Archive for the ‘Misc’ Category

Hey, this is really strange issue I faced today. I don’t know if it happens to anyone out there, but I guess this is a Bug with Twitter. I was playing around with my account when I changed my user name from “aakash” to “Aakash”. Curiously, I tried to create a new user as “aakash” [...]

Saturday, March 21st, 2009 at 03:15 | 0 comments
Categories: Misc, Personal, Tweaking

A strange man builds a world using holographic tools for the woman he loves. Just loved it. World Builder from Bruce Branit on Vimeo.

Friday, March 13th, 2009 at 03:24 | 3 comments
Categories: Misc, Video

Just explored a new added feature from Cleartrip that allows you to search for Trains from your Gtalk. Add “cleartrip.trains@gmail.com” as a friend in your Gtalk and start searching. Unlike your normal friends “cleartrip.trains@gmail.com” is a ‘Bot’ which takes command as input, execute them and return the result back to you. Say, if you want [...]

Tuesday, March 10th, 2009 at 11:57 | 0 comments
Categories: Misc, Musings

18 Feb, A new jersey for Team India has been unveiled here in New delhi on the eve of India’s departure to New Zealand. Now the attire for Team India has been darkened. New jersey for team India has been designed by Nike. Darker color of jersey represents boldness and aggression in Team India. Stripes in the [...]

Thursday, February 19th, 2009 at 06:04 | 1 comment
Categories: Misc, News

If you are running a ADSL or ADSL2 Modem and your internet connection is not working, here are some basic steps which you can follow before calling any techsupport guy. These Steps worked for MTNL, BSNL, Verizon, AOL and other telecom companies which provide internet connection through a phone line. Broadly Internet connection does’nt work due [...]

Monday, February 16th, 2009 at 21:10 | 14 comments
Categories: Misc, Technical

Alright, time to update ma wishlist . It’s going to be launched on coming 11 July. Great? Nahh don’t know when it will be available in India.

Thursday, June 12th, 2008 at 15:33 | 0 comments
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SpamPoison is a small but useful utility to fight against spammers. It won’t directly help you in bringing down spam in your blog/Inbox but will stop spammers harvesting information which they can use for sending spam emails. Spammers usually get email addresses with the help of Bots. Bots (also known as wanderers, spiders or crawlers) [...]

Friday, May 30th, 2008 at 09:57 | 1 comment
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I bought a new HP Compaq Presario 707TU Notebook few days back. To my surprise there was no driver CD comes with it. I installed Windows XP Professional Edition in it and couldn’t find the driver on HP’s website.  They have only provided the drivers for Windows Vista Operation System. Later, I found that there [...]

Monday, December 24th, 2007 at 19:42 | 62 comments
Categories: Misc, Personal, Technical

H a p p y   D i w a l i May the Festival of Lights – Diwali Dispel Darkness, Ignorance and Evil from the World.

Thursday, November 8th, 2007 at 13:46 | 2 comments
Categories: Misc, Personal

Ben Scheirman is hosting a dasBlog Theme Contest(http://www.flux88.com/dasBlogThemeContest.aspx). Theme should be original and should be created/developed using valid XHTML and CSS. Winner of contest will get A $100 (US) Amazon Gift Card ! I wanted to update the theme of this blog with a better one. I believe this contest would bring up some original creative [...]

Monday, July 23rd, 2007 at 12:18 | 0 comments
Categories: dasBlog, Misc, Personal