ASCII Ribbon Campaign

Friday, January 14th, 2005 Posted in General, Netiquette, Technical, Web | No Comments »

Join the ASCII Ribbon Campaign Say No to HTML Mails

Broadband in Andhra Pradesh - Aksh bags Rs 400cr broadband project

Tuesday, January 4th, 2005 Posted in General, NewAge, Technical, Web | No Comments »

A consortium led by Gurgaon-based Aksh Broadband Limited has been selected to implement the Rs 400-crore Andhra Pradesh broadband project, which aims at extending broadband services to each and every village of the state in the next two years. The ...

Privacy’s random answer

Wednesday, December 1st, 2004 Posted in Privacy, Technical, Web | No Comments »

Big Blue is experimenting with an idea for customer databases called data randomization. The technique will, conceivably, preserve consumer privacy by masking data such as income, age, past purchases or medical information through mathematical calculations that can't be unwound. For ...

FTP Error Codes Explained

Saturday, November 27th, 2004 Posted in Technical, Web | No Comments »

FTP Error Codes Explained An important and handy resource

Gmail has started allowing POP access

Sunday, November 14th, 2004 Posted in Technical, Web | 1 Comment »

Gmail Gets Off its Web Perch In a very significant development, Google has allowed POP access to email stored on the server. I am gonna try it out. Dunno where the ads will be placed. But it's interesting.

Spread Firefox - Igniting the web

Wednesday, September 15th, 2004 Posted in Technical, Web | No Comments »

Please help Mozilla Firefox meet the 1 million download benchmark. Spread Firefox - Igniting the web Its a new preview release.

Shakespeare in quarto: view the British Library’s digital copies online

Saturday, September 11th, 2004 Posted in Technical, Web | No Comments »

Shakespeare in quarto: view the British Library's digital copies online Very interesting

Following The Signs To A Job At Google

Friday, September 10th, 2004 Posted in General, Technical, Web | No Comments »

Interesting article about how google ads only reach the target audience while the others don't even realize it's an ad for recruitment. Following The Signs To A Job At Google

Truncate your replies

Monday, September 6th, 2004 Posted in General, Netiquette, Technical, Web | No Comments »

By default, when we reply to an email, we like to "quote" the original message to which we are replying. That's the part with each line generally marked up with the character '>'. It's a nice thing to quote the original ...

Gmail

Monday, August 30th, 2004 Posted in Technical, Web | 3 Comments »

Technology will always border on privacy invasion. What matters is the philosophy behind the technology implementations. Companies like Real try to exploit our privacy. While companies like Google try to revolutionise the internet and make innovations which also sometimes instill anxiety. ...

New worm spies on you - News - ZDNet

Thursday, August 26th, 2004 Posted in Technical, Web, Windows | 1 Comment »

New worm spies on you - News - ZDNet Interesting. Now you have worms which deploy trojans capable of accessing the webcam as well. Of what use might your personal webcam footage be to a remote hacker!?