Links with information on embedding YouTube video onto your websites (blogs). One from YouTube, which provides information that can be used by anyone and the other that is specific to WordPress
http://www.google.com/support/youtube/bin/answer.py?answer=57788&topic=10519
Quick guide to configure your Linksys SRX200 router/switch to support emule.
Application : Emule
Start : 4660
End : 4712
Type : Both
IP Address : 50
Enable : Checked
Links to some cool projects around the web
Yahoo : Time Capsule : http://timecapsule.yahoo.com/capsule.php
Ms. Dewey : Search Engine with a beatuful host 🙂 : http://www.msdewey.com/ (Hint: As her what her age is 🙂 ).
www.soapboxit.com is a website where anyone can write/search reviews about anything. I came across it when I learnt that one of my old colleagues is going (looks like I got the wrong company. The company he is going to work at is www.soapboxreviews.com) to work at this company. I think it is an interesting idea. As with all social networks, the challenge will be to gain momentum.. As I was browsing the site, I noticed that each new user is given a ID. At this point, the ID seems to just be an increasing integer. I found that my ID is 212 🙂
I ran across Aharef’s blog while I was browsing the net. Was pretty impressed by a applet he wrote to visually represent a website, using the HTML tags as a source. Here’s a picture of my website
You can get a graph of your website using the URL below
http://www.aharef.info/static/htmlgraph/.
I flew Lufthansa, on my recent trip to India and was very impressed by the hospitality and the services offered. One of the coolest service on the flights was “Wi-Fi” hotspots offering Internet service. While the service was a bit expensive at $10.00/hour, I tried it out just to satisfy my geeky urgings. It was a blast chatting with friends and telling them that I am doing it from 35000 feet in the air ;). For anyone wanting to try this, I would reccomend getting the “unlimited” access for the entire duration of the flight for $29.95. I would love to look at the technology behind this setup. I am sure they are using satellites for the Internet access. Just interesting how they make sure that the connection stays steady while the flight is moving, since satellite service is very dependent on “point-of-view” access to the satellite.
I have been maintaining my @kudithipudi.org address for some time now. I had all my E-mail from 1998 saved on my laptop until I had a hard drive disaster (ALWAYS BACKUP YOUR DATA), and lost all that E-mail. Ever since then, I have been trying to come up with a method to make my E-mail “crash” proof. I could have moved to using any of the popular free mail platforms (hotmail, yahoo, gmail etc.), but I didn’t want to loose the ability to send E-mail from my personal @kudithipudi.org address.
Google to the rescue – I was checking the settings on gmail the other day and noticed that I could setup a different E-mail address (which has to be verified) as my default “from address”. So I started forwarding E-mail from my domain to gmail. The problem now was to upload all the E-mail I have in Thunderbird up to gmail. That way, I would have all my E-mail in one single place and allow me to search through it. Google to the rescue again :), a query for “upload mail from thunderbird to gmail” returned this cool utility by Mark Lyon. It allows you to specify the source of your email and uploads the mail to your gmail account.
The next challenge was to find the directory/file where Thunderbird stores all the email. Google to the rescue again. You can get the location of the mail files from the account settings screen –> Local Folders in Thunderbird.
I am in E-mail bliss now. Use Gmail for all my messaging purposes. Next task would be to start using the Google Calendar.
Link listing keyboard shortcuts (yes, they are still faster and more efficient 🙂 ) for Mozilla Firefox
http://www.mozilla.org/support/firefox/keyboard
Just discovered that “ctrl + w” closes a tab window :).
Ever wanted a cool designer t-shirt, but didn’t want to shell out mucho dinerio ($$$$) for it.. check out Threadless at http://www.threadless.com/.
It is a Chicago based company, that seems to act as a collection spot for artists. I like the web site layout and the features. They also seem to be using flickr to store all their customers “in-action” shots. Very novel and clever way to use the web to your advantage :)..
One of my friends pointed me to www.zillow.com when he came to know that I was looking into buying a house. Zillow is a great resource for anyone looking to buy/sell property. I was very impressed by the data that Zillow collects and the way it is presented. I checked out the management team for Zillow out of curiosity and looks like it was started by ex-expedia folks.
Zillastic!! 🙂
