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Yahoo Kickstart

2007-11-07T21:28:00.001+05:30

A brand new service from yahoo, named Yahoo! Kickstart has been launched. I tried registering my college, and was quite surprised with a very intuitive approach it takes. It actually does not you to register you college up front , but it asks what's your college name and then returns the matching result. This actually reduces the chance of duplication a lot. Yahoo! Kickstart is following the same

MockupScreens

2007-10-30T12:23:00.001+05:30

I found a very nice application to design mockup screens or wireframes.MockupScreens helps you to sketch screen mockups of your application and organize them in scenarios. With MockupScreens you can experiment interactively with your clients, and quickly visualize scenarios of your application, even before the coding has started.Seems to be very good application seeing at the feature list. Yes

Expense Tracker

2007-10-28T17:13:00.001+05:30

There are quite a few Expense Tracker solutions on internet. Expensr , Mint are among popular expense trackers. They are really good, but was overkill for my requirement. So I decided to go for a Excel sheet solution and I am using the sheet for past 3 months and am very satisfied. The main reason being it's fast on data entry part :)I am sharing the document with you all, hopefully some of you

Firebug Tutorial - Part 1

2007-10-28T15:41:00.001+05:30

Those who don’t know what firebug is, let me tell you, it’s a firefox extension. It can not run standalone; you need firefox installed in it. To know what firebug can do visit http://www.getfirebug.com/.Now let’s come to the point. Here I am going to show you only how to debug HTML and CSS.Let’s take a small HTML file to make the session easier.

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Where is "make noise" button

2007-10-25T15:15:00.001+05:30

Yesterday my mom asked me to put her phone to ringing mode, which has accidentally went to silence mode. I casually picked up the phone to finish the job ASAP. Well guess what I spend almost 20 minutes to figure out how to switch off the silence mode !!!She has a Samsung N361 phone, pretty decent one. But somehow it went to silence mode, she herself is not aware of how. SO naturally as a tech

Be passionate about your job first, not anything else!!!

2007-02-08T14:44:00.001+05:30

You should not fall in love with your company or your product/ project or your co-worker as a matter of fact ... you WILL feel stressed. Fall in love with the work you do, be honest to it. You will never feel stressed out even if you work overtime. - thats what i believe. Working whole night does not always mean that you are a very dedicated person ... working hard is not important, working

Don't pay your employee, invest on them

2007-02-03T13:23:00.001+05:30

A very though provoking statement from Paul Grahamthe company has some money, and they pay it to the employee in the hope that he'll make something worth more than they paid him. Well, there are other ways to arrange that relationship. Instead of paying the guy money as a salary, why not give it to him as investment?Quite interesting, specially for product companies. Not sure how much this is

Microsoft Firefox 2007

2007-01-19T12:51:00.001+05:30

I don't understand what does this mean. I am also not sure it's from microsoft or not :(I was shocked whats written in the Fast Fun Tab. Can't believe Microsoft is marketing this way. Kinda wired to me.But anyway I haven't downloaded the software, as I like FF's look and I don't even have IE 7 installed in my system, as I never use IE except testing webpage rendering.If you are interested, please

First Look at Adobe Photoshop CS3

2007-01-10T11:53:00.000+05:30

Well, with no second thought I clearly shows Macromedia people are inside Adobe now. The user interface clearly reflects the tightness, ease of use and elegance of Macromedia Product line up. The floating pallets are too annoying to manage. Now they are elegantly docked. It will be very much help full to people who use single monitor. Not many people have the luxury to use dual monitor right !!!

