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Archive for October 2004

A viable solution?

Posted by: anand on: October 30, 2004

The past week I had written about the need for cheaper computing and Internet access devices for emerging and hugely potential markets like India. And when AMD launced its Personal Internet Communicator (PIC), Priced at $185 and $249 (the $249 would also fetch you a monitor), one can’t but help get the feeling that it [...]

MileWideBack Extension for Firefox

Posted by: anand on: October 28, 2004

The last week I installed MildWideBack, a really superb FireFox extension. With this extension, navigation back and forth in a tab becomes very easy. All you’ve got to do is to ‘throw’ your mouse to the left edge of the screen and navigate back or forward by left-clicking or right-clicking on your mouse.
This extension works [...]

It s been a while

Posted by: anand on: October 28, 2004

I know its been a while since I posted anything on this blog of mine. I have just been too busy preparing for the stupid mid terms. But now I can safely say that… mid-terms are over! And I’ve fared well in all courses, atleast I guess so
And yes, FireFox download count is [...]

We need $100 PC

Posted by: anand on: October 23, 2004

Taking computers to the next level of users is someting that has remained a challenge to policy makers and the biggest of corporates in India. Just as India aspires to be a IT hotspot, there aren’t two opinions about the fact that the penetration of computing resources remains nothing to boast about.
When Steve Ballmer talks [...]

The Indian Broadband Policy 2004

Posted by: anand on: October 18, 2004

The Indian Broadband Policy 2004, the drawing board of India’s digital future was announced sometime ago. According to the preamble,
Recognising the potential of ubiquitous Broadband service in growth of GDP and enhancement in quality of life through societal applications including tele-education, tele-medicine, e-governance, entertainment as well as employment generation by way of high speed access [...]

sfx Campaign 3: Overambitious

Posted by: anand on: October 15, 2004

I always had the feeling that meeting a target of 1000 pics in a week was going to be tough. But it seems that we won’t even get anywhere close to it. Currently we have what, some 82 pics in the gallery and just 4 days remaining. No two thoughts in saying the target was [...]

GMail based blog

Posted by: anand on: October 14, 2004

How about an alternative use for the huge unutilized storage space of your 1000 megabytes Gmail account? Blogging, for example!
Gallina is a blog based on Google’s Gmail. Gallina allows you to post blog entries by sending a message through Gmail, with the “star” function. Any replies to the e-mail are posted as comments in [...]

No Zip Files! It’s Gmail

Posted by: anand on: October 12, 2004

So now Gmail would not allow me to send a mail with a .zip file as an attachment. When I tried sending a mail with a zipped file attached, it popped up a message that read “Sorry, for security reasons, Gmail does not allow you to send this type of attachment“.
Annoying. Isn’t it? What’s [...]

Indian tail wags…

Posted by: anand on: October 10, 2004

Australia romped to a thoroughly convincing victory, although it took them more than what they would have expected first thing this morning, in the opening Test of the four-match series at Bangalore. The Indian duo of Irfan and Harbhajan did their bit as they stuck in their and also heaved a couple of Sixes, [...]

And now, AOL Browser

Posted by: anand on: October 10, 2004

According to eWeek, AOL is planning to release a stand-alone Web browser of its own.
As the hubbub of alternative Web browsers keeps growing—from speculation over a so-called “Gbrowser” from search-engine leader Google Inc. to the many advances in the open-source Mozilla project—in the background, America Online Inc. has been quietly testing its own Web browser, [...]


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