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Blank DVDs are dirt cheap these days and most of us think little before picking them up. But choosing the right media can be important in the long term. Low quality discs get damaged very quickly and loose their readability in less than a year. Unfortunately for us there isn’t any easy way to judge [...]

Do you remember how three years ago Indian ISPs had all of a sudden started blocking random websites (including all blogspot blogs)? Remember how it felt to have your website banned all of a sudden and without any explanation? Well guess what, if the proposed amendments for the Information Technology Act of 2008 gets passed [...]

Thanks to microblogging services like Twitter, URL shortening services are a big hit these days. And everyone is getting in on the act. Stumble Upon is currently beta testing its own beta testing service called Su.pr (pronounced Super). Su.pr works more like the Digg url shortener than traditional url shorteners. I got my beta testers [...]

You are probably aware of the ongoing antitrust case filed by Opera against Microsoft. If you aren’t I suggest you check out the initial press release by Opera. During recent months Mozilla, IBM, Nokia, Sun, Adobe, Oracle, and others have also joined the case. Opera’s demands are two fold – i) to compel Microsoft to [...]

Opera is preparing for a big announcement on June 16th at 8:00 am UTC. It’s supposedly something cool and innovative. I have absolutely no idea regarding what it may be. As usual Opera employees are also being pretty tight lipped about it. Opera has put up a strange webpage proclaiming that after 15 years of [...]

As I told you in one of my previous posts, I am currently in the process of re-organising all my pictures. While doing this, I realised that I had several duplicate image files in my collection. Manually finding duplicate images among thousands of images is an impossible task. There are plenty of duplicate image removers [...]

It can be hard to keep track of the latest album releases, especially if you don’t watch a lot of VH1 or MTV. With a large number of new albums hitting the shelves every week, there is always the possibility that you may miss a new release by your favourite artist. This is where AlbumReminder [...]