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Neatbook

2009-08-30T00:38:00.004+05:30

You could have it in any colour as long as it 's black. That wasn't Henry Ford, but the sales person at Staples - when I went to pick up an Asus EeePC 1005 HA.

Been using it for the last 30 odd days.

The device comes with a copy of Windows XP and had sticky keys turned on by default.
Another annoyance is the screen resolution jumping back to a lame 800X600 . Updating the intel drivers has not completely fixed this issue.

As an overall package I'll sum up my experience with the 1005 HA simply as -"wow" !

Fashionable Earth Hour

2009-03-28T19:43:00.001+05:30

The www is awash with articles and statistics about an event that becomes fashionable once a year.

In the part of the world where I come from, millions including myself -spend several hundreds of hours every year without electricity. Here it is known by a less fashionable name – power cut.

Thanks, I am NOT turning my lights off !

Best of software on a stick (so far)

2009-02-14T01:00:00.001+05:30

Sofware that you can carry on your thumb drive or mp3 player. A list of the best available:

Compression- 7-Zip
Checksum -WinMD5Sum
WinMerge http://portableapps.com/apps/utilities/winmerge_portable
Text editor- Notepad++
Image manipuation- GIMP
Browser- Firefox
Audio editing- Audacity
Player - VLC
Productivity suite – OOO

Erasing offline gmail data

2009-02-11T23:35:00.002+05:30

Are you using the experimental offline gmail feature? My experience is that disabling it does not delete stored files . You might want to check the location where offline content is stored for your browser & operating system and delete it manually.

Those curious can view content ( SQLite 3 database files named yourid@gmail.com-GoogleMail#database[<some number>] or yourid@gmail.com-GoogleMail#database ) in sqlite analyzer safely.

Offline Gmail

Murphey’s law

2009-02-10T22:57:00.001+05:30

A firmware upgrade that can go wrong, will go wrong! That’s exactly what happened on my mobile phone today. In one of those “have to do that right now” moments, i started the update and 15 minutes later – bam ! Back to the POTS age now :(

Most from one

2009-02-04T00:10:00.003+05:30

My attempt at listing sites which will let you do what the title says. Access multiple services of a category from one place. If you come across noteworthies, please do suggest !

Meebo – Access yahoo, gtalk, myspace & msn messenger accounts online.
Power.com – Access Orkut, Hi5, Facebook & Myspace from a single account.

Aggregation

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2006-08-31T18:22:00.001+05:30

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2006-08-29T20:00:00.001+05:30

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Bad marketing language

2009-01-26T00:33:00.001+05:30

You probably might have heard the phrase “god’s own country” . What about “gods own hero” ? Today I know :P

Picture has the answer.

Around Bengaluru

What’s your threshold?

2009-01-23T23:24:00.002+05:30

The drill- Sign up for a contract with an ISP, and then… ( the same kind of ‘and then’ you’ve seen in Dude Where’s my car).

How many calls would you be willing to make to get your connectivity issues resolved?
How much time would you spend on the phone chatting up thier call center agents?

My experience so far in a graph.

To those curious enough: a search for the number 60607070 would show my ISP.

Custummer Satisfaction

2008-06-03T00:58:00.001+05:30

"Satisfaction on your motto", not mine- yeah :P

Around Bengaluru

Mixed bag

2008-05-26T00:16:00.001+05:30

To start off with an interesting story:

11th grader isolates microbe that breaks down plastic.

Are you running Windows XP SP3 on an HP machine with AMD? Read this.

Now a question to Microsoft. Why can't I install XP service pack 3 if I am running on battery?

Perfect partner

2008-03-14T06:12:00.001+05:30

I was browsing a widely known website for an electrically operated tyre pump. What I saw on one of those pages made me laugh out loud.

LOL

Flip-Flop

2008-02-06T23:58:00.001+05:30

This appeared on the front page of a Bangalore daily.

flip-flop

How often are you in this situation?

2008-01-04T00:06:00.001+05:30

[via xkcd ]

Engineering

Wassup?

2007-12-01T00:14:00.000+05:30

It's been a while since there has been some activity around here. I'm afraid it's going to stay that way for the rest of 2007. Severe time management issues :(
You folks have a great holiday season and a great year ahead !!!
:)

PS: "I love deadlines. I love the whooshing sound they make as they fly by."

Math time

2007-10-03T23:47:00.001+05:30

Warning: Number crunching content in this post. That too - mental math.

See how you fare on these. 99 X 11 = ___? 98 X 4 = ___? 32 X 125 = ___?

7 % of 300 = ___?

If you have been really quick, stop reading this post :D Else head over to the listuniverse for some incredibly easy to learn math tips. If you have an appetite for more, visit the BEATCALC ( beat the calculator) math forum. They have a humongous list ( definitely bookmark worthy!!!).

Math, tips

CodedErrorCannotFindFolder

2007-10-01T22:43:00.001+05:30

A weird one from FeedDemon.

Error

An Aha! moment

2007-10-02T00:16:00.001+05:30

Win Me reached it's end of life on July 11, 2006. For all those who failed to understand the reason behind its stellar performance, now- is the time to catch up! [Via XKCD]

Humour

Explaining tech

2007-10-01T22:25:00.001+05:30

Relate to this? I definitely do !

Humour

Jump to show mode in Firefox

2007-09-20T22:49:00.001+05:30

Most probably, the web album you use would have a slide show feature. Given that, why would one need an add-on for Firefox that does just slide shows ?

PicLens may be your silver bullet, if you are looking for a quick way to jump to "show mode". My experience says, it's way better than hitting F11 in your browser, and better than slide shows that Picasa or Flickr has. Again, PicLens should work well with any site that supports Media RSS.

Update (September 29, 2007): Just found out that PicLens works well on Google and Yahoo image search results as well.

Firefox, Slide Show

Limerick (attempted)

2007-09-28T13:11:00.000+05:30

Working late nights,
No respite in sight,
No breakfast bite,
Even no time to write,
See y'all when the time's right !

If only things were this easy

2007-09-18T23:54:00.001+05:30

No posting for the week

2007-09-10T23:13:00.000+05:30

People! work's been keeping me extremely busy these days. There's no blogging time to squeeze out on my calendar- for the week. Next week will hopefully be less hectic. So long!