Archive for March, 2008

Zooming really is smart in FireFox 3

Monday, March 31st, 2008 Posted in | 1 Comment »

I run my laptop at a resolution of 1920x1200. Given this low resolutions some sites are nearly unreadable and so I usually have to zoom into the page (Ctrl+Scroll Wheel) ... Read more..

A review of the latest WordPress: 2.5

Monday, March 31st, 2008 Posted in | 4 Comments »

Yesterday, I installed the latest WordPress release (release 2.5) and now that I have had a chance to play around with it, its time to quickly talk about the first ... Read more..

Upgrading to WordPress 2.5 - it’s all good

Monday, March 31st, 2008 Posted in | 5 Comments »

WordPress 2.5 just got out and I decided to upgrade as soon as possible (I was also getting some weird database errors all of a sudden and most evidence pointed ... Read more..

Why are we Indians like this?

Saturday, March 29th, 2008 Posted in | 5 Comments »

I recently read a blog post at The Naive Indian talking about why we Indians don't need to spend any efforts on initiatives such as the Earth Hour (although the ... Read more..

OpenDNS Performance in India

Wednesday, March 19th, 2008 Posted in | 2 Comments »

A post at Digital Inspirations (a blog I frequently read) inspired me to finally get down and measure the performance of OpenDNS as an alternative to your ISPs DNS Server. ... Read more..

Firefox 3 Beta 4 makes me happy

Wednesday, March 19th, 2008 Posted in | 6 Comments »

I use Firefox exclusively for my surfing needs. I only use IE when I need to test a site that I am developing. Even though I am a die hard ... Read more..

Speed up your Windows XP Start Menu

Friday, March 14th, 2008 Posted in | 2 Comments »

If you are anything like me, you must have literally hundreds of software installed on your computer. Even though I have a large number of applications installed on my laptop, ... Read more..

Stop Comment Spam using WordPress

Saturday, March 8th, 2008 Posted in | 5 Comments »

I love Akismet for battling comment spam. But ever so often, Akismet also slips up. Now, you can help Akismet by tweaking some settings in your WordPress settings and further ... Read more..

Windows Live Writer Spell Check

Thursday, March 6th, 2008 Posted in | No Comments »

I really feel a little dumb today. My biggest complaint against LiveWriter has been that it doesn't have a spell check feature. Finally Google tells me that it does have ... Read more..