Thursday, May 5, 2011

Why Google can have a much better Social Networking Site than Facebook

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To me, Social Networking is all about knowing whats happening with my friends and how the application engages me into more socially active a...
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Friday, December 18, 2009

Storage Area Network (SAN)

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This is simple jot down of things related to Storage Area Network, some specific to HP's EVA 4400. Components: EVA – Enterprise Virt...
Friday, November 20, 2009

Binary Prefixes

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We know of kilobytes, megabytes, gigabytes, terabytes, etc. In SI units, kilo represents 1000 (=10 power 3), whereas in computer world, it ...
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Monday, November 9, 2009

Google SideWiki

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Its one more 'provide-your-comments' application from Google. Sounds interesting but as pointed out by many, it may be another way o...
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Thursday, November 5, 2009

SEO Tips & Techniques

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I remember long back reading something about SEO (Search Engine Optimization) and brushing it aside as something BIG. But as I see it now, a...
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Tuesday, October 27, 2009

Data Liberation Front

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Google is centralizing (or starting as a concentrated effort) in Importing and Exporting data from Google Products. Their motto Users shoul...
Friday, September 25, 2009

Add GBookmarks, GTranslate, etc. in GReader's Send-to option

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Google Reader has got an option to Send to under a feed, in August, 2009. With this, one can share a particular post on any of the popular...
Thursday, September 24, 2009

Auto System Log Manager

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We all know how our bosses keep on asking us to log our activities for the day. There are days when you are so occupied with activities that...
Tuesday, September 8, 2009

List of connected users in Oracle

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To know the list of connected users to the Oracle Database, run the below sql select distinct username, osuser, terminal, utl_inaddr.get_...
Friday, September 4, 2009

GChat tips

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A word in GChat can be emphasized in many ways, most common being Bold, Italics & Underline. Knew that adding * on either side of the w...
Thursday, September 3, 2009

Site Identity Button

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We observe favicon for a site and with new firefox, even some text next to it. Firefox calls it Site Identity Button . It has three levels ...
Wednesday, September 2, 2009

Creating Sitemap in Dreamweaver

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There was a need to create a Sitemap and submit it to Google Webmaster Tools . Surprisingly, I did not find an option of creating Sitemap in...

META tags for improved search

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Came across this webpage on why we need not use META Tags in our Webpages. Truly, no search engine will completely depend on META Tags for ...
Friday, August 28, 2009

Thin Clients

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My new fascination is Thin Client Systems. Read about it only today and tell you, the number and kind of advantages it gives are numerous, ...
Friday, July 17, 2009

Screens of Death

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Screens of death are of different color, like Yellow , Red , Black , Green , Purple , Blue , etc . Some of the applications have improved....
Thursday, June 25, 2009

OpenID

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Now a days, we see OpenID on so many websites. Wanted to know what this concept was about. In simple terms, OpenID is a Universal ID (spec...
Tuesday, June 23, 2009

Information on Diseases

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Google Health , happens to be a place where one can enter medical health care data so that it can be accessed across the globe, avoiding our...
Sunday, June 21, 2009

Chrome Malware detection

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I had clicked to go to http://www.gmail-backup.com/gmail-backup-0-105 to download a freeware for Gmail backup. Chrome threw this screen up w...
Saturday, June 20, 2009

Dumb Microsoft!

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Cant imagine that Microsoft can go so dumb. [Source]

QR Code & Microsoft Tags

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Heard about QR codes (QR stands for Quick Response ) today at this post on Google Docs Blog . QR Code is another way of storing informatio...
Friday, June 19, 2009

Friend Feed's SSP

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This is what I find today when I log into FriendFeed to add My Library notifications to its feeds. It is an advertisement of FriendFeed its...
Thursday, June 18, 2009

Google insisted for secure Gmail & Docs

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This piece of article from Security Watch on Google is intriguing. Google has been asked to secure the complete Gmail and GDocs sessions. T...

IEAK

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We needed an option to customize IE on over 160 systems in our institution which has standard settings, to let our applications run. Everyti...

