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Moved to Wordpress

2010-03-03T07:53:00.000-08:00

I have moved to Wordpress Blogging platform, due the the advantages & flexibility over Blogger by Google.http://dailyleapfrog.com/blog Facebook Page

nokia e63 reviewed

2009-11-30T08:49:00.000-08:00

Nokia e63 reviewThis is my blog post after a long while, also this post comes from my new nokia e63. I bought this after I reviewed lot of mobile phones. First of all, I have an aversion for touch phones because it gets finger print all over the screen and its not accurate while I message while walking. I tried a few touch phones. So I settled for a qwerty phone. It is an entry level smart phone

Many mobile operating systems around?

2009-07-31T21:29:00.000-07:00

Mac os x modified for iphone, android, nokia's open source os, mobilin, limo. And now the chrome os, i wonder why google would make it a new os rather than Android on net books. When there are many choices around it is a healthy environment for vendors due to competition but it leaves customers wonder what to choose.

Eminem Relapse 2009

2009-06-23T01:50:00.000-07:00

Eminem Relapse is Marshall Mather's recent Rap album produced by Dr. Dre. Emimen is no stranger to being on top music. Sold 650,000 in first week, its big hit this year. Relapse is Marshall's reflection on his recent past four years, a skit in this album where emimen says about where he had gone in the last years and his drug problems, addiction and a song following it.One reason why relapse is a

How Google detects invalid clicks

2009-06-22T22:31:00.000-07:00

If you had landed on this page venturing how google detects invalid clicks, you are at the right place. The mechanism Google uses is as good and efficient as its search and its well mature at this point of time I would say. Because a lot of people tried to make more money by cheating Google, they took all this input to formulate their secret formula to detect invalid clicks. Adsense is one

Personal Brand - Strategy on Search Engines

2009-06-11T19:56:00.000-07:00

I'm sure anyone using the Internet must have done a search for their name on Google or any search. Not only you, some of your friends and potential employers might also have done the same. May be you did not know it. But if you do not show up on Google, you don't exist, you could lose a business deal or you may turn off your friend. May be that is why I write this post on how to optimize search

Twitter - Adding followers of a person to your friends list and follow all of them

2009-06-05T07:51:00.000-07:00

I've been playing around with one of Twitter API implemetation Twitter4j which is awesome and I could do a lot of things with it. Here is one of my implementation to automate adding friends to yourself with a Java program. Make sure you have twitter4j in your build path before trying this program.Here is how it works, 1. Select a twitter user2. Fetch the list of his followers3. Add them as your

Twitter SMS updates in India

2009-05-29T20:03:00.000-07:00

If you've tried to turn device updates in Twitter and if you are in India, you must have seen it does not work. I've worked around a way to do this. Its simpleTwitter + Google SMS channels = Twitter updates on MobileHere is how it works.Goto the a particular twitter user's home mine is http://twitter.com/nivashkumarYou can click on the RSS feed button to get its URL address, as seen

A day at Mahathma Gandhi Ashram

2009-05-24T07:53:00.000-07:00

Every year, my parents sponsor lunch to children at Mahatma Gandhi ashram, Anaimalai, on my birthday. I'm doing it from this year. This year I'm at home, decided to visit the place. It is clearly not a place of luxury, small buildings scattered all over the campus. It is a home for needy which includes orphaned children and elder citizens orphaned. The personnel called me this morning to wish for

4 Changes since the last post

2009-05-11T23:19:00.001-07:00

This post comes into my blog after a long time since I was taking up professional training all this while. The last post of this blog belongs to a time when there was no economic downturn. 1.Economic downturn - All the world is speaking about it and so am I. It is a period of recession and economic falldown all over the world because it all started with Americans borrowing a lot of money from

Adsense and Adbrite

2008-11-23T20:24:00.000-08:00

These days I've found almost all of the commercial sites run with Adsense or Adbrite ads blended with their templates, well optimized and probably having good click through rates. Forums also have engaged their users with ads. What really happens is that the site owners are happy that they are making a good amount of money, the other side of it is that having ads that are very relevant means you

Google SearchWiki

2008-11-23T08:51:00.000-08:00

The buttons near the search results gives you a new feature called Search Wiki. This name is confusing You can split it into two and see what it means and read on to know what this really is.Pertaining to the post in Google's official blog about this new feature called SearchWiki. Sometime I wanted a site in 4th or 5th position to show up at first, this feature lets you do exactly the same thing.

