Monday, August 27, 2007
Pictures of UT!!
I also created some web-pages and uploaded them on my ece web-page earlier in the day. It still needs some work but a start page is ready and working.
Friday, August 17, 2007
Grandcentral - Customize everything about your cell
Tuesday, July 24, 2007
AideRSS -- Filter the RSS
Thursday, July 12, 2007
Feedburner Integration!
http://feeds.anurag-kumar.com/anurag-kumar from the earlier http://feeds.feedburner.com/anurag-kumar . Blogger has started allowing feed redirect which now allows more accurate estimation of number of subscribers by feedburner. I have activated this feature also, so hopefully I would see some increase in the number of subscribers :)
Create sessions to access terminal on multiple computers on Linux
http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/a-quick-tutorial-on-screen/
http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/screen-power-tips-screenrc/
Friday, July 06, 2007
Anti mosquito software !
- Anti mosquitoes is a unique software which creates a low noise to keep the mosquitoes away. Various parameters need to be adjusted to suit it to the mosquitoes of your home :)
- Download.com also lists a few of them. They are also simple to use requiring no external devices.
Some of them are even compatible for your mobile devices!
Google spreadsheet accessible with filters!
Setting up cron in Linux or Unix using shell script
Sometimes you may want to execute a script on 2nd Monday or 4th Thursday only. A one line shell script can do it for you.
Consider this:
$ date +%a
The output is: Fri
Now to execute a script on first Friday:
$crontab -e
Now, append the following code in script:
# Run a script called myscript.sh on First Friday at 11:30:
30 11 1-7 * Fri [ "$(date '+%a')" == "Fri" ] && /path/to/myscript.sh
Thursday, June 14, 2007
Create your own digg like site with coRank!
Tuesday, June 12, 2007
Zoho creator to have an upgrade!
1. Completely New UI. Ability to creats apps with simple drag & drop.
2. Scripting with no coding. Introduction of 'Deluge Script Builder' which will let users add advanced functionalities into the applications users create.
3. Embedding Form/View in websites, blogs and other Zoho Applications.
A demo is available here: http://www.vimeo.com/clip:210220
Such applications are good time-savers when you don't want to create them yourself. I had once used it for creating form for my web-site. It works well and data filled in forms is stored on zoho server. What irked me then was that there was no notification process for web-site administrator to know when a visitor has filled a form.
Sunday, June 10, 2007
Finding longitude and latitude on Google maps
javascript:void(prompt('', gApplication.getMap().getCenter()));
This code when copy-pasted in the location bar of browser and executed, pops up a window showing the longitude and latitude.
Wednesday, June 06, 2007
Find the neighbors of your domain!
Some funny csh/sh command outputs!
% cat "food in cans"
cat: can't open food in cans
% nice man woman
No manual entry for woman.
% ar r God
ar: creating God
% "How would you rate Quayle's incompetence?
Unmatched ".
% [Where is Jimmy Hoffa?
Missing ].
% ^How did the sex change operation go?
^ Modifier failed.
% If I had a ( for every $ the Congress spent, what would I have?
Too many ('s.
% make love
Make: Don't know how to make love. Stop.
% got a light?
No match.
% man: why did you get a divorce?
man:: Too many arguments.
% !:say, what is saccharine?
Bad substitute.
/* not csh but sh */
$ PATH=pretending!/usr/ucb/which sense
no sense in pretending!
$ drink bottle: cannot open
opener: not found
Tuesday, June 05, 2007
Some inspiration
I see three paths ahead of you – those of the Koi, the Bluefish and the Atlantic Salmon.
Of all the fishes in the world, the Koi has the most comfortable life. When young, it is carefully selected and bred for its beauty. It then spends its entire life in a sheltered environment, living in order to be admired by others. The Koi is also fragile – change the water by a bit, and the Koi perishes. People who are like the Koi play it safe and do not venture out; they thrive in the established system. Then, there is the path of the Bluefish. Some years ago, I went deep sea fishing in the Atlantic Ocean. I caught a bluefish. It was not a large fish, yet it put up a strong fight. And when I reached inside its mouth to take out the hook, it bit right through my thick gloves into my finger, almost biting it off. The captain said to me: "You must be a first-timer at ocean fishing. Ocean fishes like the bluefish are tough and fierce. Have you been fishing only in small ponds?"
