This post is about my experiments with blogger template and CSS!
I developed the template for this blog myself. I do not like the jazzy colorful pages for a tech blog. Most people visit this blog for ‘technical reasons’ only and so the jazzy is not good.
Also, I found some issues with most of the … Read full story »

I started using Google Reader two weeks ago and mentioned in the blog. It is a powerful web application from Google. If you haven’t started using Reader, I encourage you to do so, it is really good.
Now I have added my favorite feeds to the Reader. I tagged them as tech, malayalam, retail, seo, etc. … Read full story »

How many programming languages do you know? 5? 15? 25? hmm… Very good, keep it up!
Today at work, I came across a poster in the wall which plots over 50 programming languages. I said to myself, ‘Wow!’. What a visual impact! This colorful poster in PDF is published by O’Reilly.
The history started in 1954 … Read full story »

Tell me. How many username/password do you have? How do you remember all of them? Are the IDs and password same across sites? How do you remember all of them? Do you change password very often? Do you write down your password in a book, or keep them in a spreadsheet or document, or use … Read full story »

Sometimes I seem not to understand even the very silly things. hmm.
I have been using del.icio.us for sometime. At a later point, I started wondering why would they pick up such a website URL with a sub domain, main domain and a TLD? It did not click me first. After thinking ‘deeply’ for hours, I … Read full story »

Google has been forced to change Gmail to Googlemail in Britain after failing to secure the necessary trademark.
It seems Google lost the domain name to a UK company named Independent International Investment Research (IIIR). Google and IIIR have been negotiating to settle the dispute, but never reached an agreement.
Today onwards, British users who sign … Read full story »

Jakob Nielsen, the king of usability, has published an article on Weblog Usability in his Alertbox column yesterday.

No Author Biographies
No Author Photo
Nondescript Posting Titles
Links Don’t Say Where They Go
Classic Hits are Buried. Link to your past pieces in newer postings.
The Calendar is the Only Navigation, categorize postings
Irregular Publishing Frequency
Mixing Topics
Forgetting That You Write for … Read full story »

My friend Santhosh asked this question. He has an image upload form in a webpage. User selects an image to upload from the local computer by clicking the browse button. Now, he would like to preview the image from the local computer. Good question.
I liked the question mainly because I had the same question 4 … Read full story »

So I received invitation from Flock for developer preview of the browser. They emailed me the link and password. Wonderful. Isn’t it exciting to check out something new, which hopes to change the way you browse the net? Great.
Since I had sc**wed up Administrator access to my laptop, I am not able to install Flock … Read full story »

Did you read the recent issue of The McKinsey Quarterly?
The McKinsey Quarterly 2005 Special Edition: Fulfilling India’s promiseGood read. You need to sign up for free membership to read the articles and a few articles need premium membership.
Links and abstract from the site:

India could be a global leader in education and financial services, to name … Read full story »

Have you noticed that the title of blogger posts displays the blog name first followed by the post title? For better search engine optimization, I want to display the post title first followed by the blog title, because the blog title, which is part of most of the pages is irrelevant in the search context.
Most … Read full story »

I use sitemeter.com to track site statistics of ananthapuri.com. This diagram is provided by sitemeter.com
See below browser market share details provided by different companies.
Safalra:
60% : Internet Explorer based browsers
33% : Gecko based browsers like Mozilla, Firefox and Netscape
Janco associates:
July – September 2005
Internet Explorer : 85.09%
FireFox / Mozilla : 12.2%

W3 Schools:
September 2005
Internet Explorer 5,6 : 75.5%
FireFox … Read full story »

Internet seems to be 36 years old! Still Internet is in its childhood, comparable to a 10 year old kid!
According to Computer History Museum, Internet timeline starts in 1962 with research at MIT and UCLA.
In 1963, ASCII standard developed.
In 1964, IBM’s System 360 computers came to market. IBM came up with SABRE air travel reservation … Read full story »

Flock is a social web browser built as open source on top of the Firefox code – a cross platform integrating the social Web 2.0 modules.
Flock beta is scheduled for launch in October.
Read the articles about Flock on Business Week and Wired News. Also see some Flock Screenshots. Read full story »

Good news for bloggers and blog readers!
Google has released the beta version of Google Reader last Friday. It is another Web 2.0 application using AJAX, just like Gmail. This announcement was made in the Web 2.0 conference.
Google Reader is the new web based RSS/Atom feed reader, which can aggregate latest posts in a single interface.

Automatically … Read full story »