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Google Reader – Just got better

September 29, 2006

Google Reader till now was one of the most “unusable” applications from Google’s stable. Google which re-defined usability with applications like GMail did not extend the same usability aspects to Google Reader. Now after hearing to the constant complaints/suggestions from the users, GReader has introduces a total new look and feel, and to be honest [...]

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Blog sites BLOCKED in India !!

July 19, 2006

Yesterday I noticed that some of the RSS feeds were not working in my feed reader (Outlook 2007). I thought it was some problem with the client and I never took the pain of checking further. Today I realized that many ISP’s in India have blocked blog sites and this was the reason for the [...]

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Flock – Browser for Bloggers

May 4, 2006

The WYSIWYG "editors" for posting blogs in Blogger or WordPress are pretty slow. You need to login to the administration page whenever you need to write a new post. Blogger does provide a plugin for Microsoft Word, however you cannot post documents with images. So I started searching for a nice tool to ease this [...]

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How to setup your own web site !

April 29, 2006

If you search for the “title” string (i.e. Setup your own web site) in Google, the first result you will get is of Blogger. Blogger is a free service and its very easy to setup your own blog. Even I started with hosting my site on Blogger. But I did have some bad experiences with [...]

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Contemplating ….

April 23, 2006

I have stuck to Blogger for blogging for quite some time. Very few people know that I have a synchronized blog at venukb.wordpress.com. Now I am seriously contemplating on a move to wordpress due to number of reasons. WordPress is pretty powerful and allows tagging and categorizing of blogs. And again if someday I have [...]

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