1. Direct from Dell by Michael Dell – Talks about Michael Dell’s early life, obsession with computers and electronics, founding of Dell and Dell’s direct to customer business model. 2. iCon Steve Jobs by Young and Simon – Coming together of Steve Jobs and Wozniak, starting Apple computers and Steve Jobs eventually performing the “greatest […]
1. Tagging conversations Search in GMail is useful but not perfect. A common problem I face is not being able to search for a particular email thread just because I don’t know what to search for. Ex. I call up my friend Asok and ask him to email me his mobile number. He sends me […]
Orkut has released a mobile version of the site, which can be accessed from your mobile phone on http://m.orkut.com. The mobile version allows you to read your scraps, view your friend’s birthdays, friend updates, browse through your friend’s list, view their profile (though not everything in the profile can be accessed) and send them scraps. […]
SiteAdvisor (a Firefox plugin developed by McAfee) shows a website as potentially safe whereas Google says that this site may be harmful to my computer. If such is the case, I may have been clicking on dozens of harmful sites going by recommendations of SiteAdvisor just because Google has not “identified” those sites as harmful. […]
Larry and Sergey seemed to have better ideas when it came to web-search, far ahead of what AltaVista and others made us all used to in the 90’s. Industry experts have started debating and worrying about a single company knowing so much about each of us. Google knows what you search (which some people believe, […]
Yes, we all know Google can be your search engine, your calculator blah blah. What about searching for MP3 downloads through Google? Simply copy paste the following URL on your browser’s address bar. -inurl:(htm|html|php) intitle:”index of” +”last modified” +”parent directory” +description +size +(wma|mp3) “Nirvana” In the above example, I use “Nirvana” as the band I […]
The bandwidth consumed by YouTube alone today is equal to the bandwidth consumed by the whole of the Internet in 1995. That surely gives you some idea of the revolution YouTube has brought about in cyber space. You often come across videos on YouTube, Google Videos etc. which you wish you could download and save […]