tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-379136002024-03-07T14:48:38.025+05:30a site a dayAbhishekhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08918979999853552280noreply@blogger.comBlogger31125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37913600.post-19615053407675093912008-03-08T02:12:00.005+05:302008-03-08T22:05:52.481+05:30OpenID: an antidote to multiple online identitiesHow many different web services/ sites do you use regularly? Lets start with the popular ones - Gmail, Yahoo, YouTube, Flickr, Facebook, Orkut, ebay, Amazon, Blogger, livejournal, Wordpress plus tons of other "one time signups". How many times have you had to click that 'Forgot password?' link while logging onto your favourite site? As the web expands and more and more popular apps are being Unknownnoreply@blogger.com67tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37913600.post-38813939282989890792008-03-03T10:09:00.000+05:302008-03-03T10:32:26.077+05:30Keep track of your timeA computer opens up so many possibilities, that it's easy to lose track of time. Proves to be especially expensive for students and freelancers.RescueTime is a desktop activities tracking application. It tracks and times all your activities including internet activities. Using the data it collected it can makes graphs and help you analyze how you spend your time.It doesn't track activities of Abhishekhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08918979999853552280noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37913600.post-18990879761191162772008-02-26T23:38:00.000+05:302008-02-26T23:46:47.975+05:30Flock- a social web browserFlock is a web browser that has integrated many of the popular social networking tools into it. It is firefox with added features like facebook, blogger, del.icio.us and in all 15 other social networking tools.Blogging: It has a blogging tool which has amazing functionality when compared to the other blogging tools which are available on the net. There is no extra setup required. One is required Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37913600.post-15387557202354439582007-06-12T02:25:00.000+05:302007-06-12T03:16:19.789+05:30Nautanki.tvI'm currently in Chennai and having a very hard time. The previous weekend, I went to an 'unconference' on podcasting called podwroks.in. I don't podcast and rarely listen to them, because of the bandwidth problems at my university. Most of the sessions weren't good, and made the unconference not worth attending. I found the sessions by one of the sponsors Nautanki.tv quite exciting. I had heard Abhishekhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08918979999853552280noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37913600.post-5928413212760232822007-05-09T14:27:00.000+05:302007-05-09T15:15:38.649+05:30Online project management toolBasecamp by 37signals is one of the best project management applications available online. I've used it for a project of mine and it makes managing data among team members really easy.On the project page you canupload files,create task lists and allot them to people,mark milestones and targets on the map,discuss things on the whiteboard,conference on the chat(not very comfortable though),send Abhishekhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08918979999853552280noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37913600.post-17262148594921315822007-05-09T13:47:00.000+05:302007-05-09T14:27:18.592+05:30Hot or not is now free!This one's for the new Hugh McLeod, who knows math.Hotornot is an unique dating site, where all the jazz of searching for similar tastes and interests are done away with. Instead you are shown pictures and you get to rate them on a scale from 1-10. If you click yes on a picture, then the next time they come online, they are shown your picture and if a match occurs, then a connection is made. Abhishekhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08918979999853552280noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37913600.post-60082463456075338802007-05-08T01:11:00.000+05:302007-05-08T03:47:36.808+05:30Reality TV!The web's first Reality show is here.Justin.tv is the live video blog of Justin. He wears a camera 24 into 7. No, he's not chained to his house. He wears a headcam and the video is streamed on mobile network, which means he can go about normal life. On the website you can watch live-feed of what Justin is doing and chat with him or call him. The calendar serves as the TV guide and you can find Abhishekhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08918979999853552280noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37913600.post-69175617996383270062007-05-07T11:35:00.000+05:302007-05-07T12:33:59.541+05:30Keep track of your money.I'm at college, so as a rule I'm always running out of money and always borrowing money from people. In my first year, the more intelligent guy among us made an excel sheet where 12 of us after every outing, dinner would religiously fill in all expenditures. As all stories end, the computer crashed one day and with it went my 350 rupees which people owed to me.Moral of the story? Use an online Abhishekhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08918979999853552280noreply@blogger.com18tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37913600.post-47623834043877953252007-05-06T06:59:00.000+05:302007-05-06T07:57:03.870+05:30Use