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Moved to WebFaction

May 3, 2009 Tech

Moving from one web hosting to another has become one of the annual activities. However this time around, I had totally forgot about the hosting renewal; this post after 4 months would explain why I forgot about the hosting renewal
An automatic renewal (which I had not subscribed for) was tried by Media Temple [...]

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Firefox 3 – What is new ?

June 22, 2008 Browsers

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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Woopra Web Analytics

June 10, 2008 Tech

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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Firefox World Record !

May 30, 2008 Browsers

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 I [...]

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Cell Broadcast on HTC Touch

April 24, 2008 Mobile

Cell Broadcast also know as Short Message Service – Cell Broadcast (SMS-CB) is a service designed for delivery of messages to multiple users in a specified area. Unlike SMS Point to Point which is manly a one to one service Cell Broadcast is a one to many service.
Some mobile operators use Cell Broadcast for [...]

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Twitter Clients for iPhone

April 15, 2008 Tech

Twitter is a web service which helps you to communicate and stay connected through quick exchange of messages. Its supposedly one of the fastest growing phenomena on the Internet.
Until few days back, accessing Twitter service from iPhone was possible only via the safari web browser. Following are the 4 web based Twitter Clients for [...]

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Moving from Dreamhost to Media Temple

April 8, 2008 Tech

Exactly an year back I wrote about moving this blog from GoDaddy to Dreamhost. The story continues and this year I have moved to Media Temple (referral link).
I had considered Media Temple last year, however the site revenues weren’t enough to match the rates quoted by Media Temple. Even this time around I thought a [...]

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iPhone in India – Breaking, Activating and Unlocking

March 29, 2008 Gadgets

A 16 GB iPhone just made its way to my home today all the way from an US store. Even though I had “experienced” iPhone by reading about it and by seeing tons of videos on YouTube, using it live was a totally different experience.
iPhone is an amazing, astounding, remarkable, wonderful, incredible, marvelous product from [...]

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Acer – Updating BIOS

March 22, 2008 Tech

The BIOS on my Acer 1694 laptop was 3 years old and I did manage to find an updated version of the same on the Acer support web site. However ever after trying for about say 10 times, I couldn’t upgrade the BIOS from Windows Vista.
The upgrade from Vista always ended with a blue [...]

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Windows Vista SP1 released

March 19, 2008 Tech

Ah.. the day I have been waiting for ! Windows Vista SP1 has been finally released via windows update today !
I upgraded to Vista last year and there were a few issues bugging me including the file copy to external drives, WiFi connectivity, Printer Connectivity etc.
Few of the issues were addressed by patches and [...]

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