The popular desktop customization program, WindowBlinds has been acquired by Yahoo. Yahoo, which recently bought Konfabulator, a popular widget engine, said that adding WindowBlinds to the mix was a natural next step.
WindowBlinds 5.1, originally expected to be released late summer 2006, will be rebranded as Yahoo Skins. It will include a simple SDK in which skinners [...]
I signed up for one of their Internet connection package long back, I had to give them my email ID which perhaps was one of the worst mistake I ever made about Email Management. Unlike spammers who try to hide under the veil of anonymous mail IDs and non-sounding domain names, they are spamming their [...]
I was just told that it is illegal to work on the 26th January (Republic Day) and 15th August (Independence Day) in India. I’m not sure if this is good or bad but it is weird that the cops can jail you if you have your office opened on these days.
So, shut down your office [...]
FlickrLeech is a Flickr based free service that allows you to find interesting photos for any given day. I really like this feature and make it a point to visit it everyday and see all the interestingness for that day. Besides that, it can leech by username, useer id, favorites, photosets and group pool.
I got to FlickrStorm through TechCrunch. FlickrStorm is another service build around Flickr, it helps you do smart things for the batches of Photos you find on Flickr. It suggests related search terms with your results making it up for the fact that users don’t really tag their images with the same terms a searcher [...]
The interview of Guy Kawasaki by Cameron Olthuis is an interesting read. This should be a good read for any enterprising business enthusiast.
Excerpts
You can learn an awful lot through rejections. 99% of the time, they are not going to get funded. But there’s that 1%. Of course, you do realize that even with an intro, [...]
Flickr do not allow you to view your Comment (Comments made to your photos) beyond a month. Well, the easy way to see for any number of days is to just change their querry string at the Address URL.
For instance;
The Comments for a month is
http://www.flickr.com/recent_activity.gne?days=30.
Replace that with
http://www.flickr.com/recent_activity.gne?days=365
to view for a year.
Well, you might ask why [...]
The Lady in the Water is about an angel/fairy kinda - Story, played by Bryce Dallas Howard (Ivy Walker from The Village, another Shyamalal Night’s Movie. She will also appear as Gwen Stacy in Spiderman-3) and her effort to convey an important message to Vick (M. Night Shyamalal) which will curve the way of the [...]
More and more corps are resorting to Blogs to communicate to the outside world. My impression of big corps being in total commune with the outside world, the developer, its clients, etc was with Macromedia, which was later acquired by Adobe.
Macromedia
MXNA, the Macromedia’s Weblog which also aggregates other weblogs related to Macromedia (and now Adobe) [...]