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Knol is no Wiki

July 23rd, 2008 · No Comments · google

If everywhere, everyone has been flooded with this image showing an article on INSOMNIA, it is so because KNOL is out for the public now. KNOL is Google’s knowledge base ( a way to tackle Wikipedia) of articles written by people ranging from specialised ones to bloggers to anyone stung by the writer’s bug. As [...]

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GMail Contact is now Clutter Free. Yippee!!

July 17th, 2008 · No Comments · google

I knew this would soon be fixed and it was quite sooner than I expected. If you have closely followed the trend, anyone whom you mailed twice appeared in your contact list on the left side chat window. This made your chat window filled with even all those names with whom you would never chat. [...]

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Pimp your GMail security: Check

July 7th, 2008 · 1 Comment · google

For people like me, you and almost anyone who use GMail from your personal machine, your workstation, your mobile phone, may be even a cybercafe, we often login and logout frequently, without really remembering whether any of these sessions are active/logged out and that whether my GMail is secure? Well, no matter how cool we [...]

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Redesigning Techkeyla : Presenting Techkeyla v2.0 2008

June 29th, 2008 · No Comments · blogging, techkeyla

It has been a good 6 months since the launch of Techkeyla. And well, I was very happy with the O2-20 Theme that I had for this one. But it has been here since day one. And well, the itch for a change in the theme had been troubling me for quite some time. It [...]

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Mozilla Firefox 3 RC1 is here

May 18th, 2008 · 1 Comment · firefox

So it has been a year and a half since the last major release of the favorite browser of many- Firefox. We have gone through the different levels of Beta versions for the last couple of months, and now it has finally arrived. The Release candidate 1. There has already been a lot of buzz [...]

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Edit Contacts in GMail Chat

May 1st, 2008 · No Comments · google

So what’s new about this. Nothing actually, only it’s faster. GMail Blog has put up the details. But anyway, I am gonna tell you exactly the same. And may be a bit more as well. Remember the old days when a friend added you on Gtalk and his Email ID used to show on the [...]

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Orkut goes Private

April 29th, 2008 · 1 Comment · google, web 2.0

Like it or not, Orkut is potentially one of the largest social networks around. While people in general, and industry specialists in particular have always termed it as Google’s unsuccessful social network, to be only successful in India, Pakistan and Brazil, but they always ignored the number of users that Orkut has from these three [...]

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Orkut walks the Facebook Way. Adds the Opensocial Apps

April 16th, 2008 · 3 Comments · google, web 2.0

Okay, I will not wrap this up in any form of introductory bullshit. Lemme get this straight and right to the point. The Apps on Orkut are ALIVE..finally. I was buzzed on my GTalk today by my friend Praxy, who told me that he noticed certain changes in Orkut, right as we were speaking. It [...]

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Dell Vostro 1500 User Review

April 10th, 2008 · 7 Comments · review

You must have noticed that my last post was on the 1st of April. And it has been 9 days since. Where was I? Was I locked in Sona? Was I stranded on an uninhabited island ala LOST? Naah! My previous laptop was a work laptop which had to go. And I was waiting for [...]

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CAT 2009: The game goes online

April 1st, 2008 · No Comments · internet, news

An early morning dose of 440 volts ran down my spine when I dragged my drowsy eyes on the front page of TimeofIndia. The headline read-CAT to be held online from November 2009: IIM. And I said to myself -nothing. So finally it has happened. At par with the other global examinations for graduates applying [...]

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