Hellgate London : It's coming

2007-01-09T10:53:00.001+05:30

So finally it's comming. the most anticipated game of year , undoubtedly Hellgate London from EA.Electronic Arts Inc. (NASDAQ: ERTS) and NAMCO BANDAI Games America Inc. today announced a summer 2007 worldwide ship window for the highly-anticipated online action RPG Hellgate: LondonIt's the first original PC Title from premier developer Flagship Studio.We are all committed to making Hellgate:

Happy New Year 2007

2007-01-02T11:20:00.001+05:30

Wishing all of you a happy and prosperous new year. Well for us(workers) it's a year with least number of working days and maximum Sunday's and Saturday's ... so ppl enjoy the least working year in your life!!!!!!!!!!!!!!2007 a year with a difference.powered by performancing firefox

Adobe CS3 Icons

2006-12-22T12:14:00.001+05:30

Honestly I don't like them. CS2 Icons are far better and yes eye candy. Now the creator might have many logics behind doing this, one of them might be make them look web 2.0 ish ... he he . Might be this is better. But I don't like them. Let's see what others say.Some likes them ... Veerle Pieters and some hates them ... Jason Santa MariaBut when I compared the new icons with these babies I was

Adobe Apollo

2006-12-20T14:29:00.001+05:30

Once adobe acquired macromedia people were busy talking about which product will survive, what will fate of the discontinued producs and some talked about who will be the off spring of this merger. well it seems that we are about to get the answer. Adobe ApolloThis technology has the power to redefine how web works ... web apps will no longer be dependent on Browser, they will have is own crome.

CSS is now a 10 years old boy !!! Happy birthday CSS

2006-12-20T10:59:00.001+05:30

w3 first published CSS Level 1 specification on 17th December, 1996. And now its 10 years over. CSS have matured a lot and we are now on the verge of CSS 3. A lot has changed.Although browserd still struggling to support proper CSS standards, but let's hope good days are very near when all major browsers support same standard.Happy BirthDay CSSCascading Style Sheets ... Celebrating 10 Years with

CSS Advisor Beta

2006-12-18T17:49:00.001+05:30

Nice initiative by Adobe. http://www.adobe.com/go/cssadvisorSome good advices from adobe guys . although no where exhaustive but good start.I really liked the Internet Explorer thread. Lot of good discussion and tips there.A very useful piece of info goes here.Background image flickers on hover. - http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/communityengine/index.cfm?event=showdetails />I wish I had this link

Microsoft Website makeover

2006-12-16T10:56:00.001+05:30

At last it came ..the new microsoft website is officially released. It's cute , its elegant and it's too DHTML :)Things I liked :1. Less clutter than previous design.2. Excellent Navigation system design ..though there is definitely an one time learn.3. Very nice placement of one liner news.Things I didn't like much:1. the navigation shifted to right side ...does we ideally have navigation on

Future is here!!!

2006-12-08T12:14:00.001+05:30

From my small experience ...what I have derived is, our future is not going to be a complex use of technology. Where you can just wow your peers with the complex system you use.But its going to be very simple. On top its just basic. Just meet your need, thats all.The future is personalization and collaboration and sharing. It's already here and gaining maturity. We will be soon experiencing

James Kim found deceased

2006-12-07T14:03:00.001+05:30

http://news.com.com/2009-12-6141617.html?tag=rsspr.6141629Very sad news indeed. 7 days of wait should not have ended this way :(My deepest condolences to James Kim.powered by performancing firefox

Simulation or Real

2006-12-01T11:42:00.001+05:30

Joshua, the “give a damn” is the key. You are spot on there. We’re not fans of simulation—we’re fans of real. And the only way to get real feedback is to launch.I was going through this post and found this reply from JF(37 Signal)http://www.37signals.com/svn/posts/137-design-decisions-basecamp-helpThe agenda is 37signal does not do usability testing with users as they think simulated environment

Back in business

2006-11-30T11:13:00.001+05:30

Am back in business ...was very busy for quite a few days. Went home during puja, enjoyed a lot. Soon I will post some of the pictures. Going to Munnar in this Christmas, with my parents. Looking forword egarly for the day :)powered by performancing firefox

Magic Mirror

2006-07-21T11:03:00.000+05:30

Adding secondary functions to mirrors isn't a new concept, but Craig Barr has literally made a dream -- or at least a fairy tale -- come true. The animatronics guru that produced the King Kong ride at Universal Studios Florida has channeled his creative powers to Themeaddicts, Inc., a startup company that makes it their business to turn wild fantasies into take-home products. The "Magic Message

