Archives
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Free Games / Tools for Pocket PC ... Soduku, Skype, Othello
Windows market place is not just for shareware softwares. There are lots of free stuff there.
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Google releases GoogleTalk APIs
"Libjingle - Google Talk Voice and P2P Interoperability Library
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Search your PC/Mac from any Mobile device
How many times do you need some files from your PC when you are on the road? Your resume, a client presentation or any other file.
Maybe none in your case :) but I badly needed this on several occasions. Well, you don't need to worry about it any more as you'll see here how to access/find anything using any device which support a decent browser. The solution is FolderShare + Google Desktop Search. -
Productivity Hacks: FolderShare + Google Desktop Search = Secure Mobile 2 PC Search Tool
How many times do you need some files from your PC when you are on the road? Maybe none in your case but I badly needed this on several occasions. Well, not any more as you'll see here how to access/find anything using any device which support a decent browser.
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Ongoing Programming Contests
1. eBay Developer Challenge 2006: Innovate with O'Reilly and eBay Web Services:
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WPA Cracking Proof of Concept Available
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How the original Macintosh was developed?
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Integrated RSS in Yahoo Mail (Beta)
Over at TechCrunch,
"Yahoo gathered a small group of bloggers, press and others at Sauce in San Francisco tonight to announce the launch of two new RSS products. They have integrated an RSS reader directly into Yahoo Mail Beta, and are expanding Alerts to include RSS feeds." -
Yahoo MindSet: Intent Driven Search
While hanging around Yahoo Research area (http://next.yahoo.com/), I found an interesting search application called Yahoo MindSet. Yahoo Mindset is the classification of your search towards commercial and academic results. By using this, you can have total control over your search results.
" Mindset: Intent-driven Search
A Yahoo! Research demo that applies a new twist on search that uses machine learning technology to give you a choice: View Yahoo! Search results sorted according to whether they are more commercial or more informational (i.e., from academic, non-commercial, or research-oriented sources). "
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Detecting lies, Ruby online and other links
Detecting lies:
An article at http://www.blifaloo.com/ discusses a very interesting way to detect lies using body movement. Basically it tells about different things that you think based on the direction of your eyes. Not 100% correct though. -
MediaPortal (OpenSource MediaCenter for Windows)
Found it through digg
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Enhance your productivity with xplorer2
I, as a geek, strive to save every second and every keystroke that I can to make me more productive. As part of that experience, I'll try to share some of the tools that I use in my daily work life. This is the first review in the series where I looked at xplorer2 as an excellent replace for the Windows Explorer.
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Productivity Hacks: xplorer2 IN , Windows Explorer OUT
One of the applications that I can't live without is xplorer2. It is a replacement for Windows Explorer. Windows Explorer itself is coming of age and not improved for some time therefore provided an opportunity for third-party replacements. In this brief review I'll look into the main features of xplorer2 which saves me a lot of time.
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Who is Evil?
At the moment, SONY.
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Source Code Visualisation
If you think of reading source code, there are not many choices in hand. What we are essentially using now is nothing more than the same text editor that we started using more than 20 years ago. Although the whole coding experience is greatly enhanced because of the IDE and as a matter of fact, it is nearly impossible to use simple notepad for anything more than demos and tutorials. For the last few days, I was trying to find out something better to understand source code. In the end, I wrote something that is built into my mind. Please read about "Visual Source" and comment.
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Visual Source: Source Code Visualisation
(The idea discussed in this article is currently vapourware)
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Offtopic: How Much Is My Blog Worth?
My blog is worth $22,017.06.
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Project Ideas I
Web Applications:
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Interesting usage of AJAX
Just visit the following page on MarketWatch and see the stock prices within the article text.
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IBM Websphere Community Edition / Oracle 10g Express Edition (FREE)
IBM WebSphere Application Server Community Edition
http://www-306.ibm.com/software/info1/websphere/index.jsp?tab=landings/was-ce -
VMware Player ... for free
"VMware Player is free software that enables PC users to easily run any virtual machine on a Windows or Linux PC. VMware Player runs virtual machines created by VMware Workstation, GSX Server or ESX Server and also supports Microsoft virtual machines and Symantec LiveState Recovery disk formats."
