Play the world’s best app (????)

I am not sure how these guys have named it as World’s Best App….but these apps are cool to play..

http://www.worldsbestapp.com/Home.aspx

Note : You would need to login to MSN Messenger and need a buddy too

Interactive Encarta

Add this Identity in your MSN and enjoy your free time..

encarta@conversagent.com

India ! We have a problem here

‘India does not produce enough good computer engineers and those it does are good at theory but not very well equipped to handle the practical aspects.’ — Microsoft Chief Technical Officer Craig Mundie

the above statement looks scary to me. I feel this statement was made with out any further inspection of the coin’s otherside. I am not breaking in to this like a pseudo indian supporter as such, but there are eminent proofs in computer industry to consider indian scientists and engineers contribution. Indian computer engineers are not only working for software firms like microsoft, but many areas like Opensource, hardware orgs also.

I agree to one point on the educational model which is being adopted by many Indian institutes. Still we are on the oldest educational base system , but trying to evolve in to a corporate, privatized and job oriented educational model, which is going to make things worser than ever. I have seen and heard of many IITians hunting jobs like application developer kind of positions in india. May be all these software firms who are gaining hell of money by recruiting indian engineers for lesser salaries should concentrate on funding universities in India to produce best out of them.

Look who is there on 40 faces :-)

Thanks to Phillpp Fortyfaces.com is a cool website which tracks registered bloggers and renders 40 bloggers images in tiles based on last 40 recent posts. Very cool idea… Good to see scoble is next to me atleast here

You have a Geek friend?

Wired magazine posted Ultimate Geek Gift Guide.

My Choices are :

01. XBox 360
02. Linksys Wireless-G Broadband Router

Java needs a break?

Seems “yes” from running after commercial enterprise systems like .NET.

Ed Burnette, the chief editor of eclipse zone found some interesting problems in these developments.

Better, Faster, Stupidier Java

Domain Search, the instant way…

Well, I could’nt stop my self on adding these so called “Ajax” stuff to my blog. One more entity for Web 2.0 : Ajax based domain search and Whois data.

http://www.ajaxwhois.com/

Future Ajax applications (Bare with my imagination)
01. Ajax based Office
02. Ajax based Book Search
03. Ajax based Digital Library
04. Ajax based Ad services (You type the keyword, and we will show the relevant Ad right beside it )

Ajaxpedia :-)

Digg guys reported a cool Ajax based wikipedia search…

Diggit

Testing Immedi.at’s RSS Notification Service

Check this out

http://www.immedi.at

if everything works fine, I should get an MSN and Yahoo alert.

Joel on Windows event log and Google

I thought of the same sometime when I tried the same approach that joel describing here in his site. Sometimes google could be your best friend to search for a solution rather than hitting MS KBase. There should be some relation between the problem and the knowledge base article written for the same.

But it is not as easy as joel says…because products are developed in a very matured process model and does’nt deal with any dynamic data hosted external. Links KB articles are just as good as any web site articles and they get created much later to the product life cycle based on the customer feedback and bugs/issues.

May be ideally there should be an automated system with in Microsoft KB publishing engine to link up the KB article and the event log link. But for me, its does’nt seems so cool to do.

Digg is digging Slashdot ! War of Warriors !

Digg.com, a social technology news network, completely managed by its readers, is now pushing the mighty and rude Slashdot network. Wired magazine reports this “Digg might just bury Slashdot” and Slashdot is already being slashdotted on it’s own site here.

Oh, I love these information service wars…I can name Year 2004 and 2005 as golden era for Internet Service wars and advantages. Since several years Sun and Microsoft had technology wars and nobody got anything out of it, except some corporate giants like IBM and Oracle…Now its the time for war between warriors “Microsoft and Google”, and see who is benefited? Its the internet, its Us…I love these wars mannnn. Welcome Web 2.0.

ok…But where is India’s position? We are still in the age of Kbps in Internet. Jaago India Jaago

 

BillG @ India

Yes, this time BillG is kicking-off the India Launch for VS 2005, SQL Server 2005 and Biztalk Server 2006 from Bangalore.

Go and register yourself here

Run for a cause and Health

I am gonna join this “Hyderabad 10k Run” on 27th November along with some buddies from my org and friends. Hyd10k has been a very successful event since years and hope it repeats it again. Come and join this run if you want to make a difference…

A Cheaper solution for Google

Google should rename its brand as “Google Beta” instead of removing “Beta” from all of its countless “Beta” products…one shot solution right?

One more Beta from Big “G”

Google launched one more “Beta” today…”Google Base“. When I was told about this by my buddy srinivas, I asked if it is a database engine from google? “No..I don’t know what it is” he said…I tried to understand the concept but could’nt go further because of “Internal Server Error” for any option that I select there…

The funny RED Button

I enjoyed this … a LOT !

Note : Please be patient

Via Maryamie

Thanks deepak ! :-)

I am almost lost interest in adding more snaps to my photoblog because of the cumbersome default template that i have chosen for it.

Wait for 1 more second…

before you scream “Happy new year 2006″ this time. Coz an extra second is going to be added to december 31st this year. This is called leap second.

A positive leap second is to be introduced into the international time scale, Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), at the end of December 2005.

The announcement was made by the International Earth Rotation and Reference Systems Service (IERS), an international body located at the Paris Observatory which is responsible for collecting and combining measurements of the Earth’s rotation made at observatories around the world.

FolderShare is now free ! thanks to Microsoft :-)

FolderShare, a service that used to cost $50/year, is now free, thanks to Microsoft which has recently bought the company. FolderShare allows you to create a private peer-to-peer network that will help you to synchronize files across multiple devices and access or share files with colleagues and friends.

A Nice C++ Tutorials for students

http://etheism.org/doku.php?id=programming:cpp

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