Seminar at KASC

2006-07-17T10:27:00.000+05:30

On saturday (14th July,06) I went to Kangu Ats & Science College for delivaring a seminar on MVC Architecture & PHP Framework. It is sad such a interesting programming language such as PHP which has tremendous industry value is not tought in any university of India. We teach Java, .Net which is re-tought again upon joining industry where as if we could teach PHP we could have open new avenue for

Protein-coated discs could enable 50TB capacities

2006-07-13T11:31:00.000+05:30

We know that it shouldn't come as a shock anymore when researchersannounce new storage technologies that promise to hold tantalizinglylarge amounts of data, but we were still pretty stoked to learn that arecent breakthrough at Harvard Medical School may eventually lead toDVD-size discs whose capacities approach an eye-popping 50TB. Unliketraditional optical or magnetic solutions, the disc

Million Dollar Bed

2006-07-05T09:50:00.000+05:30

Well here is chance for a person to float, well really. Dutch architect Janjaap Ruijssenaars has designed a magnetic bed that floats on air, basically suspended enatirely by magnet. Well thats interesting, but hey what about the price. It's $1.5 million only. He he did I mention only. Now we need to look for a person who will be passionate enough to buy this and claim himself the only person

Mighty Microsoft proves to be sloppy here

2006-06-30T12:01:00.000+05:30

Microsoft is also not always right. nad the pictures below clearly shows their lack of homework or testing whatever. They just cannot ignore that there are many browsers other than IE. Windows Vista Site in IE Windows Vista Site in Firefox Windows Vista Site in Flock Windows Vista Site in Opera 9(Worst Among the lot)

Map mania

2006-06-29T11:34:00.000+05:30

My HouseMy College

The last Samurai

2006-06-29T10:18:00.000+05:30

I am SAD today ...really I am. We 35 guys came from West Bengal to Chennai... young, entusiastic, dream in eyes and now only I am left, staying still in Chennai. Everybody left ...everybody. Today one of my mansion mate(last bengali)is leaving and as he said I guess he is leaving permanently leaving his job :(. I remember those early days now... lively, full of fun, training in SlashSupport was

Google Video free Today

2006-06-23T11:01:00.000+05:30

Thats quite interesting. I saw few videos. infact this is the first day I visited Google Video. Wish it is free forever and I can watch all Charlie Chaplin movies ...

Is BPO Industry ruining Indian youth

2006-06-22T17:27:00.000+05:30

Actually I was thinking why are we so excited about BPO, i.e. Business Process Outsourcing. If I am not wrong BPO in word means when a company outsource part of its job to another company specialized in than. Now this defination doesnot contain any term called Call Center. But I am sure you all know today atleast in India BPO is synonymous to Call Center. Now if i am right, the average age of

Principles that form the foundation of good design.

2006-06-16T18:19:00.000+05:30

While searching I found a very good section on UI Design and Usability in IBM website. I found this article named Design basics very helpful. Its quite a long article and captures some pretty obvious facts but a good read for newcomers like me. So I though why not share the essence or points i learnt or gatherd from the article. It may be helpful for ppl who dont have time to read such a long

"We have nothing, nothing here,"

2006-06-15T18:38:00.000+05:30

"We have nothing, nothing here," says Hadija Adem, 40, who has lost three children during her 10 years at the camp.Abdi Ali Hassan, 45, recalls "We saw a foreign charity man here last year. He came with a lot of armed Somali guards. He did not talk to us but took lots of photographs, but that is the last we saw of him," he says. "We go into the city every day, we try to get work and the best

I think I am in love again ... with Flock

2006-06-15T10:29:00.000+05:30

No i am not kidding, but the counterpart is no girl ...he he as you might think. Its Flock.I think this is what people call love at first sight. It looks cool, behaves elegently and have nice feature. What more you would like to look for in your partner.Yes I cannot leave Firefox. I am kind of married to her ...he he like amny others. But Flock is like a fresh air ... a cute little angel at your

Gliffy : Visio on web

2006-06-14T14:44:00.000+05:30

Recently I found a very nice tool.Its name is Gliffy , its a flash tool to draw Flowchart,UI wireframe,Floor plans,Network Diagrams etc. It do it very efficiently and the software itself is fuzz free. Just login and draw. It has automatic versioning and you dont have to worry about accidental delete. It works fine in both IE, Firefox as well as opera.From Gliffy Site :Gliffy Inc. is a

