Me and My Mind

Indias own Search Engine

2006-10-12T22:09:00.000-07:00

the indian search engine : www.guruji.com , launched today :)

- Looks neat, interface is simple
- Works fast
- Has local search for few cities in India

Good job for a Search Engine in beta launch.

I would expect reviews from www.searchenginewatch and TechCrunch :)

Technorati Tags: guruji.com, guruji, Indian Search Engine, the indian search engine, local Search in India, Indias own search engine

Web 2.0 Toolbar

2006-10-06T04:22:00.000-07:00

Save time and keep up on the latest Web 2.0 news right from one browser toolbar. The Free Web 2.0 Toolbar aggregates the best of Social Search, Social Bookmarking, Social Pics, Social Video and Social News websites.
* POWER SEARCH - Enter a search term and quickly toggle through the search results across multiple Web 2.0 site from Digg to YouTube
* POWER SUBMIT - Post pages to multiple social linking sites right from your toolbar
* POWER ALERT - Keep tabs on the most active content on over 40 top Web 2.0 sites with more being added every day!

Technorati Tags: web 2.0, web 2.0 toolbar, web20 toolbar, web20toolbar.web20toolbar.com, web2 toolbar, web2 firefox toolbar

Yahoo! India SMS Backup

2006-10-04T22:19:00.000-07:00

Features:
# Don’t delete special SMS, simply forward them to 82438243
# Store all SMS on Yahoo! Mail and enjoy mega Storage for FREE!
# Access stored SMS online through your Yahoo! Mail!
# It's Free :)

Technorati Tags: Yahoo! India Mobile, SMS Backup, SMS Storage, Store SMS online, Store SMS i Yahoo! Mail, 82438243

Order Food on your mobile, on the move

2006-09-26T20:25:00.000-07:00

Technorati Tags: mobo, gomobo, gomobo.com, Order Food, Order Food on the move, Orgder Food from your mobile

Remembering Ten (10) Years in IT, In India, In Bangalore

2006-09-23T23:17:00.000-07:00

Few (in fact lot) of changes I have vitnessed in the 10 Yrs (1996 to 2006) I have been in IT :) , all this is from my prespective in Bangalore (India).
All are random thoughts.

From Intel 386 to Intel Pentium 4 (HT)
From Co-axil Cables and Connectors to Optical Cables/Networks and RJ-45 connectors
From 3.5" Floppy Drives to Blue-Ray Disk
From Windows 3.1 to Windows XP
From Windows for workgroup to Windows 2003 Server
From Individual Logins to Global Network Logins
From Novell Netware to Windows and Linux based Network OS
From Monochrome Computer Monitors to Flat TFT Monitors
From No Open Source in Corporates to Lot of OpenSource Ex:Apache,TWiki,Putty,SSH,FireFox to name a few
From Aluminium Cubes to Eco-Friendly Cubes
From No telephone at desks to DID's or VOIP Phones
From dir.yahoo.com and www.altavista.com to www.google.com and search.yahoo.com
From Netscape 3 & IE 3 to IE6 and FireFox 1.5
From PINE to Outllok 2003 and Thundirbird
From Hotmail to Gmail
From Telnet to SSH
From 32MB RAM to 1GB RAM
From ??HDD to 30GB+
From www.dejanews.com to groups.google.com and groups.yahoo.com
From Web Journals to Blogs
From Unix to Linux
From Indiainfo Cricket Alert Mails to www.cricinfo.com or free live video cricket from Yahoo!
From on-line Mail Subscriptions for News etc to Realtime Feeds (RSS & Atom)
From News Papers to news.google.com & news.yahoo.com
From Hardly any internet connection even in offices to 10 Per Hour High-Speed Internnet Cafes and Affordable Broadband connections
From Zee TV to Star & Sony TV
From AKAI or a Bush or a BPL TV to Sony,Panasonic,Samsun to LG TV
Infosys from a small building (in a building Opp to Bethani School in Koramangala) to WorldClass Campus in Electronic City & Mysore :)
Bulk Nokia and Motorola cell phones to Sleek High-end N-Serices or a BlackBerry
From HTML Meta Tags to Real User Tags
From Camera Film Rools to Digital Cameras :)
From 1.5/- Per Cup Chai/Kapi to 4/- Per Cup Chai/Kapi

Share exactly what you want with exactly who you want, AllPeers

2006-09-20T09:55:00.000-07:00

Features
- Share exactly what you want with exactly who you want
- Share 100KB, 100MB, 100GB, it does not matter!
- Share any type of file :) , even a web page or on-line image
- Create your own sharing community. (Choose whith whome to share)

Try Now!!
AllPeers Blog

Technorati Tags: AllPeers, AllPeers.com, Drag N Share, File Sharing, File Sharing made easy, Share files of any size

ClickCaster is the simple and FREE way to share your vioce and video all over the web

2006-09-18T23:34:00.000-07:00

ClickCaster is the simple and FREE way to share your vioce and video all over the web

Features
- Create your own feed by uploading media files or recording from the web.
- Can embed an audio or video player right on your MySpace profile or your blog or any other profile.

