tribeIn.com - Would you rather discuss stuff with your friends?

2007-09-02T21:02:00.000-05:00

tribeIn lets you create topics which you can share and discuss with your friends.Start by adding friends to your tribe. Then create topics which could be news, links, embedded videos or just what you are up to. Share topics with your tribe. Your friends can in turn share your topic with their tribe. Let your topic snowball and enjoy the discussion.We are your next door Joes who have regular day

How is fuvoo doing?

2007-09-02T20:05:00.000-05:00

It was doing great till I decided to completely neglect it. There were days when it saw over 20,000. Also the Alexa rank climbed to under 70K globally and under 18K for US. By that time there were too many competitors in the space. I could have kept going, but I decided to move on to something new. I picked up a common problem and decided to solve it.Meanwhile enjoy the videos at http://fuvoo.com

fuvoo

2006-11-16T14:00:00.000-06:00

It has been a while since I wrote any interesting article for this blog. The reason being I was busy trying to finish up my latest venture www.fuvoo.com. After weeks of hard work it is finally ready for launch. And with that begins the most difficult phase of any commercial website: getting people to use it. So without further commentary let me introduce you to fuvoo.blog: http://

Microsoft redesigns iPod packaging

2006-11-09T21:05:00.000-06:00

Microsoft guys are wizards when it comes to packaging. Unlike the guys at Apple they pay attention to every detail. I wish Apple steals some of these ideas for their next product. Are you listening Steve?

Yahoo Attempts to Fight Phishing With Sign-In Seal

2006-09-14T21:14:00.000-05:00

Earlier today I read that the new Yahoo Mail is open to all. So I decide to check it out. But even before I logged in, I noticed something different. The top right corner of the login box read “Prevent Password Theft”I clicked on it and was redirected to a page that read the following:Protect users on this computer against password theft with a sign-in seal.A sign-in seal is a secret message or

Pick Your Boss

2006-09-14T20:50:00.000-05:00

This morning on my way to work I heard the results of an interesting survey over the radio. I have no clue as to who conducted this survey or where the results are published. The results are as follows:1. 75% of the females interviewed preferred a male boss over a female boss2. If they had to pick a female boss, most of them said they would pick Oprah Winfrey3. If they had to pick a male boss,

Flying Images

2006-09-07T22:35:00.000-05:00

I found this script making rounds of the social networking site that I frequent. Here is what you do: Browse to any website with a few images. Copy the script below in the address bar of your browser and hit enter.javascript:R=0; x1=.1; y1=.05; x2=.25; y2=.24; x3=1.6; y3=.24; x4=300;y4=200; x5=300; y5=200; DI=document.images;DIL=DI.length; function A(){for(i=0;i

Happy Birthday Boss

2006-09-01T08:46:00.000-05:00

Myself and three other co-workers decided to play this office prank on our boss on his birthday today. Last night we reached office at around 9:00 PM armed with sticky note, aluminum foil, memo notes etc. This operation took about an hour and $10. If you are my office secretary please note that office supplies were not used for this prank.I’m sure you guys have played better office pranks. If you

I/O Brush from MIT

2006-06-16T09:18:00.000-05:00

Check out the I/O brush from MIT. The world is your palette.Here is a link to the article: I/O Brush: The World as the Palette

10 Things I Noticed About IE7 Beta 2

2006-05-01T23:29:00.000-05:00

1. More real estate. Now you see less of the client and more of the webpage. I think the IE team totally got it right.2. Backward compatibility for toolbars. My Google toolbar is right there and seems like a party of IE.3. There is a search box. I don’t know what all the fuss earlier today was about, because mine was defaulted to GOOGLE. Yes, if you had set Google as your default search engine in

Newster Update

2006-04-29T14:02:00.000-05:00

The users of Newster.net must have noticed that their bookmarks stopped working a while ago. Now those who know me would also know that I have almost no budget for my projects. So I decided to change my host form Brinkster to GoDaddy because it works out a bit cheaper for me. The shift was not as smooth as I would have liked it to be. The transfer took little over a week during which Newster was

Driving In India

2006-04-18T19:08:00.000-05:00

Organized chaos!!This is amazing stuff. Who needs traffic lights and stop signs?

husssssshhh...

