google calendar : getting on my nerves
Friday, April 14th, 2006 Posted in Web | 2 Comments »So now google launches a calendar, and it's integrated with Gmail. Innovation has boiled down to emulating Microsoft office in AJAX. Gimme a break!! What's the big deal in repeating something. bull! After Google Search, Google Earth was a good innovation coming through ...
w.bloggar update
Thursday, April 13th, 2006 Posted in General, Web | No Comments »seems impressive because it supports almost all the blogging hosts/systems. But it had a very sad way of screwing up HTML entries (converting new lines to line breaks), so I quit using it. Quit using it almost a year ...
» AJAX vs. desktop development | John Carroll | ZDNet.com
Thursday, December 1st, 2005 Posted in Technical | 1 Comment »People who seem to think that AJAX has spelt the doom of Windows based applications should look at this link which portrays the true future. » AJAX vs. desktop development | John Carroll | ZDNet.comThe next evolution of Desktop Development will ...
Our Micromouse
Thursday, November 24th, 2005 Posted in General, Technical | 2 Comments »While completing my engineering studies, the most gripping and enlightening work I did was the development of an autonomous robot for the Micromouse competition held at Techfest - IIT, Powai. The work spanned almost two years and it helped me see ...
HOW-TO: Greyhat WiFi repeater - hack a day
Sunday, November 13th, 2005 Posted in Technical | No Comments »Well, us indian's have it tough when it comes to Wi-Fi.We have thick concrete walls which cause the signals to dip by 30% for each wall encountered.And cordless phones, metal cupboards add to the misery. So I have a Wi-Fi router ...
Gates memo warns of ‘disruptive’ changes | Tech News on ZDNet
Wednesday, November 9th, 2005 Posted in Web | No Comments »Gates memo warns of 'disruptive' changes | Tech News on ZDNet A must read. It highlights how MS is still poised to compete very strongly with the opposition.No monopolies here. Google & Microsoft tooth and nail.
How to Manage Geeks
Monday, November 7th, 2005 Posted in Philosophy, Technical | No Comments »This article on How to Manage Geeks makes very interesting reading.
Windows Live! - A reaction - no real innovation
Friday, November 4th, 2005 Posted in Web, Windows | 2 Comments »Well I checked out the Windows Live thingy and am not really very impressed by it. Microsoft had to do this as a bare minimum reaction to stay in business.And this is exactly what this is. A bare minimum reaction. Most of the ...
Windows Live! Released today
Friday, November 4th, 2005 Posted in Web, Windows | No Comments »Boy o boy o boy! This is the worst of times, this is the best of times. The rate of change is accelerating. Release cycles are getting shorter. There is no long term way of doing anything right anymore. Change, realignment, reorganization, reconfiguration ...
New Search Engine - ma.gnolia
Friday, October 28th, 2005 Posted in Web | No Comments »New kid on the block. ma.gnolia is a new search engine that claims to work on a different philosophy. Found is the New Search What you mark in Ma.gnolia not only stays found but keeps coming back to you as your interests change. ...
Motorola SLVR
Wednesday, October 26th, 2005 Posted in Gadgets, Mobile | 10 Comments »Motorola's new phone. The SLVR The RAZR sucks. You realize it when you open it. It's just too big. And the interface sucks. This new phone leaves behind the clamshell of RAZR and offers a nice CandyBar phone. Nice is a big understatement. ...
Thinkgeek - Biological Things
Tuesday, October 25th, 2005 Posted in Miscellaneous | No Comments »Have always been a ThinkGeek fan. They have these Bilogical Live goodies which is quite interesting. EcoSphere $79 Inside each EcoSphere is a model of long ago, in a time when life was beginning to form (or a model of our far future ...
Philips presents Rollable display
Sunday, October 23rd, 2005 Posted in Mobile | No Comments »Rollable display. Sorta like a strip of paper rollled up, and you can un-roll it and read it. like a scroll. You can even make your own electronic paper display.
McAfee Security - smart
Sunday, October 9th, 2005 Posted in Technical | No Comments »It's so cool to see something like this. We had a chain mail going on, so obviously most of the mails i had been sending had the same subject. after the 4th reply, McAfee pops up, and says: "Suspicious activity: The last ...
Robotics
Thursday, October 6th, 2005 Posted in Technical | No Comments »Was going through old records, and found this correspondence I had written a couple of years ago. It was so nice to be out there with so many unknowns: Sameer Halai wrote: >I am making Asim Khan's PGM89v31 >http://chaokhun.kmitl.ac.th/~kswichit/Pgm89v31_web/Pgm89v31.html >I was trying to get ...
P2P for premium content: finally.
Wednesday, September 28th, 2005 Posted in General, Ideas, Progress, Technical, Technology | No Comments »As I had mentioned in my previous post, P2P can be used to explore new economic models. It's nice to know that there's formal work in that direction as can be understood by this post. They are doing exactly what I wanted ...
Testing Google
Saturday, September 24th, 2005 Posted in Web | No Comments »Google claims to give us 2 GB mailboxes. Google wants everything to be on their servers so they can process it. The more the data they get, the better. They can have more accurate analyzers which will help their ad-sense engine ...
Public Proxies and Thought Pointers - where will google stop?
Sunday, September 11th, 2005 Posted in Ideas, Web | No Comments »The next thing google will probably do now is provide public proxies. Using a google proxy will be faster than surfing the internet directly - the catch - nice pretty plain-text ad's will get embedded in the web-pages we browse through ...
Neave Lab › Flash Earth
Tuesday, August 23rd, 2005 Posted in General, Web | No Comments »Neave Lab › Flash Earth Google earth online - Using Flash. More usable, lovely. Try it Out.
Fixed some problem (Typo?) in Drupal MassMailer module
Sunday, August 14th, 2005 Posted in Web | No Comments »I spent quite some valuable minutes trying to find out why the MassMailer module of Drupal wasn't able to access the SavedSearches of the ContactManager module. I saw the debug SQL query which was causing an error. It went like: Table 'contact_search' ...
