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I got admitted into Sikkim Manipal Institute of Technology and would be studying Computer Science. I would be busy over the next few months and need time to settle in. Unfortunately this means I won’t be able to blog during next two to three months. Recently Anand tagged me in the “8 Random facts about [...]

I got tagged by Daniel Goldman in his Blog tag: 5 things I’d like to see in Opera post. It’s a very nice initiative undertaken to gather feedback from Opera users. Here is how it will work: Once you’ve been tagged by someone, share your list (on your blog) of 5 things you’d like to [...]

Post Like a Pirate is a web-service that allows you to post messages using pirate speek (duh!).The Pirate Translator translates your messages into pirate-speek as you type. You can also email your friends and post messages to twitter directly in pirate text using this service. The website itself is far from being hip and cool. [...]

Blog Project Three by ‘Daily Blog Tips‘ was a huge success. As many as hundred and fifteen blogs participated in the project. The full list of participants is available here. You can read my submission here. After going through the rest of the entries I have finally come up with my Top 5 list. Here [...]

Nothing annoys a visitor more than a slow loading website. With the proliferation of broadband, most of us have become used to websites loading within a few seconds. Many webmasters spend hours trying to optimize their website for search engines but forget to optimize their website for human beings. In this article I would touch [...]

Time for another edition of Tiny Utilities. I have three more nifty software in store for you. NetStat Live Just as the name suggests, this utility displays live statistics about your internet connection. NSL allows you to monitor your internet connection’s status on the fly. This works much better than most web based internet speed [...]

Pownce is Kevin Rose’s (of Digg.com fame) latest venture. Its pretty much Scrapping meets Mini-Blogging meets File Sharing. Personally, I am not a fan of Twitter and similar services. I am not interested in knowing if my friend is taking a bath or eating breakfast or is getting a massage. In spite of that I [...]