People who are like the Bluefish take risks and embrace life, seizing the abundant opportunities of the vast ocean. While others are exhausted by a changing environment, Bluefish types thrive in it. This is the path of the worldly Bluefish. Home can be anywhere – and perhaps, nowhere.
Finally, there is the path of the Atlantic Salmon. Born in freshwater streams, it heads out to the open seas in young adulthood. After maturing in the ocean, the Atlantic Salmon returns to where it was born, to breed, and then heads out again. It makes this journey between its home and the open sea several times over its lifetime.
People who are like the Atlantic Salmon are at ease moving between the old and the new, between the familiar and the unfamiliar, between what is comfortable and what is challenging. While they seize opportunities to grow in the global arena, they understand the true meaning of home. Home is not just anywhere. Home is where the heart is. Home is about identification and commitment, about family and nation.
Monday, June 04, 2007
Orkut now allows feed import!
Saturday, June 02, 2007
Google announces Feedburner acquisition
Thursday, May 31, 2007
Yahoo rolling out unlimited storage
Google goes offline with google gears
Wednesday, May 30, 2007
On the results of public examinations
A few days ago, results of Class-X CBSE results were declared. Intrestingly, more than 3000 students have got more than 95% marks. A Patna boy is the topper this time with 99.4% marks!
Google maps now has street view

They had licensed some related technologies and this was a natural addition. Google maps is quite fast with new feature addition and they are bridging the gap between google earth and this online version.
Surface Computer from Microsoft
Friday, May 25, 2007
MyblogLog adds tagging feature
Monday, May 21, 2007
Zoho notebook coming out of private alpha
Its features (as told to me):
- Add text, image, audio, video, RSS feed, HTML content from web, Zoho Writer doc, Zoho Sheet spreadsheet etc
- Share with friends / colleagues, permission settings at object level
- Versioning support to view/revert to any past version
- Add comments to pages or to individual objects
- URL to access Zoho Notebook Beta : http://notebook.zoho.com (also at http://nb.zoho.com)
- Firefox add-on for clipping web pages
- Demo Video of Private Alpha
Create flickr slideshows for your web-site.
Sunday, May 13, 2007
I am back
Monday, April 30, 2007
No blogging!!
Wednesday, April 25, 2007
Firebug: Debug html inside firefox!
Tuesday, April 24, 2007
Anti mosquito software
Monday, April 23, 2007
Search feeds in Google Reader!
A look at Google's stumbleupon like feature
Friday, April 20, 2007
Post your blog posts in twitter!
Thursday, April 19, 2007
Google now stores web history of users!
Wednesday, April 18, 2007
Google spreadsheet supports charts/graphs!
Tuesday, April 17, 2007
Google announces presentation tool
Monday, April 16, 2007
Fotowoosh - a service to convert an image into 3-D
Dodgeball founders leave google
Leaving google in such a manner also shows Google doesn't allow freedom to its engineers the way it did a few years ago.

Saturday, April 14, 2007
Extension to create vim environment while browsing
An interesting idea! Just that I would like to use it while writing text in firefox and not just for browsing. I hope the developers of this extension will bring this feature in a later version making it useful rather than appealing.
Sync up google calendar with desktop!
Google acquires double-click
Thursday, April 12, 2007
On recent Photobucket saga
Update: Myspace and Photobucket have patched up and now photobucket videos can again appear on MySpace.
Google maps adds another dimension to buildings!

Google maps has added another dimension to its maps. Google earth Blog reports that now you can see another dimension of the buildings for some select locations.
Google is yet again adding features to Google Maps which bring it closer to Google Earth. In February Google added building outlines to major cities when you zoom in close. Now Google has added 2.5D buildings to some of those cities for Google Maps. You can't rotate or tilt your view, so it's 2D. But, the buildings have shaded 3D-like projections from an angle so you get an idea of height and shape of the buildings. See an example by going to this Google Map. Looks like about 35 cities have the buildings in the US, and Tokyo.
It certainly brings maps to Google earth. Google is doing everying to stay ahead of its competitors in this arena!
A new page
A look at Indian Design Industry
least till 2010.
