Posted by: anand on: January 30, 2006
Interested in trying out Windows Live Messenger?
I have a few Live Messenger Beta invites with me to give away. Let me know if you want them.
Posted by: anand on: January 30, 2006
The new version of Google Toolbar would come packaged with a host of new features that surely sound useful. According to the Revision History, the new Google Toolbar for IE would feature:
Version 4.x.x.x
New Feature
Custom buttons: Add custom buttons to the Toolbar to search your favorite websites
Bookmarks: Create bookmarks that are accessible from any computer
Enhanced search [...]
Posted by: anand on: January 27, 2006
With everything around me looking so web2.0, it was time the blog too had a web2.0 look to it! And so the enginerd Weblog is now in v2.01
So what has enginerd v2.01 got? Well it has really large headings, white background (tons of whitespace thrown around), Trebuchet font, simple underlined links with hover style [...]
Posted by: anand on: January 23, 2006
Here is how Times Of India ePaper defined Podcasting:
All downloadable audio files are now called ‘podcasts’.
But while all those who download music from the net are indeed ‘podcasting’…
Only The Times Of India in this world could have run a whole article on Podcasting without even mentioning terms like RSS, web feeds, or subscription!!
Posted by: anand on: January 22, 2006
Here is what Slashdot had to say on the original iPod:
No wireless. Less space than a nomad. Lame.
Apparently, “Lame” turns out to be the most coveted pocket gadget ever!
via Infectious Greed, Mashable
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Posted by: anand on: January 20, 2006
Researchers at the Rutgers University have developed a unique system to safeguard your computer and online accounts by using images, and not digits and alphabets as passwords.
In one of the solutions proposed by the group, the user is required to pick certain ‘click-points’ that he had selected initially while setting the password on an an [...]
Posted by: anand on: January 19, 2006
Intel, AT&T and Kodak, all three changed their logos recently. Even Hutch, provider of GSM mobile services changed its ‘orange everything’ to ‘pink everything’.
I might have found these “swanky” new logos thoroughly disappointing but who’s complaining. The corporate suppliers are surely in for some serious money now with new business cards, letter heads, and all [...]
Posted by: anand on: January 15, 2006
Garrett Dimon writes that with the developments in the front-end technology which allow increasingly complex possibilities, the web needs more front-end architects today than it ever did.
Garrett attributes this to factors such as better cross-browser support of advanced technologies, an increased focus on user experience, and a greater awareness in topics like accessibility which makes [...]
Posted by: anand on: January 13, 2006
Here’s what I came across recently, an iPod ready jeans!
Levi Strauss has designed jeans that are compatible with the iPod, featuring a joystick in the watch pocket to operate the device, a built-in docking cradle for the iPod and retractable headphones.
via Yahoo News
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Posted by: anand on: January 11, 2006
Ara has posted a link to 5 Embarrassing Grammatical Mistakes by Martha Brockenbrough
In Martha’s words. “it is a catastrophe of apostrophe to make a plural with an apostrophe-s.” But there is this particular problem she mentions and which I faced only three days ago when I had to write to my Academic Dean:
“You can’t easily [...]
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