As part of Sanjeevani activities, we conducted a session on Computers, Internet and Information Technology in Modern World to a group of selected 9th standard students of Abraham Memorial Higher Secondary School, Thirumala, Thiruvananthapuram.
It was a 4 hour session for 20 students. In this discussion, I have connected to the Internet from my laptop through … Read full story »
Hi! I am back again!
Today I have installed the Flock Browser developer version in my laptop. It is based on the Mozilla code base, most of the functionality and navigation is same as that of FireFox.
The following are the new features I tried out.
Blog Editor
Tagging using del.icio.us
Favorites Manager for del.icio.us
Shelf
I am not much excited about … Read full story »
I am back to the Internet and the blog world after a ‘remote vacation’ of 6 weeks! I have to see what all happened around my internet world during this time. Hope to blog more in coming days.
Wish you a happy and prosperous New Year 2006. Read full story »
As a continuation of yesterday’s post on place marking in Google Earth, I created this in online Google map too. This does not require you to have Google Earth installed on your computer. But Google Earth is clearer than the Google Map view of satellite image.
Satellite View of Thiruvananthapuram using Google
MapsA smaller version is provided … Read full story »
Google recently released Google Earth streaming technology to deliver 3D satellite images of the earth right on to your desktop. See my previous post on Google Earth. I have been playing with it for some time now. It is really helpful to find places in the US. For US cities, I always look at Google … Read full story »
In my recent visit to Texas, I found that India is just 30 minutes drive from Dallas, TX! See the map of India, TX and driving directions in MapQuest! And, there are 3 more India in the US!
Actually, India is not alone. There are many Russia, England, Britain, Spain, Brazil, Africa, Norway, Japan, … Read full story »
The following is the text of the Commencement address by Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple Computer, Inc., delivered on June 2005. For some reasons, today I ended up thinking about life, work, passion and the past, and made me read this again. This speach is worth spending your time, read completely. If you have read … Read full story »
Google announced its free Online Website Analytics Tool called Google Analytics. This has been discussed in Google community for sometime. Here it is finally.
Read more about Google Analytics in Official Google Blog and Analytics Benefits page.
It is very easy to sign up and analyze traffic to your site or blog. I created a profile for … Read full story »
I wanted to start a new blog on project management and similar IT related areas I come across on a day to day basis. I have been looking for a simple, small, easy to remember, catchy domain name. Today I came up with the name, 4pm.in! For Project Managers/Management.Do you like this domain name? … Read full story »
Finally, Indian Government has a portal!
Visit http://india.gov.in/.
Good work. Most of the information is now available online either through this website or other related NIC websites.
The website is in English. Just wondering how much effort will it takes to have the portal in all 22 scheduled languages!
This is the National Portal of the India, … Read full story »
Recently Google announced Referral program for Firefox and AdSense under its AdSense advertising programme.
Let us join hands with Google to spread Firefox browser and to end Internet Explorer monopoly! Read full story »
I have been using Google Reader since its beta release and really like it. Google Reader helps me keep up-to-date on technology and other areas of my interest by scanning blogs and other feeds. As a regular user, I have some suggestions and observations for Google Reader.
When I clicked on hidden option for Show read … Read full story »
Wondering what the he*l the title of this post means? hm.. Keep wondering, will tell you later! Hey, it is not my usual typo!
I commute to work place in Metro bus. Pretty frequent service and clean. Under a program called Poetry on Buses, the buses display placards of poems by the theme Self Portrait. Most … Read full story »
The Register reports that, at a recruiting event for India hosted in Santa Clara, California last week, where the companies like Google, Microsoft, Yahoo!, Oracle, Intel, Informatica, Symantec, Dell and Accenture participated. Many people wanted to join Microsoft and there was a big line in front of their booth!
These companies did a good job of … Read full story »
Good news for Microsoft Technology enthusiasts!
Microsoft now understands that they should open up their products to the developer community in order to sustain in the market. Thanks to the success of the various open source initiatives, this forced Microsoft also, to offer Visual Studio Express and SQL Server 2005 Express for FREE!
Read more at Microsoft.com: … Read full story »