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Earthquake in Pakistan :: Please help
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Topic Map :: VoIP
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Topic Map :: Wireless (WiFi & Bluetooth)
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What's Hot :: 8th Oct-2005
"Ning :: Create your own Flickr, del.icio.us, Craigslist "
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LiveMarks :: another interesting AJAX app
"LiveMarks is a project to show del.icio.us bookmarks live."
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My Tools
** There are some ongoing issues with my hosting provider so you can try downloading the following tools from this website. **
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Logging made easy (or Log4net for beginners)
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Releasing Source Code for Visual XPath, Code Share Addin, Go4Movies, Ping Service ...
After getting a lot of requests and some free time, I finally managed to upload all the source code for my utilities.
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logging (with log4net) for beginners
I wrote a small article describing simple steps to integrate log4net within your application and how you can abstarct it from your application code.
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Spanish Translation of (Virtual Book on Smartphone Programming)
Thanks to José Miguel Torres, now you can find the virtual book in spanish :)
http://jmtorres.blogspot.com/2005/03/los-mejores-artculos-programacin-con.html -
XmlDiff Tool
Found it very handy
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Rainlendar - An interesting utlitity
Pretty cool ... transparent on your desktop ... other features below
"Rainlendar is a customizable calendar that displays the current month. It is a very lightweight application that doesn't use much system resources or take much space on your desktop."
Download for free from
http://vapaa.dc.inet.fi/~rainy/index.php?pn=projects&project=rainlendar
Other features:
Small and lightweight
Different type events can have different appearence
Supports Windows transparency
Synchronizes events between several clients
Localized for multiple languages
Shows an alarm when an event is due
Shows Outlook's appointments
Includes a todo-list
Works also as Litestep plugin
Displays the current date in tray icon
Can stick to the desktop (i.e. doesn't hide with Show Desktop)
Hotkeys for quick access
Easy skinning with an UI
Can be controlled from 3rd party applications with !bangs
and more...
More Cool stuff:
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Little addition to Gmail + 50 More invites
There is a little box on the left hand side for directly sending invites.
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BBC strange media player selection
This is strange....on a WinXP box
And this is even before EU ruling against Microsoft. -
Google offers Adword API (Beta)
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Free resources for Architects
I have got my share of freebies...
Order these for free
[It may be possible that this offer is only for UK residents] -
Amazon Web Services Blog
A blog focusing on Amazon Web Services
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How nerdy are you?
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Featured on SmartClient Frontpage
Go check out http://msdn.microsoft.com/smartclient/
I can only say...Wow...never thought of this
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Google's Popularity in Microsoft
According to VisitorVille Intelligence [1], around 66 % of employees inside Microsoft are using Google search engine instead of their own MSN Search. Now that's interesting and does that prove that Microsoft employees are not biased to anyone other than technology? ;)
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Paul Thurrott covers Bill Gates keynote @ CES 2005
[During his Consumer Electronics Show (CES) keynote address Wednesday evening, Microsoft chairman and Chief Software Architect outlined the digital entertainment successes his company has logged since the October "Digital Entertainment Anywhere" launch event and highlighted some interesting initiatives that will drive momentum throughout 2005. Key among these initiatives are a number of partnerships, some of which are quite surprising.
CES 2005: Gates Promotes "Digital Entertainment Anywhere" Successes and New Initiatives ]
http://www.windowsitpro.com/Article/ArticleID/45024/45024.html
You can see the streaming video of the keynote here
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Some more links on Smartphone
http://homepages.inspire.net.nz/~gambit/
http://homepages.inspire.net.nz/~gambit/Article/
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Windows Mobile 2005??? Magento
Neowin does not have the story...as they removed it
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Comparing Desktop Search Products
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LiveJournal acquired by SixApart
http://gigaom.com/2005/01/04/six-apart-to-buy-live-journal/
[via Om Malik]
The firstmergeracquisition of 2005 ??? -
Patents from Microsoft, Google and Yahoo
Interesting comparison
http://www.threadwatch.org/node/946
In other news,
Google passes the 200 mark
http://finance.yahoo.com/q/bc?s=GOOG&t=5d
Answers.com free rich client download
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Referrers to my blog
With some time in my hands, I compiled a page showing the referrers coming through a search engine. Although the traffic is not as much but still you'll be able to see some of the trends clearly.
