The first big move in the wave of the predicted recession of 2008 in IT has come across as a huge blow to the entire IT community. One of India’s largest software exporter, TCS (Tata Consultancy Services) has implemented a plan, according to which, all the salaries of the employees would be reduced by Rs.2000 [...]

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MySpace can be actually termed as the living room of the internet. It is one of the most visited sites across the world, and is still the market leader when it comes to Social Networking. We all know about the irritating scattered layouts with the invisible fonts and the translucent templates. But what was charming [...]

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I am an avid Firefox user. There’s absolutely no existence of the IE on my machine in terms of usage. And well, I also use Flock, which is again a Firefox based browser. And what hooked me to Firefox at the first place was the Tab Browsing facility. With time, we all got so used [...]

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The Google Social Networking site, hugely popular in Brazil, India and Pakistan, turned 4 years old this 24th. As expected, the logo was changed, and is shown above. I joined Orkut in late 2004, back in the days when it was quite exclusive, and was invitation only. It has grown by leaps and bounds in [...]

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This one comes in really handy when you design or redesign your site layouts. Specially with so many free Wordpress layouts available, it is absolutely mandatory for all bloggers to keep in mind about the end user browsing experience, in terms of the layout being stable (Techkeyla had a few problems-the sidebars had all scrolled [...]

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An interesting thing I came across today,(like other things on the Internet) is this comprehensive hierarchical chart enlisting the different categories in which GEEKS (probably like me) can be categorized. Most of the topics have stuff related to Japanese Anime or just Anime, and Sci-Fi fantasies and X-Men comics. The hierarchy arrow pointing downards denotes: [...]

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Here in this tutorial , we are going to install components from terminal. It’s upto you to choose between the terminal method or go for the good old Synaptic Package Manager- Add/Remove Programs. Of the many media players available for , choose the one which suits your sensibilities or tastes, whatever. First, we are going [...]

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A few days back, I came across an ad on Google Adsense, which read Zoom.in, a new images and photo sharing service, which is currently open to users in India and the US. Zoom.in started it’s service in Jan 2007. So, what’s new with this one when we already have the bosses -Flickr, Photbucket, Picassa, [...]

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Have you ever wondered what new does the Web or for that matter,Web 2.0 has to offer you? Even more for you to think upon, is the number of services that are online and available for even most of your specific needs. All you need is just a basic know-how of getting your hands on [...]

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This post has nothing to do with accusing Steve Jobs of not entertaining us enough this year at the Macworld Keynote. I guess, Gates stole the show with his short feature with Matthew McConaughey and Jon Stewart this January. But well, the question is, all that hype of “There’s something in the air” has probably [...]

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