the Web to reach out and do social good!Today's post is going to be long, because they do something I'm very passionate about.Kiva.org is the world's first loaning site for micro-credit. Micro-credit is making loans of smaller sizes available to the disadvantaged sections of the society. People who need amounts of money as small as a couple of hundred dollars to meet their needs. Such small loans aren't given out by banks, because theyAbhishekhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08918979999853552280noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37913600.post-37545624155673894882007-05-05T03:42:00.000+05:302007-05-05T03:53:07.386+05:30Think you can't get bluffed?Blufr is an addictive little website, where you are asked obscure trivia. The widget embedded below will give you a few examples.Powered by Answers.com:free online dictionary and moreAll the bluffs have been created by users and you can add your own bluffs. Its fun and very very addictive mind you.Have fun!Abhishekhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08918979999853552280noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37913600.post-90893486994955934992007-05-04T04:28:00.000+05:302007-05-05T04:46:18.159+05:30Save your To Do lists onlineToodledo is a new online application on which you can save your tasks, give them priorities, save it on a calendar, set goals etc. The list of things you can do on it is really long and here's the link. I don't think they have a mobile application yet. Such a thing will make things really easier.If you already use some desktop task manager, then you can transport all the data onto Toodledo. I Abhishekhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08918979999853552280noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37913600.post-38669130166854363972007-05-03T06:37:00.000+05:302007-05-03T07:40:44.135+05:30Search "How to?" on KoonjiKoonji is a community powered 'How to?' search engine. The Web 2.0 has given rise to quite a few similar sites, but Koonji is the best of them all because of the sheer size of number of people who use it and contribute to it.Koonji has articles which explain common day-to-day activities in a step by step manner. On Koonji find articles on How to make Turkish coffee?, How to surprise mom on Abhishekhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08918979999853552280noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37913600.post-46647844815602448712007-05-02T22:28:00.000+05:302007-05-03T07:44:06.701+05:30Bitch into the vastness of the internet with B*SHB*SH( url is http://ilovetocomplain.com) is a bitch board where you can anonymously scream anything you want to. Scream about your unfair boss or how you hate your friend sometimes. Take it off your chest. You've got a place to say it aloud to the world and not feel bad about it.I've tried it :-) and really it feels pretty good, its the online version of the lonely woods where you could scream Abhishekhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08918979999853552280noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37913600.post-19097276450380603352007-05-01T13:36:00.000+05:302007-05-01T14:12:07.172+05:30Burrp!Burrp! is a yellow-pages sort of website written by the online community. Use Burrp to find out about local restaurants, bars, juice centers, etc. Read recommendations and choose the best place to hang out in.Burrp is currently available for three cities- Mumbai, Bangalore and Kolkata. And soon Delhi, Chennai, Hyderabad, Goa and Pune will be covered.On Burrp you can search for places and add Abhishekhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08918979999853552280noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37913600.post-8215777261235516392007-04-30T02:13:00.000+05:302007-05-01T02:15:44.844+05:30Take a break!My computer decided to take a break, so no post for today.Look outside, its Monday and lovely outside. Take a walk!Abhishekhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08918979999853552280noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37913600.post-62075269508348384852007-04-29T22:33:00.000+05:302007-04-29T23:02:53.072+05:30Mail files upto 1gb using PandoPando is a desktop p2p application which you can use to transfer files upto 1gb. Use Pando to share big files, mail huge files, download files from the internet. Also watch HD internet TV using Pando. They've got a lot of channelsScreen shots of the application.Download application.The basic features are for free. For sending bigger packages, you'll have to take a premium account.Pando is Abhishekhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08918979999853552280noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37913600.post-10962426243565672292007-04-28T22:07:00.000+05:302007-04-28T23:34:27.542+05:30Project Opus, community for artists and their fansThis weekend, discover new music and artists.There are a lot of local bands out there, unknown and making awesome music. If you are a member of a local band or know a local band which deserves much better, then Project Opus is the place to be.From what their site says:Project Opus™ is an online music community designed to support