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Archive for December 2005

Clickie – Add Features to Windows Explorer Context Menu

Posted by: anand on: December 17, 2005

Just came across Clickie, a neat little utility that adds two wonderful features to the context menu (right-click menu) of Windows Explorer.
Copy Path Name: Copies the path of the selected folder or file to the clipboard (as text). You can then paste it wherever you need it.
Open MS-DOS Prompt: Opens a DOS window in the [...]

Update from the Capital City

Posted by: anand on: December 17, 2005

It’s been a while since I last posted anything here. In fact, its not just a zero-blogging phase, but I have been on a complete web-hiatus all these days, barring a couple of occasions where I had to log on to my University Mail account.
I’m in New Delhi, the capital city, for close to a [...]

Yahoo! and del.icio.us

Posted by: anand on: December 10, 2005

First flickr! and now del.icio.us!
Yahoo! just acquired the hottest “tagging thing” on the web. I wonder what would Scoble be thinking now. I remember Pete Cashmore, who blogs at Mashable, and who came up with this logo too, actually suggesting del.icio.us when Scoble wanted to make an acquisition.

With Yahoo! acquiring del.icio.us, things get all the [...]

Bill Gates Live in Bangalore 2005

Posted by: anand on: December 9, 2005

If you aren’t in Bangalore or haven’t managed to coax an invitation to the event (I am told the entry is by Invitation pass only), do not miss the webcast.
Register NOW! for the Bill Gates LIVE webcast

The Semester ends officially

Posted by: anand on: December 8, 2005

The semester has officially come to a close and its time now to move on to things that I have been procrastinating for quite sometime on the pretext of examinations and project submissions. Some pretty interesting things are lined up and probably I’ll be posting about them here too.
If you’re wondering why I have been [...]

Protopage v2.0 released

Posted by: anand on: December 6, 2005

Yesterday I received a mail from Protopage which informed me of the release of Protopage Version 2.0
I had been using Protopage as my web Desktop until I switched over to Windows Live and had found it really easy to use and pretty exciting even with its then limited options for sticky notes, to-dolists, favorite links [...]

Charlene Li on Microsoft’s new classified service ‘Fremont’ and why it will be better than Google Base:
“First, a quick description of Fremont. It looks and acts like a classic online classifieds site. A list of linked categories is on the front page and users can browse or search through the listings. A key difference though [...]

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Posted by: anand on: December 4, 2005

Another semester ends.

The Examination Blues

Posted by: anand on: December 1, 2005

XML : Syntax :: RDF : Semantics ???
Just three hours to go…


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