Explore
Add Feeds
Click Caster Radio
ClickCaster Blog

Technorati Tags: clickcaster, clickcaster.com, share media files for free, share podcasts, share video files, free podcasts, free videos

IIT's joining hands to create quality education for free

2006-09-18T23:04:00.000-07:00

In a combined effort Govt of India is funding a programme titled 'National Programme on Technology Enhanced Learning'.
Part of this effort the premier technology institues of India , 7 IIT's and IISc have joined hands to create quality course materials available for free for students. These courses are available for free for nay one.

This is a good effort to get more quality engineers from noral engineering colleges.

What is NPTEL

The main objective of NPTEL program is to enhance the quality of engineering education in the country by developing curriculum based video and web courses. This is being carried out by IITs (Seven), IISc Bangalore and other premier institutions as a collaborative project. At IIT Madras, the project is evolving and it is our intent to provide learning materials, digitally taped classroom lectures, supplementary materials and links to state-of-the art research materials in every subject possible. Currently samples from approximately 70 courses offered by faculty in various departments and to students at all levels (B.Tech, M.Tech, M.S., M.Sc., Ph.D.) are given here. Approximately 140 courses are in various stages of preparation and distribution through internet.

All the faculty members are personally involved in the making of their respective courses in the electronic form. Our purpose is to supplement classroom lectures. The latter are compulsory for students and IIT Madras stipulates that students attend 75 percent of lectures to qualify for their examinations.

How to use ?
- Go to http://nptel.iitm.ac.in
- Click on Courses
- Sign up as a NEW USER
- And access any course material on-line.

Technorati Tags: National Programme on Technology Enhanced Learning, NPTEL, nptel.iim.ac.in, Sever IITs, IIT course material, on-line IIT courseware, on-line IIT lectures

PDFTextOnline, Hassle-Free PDF Text Extraction in Your Browser

2006-09-14T21:32:00.000-07:00

Key Features:
- Converts PDF text quickly and accurately
- Handles all fonts and languages (including Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and more)
- Provides easy access to form data, document properties, and bookmarks
- Doesn't require a software download -- it works in your browser!

Try Yoursefl
Blog

NOTE: PDFTextOnline is in beta.

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POSTroller, The Video Advertising Network

2006-09-14T21:28:00.000-07:00

POSTroller serves video and non-video advertisements within online media players, before and after the delivery of video content. The POSTroller Ad Network delivers says it serves millions of ads per day on Break.com, Streetfire.net and CollegeHumor.com.

Technorati Tags: POSTroller, video advertising, video ads, on-line video ads, ads in video,video ad,Video Advertising Network

Windows Live Services Reach Key Milestones

2006-09-11T21:47:00.000-07:00

Live Search, Live.com and Live Local Search released from beta; Live Search to power search on MSN.

Microsoft Corp. today announced the release from beta of Live Search and of Live.com in 47 markets worldwide, and final availability of Live Local Search in the U.K. and the U.S. Microsoft also announced that Live Search will now power the Web search capability on MSN®, the company’s media and entertainment portal, attracting more than 465 million unique users worldwide per month.

http://www.live.com

Technorati Tags: windows live, live.com

Smugmug, classy photo sharing site

2006-09-11T21:36:00.000-07:00

Features:
- Ajax to organize photos quickly.
- Tags to find photos of favorite topics.
- RSS Feeds to notify friends of new photos.
- GeoTagging to see photos on Google maps.
- API Support

Only paid services are offered :(

Technorati Tags: smugmug, photo-sharing, photo sharing

eyespot (beta)

2006-08-06T20:26:00.000-07:00

Movie Making For All Of Us

Use the Mixer to edit and combine your videos, photos and music online. Share mixes by email, blog, download or cell phone for free!

Technorati Tags: eyespot, eyespot.com, MOview Making, online movie making, video search, share videos,video sharing

FotoDUNK (beta)

2006-07-30T23:56:00.000-07:00

Easiest way to share cell phone photos!

Technorati Tags: fotodunk, fotodunk.com, share cell phone photos, share photos on your cell, share mobile phone photos

LiThA - Paint {Alpha}

2006-07-25T21:09:00.000-07:00

Web-based drawing service

Key Features:
- Full featured graphic editor is written only on HTML and JavaScript.
- Can publish your picture to the Web with several mouse clicks.
- Can use our server storage to save your pictures thus your work would be never lost.
- Can export your picture to SVG, PNG, JPG and TIF formats.

