Tumblelog

Indian Girl is the Youngest Microsoft Certified Professional

24 dec 2008

M Lavinashree, a 9 year old girl from Tamil Nadu, has now become the youngest Microsoft Certified Professional, a record previously held by a 10 year old Pakistani girl, Arfa Karim.

Which Twitter Clients are the Most Popular ?

22 dec 2008

Twitter Sources reports the overall usage of Twitter clients derived from the 20-message slices taken every minute from the Twitter public timeline starting 31st July, ’08. Not surprisingly, the Twitter web client is the most popular at 43%, followed by TwitterFeed at around 10%, and Twitterrific, SMS and Twhirl at around 5% each.

Use Sticky Notes as your Browser Homepage

19 dec 2008

Sticky Screen is a simple online version of the yellow desktop sticky notes that you can set as your browser homepage.

Visualize Twitter Conversations as Venn Diagrams

18 dec 2008

Twitter Venn helps you track the relative popularity of various topics on Twitter and how these conversations overlap with each other.

Convert Live Video to ASCII Art Animation

17 dec 2008

The Instant ASCII Cam takes a live video feed (like your webcam, from instance) and converts it to an ASCII art animation. You can also take a text ASCII snapshot of the video and share it over the internet.

Delicious Link Aggregator

16 dec 2008

The Delicious Aggregator lists the most popular bookmarks on Delicious over specific time periods – 4 hours, a day, a week or a year. Thanks ProgrammableWeb

"404" Becoming Part of English Language

15 dec 2008

People who work in the IT industry have always used lots of jargon and acronyms which are largely a mystery to those in the outside world. However, some of these phrases have gone beyond the IT department and crept into everyday language.

Gmail gets a PDF Viewer

12 dec 2008

Gmail today upgraded its rather unimpressive “View as HTML” PDF view feature to a full featured PDF viewer complete with layout, graphics and fonts. Every PDF file now can be previewed via the “View” link or downloaded via the “Download” link.

Pakistan Terror Groups hosting Websites on Dreamhost

12 dec 2008

Jamat-ud-Dawa, a Pakistan based terrorist organization, reportedly uses Dreamhost to host their official site jamatuddawa.org. Dreamhost seems to get more than a fair share of high-profile (or notorious, as in this case) customers, the two Beijing Olympics gold medal winners a case in point.

Is the Taj Mahal Copyrighted ?

11 dec 2008

The Indian embassy has voiced its displeasure over reports that Bangladesh is is planning an exact replica of the Taj Mahal about 30 kilometers northeast of the Bangladeshi capital Dhaka. Since the replica is both an exact replica and the exact size of the Taj Mahal, this could be in violation of international copyright laws according to a spokesman of the Indian High Commission.

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