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Review Corner: New Tab King Firefox Add-on

August 27th, 2010 · Firefox, Review Corner, Web Browsers

Firefox add-on New Tab King

Welcome to the new section that I have created called ‘Review Corner’. It is pretty much self explanatory. I will surf around the web and if I find anything interesting I will post a review here. It will be simple and to the point. It will include links to the product, a couple of screen ...

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Google Beta 6.0.472.33 Screenshots

August 12th, 2010 · Chrome, Firefox, Technology, Web Browsers

Google Chrome 6 (Beta)

As with all Google Chrome releases, after I updated to Google Chrome 6.0.472.33, I noticed there were quite a few changes in UI and in its performance. I have taken screenshots and posted it here for your viewing. The UI ... I guess they have made some subtle changes to the UI. This includes, the Menu UI ...

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Epic Browser – A Review

August 1st, 2010 · Firefox, Open Source, Technology, Web Browsers

Epic Logo

As Google, Mozilla, Microsoft, Opera and Apple fight the browser wars, a new browser is about to take on the bigwigs. A Bangalore based company called Hidden Relfex (www.hiddenreflex.com), has come up with a ‘desi browser’ called Epic Browser. This browser is based on the popular Mozilla browser – Firefox. Hidden Reflex founded by Alok Bhardwaj ...

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Tirupati Trip 2010

July 30th, 2010 · My Chronicle

My trip to Tirupati was marred by delays and heavy rains, and yet I had one of the best trip of my life because I had the chance to visit Lord Venkateshwara Swamy with my best school friends.

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Cyclone Laila is Here! Thank you Rain Gods!

May 19th, 2010 · Breaking News, My Chronicle

Cyclone Laila

I got up to a chilly morning today as rains poured down Chennai and coastal regions of Andhra Pradesh. It seems there was a depression in Bay of Bengal since yesterday leading to a cyclone formation, nicknamed Laila (why do they keep refering to these cyclones and hurricanes with girls name! - topic for another ...

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The ‘new’ Google Look

May 7th, 2010 · Google, My Chronicle, Technology, Web Search

Have you noticed anything new lately when you try Google search? I have. It seems that Google has changed the look and feel of their search engine page (very subtly!). I have to say that I like it. In addition to those changes, they have also tweaked the results page as well. There is a ...

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My first attempt in creating wallpapers!

May 5th, 2010 · My Chronicle

Hey, check out my creations! Like it or hate, don't forget to drop a line. and my first attempt at Twitter background (based on ZOHO's Work.Online slogan) :

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Well, its been a long time…

April 28th, 2010 · Apple, Cricket, Google, Indian Premier League, My Chronicle, World Cup, iPad, iPhone

Runs N Wickets

Well, it has been a long time since I blogged about anything. For the past few months, I have been caught up with work - not to mention my cricket schedule coupled with IPL has made me extremely busy for the past few months. On the work front, I have to say I am happy and ...

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My Ubuntu installed with XAMPP, WordPress and Chrome Beta!

December 28th, 2009 · Technology, Web Designing

Ubuntu 9.04

Here is a couple screenshots of my Ubuntu 9.04 with VLC, XAMPP (installed for WordPress), WordPress 2.9, Firefox 3.6, Chrome Beta dual booted with Windows Vista. My re-installation of Ubuntu was due to me fooling around, trying to install Compiz (only to realize that there was an easier method to do it!) and corrupting Ubuntu files. ...

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WordPress 2.9 is here!

December 20th, 2009 · Blogging, Wordpress

Built-in Editor doesn

WordPress.org has released 2.9 version (codename: Carmen) with some major updates. According to WordPress blog, some of the important updates includes: Global undo/”trash” feature, which means that if you accidentally delete a post or comment you can bring it back from the grave (i.e., the Trash). This also eliminates those annoying “are you sure” messages we ...

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