From the monthly archives:

June 2008

Validating English Word Pronunciations

June 30, 2008

I find myself pronouncing a lot of English words differently from what my friends do. One of the reasons for this is the fact that English just happens to be one of the 5 languages that I speak.
A couple of these word pronunciations also lead to a healthy debate with neither party accepting defeat and [...]

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Firefox 3 – What is new ?

June 22, 2008

Firefox 3 was downloaded by more than 8 million users in 24 hours and it might well go down as the most downloaded software in 24 hours !
India’s contribution in the above 8 million was 226K  and US was the highest with 4632K.
Talking of new features in FF3, Alex Faaborg, the user experience designer who [...]

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Download Firefox 3

June 18, 2008

Firefox 3 intended to create a world record for the most software downloaded in 24 hours .
June 17 was fixed as the release date and when I tried to download yesterday, the servers were down.
They seem to be back online now and you can download the latest Firefox from the below link:
http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox?p=downloadday
At the [...]

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How To: Activate or Deactivate a Service on Linux

June 13, 2008

A service is a long running executable which does require any user intervention and is configured to start when the operating system is booted.
On Windows, the services are managed via services.msc and you can also communicate with a NT service using the SC tool.
On Linux the services can be controlled via the chkconfig command line [...]

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Safely Remove USB Hardware

June 11, 2008

I have been reading in many posts which mention special tools to help in ejecting/removing a USB disk.
The Windows “Safely Remove Hardware” feature has been notorious for hiding itself after installing the new hardware.
You do have the option of Ejecting the hardware; however this becomes a pain if you are working with multiple [...]

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Woopra Web Analytics

June 10, 2008

Web Analytic tools are must have for anybody running a website since they give interesting insight into your site’s traffic patterns.
Woopra Web Analytics was mentioned/reviewed by so many sites that I had to give it a try.
After signing up for Woopra, I immediately proceeded towards the downloads page. I installed the Desktop Client (for [...]

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