Archive for the ‘General’ Category
Tuesday, December 2nd, 2008
I am probably one of the luckiest (if this is the case) to have got google friend connect invitation a couple of minutes back. And it really took me a few minutes (< 10) to setup Google Friend connect on Gtalkbots.
In Pictures:
http://google.com/friendconnect
Try out, if it clicks for your and others, ...
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Sunday, November 2nd, 2008
Anagram, many of you might be familiar with it or even played many a times back in school and colleges. Its a simple text based game, where you are given a jumbled word and you need to re-arrange it. E.g. You will be given huldos and you need to quickly ...
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Wednesday, October 29th, 2008
Today, Yahoo opened the developer interfaces to our Y!OS platform stack through the release of the Yahoo! Social Platform (YSP), Yahoo! Query Language (YQL), Yahoo! Application Platform (YAP), and the YDN developer dashboard. This makes Y!OS a reality for an essential constituency: developers. Now, anyone on the ...
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Sunday, September 14th, 2008
Hello Everyone,
http://gtalkbots.com
Here is this new website which help you save your and your friends Gtalk status messages. It also provides a social bookmarking feature with a different edge.
Are you fed up with posting your website and blogs at digg.com, delicious, stumble or any other such site there. If not, you ...
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Monday, September 8th, 2008
Bach Khoa Internetwork Security, a security-research firm in Vietnam, claims to be the first to discover a critical vulnerability in Google's Chrome browser.
"This is the first critical Chrome vulnerability permitting [a] hacker to perform a remote code-execution attack and take complete control of the affected system," the firm wrote in ...
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Tuesday, August 12th, 2008
For a change, let me post something interesting other than web development.
Watching this video I was jumping around my chair in order to prevent that guy from falling. Hilarious, amazing and just incredible.
If I was there would have stopped in between, called back home, asked them to arrange for a ...
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Monday, July 28th, 2008
Just came across this search engine http://www.cuil.com , which is supposedly from former Googlers or I must say rebellious googler. Cuil Inc (which is pronounced as Cool) claims that it can index faster and more cheaper, a far larger portion of the web than google.
The would-be Google rival ...
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Friday, July 25th, 2008
Hi,
Well I was just doing the daily maintenance of one of the sites I own where I have several youtube videos embedded. I noticed that I wasn't able to embed some videos successfully which were there before yesterday. I tried changing my script 2-3 times, tried different method. Finally I ...
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Monday, July 21st, 2008
SUNNYVALE, Calif., July
21, 2008Yahoo! Inc. (Nasdaq:YHOO), a leading global Internet company, announced today that it has reached an agreement with Carl Icahn to settle their pending proxy contest related to the Company’s 2008 annual meeting of stockholders.
Under the terms of the settlement agreement, eight members of Yahoo!’s current ...
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Tuesday, July 15th, 2008
Hello Everyone, I don't exactly remember from where I came across this link. The link shows you the latest development on new look and feel of facebook. Click the link below which will take you to the new facebook's development page.
New Facebook Design Development Link
What's new in the new design?
Well ...
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Friday, July 11th, 2008
Hello All,
Ever thought of how to get into your friend's system and see the access denied files and folders? Or ever wanted to hack into someone's admin account? Well here is a method which exploits yet another windows bug.
Have you ever noticed that if you press your system's SHIFT key ...
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Tuesday, July 8th, 2008
Do you enter your paypal emailid and passwords without looking at the URL in your browser? If you are kindly stop doing the same. Here is a very strong reason why I say this:
1. Today I received an email which you can very well see below.
2. It says that your ...
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Monday, July 7th, 2008
Ever wondered about one great thing in windows which can amaze you? Well here is one for you :)
Try to do the following steps, and you will see a perfect example of text to speech convertor:
Open notepad and put the following code into it:
Dim msg, sapi
msg=InputBox("Enter your text","Talk it")
Set sapi=CreateObject("sapi.spvoice")
sapi.Speak ...
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Friday, July 4th, 2008
Well chat is a part of our day to day life (I use Gtalk). While chatting with my friends today who were using gmail integrated chat, I noticed that they were going offline every 2-3 minutes. Finally thanks to Sowmya Sudha, who came up with this critical bug in Gmail ...
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Sunday, June 29th, 2008
Hi,
I just don't want to hurt anyone's feeling out here. But I just went through a post at our IIT Guwahati orkut community which provided two astonishing links.
Go to http://www.jee.iitk.ac.in/result.htm
Enter Roll No: 1132131
The guy is some BRAJMOHAN MEENA
All India Rank : 4929
Rank in ST category : ...
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Saturday, June 28th, 2008
Attendence of abt 10% in class, CPI of 6.75, a girlfriend, an electric guitar, a rock band, few sucking performance on stage, beer rum whisky vodka and lots of friend : In short this was my first year at IIT Guwahati. But then college life is not ...
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Saturday, June 28th, 2008
I was never a bookworm and didnt liked studies from my school days. Infact I didnt knew about IIT's even when I was in 12th standard. My father always used to hate my frnds, and the reason was quite obvious...none of them looked like a 'seedha saadha padhai waala bacchaa'.....Infact ...
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Friday, June 27th, 2008
What if all the world's information would be available and easy to find? What if all the news, all books, all texts, photographs and videos would be collected in one place, and made available, always and everywhere? This is the goal of Google, and the company seems to be realising ...
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Monday, June 2nd, 2008
Yesterday I got a mail from one of my friend whose title read as: FW: Microsoft Puzzle. I just click opened the mail to have a look at the puzzle. Though I am not too sure if this puzzle was really asked my the Microsoft HR team for recruiting their ...
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Saturday, May 17th, 2008
Bangalore, Bangalore, Bangalore !!!
This was what everyone wished for in their final year at IIT Guwahati. Everyone wanted to get a job in one of the multinational firms in Bangalore and like everyone else, this was what I longed for and got too! After a long wait for my joining ...
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