India is one of the fastest growing semiconductor markets in the world. Semiconductor consumption reached US$1.18 billion in 2005, and is expected to reach US$3.09 billion by 2010. Liberalization and globalization of India’s economy has accelerated the development of the electronics industry. The country’s increasing middle class has further propelled the domestic demand for electronics in the country. The exploding demand for mobile handsets and PCs is also affecting semiconductor consumption.
The report gives the five-year forecast for semiconductor consumption
in India and also points out the consumption trends across different
segments. It highlights the drivers in each segment and also gives the
break down of semiconductor products like microprocessors,
microcontrollers, memory, and DSP across each segment. The major
players in various semiconductor segments are discussed to provide an
overview of the market’s direction. The report also analyzes the
semiconductor manufacturing scenario in India and takes a look at
recent developments in this space.
Wednesday, April 11, 2007
Share-results -- a good service for referring sites!
Link: Shareresults
Tuesday, April 10, 2007
Widget for free SMS - callwave
Monday, April 09, 2007
New version of Thunderbird
Although a beta release, with its rich feature set, I was compelled to use it. A complete description of its features is here. With tagging and improved searching, its bound to be liked by many. Also, it is easily integrable with gmail, making it the preferred desktop application! The release is still a beta, and may have some bugs. But, for those who were longing to switching from outlook or try a new interface of thunderbird, this is good enough.
Friday, April 06, 2007
New firefox extension from del.icio.us
Thursday, April 05, 2007
My maps in google maps !
Wednesday, April 04, 2007
Google announces Desktop for mac
Firefox to have social networking integrated in the browser!
Monday, April 02, 2007
Google's pranks for April Fool's day!
Powered by ScribeFire.
Friday, March 30, 2007
Synopsis, Magma lawsuit comes to an end!
Thursday, March 29, 2007
Address changed again !
Wednesday, March 28, 2007
yahoo mail announced its API!
google notebook has an upgrade!
ToonDoo - create comic strips on web!
Monday, March 26, 2007
Twitthis - a widget to announce your site/blog among twitter users!
Thursday, March 22, 2007
Tumblr: A great way integrating all your blogs, flickr, del.icio.us tags!!
You can configure tumblr to point it to your site, as I have done for mine. So, that's an added advantage!
So, whether I post on http://blog.kumar-anurag.com or http://picture.kumar-anurag.com or http://www.flickr.com/photos/anruagkumar , it imports it all and shows them on http://tumblr.kumar-anurag.com
Friday, March 16, 2007
Spotback: A nice widget for blogs!
Thursday, March 15, 2007
Google chat for personalized homepage!
Refresh tag on Google Reader!
Wednesday, March 14, 2007
Code insertion in a blog!
Here is the code which can be used in blogger to publish a piece of code.
Simply paste your code before </div> ofcourse after removing "insert your code here!".
<div style="width: 400px; height: 400px; background-color: 000000; color: ffffff; overflow: auto; padding: 4px;">
insert your code here!
</div>
Tuesday, March 13, 2007
Customize gmail with greasemonkey !
Friday, March 09, 2007
site24x7 : A site tracking website from Zoho !
Update March 11: The configuration had not went well. The default 15min. is pinging not available to free users. I have again configured it and will see how it performs!
Create a Favicon for your blog!

As you would notice, my blog now displays my picture in the title bar (not visible in old versions of Internet explorer), shown in this post. Such images are called Favicons. To create your own image in the title bar (favicon), here is what you can do:
Upload .ico and .png formats of the image you what to show up in title bar to some website.
I have uploaded them here:
http://favatar.myfavatar.com/anurag.png
http://favatar.myfavatar.com/anurag.ico
Copy paste the following code between head and /head in the template of your blog:
http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=df64h8xp_82hb4tqd
To do it easily, use http://www.myfavatar.com !!
Thursday, March 08, 2007
Translate your blog-post!!
Code has been moved here!
Don't forget to replace my web-page with yours :)
Hope it works well! When your audience is global, you should ensure that they view the site in a language of their comfort!
via: chen
Tuesday, March 06, 2007
Tumblr making quick improvements!
Monday, March 05, 2007
Feedblendr: another feed blending/piping site!
Friday, March 02, 2007
Online notebooks revisited!
Results of my name search !
