March 2007
46 posts
Synopsis, Magma lawsuit comes to an end!
The lawsuit between Magma and Synopsis has finally ended. It was a long battle which was being closely watched my EDA industry. With this, one can hope the two major companies would move forward focusing their energy on consumers. More details of the news is here.
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yahoo mail announced its API!
Yahoo mail today announced api for their platform. Only yesterday, they had announced that they would be allowing infinite space for their users. They are already the leader in web-mail service but the interest in this service was on a decline ever since gmail came. With these announcements, yahoo is simply showing they are pretty serious about webmail service. Api announcement is sure to create a...
google notebook has an upgrade!
Google notebook is an application from google to essentially jot down all that you get while browsing the web. I use it extensively to note down the sites and some data that I find while surfing. It is not as good as other competing products but still I trust google for developing its applications over time. Thankfully they have updated its interface making it easy to sort as well as add new...
ToonDoo - create comic strips on web!
ToonDoo is a new site which allows users to create cartoon strips very easily. This is yet another web product from Zoho. Here is the TechCrunch coverage. Zoho is pretty serious about developing web-based products. They have some very good ones which stand out against similar products from Google. But with this new application, they have shown that they want to create products for large variety...
Twitthis - a widget to announce your site/blog...
twitthis is a new application/widget for your blog/web-site for users to announce it among their community. This just reinforces the way twitter is growing! After the recent blog hype that twitter created, such widgets would only sustain it!
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Tumblr: A great way integrating all your blogs,...
Tumblr is great way of maintaining your blogs. Here you can write your own posts, or import posts from other blogs, flickr, del.icio.us , or other places. All in all, great way to combine all your blogs, flickr, public del.icio.us tags etc. Even if you don’t post regularly on your blogs, it always seeks updates from all the sources you have allowed and keeps itself updated. It is in a...
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Spotback: A nice widget for blogs!
Widgets are a great way to add third party content to your site. Spotback is a new one in this arena which works great for rating the posts. I had added the widget some time back and ever since it has been working great for me! It allows users to rate your site and tag them to use in future. Moreover, they can easily read posts which have been rated high by viewing the recommendations or the ones...
Google chat for personalized homepage!
Google has launched a widget for chatting from personalized homepage. This is a great feature since such widgets can also be plugged into blogs and personal websites. It would go a long way in making g-chat all the more popular. Also, while chatting I can see a calling link. Although this feature is not working for me now, I hope something like this is coming in future. Does this mean google would...
Refresh tag on Google Reader!
It was always a pain to refresh the “subscriptions/inbox” in Google Reader. Thankfully they have now included a refresh link to update the links being shown. Thats a good improvement and shows that they are constantly working on enhancing the user experience and are listening to their users!!
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Sometimes it looks good to have quotes in nice...
Sometimes it looks good to have quotes in nice patterns! Something similar to what is appearing here! ” Dream in a pragmatic way! ” You can do this by adding this code to the head of your template: .pullquote { width: 145px; background:#A3C586; color:black; float: right; border:1px dotted #5B7444; font-weight:bold; line-height:140%; padding:5px; margin-top:10px; margin-left:10px; }...
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>
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Customize gmail with greasemonkey !
Greasemonkey is powerful way of customizing web-pages in your own way. You can create your own scripts on top of greasemonkey to do wonderful things with the web-pages. userscripts.org provides an online database of such scripts. For testing, I have brought some changes in the already available script for customizing gmail. The script is here. Using this script, you can give a whole new look to...
site24x7 : A site tracking website from Zoho !
http://site24x7.com is another product from Zoho which has come out of beta. The product checks how your site is performing, its response time, changes in the look of the site etc. It gives some good reports. This is a good application which can work help webmasters well along with traditional site tracking applications. I have configured my blog to work with this product and would update this...
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: ...
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Blogger Installation Wizard - HaloScan.com
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MyFavatar User HomePage
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Translate your blog-post!!
I have added a new feature to the side bar to translate the web-page to a language of your choice. You can easily do it by adding the following code: <p>Translate to Language of your choice!</p> <!— This script is to translate!—> <script language=”javascript1.2” type=”text/javascript”>document.write(‘<div...
WebSite Grader
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SendTools 0.4.2 - The Extensions Mirror
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Text Link Ads - Smart Link Marketing
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Free PDF Converter - doPDF
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Scribd - Home
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TypeFaster Typing Tutor ( free download )
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BlogRolling - The best link manager for your...
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Tumbler working well!
Tumblr is working just fine! If it keeps going this way, I would remain hooked to it!
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Tumblr making quick improvements!
A few days back I gave a look into tumblr. Initially, it did not impress me and I rejected it as yet another blogging site. But as I see, it is making quick updates. I started using it when I saw them allowing configure tumblr for my domain. Here it is! Now, they have added another feature to import RSS from your other blogs, flickr, or del.icio.us . This makes the page more lively and tumblr a...
Feedblendr: another feed blending/piping site!
Feedblendr is another feed blending site, something similar to Yahoo pipes. Although there are some good reviews for the site, I could not find anything which could distinguish them from other players in the market.
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