April 2009
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30th April 2009 - 1705 HRS IST => Voted for the first time in my life. Felt like I was really helping decide the future of India.
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Find your polling booth details using Voters Rolls... →
Add this Gadget to your iGoogle page and start using it. Search for your name and get back your polling booth location as result. This is also a good way to find out if your name even registers in this years voters list.
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Apple - Get a Mac - Watch the TV Ads →
Really nice tv ads. Some of them remind me of the Rails Envy ads. I wonder how I never came across them before. Anyways they dont show these in India.
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After HTC - Samsung Launches I7500, the company's... →
Samsung has officially announced its new Android-powered I7500 handset. The phone features a 3.2-inch AMOLED screen with a resolution of 320 x 480. The I7900 supports HSDPA 7.2Mbps and HSUPA 5.76Mbps networks on 900/1700/2100MHz frequencies.
The I7500 offers the full suite of Google services including Google Search, Google Maps, Gmail, YouTube, Google Calendar, and Google Talk. The device...
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'Sleep talking' PCs save energy and money →
‘Sleep talking’ is a green computing advance from UC San Diego and Microsoft Research’Sleep talking’ is a green computing advance from UC San Diego and Microsoft Research
Personal computers may soon save large amounts of energy by “sleep talking.” Computer scientists at UC San Diego and Microsoft Research have created a plug-and-play hardware prototype for...
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Kelsa+: IT Access for Low-income Workers →
Kelsa+ (meaning “Work+” in Kannada) is an initiative through which organizations in developing countries can increase digital literacy and skill development among such low-income workers, through the provision of an Internet-connected PC for the service staff’s free, unrestricted use when off duty.
The benefits to workers include:
· An increase in basic PC literacy, despite previous...
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Yahoo! sez: Sorry, new GeoCities accounts are no... →
Wonder what will eventually happen to all the existing geocities sites. The note on the geocities homepage reads
After careful consideration, we have decided to close GeoCities later this year. We’ll share more details this summer. For now, please sign in or visit the help center for more information.
With companies like Google promoting their Google Sites why would Yahoo! take such a...
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Go Get Me Some →
Really nice and simple site made using Sinatra. Useful for times when you just want to browse random pictures over the internet (ofcourse we have google images but this site’s simplicity rocks).
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Feedjit emits javascript on mistyped url
I accidentally typed http://live.feedjit.com/map/google.com in the address bar and feedjit spat out javascript code. I’m not a javascript expert but to someone who knows decent javascript this could be helpful.
var FJ_mhstnm = 'fj0-15';
function FJ_isIE(){ return navigator.userAgent.indexOf("MSIE") != -1; }
function FJ_getScrQ(pre){
var sc =...
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the only interesting thing i’ve done this week has been some experiments with sinatra & sequel. output => some more ruby + a useless but …
using Snaptu as an all in one - facebook, twitter, rss, etc client. Really nice => http://snaptu.com
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Windows 7 RC available for MSDN / Technet... →
According to Microsoft’s Partner Program website, Windows 7’s release candidate is due out to the masses on May 5, a bit earlier than a BBC report had previously noted.
If you have a subscription to MSDN or TechNet, you can download Windows 7 RC now. Otherwise, you can download Windows 7 RC starting May 5, 2009.
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Ten commandments for developers » DamienG →
A must read for developers and all the software companies out there.
Reading the tumblr api => http://tinyurl.com/cwdlm9 ..pretty easy. Plan on doin an app for Tumblr this weekend
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How would the commercial version of e-text editor...
According to this post on the company’s blog, the open source windows and linux version’s of e-text editor are under development. Would the commercial version of the editor available at $34.95 still survive?
Above is a screenshot of a working linux version.
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Free university lectures - computer science,... →
Nice compilation of lectures on varied subjects from various universities.
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just installed git 4 windows from http://msysgit.googlecode.com
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Android 1.5 Early Look SDK available →
The next release of the Android platform will be Android 1.5. The Android Community has made available an early look SDK to give developers a head-start on developing applications for it.
Check this link for the highlights on the new features and capabilities introduced.
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Redcar - Code Editor written in Ruby →
Redcar is a programmer’s text editor for GNOME, written in Ruby and Vala (a curious C# like language for use with GNOME)
out with a friend doin ‘paisa vasooli’. I’m not the rite guy 4 a job like this but somtimes u gotta do weird things 4 friends.