ATI Catalyst (CCC)

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ATI Catalyst alias Catalyst Control Center (CCC) is a front end to tweak the hardware functions like monitor settings, 3D settings, etc. ...
Monday, June 15, 2009

Google Waves Web Elements & Showcases Fusion

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New announcements from Google: Google Web Elements:  http://www.google.com/ webelements/   Google Showcase :  http://www.google.com/help...
Monday, June 1, 2009

Password encryption: Salt & Nonce

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Salt Cryptography and Cryptography Nonce ( Nonce: number used once ) are added layers of security while storing passwords (Salt) and trans...
Monday, May 18, 2009

GTasks in GCal

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Google Tasks have been integrated with Google Calendar (finally! Expected this to be the first step than following its integration with Gm...
Thursday, May 14, 2009

Google Contacts

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This thought had been there for quite a while that there should be a Birthday field in GContacts. And when we enter it, it should automatica...
Wednesday, May 13, 2009

Sharing Content

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RSS feeds is the most common way of sharing content on web. Almost all the blogs and relevant websites have this enabled. With RSS feed agre...
Saturday, May 2, 2009

Print Odd and Even pages in Excel

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In Microsoft Word, we have an option of printing Even and Odd pages which helps in saving paper by printing on both sides. But the same opti...
Friday, April 17, 2009

IM commands for FriendFeed

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@me text - post to your feed @room text - post to room @room - list entries in room @N text - comment on entry N @user - list entri...
Thursday, April 16, 2009

IMEI - International Mobile Equipment Identity

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With announcement against all mobiles carrying invalid or no IMEI numbers ( an article by Techtree), there was a need to know if we were o...

EMR - Electromagnetic Radiation

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We all have heard about the hazards of radiations coming out of cell phones and other electronic devices and that we have to guard ourselves...
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Saturday, April 11, 2009

HTML Signatures in Gmail

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Now one can create HTML signatures in Gmail and insert them using a Greasemonkey script: User Script   In Gmail, it creates a box (shown ...
Thursday, April 9, 2009

SMS Notification for a mail in Gmail

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Now one can get an sms notification for any mail that appears into Gmail / Yahoo a specific mail that appears into Gmail / Yahoo How? A...
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Wednesday, April 8, 2009

gaiald in Gmail

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Today, as I was updated contacts in Gmail, there was some value appearing against a legend gaiald . I initially tried finding out from where...
Thursday, March 26, 2009

Greasemonkey

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I am sure many of us heard a lot about the terminology Greasemonkey but did not understand what it is all about. Greasemonkey is an add-...
Tuesday, March 24, 2009

Extract Day, Hour, Time from Date Datatype in Oracle

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There was a need to write a query which would give output for data which took place between two specific hours in a day, in a particular a m...

Download Flash in Firefox, without any software

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One can download Flash or for that matter any media element in a webpage when viewed in Firefox, without any additional tool, or software or...

Firefox Add-ons

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Finally, this post has become a reality. I had mentioned in an earlier post that soon there would be a post on my favourite add-ons from fi...
Friday, March 13, 2009

Card holder travels with me

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Card holder All cards get held there, at one shot. Other green notes find a corner enough within this holder to exist or go straight to ...

Gmail Access & Plinky

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If one forgets Gmail password, one can get it reset either by answering the security question or by requesting a reset password link to the ...
Saturday, February 28, 2009

Doodles for Google

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Google has announced a Doodle competition for US Schools with the theme: Interesting part of that is the Doodle History . A good simple re...
Friday, February 27, 2009

Animated Favicons

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Now a days, many sites are displaying animated favicons (like this site on Email trace ). How do they do that? Its simple. Create an animat...
Thursday, February 26, 2009

Google Language

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Anyone around feeling like they can help Google in translating web pages from regional languages to English, then one can sign in here . ( G...

Google's Privacy Policy

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Google has recently updated its privacy policy: Before (see Google Cache ): When you access Google services, our servers automatically r...
Wednesday, February 25, 2009

Browsers powered by user choice?

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As one may wonder how does this question exist, there is this interesting post on Google Public Policy Blog: Browsers powered by user choice...
Wednesday, February 18, 2009

Google Web Servers

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Google has got its own web servers which are currently running the web for Google ranked 3rd by Netcraft Web Server Survey. Heard its a modi...