I use Pidgin as my primary chat client. Pidgin allows me to login to MSN, Yahoo!, Google as well Google Hosted accounts all at once, thus ensuring I don’t have too many clients running at the same time to fulfil my chatting needs.
Off late I’ve been hit by a steady and constant amount of chat [...]

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Ajay on October 30th, 2008

Two years ago, on this day, this blog called out to the world. Two years down the line, the journey has been memorable. I did have great plans for it, but unfortunately, well, the first year of MBA interrupted this.
Second year in MBA school hasn’t changed much, but atleast I have regular posts.
Well, it’s time [...]

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Ajay on October 29th, 2008

Google is growing and growing super fast. What started out as a simple search engine today offers tonnes of services, some of which are released rather silently in their labs.
So, how do you keep track of them? Simply Google is a roundup of every search and service on a single page.
Neatly arranged in various categories, [...]

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Ajay on October 28th, 2008

The past week our feed was down at Feedburner. It rectified itself after being down for nearly two days.
Today, it went down yet again. Well, out of sheer frustration at the total lack of support at the now Google owned Feedburner, I decided to go by the new route of creating a brand new feed, [...]

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Ajay on October 28th, 2008

How do you measure the popularity of a website? Usually it’s by its ranks on the tones of ranking services out there. So, you patiently open up Alexa, Compete, Technorati etc. and note down the ranks.
Or, you use DNfame.
You can find out many pieces of data about your domain, including: Google Pagerank, Alexa Rank, Complete [...]

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Ajay on October 27th, 2008

Google Earth has been introduced for the iPhone and it looks really impressive. Now, I wish they introduce the same for the s60. Though, somehow I don’t think that is happening in the near future!

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Ajay on October 27th, 2008

Your music collection is growing and growing fast and after sometime you realize it is totally unmanageable. If you’re as particular at me, you’d like your music neatly tagged the files properly named and arranged, then this is one tool worth using.
MediaMonkey is a music manager and jukebox for serious music collectors and iPod users. [...]

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Ajay on October 26th, 2008

This week has been a rather active week for the folks at Google.
You can now publish to your Blogger blog directly from iGoogle. Additionally, you can now choose to embed comments below your post inself instead of having them on a new page.
At long last, Google Analytics is being integrated with Google Adsense. Adwords has [...]

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Ajay on October 26th, 2008

If you have missed reading any of our Techtites Daily articles this week, below is a list of what we covered.
October 20 - VideoInspector (Multimedia Monday)
October 21 - Cooliris - Now on iPhone (Tool Tuesday)
October 22 - Have you checked your plugins? (WordPress Wednesday)
October 23 - [...]

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Ajay on October 25th, 2008

If you’re located in a place like me where I have a host of wifi and LAN connections to choose from.
In such a situation, I’m constantly required to change my IP settings and other settings whenever I jump networks.
I normally don’t need to use to a tool for this, as practice does speeds up this [...]

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