RockMelt a New Facebook Browser!

There is another new browser I have recently tried. This comes from the Netscape group and has coupled with Facebook. I have been using Facebook a lot more extensively, for the last couple of days, and that is why I am have started liking this new browser. Here is the original RockMelt site. I am [...]

Finally used the Gmail Video Chat!

Though this video feature is not a new one in Gmail, in fact if I remember it correctly it is almost one and a half two years old. But this is the first time I have used the feature. Though it is not the first time I am using a video chat. I have used [...]

Bouncing Back from a Negative 360-Degree Review

The appraisals are just round the corner in my company and I guess that will be the case in most of the companies. Another common thing in the appraisals is the 360-Degree review. At least most of the companies are following this policy. Well this is a much used policy since it has got a [...]

How to Type the Indian Rupee Sign!

Now, it is very much possible to type Indian Rupee Symbol from your computer. This procedure was available immediately after the sign became official, so I am a little late in updating on this. I have shared and uploaded the required font here. The steps to type the symbol are very simple, and are as [...]

EPIC – The New Indian Browser!

This is a new browser that is launched especially for the Indians. I am not sure if it is made by an Indian, but it is very likely that this will be the case. (In fact it is being developed by Hidden Reflex, I just got a comment on this post from their founder, Alok). [...]

Blackle.com – A New Search Engine?

Blackle is a website powered by Google Custom Search, which aims to save energy by displaying a black background and using grayish-white font color for search results. It is also a search engine and uses the same database used by Google so there is no difference in the results displayed by the two sites. I [...]

SAX or DOM – Which to Use and When?

During my final year of engineering, I had to make a project, the final-year project. I planned to make it in JAVA. I was using a database, a text file, an xml file, and an html file. While making the project I faced a lot of problems in which parser to use, the DOM or [...]

CAPTCHA

I have been using CAPTCHA for sometime now. About a week back when I was trying to implement it in asp.net I faced a few problems as I could not display the image. After a lot of troubleshooting I could get it done. Then one of my friends also happened to get the same problem, [...]

Google launches it’s TV- Google TV

Google comes out with another of it’s new gadget, this time a TV, called as Google TV. What I would just say is watch out for Google TV. It is said to be a combination of TV, Internet and Search – endless possibilities. Here is the article of it’s launch from the official blog site. [...]

Apple iPad the Major Misses!!

After three years Apple is back to what it is known to be best at — launch new product. The computing giant launched iPad, a sleek table that aims to revolutionize the publishing business the same way as Apple iPod transformed the music industry and iPhone transformed the telecom industry. But there are many misses [...]

What should you use : a file-system or a database?

Whether to use a file-system or a database to store the data of your application has been a contentious issue since a long time now. Now Pune-based startup Druvaa has weighed in on this issue on Druvaa’s blog. Their post is republished here. It’s interesting to see how databases have come a long way and have [...]

Data De-Duplication

Druvaa is a Pune-based startup that sells fast, efficient, and cheap backup software for enterprises and SMEs. It makes heavy use of data de-duplication technology to deliver on the promise of speed and low-bandwidth consumption. Let see what exactly data de-duplication is and how it works. Definition of Data De-duplication Data deduplication or Single Instancing [...]

Checklist for Testing SharePoint Web Parts.

1. Verify that you can add the Web Part properly to a Web Part zone. Adding a Web Part to a Web Part zone is the most common user task. Therefore, it is essential that the Web Part works correctly to create a good user experience. To Test Create a new Web Part Page. Click [...]

Does Google Have a Secret OS?

Net Applications caused a bit of a stir this week with a report that showed Microsoft’s operating system share had dipped below 90 percent. This played very well where anti-Microsoft sentiment was strongest, not surprisingly. Net Applications uses software sensors at 40,000 Web sites around the world to measure traffic and come up with its [...]

SCRUM

ABOUT Scrum is an iterative incremental process of software development commonly used with agile software development. Despite the fact that “Scrum” is not an acronym, some companies implementing the process have been known to adhere to an all capital letter expression of the word, i.e. SCRUM. This may be due to one of Ken Schwaber’s [...]