Archive for October, 2008

How to prevent MSN Spam in Pidgin (Tutorial Thursday)

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 [...]


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Second Anniversary… We're hunting…

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, [...]


Simply Google (Website Wednesday)

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 [...]


Moving to Feedproxy

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 [...]


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DNfame (Tool Tuesday)

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 [...]