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Entries from March 2008

2100 AD:Mumbai, an underwater story

March 31st, 2008 · No Comments · green

TimesofIndia had an article today on a research result revealed by climate expert and professor from the humanities department of IIT Chennai, Sudhir Chella Rajan. Here’s an excerpt.
The Gateway of India will be wiped off the Mumbai skyline. Bhelpuri at Chowpatty will become the stuff of grandmother’s tales.
No flights will take off from Chhatrapati Shivaji [...]

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Links for 2008-03-31

March 31st, 2008 · No Comments · links

KK.org: 21st century Vinyl

Dosh Dosh: Darkroom: A Text Editor That Helped Me to Write Better Content
Google OS:Not Your Ordinary Google Interface
WordPress 2.5 Has Left The Building

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Twitter’s First Marriage and all that lands up on Techmeme

March 28th, 2008 · 1 Comment · web 2.0

I really couldn’t care less. I use Techmeme to see the upcoming headlines in the world of Technology. Not to be fed to some dumb tabloid-ish ‘news’. This incident happened on the 21st of March, and it has taken me some time to write about it. It was quite disturbing that even online journalism has [...]

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Free FTP Client for Firefox: FireFTP

March 28th, 2008 · No Comments · firefox

I know there are quite a lot of browser add-ons when it comes to Firefox, and this might just be yet another add-on. Or is it? FireFTP is a free FTP client for your Firefox browser and is available for download here.Now, is there any  extra advantage of using a browser based FTP Client, when [...]

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Language translation in Gmail and GTalk

March 28th, 2008 · 1 Comment · google

Talk about integration. Google is bringing its translation tool into its Mail service and GTalk so says, Computerworld. There are already bots available to facilitate this service. However, there is a fair chance of the translation service being inaccurate similar to its translation tool, but while talking to a person with no common language of [...]

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Links for 2008-03-28

March 28th, 2008 · No Comments · links

Nothing is actually special about today. Just another day at work. And I am just whiling away my time reading posts from Bloglines and my Stumble Upon Toolbar. Nevertheless, I am doing some good for the blogging world by contributing my links for the day. So here they are.

Techcrunch: The Music Industry’s New Extortion [...]

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Things to Remember while Backing up Wordpress

March 27th, 2008 · No Comments · blogging, techkeyla

Yes, I ran into troubled water yet again. My webmaster decided to shift my server to a new one, and hence had to go through the process of backing up my blogs, and getting them up again from scratch. It is indeed a pain, at least it was for me. I made a whole list [...]

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Links for 2008-03-21

March 21st, 2008 · No Comments · links

It’s Holi today, a traditional color-fest where countless hues mingle and people rejoice. A celebration this colorful is totally unmatched. So, Happy Holi to all my readers. And here we go, here are today’s links.
Mashable: Yahoo’s Answer plus Twitter
Jason Falls-SME: Role of Anonymity in Social Media
Dosh Dosh:12 Must have tools for active Diggers
10e20:Confessions [...]

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How to back up your Wordpress DB?

March 21st, 2008 · 1 Comment · blogging, how to

It is quite essential to regularly back up your blog data. More so when you are hit with a bad weather in your servers. That is when you see the whole world crumbling down. Imagine me, when my servers crashed and I had no access to the c-panel and neither could I ftp to the [...]

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Links for 2008-03-20

March 20th, 2008 · 4 Comments · links

Throughout my blogging experience so far, what I’ve learnt the most is how important social networking online can actually be. The benefits of social networking through online communities, emails, and of course through your own blog/website can actually boost or even magnify your gains as well as popularity. So here I am , for the [...]

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