Sometimes yahoo is better

And it was proved yesterday night. Actually I was looking for installing latex on my web domain (hostmonster). So here I dont have root permissions and I might also had to deal with other issue. I thought of going the easy way and just google it as someone must have done something similar. But I tried variation combination (latex on web hosts, latex on hostmonster and other search queries too) and got nothing.

Then after some time I thought of giving yahoo search a shot (though I was not quite sure that it would fetch me anything more useful). So when I search (latex on hostmonster), voila the first result was exactly what I needed. Now I’m eager to try installing latex(/tetex) on my web hosting account. And yeah i’ll keep update you, how it went.

Share, what search engine do you use and which do you find better.

May 8, 2008 | Filed Under web | 2 Comments 

The Perfect Home Page

Through ajaxian.com, I found about this project “TPHP “.

“command based way to start your web journey”

An simple designed HTML page with javascripts to provide various functionality like search from google, yahoo etc and others like whois, dns lookup. It provides all these functionality with a simple command like interface. For example you can do :

-g India // to do a google search for India
-g India>> // to take you to first result of google search
-whois google.com // to do whois query

It also provides recommendation based on previous searches.
Try it..and give your feedback , would you prefer such homepage ?
For more details :TPHP: The Perfect Home Page

April 26, 2008 | Filed Under programming, tips | 2 Comments 

Google movie search tricks

I found this interesting article about search tricks for movie lovers. Try some sample searches:

Interesting thing is country specific google movie domains are also tracking movie theaters, multiplexes in each city for listing of movies and their timings. And you can sort them according to movie popularity and theater distance from your address. that’s pretty cool.. !!
Read more for more search tricks: 5 Most Fantastic Movie Search Tricks With Google

February 25, 2008 | Filed Under entertainment, listing | 1 Comment 

Adobe AIR: Web to Desktop

Past few days, I have came across Adobe AIR through digg, techmeme, delicious and so today i thought i should try this. Adobe AIR lets us their existing web development skills in HTML, AJAX, Flash and Flex to build and deploy rich Internet applications to the desktop. For Application development you will need two things:

Having Adobe AIR extension for Dreamweaver CS3 can be very helpful as it facilitates to package and preview .air application files directly within Adobe Dreamweaver CS3.

As my first AIR application, I ported my rubiks cube timer as a desktop application (RubikTimer.air). Its very easy using dreamweaver extension, have a look here : Create your first HTML-based AIR application with the AIR SDK (great tutorial for beginners).

One problem I faced: Usually setInterval(“display()”,500) works with Firefox/IE but it was not starting with no error message to look into but then i found out about using Adobe CommandLine tool. (via Three ways to debug Adobe javascript Application). It´s called ADL and resides in the /bin folder of the SDK. ADL showed the Error: “Unsafe javascript”. Then after some random changes when i change it to “setInterval(display,500)”, It started working. Another problem I faced was related to keypress events in javascript, were not working with AIR (still have to resolve this issue)

Download RubikTimer.air here
Web Based Rubik Cube Timer

Related Post:

Sample Adobe AIR Applications
Trying hands on Google gadgets

February 19, 2008 | Filed Under programming, webdev | 5 Comments 

Trying hands on Google gadgets

Tonight i tried creating some google gadgets (actually its quite easy using Google Gadget Creator). You can check out them here: Google gadgets . You can use html / javascript (as in any other webapage) to create gadgets.Rubik timer gadget So i converted my Rubiks Cube Timer to a gadget. Other one is a gadget to search stock, scripts on bombay stock exchange.

You can also create gadgets using : Make your Own Gadget (Which is as simple as filling out forms)

P.S. : My first post on wordpress blog. (I imported my previous posts from blogger)

February 17, 2008 | Filed Under programming, tips, webdev | 3 Comments 

Inovation in India/IITs

I read this interesting article by Bernard on State of Inovation in India. I agree with him that lot have changed (improved) but still we have yet to see Google/Microsoft from here(IITs). As he mentioned one of the main reason is playing things safe.

The fundamental issue in India is the risk/reward equation. It is simply too easy for a young developer in India to get paid a lot by an outsourcing firm; then enjoy being headhunted every year for more money.

One more issue is difference between IITs and Stanford providing inovation to world. Important difference in giving good startups is because lack of implementation of ideas here in IITs. In IITs atleast some good projects (Mtech & Btech projects) are worth transforming into good business opportunities but they die as you pass out from there or after its being graded. I will agreed with comment made by Amit that

There are many socio economic reasons why young people in India hesitate to implement an innovative idea. Current trend of high paying jobs in MNCs will make entrepreneurship ever lesser attractive… especially in software.

January 2, 2008 | Filed Under india, tech, web | Leave a Comment 

Chart API for webpages

Cool….Great yet Simple..

Embed charts in webpages with one of our simplest APIs yet

We actually built this originally to use internally – we use it on Google Video and Google Finance for example. It seemed like it would be a good thing to open up to other users too. You can find out all about it at on the Google Chart API homepage and there’s a Google Chart API group for questions and support.

Google publishes chart API for web pages

A single HTTP GET request with parameters is all you need. You can even use the URL as the src attribute on an img tag.

Also Read:Programmable Web: Google’s New Chart API

December 7, 2007 | Filed Under news, webdev | Leave a Comment 

Happy Holi !!

Google Holi Logo

Once again ..Happy Holi to all !! Enjoy !!

March 4, 2007 | Filed Under india, offbeat | 1 Comment 

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

read more

February 16, 2007 | Filed Under listing, web | 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 :


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

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

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