Archive for July, 2009

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Yahoo Launches new Home Page

Wednesday, July 22nd, 2009

Analysis of Yahoo’s new Home Page, gives you the comfort of several web services without leaving the Yahoo page.

Yahoo has just just unveiled its new Home Page for Beta Testers. The page is dynamic, innovativatively though out offering from Yahoo. The Yahoo homepage is one of the most popular start pages on the Internet and Yahoo in its endeavor to retain that edge from iGoogle, has offered a user experence that is several notch superior from competitors. The standard start page remains untouched as of now but it is possible to point the web browser to yahoo.com/trynew to experience and test the new start page. Opening the url will redirect to another Yahoo url (http://m.www.yahoo.com/) that cannot be accessed directly as it is probably checking a cookie or referrer to decide whether to display the new or old start page. (more…)

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Best Home Backup Strategy Now

Monday, July 20th, 2009

My Seagate Freeagent 500 GB external Hard Disk failed to start, taking with it data that I had stored as critical for my work and important for my personal requirements. Let me introduce you to this hardware. The hard disk I am talking about is rarely used, bought from Dell US a year ago and rested comfortably, most unused through the year in my electronics wardrobe filled with gadgets of all shapes and sizes. (more…)

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Android or Chrome OS for my Laptop

Monday, July 20th, 2009

Live Android or Chrome OS for my Laptop

As I awaited with my fingers crossed to get a working version or developer edition of Chrome OS for my notebook [Introducing the Google Chrome OS for Notebooks I stumbled upon Live Android, a project hosted on Google Code website, providing you live iso file for android. (more…)

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ULIP Pros and Cons Explained in Layman’s Language

Thursday, July 16th, 2009

Unit Linked Insurance Plan (ULIP) Advantages and Disadvantages Explained

KNOCK KNOCK!

Me: Who is it?

“I am an Unit Linked Insurance Plan (ULIP)”

And thus began my conversation with a ULIP who came to my doorstep one day. I took the opportunity to ask him a few of my doubts. Here are excerpts from my conversation:

Me: Go away! I am told you are too expensive? I should not be investing into ULIPs ! I have learnt that term insurance + mutual funds is a better idea. (more…)

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It Rained and Rained Some More

Wednesday, July 15th, 2009

It rained in Delhi

Finally the rain Gods smiled on Delhi and we were blessed with some heavenly showers for 3-4 hours today. The weather is nice, the mood is upbeat and suddenly everyone seems to be filled with new energy.
Feels nice to see how little things bring so much happiness.

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Social Media Listening a necessary evil for 2010

Tuesday, July 14th, 2009

Social Media Listening a necessary evil for 2010

Marketing is growing by leap and bounds. Looking into marketplace I see 50,000 Internet Marketing Freelancers and Companies trying to create a listening that they are the messiah of Online Marketing. Seemingly we have all but figured out Internet Marketing. But I don’t find a single dot.com, Ad Agency, Ad Network, or Freelancer who can guarantee me ROI [Return on Investment] forehand. Human mind and emotions is too complex for greatest of the scientists of our times to be captured in a magical equation.

SEO, zillions of Experts have their theory on Optimizing content on Google. Adwords experts claim to have figured of innovative ways to figure our Google Adwords Gaps and Quality Score. We know Rich Media Banners get better click through rates. Facebook application Marketing which came up in late 2008 is already a figured out technology. And when I talk to Social Media listening I am not talking about Facebook and Orkut, Youtube, MySpace Advertising.  (more…)

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Back in Town

Tuesday, July 14th, 2009

I am back in town after a little stint with Mussoorie. Will talk in detail about Mussoorie and Dehradun in a while.

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Some Softwares That I Recommend

Thursday, July 9th, 2009

Here is a list of some of the softwares which I essentially use:

1. Opera: Opera is my favorite browser. The browsing experience it offers is par excellence. Any avid internet freak who browsers 10-12 webpages at one go would swear by the way its interface works.
2. Internet Researcher: Internet Researcher from Zylox is the best Web Copier, Website Downloader, Website Ripper that I have been using since ages.
3. Irfan View: If I wanna browse images, crop, edit them for daily use Irfanview is my DE-facto choice.
4. Flashget: Its one of my favorite download manager.
5. Kazaa Media Player Classic is my favorite media player.
6.  FeedDemon is my fav. RSS Aggregator.
7. Digsby is the Instant Messener I use to connect to Google Talk, Yahoo IM and WIM.
8. SmartFTP is my favorite FTP client.
9. ZoneAlarm is what I use as Personal Security Suite.
10. WinAmp is the audio and MP3 player that I like.
11. Arelis/IBP is something that I recommend for SEO analysis and Report Creation.
12. Foxit Suite is good for creation and working on PDF files

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Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen

Wednesday, July 8th, 2009

Review of Movie Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen

Michael Bay’s “Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen” is inarguably the most highly anticipated release of the summer. I had loved the first installment of Transformers directed by Michael Bay back in 2007, the acting/premise/humor/action was superb.

That apart the movie has great premise and plot. The action scenes and visual effects are great. And for once the entire gamot of US army, air force and navy comes into play. The humor and comic scenes are also well placed. There are many duals between heroic Autobots and evil Decepticons each being filmed extensively and  are enjoyable to core. The new funky auto-bots are funky at times and pain to watch at certain junctures. (more…)

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Dow Nasdaq end on bad note Amid Talk of New Stimulus

Wednesday, July 8th, 2009

S&P Hits 2 Months Low.

If BSE and NSE in India saw Maniac Monday, Torrid Tuesday welcomed US investors. Dow and Nasdaq ended the  day with loss of 161.27 and 41 odd points respectively. S&P 500 ended, at 10 week lows of 881.03. No one sees the green shoots at-least as yet in US market. (more…)

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