Archive for December, 2005
MSN.co.in home page and their obsessions
I think its high time for MSN India team to change thier domain name msn.co.in to “msnads.co.in” or “msnbollywood.co.in”. Look at this stupid home page which is supposed to be a start page for any indian to know as per expectations from any portal like www.msn.com.
Right from the top of the page, I have marked [...]
Bye Bye FireFox 1.5
I have decided to live with out FireFox 1.5 for some time. Its giving pathetic performance in loading the pages or any other complex rendering. I found IE is better than FireFox 1.5 in performance, though it crashes very often.
May be I will consider Firefox again after major performance fixes. Till then Bye Bye FireFox [...]
Acoustical Liberation of books in public domain
Don’t get scared of that long and serious title Because its a project’s name which can make you feel so happy to know more about.
Tech Crunch reports about the Hugh McGuire’s goal is to make all public domain (expired copyright) books available free online in audio format. The project is named LibriVox. Thanks to [...]
Remembrance Week - 26th December, 2005 - 1st January, 2006
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Google fails here buddy
I was trying this W3C Markup validation tool and found some shocking facts..(validated for HTML 4.0 transitional standards)
“Google fails in W3C Quality standards with 51 errors”
Now you can see what happens if a Ph.D guy develops a web page LOL.
live.com also failed this test with 19 errors
msn.com passed this test…wow
microsoft.com passed the test
The great [...]
Hey, now Sony plays WMA
Good news is that Sony started to incorporate Windows Media Support to its coolest gadget range. Now I dont have to depend on that so called ATTRAC format.
Engadget reports that Sony has released a new firmware to support WMA.
The Chronicles of Narnia : The Lion, The Witch, The Wardrobe and Me
This weekend I happend to watch the much hyped The Chronicles of Narnia. I heard and read lot of stuff about this movie, especially about the money they spent on visual effects, but to be on real experience, this movie will defenetely make you feel so disappointed. I would rate this movie a 3.0/5.0 on [...]
Plug & Play my memory
I would love to see this feature on human brains…
Windows Vista December CTP (Customer Technology Preview) introduces this amazing feature “Use my memory stick as RAM”. This feature was demoed by Jim Alchin at PDC 2005. In short…You connect your thumb drive to your vista PC and it will start using that memory as RAM upon [...]
Some technology downtrends !
Since last 2 weeks, there are few technology downtrends news has been floating around in technogallis.(I used “Galli” in hindi context :-)). First one is the downtrend shades for Java language. After businessweek reported java’s downfall in corporate choice for mission critical applications, its now Linux Insiders turn to report .NET Momentum in the same space.
Some [...]
Yahoo comes with clarity in email id
Yep, now with “dot” facility with in email address.
I have created a cool email id now, and waiting to use Yahoo Mail Beta client very soon. Thanks very much yahoo…:-)