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Techy/Nerdy/Geeky stories and tid-bits.

Zune vs iPod: Decently written reviews

In all these arguments about which OS is better, what compiler makes most sense and, now, which one’s a better music player … people forget the actual logical arguments and ignore presenting the products with a critical thinkers point of… Continue Reading →

Offline mode: the next frontier for AJAX web applications

Thanks to Scrybe for showing us how powerful and easy offline modes can be for web-applications (AJAX, flash, anything else). I just started using Google Spreadsheets a week ago to collaborate with a friend who moved out of the office… Continue Reading →

Reliance India Call: quality problems

I’ve been using Reliance’s “India Call” calling cards to call my family back home for a few months now. They started out with excellent prices, quick connectivity and very clear voice calls. However, over the last few weeks, their call… Continue Reading →

The new Thinkpad TabletPC X61t

It’s not even been a year since I got my tablet pc, and out comes a newer version of the ThinkPad TabletPC … the x61. Yeah, I know … it’s new hardware, get over it, etc. Well, I’m not going… Continue Reading →

MapLib.net great new mashup of GoogleMaps

I just played around with MapLib.Net a cool new mashup that uses Google Maps for some really innovative work. It allows you to upload any photo to the service and use that photo as the “map” or background for a new… Continue Reading →

Loyalities: Microsoft, Yahoo or Google?

I just noticed the following … Open tabs on my firefox window … Gmail Orkut (owned by Google) Couple of Google search windows Google reader Google groups for programming research Froogle for product price-checking YouTube (can you say 1.65 billion,… Continue Reading →

Tacit knowledge

I’ve often wondered on how to best train people. Sometimes, even how to best train myself. In a previous post, titled “My coding skills have started to suck” I discussed how my programming skills are deteriorating. I also discussed how… Continue Reading →

Lots of free RAM (memory)

WooHoo! Installed a new 1 gb stick of ram in my tablet pc (total: 1.5 GB) and today for the first time actually saw free memory over a gig!!! Of course, with Windows Vista this much free memory will be… Continue Reading →

What makes a good software tester

The Braidy Tester blog that I just started reading really has a very nice summation of the mentality of a tester. More than just breaking software, the tester should make sure it has the capabilities the customer needs. Too often,… Continue Reading →

Share your clipboards with multiple computers

You never realize you have this problem till you actually have two computers you use on a regular basis. My current setup includes an IBM X31 laptop connected to a 2nd 15″ LCD monitor and my X41 TabletPC connected to a… Continue Reading →

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