Posted by: anand on: March 29, 2006
From Adam Green’s The second coming of the Web:
“When Tim Berners-Lee first gave mankind the Web, he made a tragic mistake. He granted us free will to use less than perfect HTML. His tools, and the tools of those to follow him, allowed users to develop sinful habits based on ignorance and sloth. The result [...]
Posted by: anand on: March 27, 2006
Without doubt, The Joy of Tech is the best techie cartoon site out there. Just browsing through their archives for the past week, I stumbled upon this awesome strip:
Source: The Joy of Tech Comic
Vox Populi: “I couldn’t give a boot load about this, gimme OS X on a non-Apple PC, … it’s what’s inside that [...]
Posted by: anand on: March 26, 2006
At last week’s Mix 06, Microsoft announced the launch of their Windows Live Developer Central. There’s lots of cool stuff available there if you’re interested in developing apps using Windows Live Services.
From Windows Live Developer Central website:
The Windows Live Platform puts a deeper level of control into developers’ hands by offering access to the core [...]
Posted by: anand on: March 24, 2006
Whoever said that the world would need only five computers was probably correct. Sun has now released its on demand Grid computing for $1/cpu-hour. As Jonathan Schwartz writes about Sun Grid, “…experience for yourself what it’s like to use one of the world’s largest supercomputers. Without having to house it, manage it, power it, administer [...]
Posted by: anand on: March 21, 2006
Alright. This is a wicked idea.
An exasperated father has discovered to his cost that cyberspace is not the ideal arena for family feuds. Two weeks ago Steve Williams became so fed up with his daughter’s messy bedroom that he built a website featuring pictures of his slothful offspring’s lair in an attempt to shame her [...]
Posted by: anand on: March 19, 2006
I just cant help but think that the success of Digg and Newsvine has inspired a whole bunch of news tracking sites and mixups like diggdot.us and SlashDigg.
Another one to have sprung up recently is MyToday. MyToday is your another “public RSS aggregator providing the latest news, views and content on a topic-based collection of [...]
Posted by: anand on: March 17, 2006
Ever got confused between a Web 2.0 Company and a Star Wars character?
How silly is the Web 2.0 hype getting? You tell us! Here’s a quick quiz…we looked in 30Boxes and analyzed 37Signals that led us to come up with the 43Things below. So without further ado, can you decide…Web 2.0 or Star Wars Character?
I [...]
Posted by: anand on: March 16, 2006
The fact that it happened does not surprise me but that it took so long for our network administrators to figure it out does.
And if you are wondering how do you disable Gmail’s chat features on your network, you only need locking DNS lookups to chatenabled.mail.google.com, by returning 127.0.0.1.
Posted by: anand on: March 14, 2006
This is what I had on my Windows Live Desktop the other day:
Correct me if I am wrong but shouldn’t the High and Low readings be the other way around in this case? I mean, how can we have a high of 10 degrees C and a low of 18 degrees C in a day?
Posted by: anand on: March 14, 2006
I received an email this evening from Andy about Bumble Search, a Firefox extension built by him and Chris. Bumble Search is meant to add to your search experience and it introduces the concept of Cross Pollination, analyzing pages for keywords and finding related or similar pages.
This was the second Firefox extension for Google Search [...]
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