Rishikesh

DSCN6560
Originally uploaded by Anurag Kumar.
Here are some pics from my Rishikesh trip last weekend...
Thursday, March 01, 2007
Wednesday, February 28, 2007
Monday, February 26, 2007
Interesting ways of using Gmail!!
application developed around Instant Messanger to keep in sync your
Google Calendar, To Do lists etc. in Sync. With IMified its easy to
create new time-lines in GCal, BackPackit, or Remember the milk. An
interesting post describing all this is here
. This post details some interesting ways in which gmail can be
used. If you are a fan of Gmail and want to increase its usefulness,
this post is for you!!
It's All Text!
add-on for firefox for using your favorite text editor when you need to
post something on a web-page. A small link appears next to the text-box
on the web-page, clicking it opens your favorite text editor. It's going
to work great for me, since I can use the power of VI editor alongside
not being recognized blogging in office :P
What's better is that you won't lose any unsaved text if posts don't
happen the way you want it!!
Word source: A web 2.0 dictionary !
Word source is a new site providing definitions of words in web 2.0 format. What's better is that you need not search for the word, instead simply type http://word.sc/your-word. With a simple look and tagging, networking features in place, it's sure to gain some attention.
Word source: A web 2.0 dictionary!
Word source is a new site providing definitions of words in web 2.0 format. What's better is that you need not search for the word, instead simply type http://word.sc/your-word. With a simple look and tagging, networking features in place, it's sure to gain some attention.
Sunday, February 25, 2007
RSS mash-up !
Easy preview of links present on web-pages !
Their plug-in - iReader allows users to see a quick snap of the site by moving the mouse over it. The good thing is they show semantic content of the site. A good review is here.
Friday, February 23, 2007
Updates in my blog!
Along with this, I have added a few widgets from myBlogLog. Only now do I realize the reasons for so much of attention that myBlogLog has always got. A search box has been added only to make things complete. Feedburner has been used for subscribing to feeds from my site. I have also added a link to subscribe using e-mail (for those who are still unaware of RSS readers). A few ads have been placed at places where they would be least disturbing to the readers. I would keep updating it in the next few days to ensure a tidy look of the interface. Let see how it goes!
Thursday, February 22, 2007
My new domain: http://www.kumar-anurag.com
With Google apps for your domain, it is a really simple process. The reason I got interested in doing so was because of the enterprise launch of Google apps. Web media is abuzz with the news of this new service google is providing. I hope to see a number of new features getting added up to the present services provided by google in a few days. By the way, my new domain is www.kumar-anurag.com. I have also set up my new blog address to blog.kumar-anurag.com. With this, I hope my web-page and blog won't shift any longer.
Wednesday, February 14, 2007
A timely price cut!
On yahoo pipes: part 2
Tuesday, February 13, 2007
On yahoo pipes
Friday, February 09, 2007
Predicting the news trend
Research in this area has been hot with sites like digg and reddit getting popular. It would be interesting to see how news prediction can be integrated with user generated news as is done by digg. As of now, I could not find anything in trendio which could keep me stuck to the site for some time, but maybe with time the site will evolve to give better and well formatted information.
Thursday, February 08, 2007
Filtering the web with pipes.yahoo.com !
Ever since I started using RSS feeds and recently Google Reader, I have been overwhelmed by the amount of articles I get to read everyday. I would like to read a much smaller number and wondered if there can be some filter. With applications like pipe, filtering out the right news for me would become easy! Although I am finding the interface of yahoo pipes not very intuitive and fast, I hope it would solve some of my problems.
Wednesday, February 07, 2007
An excellent video on web 2.0 by a prof.
Watch this nice video on how the web has emerged as it is today.
Monday, February 05, 2007
Buzz around new google products
Apart from a presentation tool and wiki, I hope they would come up with an online cabinet system for maintaining such files similar to what is already provided by jot. Moreover, they need to plug in some key features into their spreadsheet and docs to make them handy. Not allowing graphs in their spreadsheets irk me a lot. Their were small issues as well with copy-pasting jobs also the last time I checked it.
Wednesday, January 31, 2007
Zoho has a new product: Notebook
Its launch has already covered by techcrunch and ReadWriteWeb .
