress on the "blog" sub-domain. I guess it was popular then to have the blog installed on its own domain. And even though I knew the kind of content I would write, I [...]

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Screen Capture with Jing

May 4, 2008

Jing, a concept project from TechSmith is a handy screen capture utility. It also adds up as a useful screencast utility. One aim of the Jing project is to simplify the process of screen capture and screencasting and it does fulfill this aim. Jing has one of the simplest UI for taking screenshots. In SnagIt [...]

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Pagerank updated and the site is downgraded !

May 2, 2008

There has been another round of pagerank  update and I see that many sites have got a higher pagerank and few of them have even managed to get a PR of 4 within few months ! This site had a PR of 4 from quite some time and even during the last update where few [...]

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