Blog

Technorati Tags: Web-based drawing, LiThA-Paint, Litha, Litha-paint.com, web 2.0 application, web based graphics editor, web 2 graphics editor

Technorati redesigned

2006-07-24T21:26:00.000-07:00

Blog

Technorati Tags: technorati, technorati.com, technorati redesign, technorati upgrade

Microsoft Acquires Winternals Software

2006-07-18T21:17:00.000-07:00

News Source and Details
Microsoft Corp. today announced the acquisition of Winternals Software LP, a privately held company based in Austin, Texas, that provides Windows®-based enterprises with systems recovery and data protection solutions in addition to offering a freeware tools Web site called Sysinternals. The addition of Winternals is a significant advance in Microsoft’s promise to lower customers’ total cost of ownership of the Microsoft® Windows platform. Customers will be able to continue building on Sysinternals’ advanced utilities, technical information and source code for utilities related to Windows. Financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed.

- Sysinternals Blog

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Collanos Workplace, Virtual on-line collaboration

2006-07-17T21:53:00.000-07:00

Within minutes you can be sharing documents, having online discussions, and managing tasks, all in a single, consolidated space. Built on reliable peer-to-peer technology, Collanos Workplace software allows you to work anywhere, anytime, both online and offline.

- Product Tour
- How it works
- Blog
- Download the beta software

Technorati Tags: Collanos, Collanos.com, Collanos Workplace, virtual collaboration, p2p, peer-to-peer

Interactive Netscape Site Gets Some Sour Responses

2006-07-17T21:32:00.000-07:00

Netscape may be known now for losing the so-called browser war to Microsoft's Internet Explorer. But Netscape.com, the default home page for users of the fading browser, continues to have its following — so much so that when its owner, AOL, tried to update it last month, it received some surprisingly angry feedback.

Here's the new page and check out the hot story Old vs. New Netscape

Technorati Tags: Netscape, AOL, Timewarner, Digg, new netscape page

FeedBurner Acquires Blogbeat

2006-07-17T02:33:00.000-07:00

FeedBurner (http://www.feedburner.com), the market-leading Internet feed management provider, has acquired Blogbeat (http://www.blogbeat.net), a Raleigh-Durham-based provider of blog analytics. The combined services will give FeedBurner’s 200,000 customers powerful tools for comprehensive comparison of feed subscribers and blog visitors, insight previously not available from a single platform.

Technorati Tags: FeedBurner, Blogbeat, Blog feeds, feedburner.com, blogbeat.net

OpenWebLetter

2006-07-16T21:54:00.000-07:00

Open Web Letter is a web-based service that allows individuals and organizations to publish and share an open letter on the web. It's easy to publish your Open Web Letter and it's free.

Technorati Tags: openwebletter, openwebletter.com, web letter, open web letter

Surgient, Virtual Labs

2006-07-16T21:14:00.000-07:00

Surgient sells virtual lab management applications and has completed over half a million software testing environments. Surgient takes snapshots or virtual images of the software testing environment for large companies so that they can test or deploy software. That way when they test the next software build, they can test on exactly the same environment.

Technorati Tags: Surgient, surgient.com, virtual lab, virtual lab management, software image, surgient virtual lab,virtual images

Open Source software metrics

2006-07-16T21:03:00.000-07:00

We're mapping the open source world by collecting objective information on open source software. Search our site for the most current software metrics and project information on open source software projects.

Provides information like:
- Project Started, Active Developers,Lauguages used, Project Cost,Codebase,effort, Total cost etc.
- Blog
- This is a startup founded and funded by former Microsoft execs

Each Project Screen looks like this:

Technorati Tags: ohloh, ohloh beta, ohloh.net, open source, open source software metrics, open source project information

Share podcasts with friends, family, or anyone

2006-07-13T20:58:00.000-07:00

WildVoice is the fun & easy way to create & share podcasts with friends, family, or anyone.

Free software for recording podcasts

Technorati Tags: WildVoice, wildvoice.com, WildVoiceStudio, WildVoice Studio, podcast, record podcast, share podcast

Yahoo! and Microsoft Bridge Global Instant Messaging Communities

2006-07-12T21:12:00.000-07:00

News Source
Yahoo! Inc. (Nasdaq: “YHOO”) and Microsoft Corp. (Nasdaq: “MSFT”) today will begin limited public beta testing of interoperability between their instant messaging (IM) services that enable users of Windows Live® Messenger, the next generation of MSN® Messenger, and Yahoo!® Messenger with Voice to connect with each other. This interoperability — the first of its kind between two distinct, global consumer IM providers — will form the world’s largest consumer IM community, approaching 350 million accounts.1

Consumers worldwide from Microsoft and Yahoo! will be able to take advantage of IM interoperability and join the limited public beta program. They will be among the first to exchange instant messages across the free services as well as see their friends’ online presence, view personal status messages, share select emoticons, view offline messages and add new contacts from either service at no cost.2 Yahoo! and Microsoft plan to make the interoperability between their respective IM services broadly available to consumers in the coming months.

Technorati Tags: IM interoperability, MSN, MSN messenger, Yahoo! messenger with voice, Yahoo! and MSN,Windows Live Messenger