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FeedDemon syncs with Google Reader

September 26, 2009

Two weeks back I upgraded FeedDemon to the latest beta that was available then only to realize that my subscriptions were no longer in sync – I use FeedDemon from home and work
Reading more into the release notes and a little bit of Googling made me  realize that FeedDemon had discontinued its NewsGator online synchronization [...]

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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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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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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 had mentioned [...]

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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 they [...]

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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 still [...]

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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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Cell Broadcast on HTC Touch

April 24, 2008

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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Must have software for Windows

April 20, 2008

I happened to reinstall the OS on my system (yet again) and there is a set of software that I install after every OS re-install. In fact I have a “Must Have” directory which has all the software’s that I use on a day to day basis.
Here is my list of “must have” [...]

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