Top 10 Web Tools For College Students

“I have been in college almost three years now and have been using many different Web tools that saved me time, helped me learn more and, most importantly, did not cost a penny. Here are 10 tools that I recommend for every college student…”

Great list of websites by NextPath to help you in college life…site has also linked to review of these wesites by famous websites such as PC magazine, Techcrunch, Lifehack…
List includes Wikipedia , Del.icio.us, Google Docs, Tada List

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February 16, 2007 | Filed Under listing, web | Leave a Comment

9 Things The Non-Tech Savvy Do That Annoy Geeks

Earlier also i made a similar post :I’m A Programmer, Not A Computer Guy, Now its the time again

When you ’re a tech nerd working or living with the not so tech savvy, there are a few things they tend to do that make you bite your tongue, and resist the urge to take over what they’re doing and get it done yourself. They may be trivial, but they are all oh so wrong.

2000 Blogger list

Tino Buntic is trying to compile a list 2000 bloggers with linked mugshots. I’m in there somewhere too. You can try and get on the list too….

Web 2.0 … The Machine is Us/ing Us

I found this awesome video through digg . It explains how web has evolved making it more interactive, flexible and useful through videos, photos, map, search and much more…
Web is becoming more powerful with technologies like Ajax, XML etc
It was created by Michael Wesch, an Assistant Professor of Cultural Anthropology at Kansas State University.

Youtube Link

February 4, 2007 | Filed Under web, web2.0, webdev | Leave a Comment

Google OneBox Results

Google has quietly added a new OneBox feature that highlights articles from Wikipedia. read about it here : Micro Persuasion : Wikipedia Added to Google OneBox
So here is more about Google OneBox results. I found good info about it on Google Operating System : Google OneBox Results. There are several kinds of OneBox results, for example :

Music Search

Stock quotes. If you enter a ticker symbol, you’ll get live quotes and information from Google Finance, Yahoo Finance and other sites.

Read about more such OneBox Results here >> Google OneBox Results

February 2, 2007 | Filed Under web | Leave a Comment

Ways to hinder your buisness online !

I cam across this great post by Guy Kawasaki, on ways you dont want to follow to stop your buisness growth online. some of points form list :

Enforced immediate registration.
The unsearchable web site
The long URL.

January 30, 2007 | Filed Under listing, tips, web | Leave a Comment

A Top 10 guide to accessing blocked websites from work

More and more companies restrict your access to certain websites. Usually it’s for a good reason, however if you’re pretty tech savvy and not worried about having the website “steamysingles.com” in the log file associated with your system, then this little tip site is for you. These methods includes :

Use IP address
Use an Anonymizer
Use a public Proxy server

here are some : http://www.freshproxylist.org/
one more : http://www.publicproxyservers.com/page1.html

Online Music

I came across Dhingana which provides you free streaming Indian music online. It alows you to create a playlist of your favorite songs. It has have all the latest Bollywood music lined up, along with oldies, pop albums, ghazals, bhajans with regional music in Marathi.

From Quickonlinetips: I searched through many Indian music sites, but I think Indian music lovers should definitely tune in to Dhingana to listen to free streaming Indian music online. and i agree with that too.

for english songs you can go to Pandora: Internet Radio, where you can listen to free music for your choice of artist, genre. this is also a great project.

November 1, 2006 | Filed Under music, web | 4 Comments

Web 2.0: How High-Volume eBay Manages Its Storage

The ultrapopular auction/sales Web site continues its exponential growth and finds itself adding 10 terabytes of new storage every week. That’s a lot of data.

The site averages more than 1 billion page views per day.

Users trade about $1,700 worth of goods on the site every second.

A vehicle sells every minute.

A motor part or accessory sells every second.

Diamond jewelry sells every 2 minutes.

The site currently has about 600 million listings and about 204 million registered users.

November 1, 2006 | Filed Under web | Leave a Comment