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Nice and Free CSS Templates →
Nice and simple design of the site itself. It provides thumbnails of the design that a particular css provides.
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Running Ruby apps on Google AppEngine (Java) >... →
Check this blog post at bigcurl.de which describes how you could run RoR and Sinatra apps on Google’s App Engine architecture post Google’s announcement regarding support for Java on GAE.
The early look at Java language support is provided to the first 10,000 interested developers only.
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rTwT: @slashdot DIY Multi-Touch Tabletop “Surface PC” http://tinyurl.com/cyuae6 . A nice read….
in a training today and tomorrow
unable to login to facebook :( http://yfrog.com/0rjqcp
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Microsoft Research - HD View →
HD View was developed with a number of goals in mind. It should:
* allow smooth panning and zooming on large images,
* only download enough data to create the current view (and possibly look ahead to the next), and
* always display the current field of view with an appropriate projection. This means that when zoomed way in you should be presented with a standard perspective...
the very beginning of the movie is f***ing am
going for FnF in the morning.
out with friends at Kinara. This place is so amazing, I feel i should come here more often.
Check this on BBC: Residents challenge Google camera => http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/7981755.stm
Checking out my TweetStats! http://tweetstats.com/graphs/dhaneshpurohit
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.NET 3.5 Enhancements Training Kit →
.NET Framework 3.5 Enhancements Training Kit containing Labs, Demos and PPTs
I didn’t really know that existed :|
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TortoiseGit - The coolest Interface to (Git)... →
The 0.4.2.0 release can complete regular tasks such as commit, show log, diff two version, create branch and tag, create patch and so on.
The screenshots on the project homepage seem promising.
You need to install msysgit 1.6.1 before you install TortoiseGit.
Checkout: Why most programmers are lousy => http://www.iovene.com/why-most-programmers-are-lousy/ . I agree with the author for most of it.
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e-text editor => Releasing the Source →
The company has released the code under an Open Company Lisense which equal BSD license + the following clause:
Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met:
* Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.
*...
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VideoLAN 1.0.0 logo prank on April 1st →
Here is what they had to say about it:
After years of faithful service, we’ve decided to retire our old logo, the famous cone. It served its purpose, but as VLC 1.0.0 is approaching, we are dropping the passive cone and upgrading to some heavy machinery.
The whole team would like to welcome the new VLC logo: Bulldozer! Get ready for some serious earth shattering on the open source...
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Apple Iphone 3.0 jailbroken →
The iphone-dev guys have jailbroken the iphone 3.0 and here is what they have to say about it:
Of course it’s not really a surprise that it can be jailbroken. One of the nicest things about the jailbreaking iPhones and iPod Touches nowadays is that once a given device can be jailbroken, it can always be jailbroken. The exploits we’re forced to resort to are down at the hardware level, where...
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ASP.NET MVC 1.0 released under the Microsoft... →
ASP.NET MVC is a free, fully supported, Microsoft product that enables developers to easily build web applications using a model-view-controller pattern. ASP.NET MVC provides a “closer to the metal” web programming option for ASP.NET. It enables full control over HTML markup and URL structure, and facilitates unit testing and a test driven development workflow.
You can read the text of the...
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Digsby = IM + Email + Social Networks →
Instant Messaging
digsby is a multiprotocol IM client that lets you chat with all your friends on AIM, MSN, Yahoo, ICQ, Google Talk, and Jabber with one simple to manage buddy list.
Email Notifications digsby is an email notification tool that alerts you of new email and lets you perform actions such as ‘Delete’ or ‘Report Spam’ with just one click. Social Networking...
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Microsoft BizSpark for software startups @... →
Microsoft® BizSpark™ is a global program designed to help accelerate the success of early stage startups by providing key resources when they need it the most:
Software. Receive fast and easy access to current full-featured Microsoft development tools, platform technologies, and production licenses of server products for immediate use in developing and bringing to market innovative and...
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Good OS - gOS and Cloud operating systems →
Turn on your computer to a desktop full of your favorite widgets, fresh with live, personalized content just for you.
trying to reregister my device with twitter as i’m no longer getting device updates :(