http://weblogs.asp.net/nleghari/articles/referrers.aspx
P.S: Not promised, but I'll try to update that page every week or so. -
Referrers to Nauman Leghari's Blog
External Citations:
Bloglines
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More gems from ITConversations.com
After listening to David Bornstein on http://www.itconversations.com , now I am spending most of my idle time over there. To share will all of you, here you can find content from industry gurus like Joel Spolsky, Jon Udell, Kent Beck, Paul Graham, Steve McConnell, Alistair Cockburn...
Short-listing of all the programs:
Kent Beck, pioneer of eXtreme Programming -- Developer Testing
Joel Spolsky, founder, Fog Creek Software -- Joel on Software
Dan Bricklin, Software Garden -- Memory Lane
Paul Graham -- Great Hackers
Alistair Cockburn, Humans and Technology -- Agile Software Development
Paul Graham -- Hackers and Painters
Mike Milinkovich, executive director, Eclipse Foundation -- Eclipse
Jon Udell, Lead Analyst, InfoWorld -- The Tech Horizon
Phil Zimmermann -- PGP
Philip Greenspun -- Software Engineering
Steve McConnell, CEO, Construx Software -- Software Engineering
Rasmus Lerdorf, Senior Technical Yahoo -- PHP
Visit the following page for all the lectures
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Samsung Thor - Concept Camera Phone
- 3 Gbyte HDD
- MS Smartphone Magneto
- Triband/GPRS Class 10
- Intenna
- Dimension: 1113 x 48 x 21mm (160 grams)
- Display: 262k TFT 240 x 320
- MMS/MIDP 2.0/CLDC 1.1/WAP 2.0
- Bluetooth 2.0
- USB 2.0
- 1 Megapixel Camera
- OTA/Online Music Service
- H.263/MPEG4/AMR/AAC+/MP3
- Jog Shuttle Navigation
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me.reminder("Webcast Series :: Building Windows Forms Applications")
Got to see all of these
Soap to Nuts
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David Bornstein on Social Entrepreneurs and New Solutions
I didn't think that it is going to be one of best lectures that I have ever heard but this talk by David (linked through Jon Udell) inspired me to do something big. He talked about social entrepreneurs and how they worked to implement something like this.
David Bornstein - from Pop!Tech 2004 - New Solutions
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Plans for 2005
Last year, the only major thing that I did was getting married ;) (j/k) With that, I also completed my MSc. in Mobile Computing from University of Bradford, released few pet projects, completed the update for the book ( which you can find here) . But, indeed, none of these are comparable to the first thing.
But, as 2004 passed, I have to concentrate on the new year. So here are few things that I planned for 2005 -
Soople simplified google searches
You love google calculator, right. But it seems impossible to remember all the different things that we can do with it. Now for all your calculator queries, visit Soople :: easy expert search for a much better interface.
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Color for Coders
If you are like me (a die-hard coder) and you are then given a task to challenge your artistic sense....Then worry not, here is an article that points you to some of the resources for selecting color and design schemes.
Read more - Color for Coders - Color and Design for the Non-Designer -
Just Released - Microsoft Windows Journal Reader Supplemental Component for the Windows XP Tablet PC Edition Development Kit 1.7
"The Microsoft Windows Journal Reader Supplemental Component provides programmatic read access to files in the Journal format. This simple component takes a stream containing a Journal file and returns a stream containing the file’s content in XML format. The XML returned by the component conforms to the Journal Reader schema. This schema is documented in Journal Reader Schema Reference."
More info
looks cool. Another thing to play with in the new year :)
