June 2007
8 posts
Create your own digg like site with coRank!
coRank had started as a digg like social voting platform. But now it has transformed to allow users to create their own digg like social voting platform with a lot of customization! I have recently created a page using corank on my domain: http://news.anurag-kumar.com. I hope to use it in future :)
(via Anurag’s Weblog)
Zoho creator to have an upgrade!
Zoho keeps coming with nice upgrades and new tools! They are now going to announce an upgrade of Zoho creator. From what I have been told this new upgrade will have following important features: 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...
Finding longitude and latitude on Google maps
Google maps does not show the longitude and latitude of a place by default. I remember wasting a lot of time finding these data for an application of mine. This small javascript code can solve the purpose! 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...
Find the neighbors of your domain!
MyIPNeighbors is a good application for finding the sites which are hosted on the same server. Searching for yahoo.com gives all the domains hosted on its server. google and msn search also give such results but they are not as accurate as the results of this site!
(via Anurag’s Weblog)
Some funny csh/sh command outputs!
Just came across 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...
Some inspiration
Graduation day speeches are meant to be inspirational. Steve Jobs speech at Stanford is probably his most famous one. Just came across this piece by President of NUS: 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...
Orkut now allows feed import!
Just found that Orkut is now allowing importing feeds into your profile. To make things easy, blogs of blogger account and pics of picasa web-album are already present in the list of feeds that can be added. This is good improvement, although slow compared to other players in social networking especially facebook. I have added my picture blog and this weblog to my profile!
(via...
Google announces Feedburner acquisition
Google has finally announced the acquisition of Feedburner. Feedburner is one of the services I have been using for my blog. With this acquisition, the number of different log-ins that I have to remember will reduce :) Also, if the blogger feed can be directly burned, I can deliver ads directly into the feeds! That’s what google wants to do with this acquisition. We can also hope for some...