artists, fans and local music. It is a single point of contact for Abhishekhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08918979999853552280noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37913600.post-34647979817502774202007-04-27T05:58:00.000+05:302007-04-27T07:28:54.960+05:30Happy birthday Mom! (And how I remembered it)Happy birthday mom!Flowers2mail website on which you can create/design virtual bouquets and mail it with a card to people. Its not really a great website, but its fun for a change from the boring( and loud) ecards that people around on birthdays and other occasions. And then as they say, flowers say it the best :).You have a choice between six types of flowers and with four colors for each Abhishekhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08918979999853552280noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37913600.post-65308318869327976632007-04-26T05:11:00.000+05:302007-04-26T14:34:17.844+05:30Scribd, YouTube for documentsImagine youtube and replace the vidoes with documents. That's scribd.com. It is as simple as it sounds, somebody uploads documents, you view them.Its the place for finding some of the most interesting documents floating around on the web.The viewer is a neat little application which shows you docs in flash-paper, which loads faster than .pdf formats(and doesn't crash your browsers). You also haveAbhishekhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08918979999853552280noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37913600.post-65534199121417666152007-04-25T15:03:00.000+05:302007-04-25T16:12:57.442+05:30Bookmark only parts of a page.I'm a huge fan of these bookmarking tools like del.icio.us and stumbleupon, which make saving pages and searching for them so very easy.Clipmarks is a tool which goes a step ahead and lets you save only parts of a page like the video, or a paragraph or an image.When you are working on some report and collecting data from the web on a notepad, the data soon becomes unreadableand cluttered. With Abhishekhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08918979999853552280noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37913600.post-10679467682714612022007-04-25T07:40:00.000+05:302007-04-25T08:01:39.606+05:30New look.I've completely changed the look of the blog. I previously had a 800*600 screen resolution template. This template is one of the standard blogger templates of 1024*768 resolution.As I was looking at my traffic on Getclicky.com, I realized in the past six months, I had received exactly one hit from a browser with 800*600. And about 10% of the hits were from resolutions higher than 1024*768.So I Abhishekhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08918979999853552280noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37913600.post-88130807956727152052007-04-24T17:02:00.000+05:302007-04-25T05:27:51.054+05:30Edit Photos, online.Lose that habit of uploading bad pictures to Flickr. And not having Photoshop is not an excuse anymore.Below are two fabulous online photo-editors. Picnik.com is a cool service that allows anyone to edit photos online.Fix underexposed photos, crop, rotate, remove red eyes, or apply effects to your photos. It has a flash interface and the smoothness is fabulous. It loadsreal quick(even in Pilani).Abhishekhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08918979999853552280noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37913600.post-49014844376796841382007-04-23T10:24:00.000+05:302007-04-23T11:48:36.399+05:30StumbleUpon, good stuffStumbleUpon is a social browsing application. Users download a browser toolbar and can find popular sites in different categories, vote on sites, etc. Stumbleupon has nearly 2,193,951 registered users in 139 countries, who “stumble” on 5.4 million sites per day.StumbleUpon is a web tool I absolutely swear by and can eat away hours of your time, while you are 'StumblingUpon' sites and webpages. Abhishekhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08918979999853552280noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37913600.post-40109552526014024222007-04-21T02:48:00.000+05:302007-04-23T11:03:09.832+05:30You bet!Betsgowild.com is a place where you can place bets online, with your friends, with other online members. The best part is, you never really lose anything(other than a little self-respect of course).So its perfect for guys like me who love the phrase " really? You ready to bet on that??" And then lose the bet and with it money worth lots of dinners(Last bet I made. off-line, cost me Rs. 240 :( ) Abhishekhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08918979999853552280noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37913600.post-72528625570931228692007-04-19T15:19:00.000+05:302007-04-23T10:38:21.998+05:30Blogging becomes super easy.If you are one of those kinds who find blogging on blogger or wordpress, difficult to setup or really do not want so many options and freedom with your web logs, then Tumblr.com is for you.Tumblr.com is for tumblelogs. What is a tumblelog? Tumblr.com explains that pretty well. To make a simple analogy: If blogs are journals, tumblelogs are scrapbooks.After you've created Abhishekhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08918979999853552280noreply@blogger.com0