Tag Archives: Technology

Microsoft Clippy dead - 1997-2007

Microsoft have finally decided to do away with the Clippy with new Microsoft Office 2007. Most users of Microsoft Office were not happy with clippy and nobody loved him. Born in 1997, Clippy will be rested in 2007. Office’s Group Program Manager, Jensen Harris, said “He’s sort of fallen out of disfavor, so this is [...]

Mingle Now or in a Box

I liked the idea of MingleBox when they showed their demo at Barcamp Bangalore 2 and have been thinking that it is fine to be have yet another (and another) Social Networking site. The internet is huge and everybody should have their share. Today, I saw an article by Liz Cannes at GigaOm - MingleNow [...]

What is a Sitemap Protocol and why should you care?

Recently, Google announced their collaboration with Yahoo and Microsoft to support the Sitemap Protocol. As part of this development, they are moving the protocol to a new namespace, Sitemap.org. The sponsoring companies will continue to collaborate on the protocol and publish enhancements on the jointly-maintained site.

If you’ve already submitted a Sitemap to Google using the [...]

Digg Friends - Which one should you befriend

These are the few guides that I follow while making new friends on Digg —

Of course, revert back the friendship if anybody adds you as a friend - Look for those who Befriended you.
Introduce or Invite new Friends.
Diggers who digg your stories.
Heavy Digger - you can always view the Profile of a Digger and [...]

How to schedule article post in Wordpress?

It is extremely easy to schedule article post for your future postings. While you write/edit your article in your wordpress blog, make sure that you edit/set the TimeStamp to the date in future which you want to schedule your article. Do not forget to PUBLISH your article (not SAVE). That’s all and your articles are [...]

IMAX Experience - New Enriched Site Design

The only cool Cinema Theatre Website that is well designed is that of Adlabs Multiplex. Flash, HTML and Ajax have been used appropriately at the right place. This is the type of Website Design that I’m talking about and that the Public facing interface of Indian Institutes should start looking into. A user is definitely [...]

FlickrLeech

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.

FlickrStorm

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 [...]

Merge Windows in Firefox

I am not sure if this was in the pre Firefox 2 era, but I just found that I can merge two Firefox windows by doing a Ctrl+Shift+M (Should be Option+Shift+M on the Mac). If this is a new feature in Firefox 2, this is a cool one. I looked around but could not find [...]