2006-04-04T19:11:00.000-05:00

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Stealth Submit Using AJAX

2006-03-04T17:52:00.000-06:00

Have you ever started filling a web form and halfway into it decide against submitting because suddenly you no longer trust the website enough? You closed the browser window and that was the end of story, right? Wrong! The website might still have your information. You think it’s impossible? This article will show you how it can be done. I call the technique Stealth Submit.Unless you have been

What Cingular Did Not Tell You About International Text Messaging

2006-02-21T19:55:00.000-06:00

Recently I switched from Sprint to Cingular because the later has GSM network and hence GSM enabled phones (I got the W600 from Sony Ericsson). Now when I travel abroad I can continue to use my phone. All I need to do is buy a pre-paid SIM card of any local service provider over the counter and slip it in. This works out much cheaper than using the roaming feature.Cingular offers international

Digg Democracy

2006-02-12T20:02:00.000-06:00

Few days back somebody told us where the lame kids went. He seemed to hate reddit and totally love digg. If you are that guy then please read no further. I would hate to break your heart.My favorite news sites are Slashdot, digg, Google news and reddit. I spend a good amount of time reading the articles linked from these websites. I also happen to be a mainstream digger and that probably makes me

Dad, What Was Internet?

2006-02-02T20:56:00.000-06:00

Year 2019.---------------------Son: Dad, today in the history class they taught us about Internet and all the amazing stuff you could do on it.Dad: Those were good old days before the Verizon-net, Comcast-net, BellSouth-net…Son: If internet was such a good thing, why don’t we have it today?Dad: Because they decided to end it sometime around 2006.Son: But why did they do that?Dad: Apparently the

Google Toolbar Custom Button Tutorial

2006-01-30T21:20:00.000-06:00

Have you installed the new Google Toolbar v.4 Beta? If yes, then you must have noticed the custom button feature. Read all about it on the Google Toolbar Features page. Did you try creating one for your website? I did, and it took me something like 10 minutes. Want to try it? Go to the Newster.net FAQ page and check out the last question.This new feature is a boon for web developers like myself

Safe and Secure Browsing Using Windows XP + IE

2006-01-26T09:23:00.000-06:00

So you are running Windows XP and use Internet Explorer to browse the web?This article assumes that you have your own reasons to stick to your OS andbrowser and hence I won't ask you to switch either of those. Following are the 3 steps for a safe and secure browsing experience for Windows XP + IE user.Step 1. Go to Windows Update website. The website will authenticate your OS and then check for

what kind of music do you listen to??

2006-01-24T18:02:00.000-06:00

havent you been asked this question often..by your friends and your prospective girlfriend??If you find it difficult to answer that question, theres help! Jason Freeman has created a software that analyzes your iTunes library for a couple of minutes and creates a unique music signature, that summarizes the kind of music that you listen to. Its free and easy. Next time someone asks you that

Google News: Recommendations

2006-01-20T22:27:00.000-06:00

Google News has started recommending news. I went to news.google.com and was surprised to see new recommended section. Checkout the screen shot below.

Complete List of Web 2.0 Applications

2006-01-18T22:13:00.003-06:00

Following is an alphabetically sorted list of popular Web 2.0 applications. The description for each of the application is taken from their own About or FAQ pages.43 Things43 Things is great for making a list of goals. It’s a way of connecting with other enthusiasts interested in everything from watching a space shuttle launch to grow my own vegetables.AllmydataAllmydata harnesses the power of

New year 2006 - Chicago fireworks

2006-01-08T01:13:00.000-06:00

Here is a video of the Chicago fireworks on the eve of New Year 2006. I was at navy Pier with four of my friends. The crowd was awesome.

30 second tutorial: Post to Blogger from your .Net application

2006-01-06T23:08:00.000-06:00

This is a short tutorial that will teach you how to post to a blogger account from your .Net application. The code is in Visual basic.Sept 1: Use AtomizerGet Atomizer. Drop Atomizer.dll in the bin folder of your application.Step 2: Create the Atom instanceatomEndPoint = "https://www.blogger.com/atom/"generator = New generatorTypegenerator.url = "http://www.newster.net"generator.Value = "

A fresh start...

2006-01-06T22:25:00.000-06:00

My new laptop arrived today. It’s a Dell Inspiron 600m with 2 GB RAM, 80 GB HDD, DVD burner, 64 MB Graphics card, SXGA screen and lots of pre loaded junk software. Why would Dell load it with 60 day trial applications? I don’t know. But this is the best my $1150 could buy. So I’m not complaining.I’m starting 2006 with a clean slate. If you noticed, I deleted all my old posts. I know I shouldn’t

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