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Google Analytics – No Invitation Needed

August 17, 2006

Google Analytics is a free service offered by Google that generates  detailed statistics about the visitors to a website. Google recently acquired Urchin Web Tracking system and made it available via Google Analytics. If you have content behind a security firewall or on an intranet or internal network that prevents you from using the Google [...]

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Free High-Resolution Wallpapers

August 11, 2006

Want to download some high quality wallpapers for free ! Checkout this link : InterfaceLIFT Wallpapers The images are availabe in the following resolutions (Yup, the widescreen format is also there ) You can also sort the images based on the following criteria: Date Posted Most Downloaded Highest Rated Most Commented Random! Also don’t forget [...]

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Google Special Search

August 11, 2006

One problem of extensively using the Google Toolbar (Browser Toolbar) for search is that you will miss some of the customized search features that Google provides. I just happened to stumble upon Google’s Special Search feature. The special search allows you to narrow your search based on a specific topic. Currently the following specialized services [...]

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Colibri – Version 0.14

August 8, 2006

Colibri is a nice little application through which you can quickly launch start menu and control panel applications of MS windows. I had covered this tool some time back. Check the old post at this link : http://venukb.com/blog/2006/07/12/colibri/ A new version of this tool is released and this version is much faster in indexing your [...]

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Typetester

August 7, 2006

Typetester is an online application which you can use to compare the different fonts. According to the site, its primary role is to make a web designer’s life easier. I have always been thinking of changing 2 aspects of my web page . One is the combination of colors for some elements in the page [...]

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ATI Multidesk

August 2, 2006

There was time when I used Internet Explorer as my web browser of choice and tabbed browsing was unknown feature then. If I had to work with multiple web pages, I used to open multiple windows of IE and this used to clutter the toolbar. Thanks to Firefox, I got over that problem. (Even today [...]

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Color Schemer

August 2, 2006

While designing the web site, many a times you are stuck with the problem of choosing appropriate colors. I still haven’t been able to find the right combination of colors for menus, links etc. I am using the default style sheet of K2 theme. (Which by the way is pretty decent). There are few tweaks [...]

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Google Talk Reloaded

July 28, 2006

Few days back I happened to see the statistics for different Instant Messengers in Techcruch. Google talk was way behind in 4th place holding just 1% of the total IM market. Here is the statistics for the month of May 2006. MSN is still way ahead of Yahoo and Google. However this count doesn’t include [...]

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StumbleUpon

July 28, 2006

Few days back I stumbled upon an interesting website. Incidentally its name was “StumbleUpon”. It’s an application which helps you to find new sites of your interest. StumbleUpon lets you “channelsurf” the best-reviewed sites on the web. It is a collaborative surfing tool for browsing, reviewing and sharing great sites with like-minded people. This helps [...]

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Secure Browsing

July 25, 2006

Search engines are the entry points for most sites. Recently I found 2 tools which scan the search results and protects you from visiting sites that spread malicious viruses or spyware. 1. Scandoo Scandoo integrates with all the popular search engines i.e. Google, MSN and Yahoo. Recently support for Ask.com was also added. When you [...]

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