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 [...]

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Moved to WebFaction

May 3, 2009

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 which [...]

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Time Zone problem on Windows Mobile

December 28, 2008

The HTC Touch phone that I have been using from 18 months had turned into a nightmare from the past 2 months. I do use the phone extensively to synch my Outlook contacts and calendar appointments. However from the past few weeks, I was seeing that the Time Zone on the phone used to default [...]

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Where the hell am I ?

November 10, 2008

This site saw the last post almost 3 months back and since then many have been checking with me on my well-being. Few services even banned this site for having no activity in the last 3 months. I just took a long break from blogging and hope to be back as soon as possible ! [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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