Web is ubiquitous. An institute’s website is the first impression an applicant has. However, Indian institutes are not gearing up for this changing scenario. Indian academics’ websites are far beyond the quality of US colleges and universities. I understand, in India institutes have other major problems to deal with and building a website comes at [...]
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10-Apr-10Need for Storage! 1TB
12-Jan-10Remember the days of 4GB of disk space? That was just 10 years back… Our demand for space is kicking each day and I have seen all for 4, 40, 160, 1000. So, what all we want to store? Primarily *media, *songs, *photos and a few (i mean very very few) data files. If I [...]
Google अनुवाद
25-Jun-09Read this: जेना एक अर्थ वेब रूपरेखा जावा में लागू है. यह आप की दुकान करने के लिए / क्वेरी / अनुमान RDF / RDSF / उल्लू triples की अनुमति देता है. जेना एक triples RDF () में से सेट में मॉडल कहा जाता है या मॉडल वस्तु के भीतर जमा. डिफ़ॉल्ट द्वारा जेना में [...]
Create Polaroid Like Photo Effect Online
20-Feb-09Polaroid-It goes online just now… It’s a free tool for creating transparent Polaroid images instantly and that also right from you browser. All it takes is to pick a photo and clicking ‘Create’ button Here is what it supports: Add caption to your photo Match the background with your Orkut profile’s theme color. This gives [...]
Fun with Yahoo Media Player!
08-Feb-09A quick way to insert music in your site: Create hyper-links for few MP3 files Insert following script code to your page <script type=”text/javascript” src=”http://mediaplayer.yahoo.com/js”></script> You are done! Yahoo! Media Player will be loaded and it will make all media links clickable Here are few of my favorite tracks. Use the play button to listen. [...]
Sony Ericsson W660i: Features (Review)
04-May-08Two days back I bought W660i, a Walkman series mobile phone from Sony Ericsson. It features 2 MP Camera, Walkman 2.0, FM Radio, 512 MB card, Bluetooth, Video Call, Email/RSS, USB mass storage, Flight mode, Synchronization services, Stylish, and all these in less than INR 9K. In addition to those common features, this phone features [...]
Foxit – PDF Reader
18-Mar-07Q: How many times in a day you wait for Adobe Acrobat Reader to load? A: Almost 2-5 items a day, as I’m an avid Internet user. Let me list down where Acrobat Reader sucks: The Adobe Reader 8 installer a massive 20.8MB setup to download and time consuming setup. Version 5 was roughly fast [...]
Review: mama_pendse
13-Sep-06Well, it easy (as an Software Proffessional) to think about the ability of an AI chat-robot. Here is a simple chat that I had with “Mama_Pendse“: Ankit Jain: hi Ankit Jain: u there ? mama_pendse: Hi Ankit Jain, How are you today ? mama_pendse: Thanks for the information. mama_pendse: I can tell climate in any [...]
Yahoo Messenger 7 :: I don’t like it
12-Sep-05Yahoo came with latest release of Messenger 7 with voice, but I have observed following disadvantages of this version:- 1. Late notification of some buddy signing in or out. 2. Late notification of whether the other party is typing. 3. The most important fact is that use of UP/DOWN arrow keys is disabled. and I [...]