Zoho notebook is a web-based application for collecting data (unlike its competitors it allows importing many formats: audio, video, text, html, RSS). Tweaking in these formats is easy.
It looks far better than other notebooks available.
The reason why I use a notebook (for me its google notebook) is to collect information while browsing. Without a firefox extension, that won't be easy. But as pointed out by ReadWriteWeb, an extension would be released with their public release sometime in March.
Link: http://www.youtube.com/v/Xabm8hRyXrk
Friday, January 26, 2007
On RSS feeds
Here is a list:
http://www.basement.org/archives/2006/01/taking_rss_beyond_headlines_pa.html
A nice read...
Tuesday, January 16, 2007
Wikipedia search engine launched
wikipedia were going to launch. Finally, it has launched today:
http://www.wikiseek.com/
At present, they allow search in wikipedia and the sites linked to it.
Their strategy has been to search using people's perception rather
than automated search. It is interesting to note that they have
provided a link for digg (digg has become the most important site for
news and information dissemination).
Jot: an upgrade is necessary
http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/01/11/will-jotspot-relaunch-next-week/
I have an account of jot but don't see an upgrade yet. In its present
form, jot is not something which I tend to use. There are better
wiki's available. Only thing which keeps me glued to it is that google
has acquired it. Maybe some day, it will be integrated with other
google products and will become better.
Hack to get the referrer site on Google analytics
It shows some good data/graphs which none other service gives.
However, it does not show the referrer sites, which limit its usage a
lot. I prefer to know which sites are linking to my sites/blogs and
make updates accordingly. Therefore, I have shifted to mybloglog and
sitemeter.
Here is a hack for finding the site referrer:
http://www.reubenyau.com/google-analytics-hack-obtaining-full-referring-url/
Yahoo: some cool acquisitions
to match up with times, they have been good with their acquisitions.
Now, I use their acquired products more than their front line products
- especially the ones acquired recently.
A good article is here:
http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/yahoo_acquisition_pattern.php
However, they will have to think of ways to integrate these products
into their other services to make it more streamline or their problems
will only increase.
http://online.wsj.com/public/article/SB116379821933826657-0mbjXoHnQwDMFH_PVeb_jqe3Chk_20061125.html?mod=blogs
Monday, January 15, 2007
On the events in Lucknow University
goons and gangsters operating from Lucknow University.
http://www.ibnlive.com/news/lucknow-univ-sacks-goons-with-phds/top/31117-3.html?xml
Dr. R. P. Singh's effort to clean the campus of gangsters who intend
to make a political career from University Campus (taking head on the
politicians), has attracted national and international attention and
won him Indian of the year 2006 (by Times of India).
While politicians keep criticizing him for not letting Lucknow
University be used as their den, media has been reluctant in
highlighting his past accomplishments. I got a very rare opportunity
of having a very close interaction with him during Indo-German Winter
Academy 2004. During his tenure at IIT Kharagpur, he had a fruitful
research career and was among the foremost researchers in his domains.
He had more than 200 publications and was author/co-author of a number
of books. He research interests spanned a number of domains very
relevant to India. During the academy, he talked about his works on
preservatives for Indian foods like Mangoes and agro-friendly
materials.
After retirement, he could have chosen to join any institution at some
cosy position. He choose to join Lucknow University, probably because
he wanted to change the system there. While it is really heartening to
see him taking some bold decisions, it is also unfortunate to see how
the system bullies such bravehearts of society.
Reference:
http://www.ibnlive.com/news/up-mlas-unite-against-lucknow-univ-vc/28193-4.html
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Cities/Lucknow/Worldwide_support_for_LU_VC/articleshow/1086641.cms
IITkgp web-page has a new look
Unlike our days, it looks like people are devoting some time on it.
It has got a new clean look.
Link: www.iitkgp.ac.in
Saturday, January 06, 2007
Attach keywords to web-sites
quickly opening the web-sites by just typing in keywords.
Some details are here:
http://www.lifehacker.com/software/geek-to-live/geek-to-live-fifteen-firefox-quick-searches-129658.php
http://www.lifehacker.com/software/bookmarks/hack-attack-firefox-and-the-art-of-keyword-bookmarking-196779.php
Openbook firefox extension allows you to easily manage these bookmarks.