Munthinam Paarthene - Lyrics

2008-11-20T22:12:00.000-08:00

I like this song most.முந்தினம் பர்தெனேபார்த்ததும் தோற்றேனேசல்லடை கன்னாகநெஞ்சமும் புன் ஆனதே...இத்தனை நாளாகஉன்னை நான் பாராமல்எங்கு நான் போணேனோநாட்களும் வீன் ஆணதே.வானதில் நீ வெண்ணிலாஏக்கத்தில் நான் தேய்வதால்இப்பொது என்னோடு வந்தால் எனஊர் பார்க ஒன்றாக சென்றால் எனஇப்பொது என்னோடு வந்தால் எனஊர் பார்க ஒன்றாக சென்றால் எனமுந்தினம் பர்தெனேபர்ததும் தோற்றெனெசல்லடை கன்னகநெஞ்சமும் புன் ஆனதே.இதனை நாலக..

Ubuntu Ultimate - Almost Ultimate

2008-11-16T10:47:00.000-08:00

Ubuntu Ultimate, its a distro which was my dream, I even thought of creating such a distro myself, this is more than what I wanted to do. The desktop is themed exactly like Windows Vista, but the icons are pretty good. The cursors are also new. Most of all, This edition ships with a large number of pre installed applications including VLC media player, Amarok, OpenOffice, GIMP, Blender, Anjuta

Do it yourself Lobotomy - Tom Monahan - Creativity!

2008-10-27T09:35:00.000-07:00

Creativity. What does this mean? I never read a book on being creative till now, still trying to be creative unknowingly. This is a wonderful book, i took it in random from a collection of mind books. I want to share thoughts about this book and creativity"The human mind is capable of infinite imaginary thought, as provendaily by our children. But kids have an advantage over most adults:

Ads are closing in!

2008-10-19T10:25:00.000-07:00

Watch out... It might be standing right next to you.I almost never pay for anything I take from the Internet. Of course all of these are free stuff, for which these web sites get their visitors. I live in India and this is the way it works for most of Indians. Advertising campaigns are effective on Google, the most important reason is that they keep throwing the same ad across all the sites you

Quest for search

2008-10-02T08:57:00.000-07:00

This was originally posted on Vidya blog - Digital Information Archive at AmritaHere's the post for blog :-)Quest for Search Ended All this started when I met Ajai Narendran sir(Vidya's architect and amrita.edu's webmaster). For the first time, it was just a normal meeting. I always wanted to have a search engine that works for Vidya, a huge archive, which makes life a lot easier.

Opening Minds

2008-09-28T16:55:00.002-07:00

This article was first published in Anweshi, newsletter for Amrita School of Engg. Open source is becoming increasingly accepted worldwide and gaining momentum. This essay evaluates key benefits of collaborative model over traditional

Reasons why windows sucks!

2008-07-08T02:30:00.000-07:00

I can't stand anymore or go back to windows at any cost. It really sucks. What I intend to do here is consider the accessibility and usability part of windows and why it sucks. I haven't dealt with the copycat part of windows which is to be made a full post like this.Windows is the biggest scam in the computer world. I feel windows has contributed to the productivity paradox. It many times

SEO and Me

2008-07-01T05:03:00.000-07:00

SEO is Search Engine Optimization and it means optimizing the web sites for its pages to appear on SERPs(Search Engine Result Pages). I would call this rocket science more or less because SEO involves a large set of parameters that determine the page rank. I'm not speaking about the SEO factors here. It runs to a huge list having 100+ parameters.I'm speaking about the unknown side of my

Hello World!

2008-06-28T04:01:00.000-07:00

This is the first program written in any programming book. This is no programming but still I feel a compelling need to say Hello World! I've started this blog on blogger because I never had an active blog on blogger services. I'm not new to blogging but new to blogger services. I've been doing search optimization for long and so there is an unavoidable keyword stuffing that I do on whatever I