Happy Diwali Wishes

2009-10-18 1 min read Uncategorized

Wish all my readers, Happy Diwali.

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10 Websites to Compare Google vs Bing Results Side By Side

2009-10-17 5 min read Uncategorized

10 Websites to Compare Google vs Bing Results Side By Side Thankfully, the web doesn’t make us take sides. We can have the best of every world. With the launch of Bing, we had another search engine to crawl the web with. A few months and millions of searches down the line, Bing has also built up its legion of users (and fans). It’s Google vs Bing now. The former is still The search engine while the latter calls itself a decision engine.

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Twitter is overcapacity.

2009-10-15 1 min read Uncategorized

Just now got this on twitter. Nice image to display when overcapacity.

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Diwali lighiying with cheap ping-pong balls.

2009-10-11 2 min read Uncategorized

If you need some cheap and novel ambient lighting for your next party, you&#8217;re only a box of ping-pong balls and a string of lights away from solving your lighting worries.

Instructables user AdvancedMischief needed some novel lighting and was impressed with the diffusing power of the simple ping-pong ball:

At some point last semester I realized that ping pong balls make great diffusers and look really cool when they are glowing. Next we concluded that a hundred glowing ping pong balls would look even cooler. It was at about this point I decided that my apartment was in dire need of some ping pong ball lights.

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Tag2Find – Tag Your Windows Files with Web-like Tags

2009-10-05 2 min read Uncategorized

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Tagging is something your pipsqueak pigtailed sister did with you when you were in your tweens. That kind of ceaseless trailing was pesky. The Web 2.0 version though saves us a lot of bother.

Tagging is commonplace around blogs and websites. We all agree that it’s a speedy way to scour out a web resource; nearly single click in its utility. We are so used to it that we perhaps miss it as a feature in Windows.

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