--
--
Friday, January 05, 2007
milage calculator using Google Calendar and Google maps
Here is another mash up of Google Calendar and Google maps. Just enter
the xml of Google calendar and start address and it creates the
milage.
--
--
Google Co-op search engine for del.icio.us bookmarks!
Here is a blog describing a method to create a google custom search
engine for del.icio.us bookmarks. Vik has integrated two very good
services in a wonderful way although I am yet to use it. This looks
interesting since you can do this without knowing anything about XML !
--
--
Thursday, January 04, 2007
Google tool-bar
toolbar for firefox on my Linux machine. Installing it was really
difficult. The suggestion given by google on its site was just not
working. Probably, this tool-bar is still beta and they are working on
it.
It was really pleasing to see the many features that have been
provided by this new version. Now, I can get rid of a number of
plug-ins/extensions and have just one -- google toolbar.
It has small buttons for calendar, gmail, video etc. Previously, I had
to use different extensions for doing all this. Then bookmarking can
become seemless with this. There is a send to button for sending a
page to gmail, blogger or even SMS. Moreover, it allows opening docs
and spreadsheets present online in Google docs. With so many features,
it sure is a winner. I can choose to forget all the heavy extensions
and all the trouble taken for downloading this toolbar :)
--
--
Wednesday, January 03, 2007
dodgeball: mobile social networking
Dodgeball is one of the services which google is sponsoring while not
showing on its web-sites. The company is based on mobile social
networking, and has a very interesting idea. I am sure something like
this will be very popular among young people. At this time, they are
offering services in a few US cities. The concept of finding friends
in a given range can be very useful for tracing friends. It can also
cross check people telling lie about their locations (:P)
--
--
Tuesday, January 02, 2007
http://shuzak.com A social network for techies
one almost everyday. It is interesting to note the attention they are
getting. People don't love to create different log-ins and they will
soon get fed up. I have stopped signing into such sites and want to
remain limited to Orkut and myspace. However, I found an interesting
one here: http://shuzak.com
Its good especially since its creator promotes it by saying it is for
geeks. I am one :P
It seems to be akin to be similar to the forums which have been famous
among niche audience. In our college days, one such forum, mutter was
very famous and was being maintained by a friend of mine. Probably,
the rise of social networks like facebook has been because of its
institution centric approach.
--
--
http://anurag.vox.com Secondary site for blogging and for OpenID
my blogging site. http://anurag.vox.com
This is just to compare the best services present in the internet
space for blogging and compare them against blogger. I find vox quite
flexible in allowing me which blogs to keep public and which ones to
keep private. They allow easy posting using a number of different
unique e-mail IDs. Alongwith this, vox ID is an OpenID. I hope OpenID
would become famous with time making services like vox more famous.
Note: OpenID allows users to maintain a single ID for logging into
many web-sites. Although, currently few sites support it, but this
number is expected to increase with time or at least they should help
in the development of something similar to this concept.
--
--
google's security flaws
even if I close a browser without logging out. Moreover, I use google
browser sync. Using this, you can synchronize the many browsers across
many computers you keep using. I found that if I log into my office
machine, some one accessing my home machine can also log-in into my
google accounts although I log out of it at home.
Now, people have been able to find a easy way of hacking your contact
information. Google tried to fix it immediately, but the problem still
exists after having been reported more than 24 hours ago. They tried
to do some quick fix, but people are still reporting flaws:
http://harshdeep.wordpress.com/
I am sure by now, many spam sites would have used this flaw to get
some mails. Although people may perceive contact list as less
vulnerable, I find it a huge security risk. I use a number of unique
e-mail IDs for blogging, sending data to some sites which are as
critical as passwords.
Just going on the below mentioned site using firefox after logging
into gmail will show you your contact list:
http://docs.google.com/data/contacts?out=xml&show=ALL&psort=Affinity&callback=google&max=99999
It's good that this flaw has been exposed. I can now hope that the
security issues will be dealt with strongly by the google team,
although it may come up as a pain since at present, by logging into
one of google's product, you can automatically get into other sites.
But security must be given adequate importance.
--
--
Blogging to slow down
have decided to remove internet from my home. Hopefully, this will
bring down the rate of my blogging while I will be able to put time in
some more important things.
--
--