Represend your site structure in a graph

2006-06-09T10:57:00.000+05:30

While digging I found this cool tool. Have anybody tested this before. If not I would say its worth a try. What it do is simple. It represents the hirarchical tag structure ofyour website. And now how it will help you. 1. It will help you understand the structure of your website in form of a raph. 2. It will let you understand the dominance of the tag in your website.http://www.aharef.info/2006/

Web Operating System

2006-06-09T10:56:00.000+05:30

It calls itself a operating System, though dont expect it to perform even .1% of Windows that we use now, but it shows that future is here. When you dont have to login to your own desktop to work on your system LOgin form anywhere in the world and get the same desktop you use at your personal system. a OS that not only resided on your system but also on the web. As of now this OS ... EyeOS dont

Microsoft Vista and Office 12 screenshots from cnet.com

2006-05-24T21:34:00.000+05:30

Cnet.com has got awesome screenshots of Microsoft new products ... they look so beautiful. They also accompany very informative descriptions.Windows Vista Beta 2 galleryPowerpoint 2007 Beta 2 galleryWord 2007 Beta 2 galleryOutlook 2007 Beta 2 galleryExcel 2007 Beta 2 galleryReal pleasure for eyes :)

Useful links for web development.

2006-05-24T11:41:00.000+05:30

In my very few days of experience in industry I came accross a few usefull web destinations which are quite useful I tried to lest out them according to the site design methodology.1. Data & Content Collection(Word,Excel, Google, net,Cleint & leg Work)2. Project Defination Document.(Budget,schedule,client staging,team, project plan,project scone,in scope-not in scope)Useful :http://

Web 2.0 application listing sites

2006-05-24T11:16:00.000+05:30

There are many new cool web application out there ... using latest technologies like AJAX and they do maintain web standers. I was looking for good listing of such application and came up with few equally good links.Mashable is a blog covering Web 2.0 startups, peer production, user-generated content, revenue sharing, social software and the web as a platform.Web 2.0 ZenOffice 2.0 DatabaseNice

Vista Transformation Pack 4.0 Released

2006-05-21T09:20:00.000+05:30

This is awesome. It makes your desktop look close to Microsofts new Operating System Vista.Although it doesnot have all the Aero effects but pretty close to it. Enjoy it.Rapidshare Download linkThe Home Page of Vista Transformation Pack 4.0Windows Vista Home Page

With Expression - Day 1

2006-05-21T09:01:00.000+05:30

Last night I downloaded the new Microsoft Expression 3 CTP. Its a huge 224 MB download but later I understood it's worth every bit of it. In the next few days I am going to explore and cultivate the all new Microsoft Expression and also will share my journey with all of you...So lets start.The installation is pretty simple as usual. My system has Windows XP Pro SP2. And it installed without any

List of frameworks and CMS

2006-05-20T17:38:00.000+05:30

In Wikipedia I found a very exhaustive list of Web Application frameworks and Content Management Systems.They inludes frameworks in all languages i.e. PHP,Python,Java etc.Take a lookList of web application frameworksThe CMS list is not just a list its a comparison chart very helpfull to get stated.Comparison of content management systems

PHP Framework

2006-05-20T15:37:00.000+05:30

For few days I was in search of a PHP framework which is easy to use as well as have enough features to complete small and medium scale projects. After few look around I short listed few frameworks and downloded them and tried it.The frameword I downloaded areZendSymfonyCakeSeagullAmong them finally I sticked to CakePHP for the following reasons.It's simaple as promisedSetting up is relatively

Yahoo My Web 2.0

2006-05-20T12:44:00.000+05:30

I just came accross a new service by Yahoo!. They are calling it My Web 2.0.My Web 2.0 is a social search engine. What does that mean? It means that we've combined the power of search technology with the power of people. My Web 2.0 is a new way to find and share knowledge on the Web — you'll find better answers by tapping into the shared knowledge of the people you know and trust.Quite