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Archive for November 2005

Firefox Just Got Hotter with 1.5

Posted by: anand on: November 30, 2005

Firefox 1.5 is finally out!
Get it here now!

In case you are wondering why you need to upgrade, Firefox 1.5 comes with significant performance & usability upgrades, greater customization options and supports Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG), JavaScript 1.6 and new versions of CSS (Cascading Style Sheets).

Firefox 1.5 Releasing Soon

Posted by: anand on: November 29, 2005

I just came across this on Spread Firefox. Looks like we’ll see Firefox 1.5 anytime now!
It’s 5AM here in the UK and me any my small team of engineers are off home to bed after helping to get SFx ready for tomorrows big event:)In about twelve hours time “it is very likely” that Firefox 1.5 [...]

Paint.NET v2.5 available for download

Posted by: anand on: November 29, 2005

Paint.NET v2.5, about which I had written earlier this year, is out of beta and is available for download now. Started as a CS undergraduate design project at Washington State University, Paint.net is an image and photo manipulation software supporting layers, unlimited undo, special effects, and a wide variety of useful and powerful tools.

Paint.NET Screenshot

Paint.NET [...]

Free Online Data Storage. We never had so many options

Posted by: anand on: November 28, 2005

With so many options for remote data backup available today, FREE online data storage never had so much excitement going around. Here are some of the new services I came across recently.

Mozy is a remote backup and archiving service that requires you to create a mozy user account and install a software on your computer, [...]

Google heading towards e-commerce 3.0

Posted by: anand on: November 27, 2005

InternetRetailer has a story on how “Google is heading toward capturing the next e-commerce paradigm using search to buy anything from anyone, anywhere.”
From InternetRetailer:
Now that it has taken the Internet search market by storm, Google is heading toward capturing the next e-commerce paradigm—using search to buy anything from anyone, anywhere, Safa Rashtchy, senior research analyst [...]

Yet another Online Calendar – Monket

Posted by: anand on: November 25, 2005

I might be the last person left on the planet who doesn’t know that http://calendar.google.com is LIVE for more than two months! However, if you follow the link, you won’t find any Google Calendar on it as it is currently only showing the Google Search Homepage. More confirmation that Google has plans for a [...]

SlashDigg and DiggDot.us – For all nerd news freaks

Posted by: anand on: November 24, 2005

Slashdigg and Diggdot.us are two sites I came across recently that combine news from the three most popular sources out there: Slashdot, Digg and del.icio.us
Diggdot.us combines news from Digg, Slashdot and del.icio.us into a unified format Also it claims to eliminate dupes and add some extra [...]

Short notes

Posted by: anand on: November 22, 2005

Too much of procrastination throughout the semester ensured that I was busy the whole past week loaded with tons of project work and presentations. Hence no updates here.
OpenGL is really cool. I just finished a Project yesterday with my friend coding a basketball game in OpenGL and it was fun.

del.icio.us looks like it has had [...]

W3C opens India Office

Posted by: anand on: November 17, 2005

Pallab had this entry on The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) opening its India Office at Noida, India hosted by the Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC Noida).
Seen as as “the national contact point for W3C activities in India,” this India Office of W3C will be instrumental in promoting efforts in local languages, broaden [...]

Microsoft CTO Ray Ozzie blogs on MSN Spaces

Posted by: anand on: November 17, 2005

Microsoft’s Chief Technology Officer, Ray Ozzie has started a new Spaces blog.
Here is what RayOzzie wrote on his new Spaces Blog:
…A couple of weeks ago, Bill and I brought life to a new initiative that, over the course of the months and years ahead, will catalyze and deliver a number of things that I’m very [...]


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