January 2009
12 posts
“Photography is a witness to wonder”
– I made it up, with words borrowed from Stephen Johnson, a famed photographer!!
GMail goes Offline
Oh Dont Panic. As with any other headline that you stumble across, this is bound to mislead into reading this content!! And like any other headline this is neither completely wrong.
It is in a very good way that Google has gone offline. It has got a feature through the gears, where in user would be able to browse the gmail offline. Wow they are hitting at MS outlook. It does what an outlook does....
Craigslist on steroids
There are a lot of mash-ups trying to make the experience of browsing through/ searching in Craigslist better. However I found this little piece of software magic from Lifehacker, that achieves it. This is a FireFox extension. Download.
This extension displays the images of a listing just below the listing as thumbnails. If you don’t like it, just don’t bother opening the listing....
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NLP Video - Darren Brown →
This is a video of NLP Expert Darren Brown, who hypnotises a person to believe the gift that he bought for him is what he wanted. Just Amazing. Watch it till the end of it. I am sure you would love it.
Microsoft to cut 5000j
Microsoft is planning to cut 5k jobs over the next eighteen months. Around five percentage of its workforce. Reasons given are:
Economy - Weaker PC markets means less sales of their products
Economy - Less returns in business markets, as spending decreases.
They have reaffirmed that their major threat is the economy rather than their competitors- like linux or google.
So if you hunt for jobs...
Inaguration of Obama in Pictures →
Another collection of amazing photos by boston.com
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WatchTim Ferris, Deconstructing - swimming, dance, language!
Re-learning Flex
All Day long today I have been trying to brush up my skills with Flex, trying to do something worthwhile. So I am going to break down this activity.
1) Set up an ide. - http://tinyurl.com/8l4g7x
2) Practice today’s lessons from - http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flex/videotraining/
3) Develop the application mentioned here in - http://tinyurl.com/92xn4z