Leisure

Blogspot IM setting - missing Google talk selection option

codecanvas — Sat, 03 Sep 2005 12:22:00 GMT

'Personally' google feed reader works and yahoo does not!

codecanvas — Thu, 01 Sep 2005 19:18:00 GMT

[Update 8th Sep 2005, 1835 hrs IST (GMT + 0530 hrs)]: Yahoo 360 works fine with the given URL ( http://vganesh.geekswithblogs.net/Rss.aspx ), and now I am able to get the feeds. Thanks Yahoo!

Okay, currently i am using both the personalization option offered by google and yahoo. The first thing I noticed on both of them is the difference in ability to parse my feed in their feed aggregators. While google has no problem in parsing http://vganesh.geekswithblogs.net/Rss.aspx but yahoo 360 (Feeds (via RSS)) complains (Error: We were unable to fetch the feeds you requested. Please check the URL's and try again.)and does not parse the given URL. I tried even my blogspot feed, uhhmm! it doesn't work. Do anybody have experience with making yahoo feed reader work?

Perv-busting with help of technology

codecanvas — Wed, 31 Aug 2005 21:09:00 GMT

The register has published a news about a subway flasher who was caught on the camera phone by one of his victim. The victim also posted the pics on the net using flickr and other services, and it lead to quick recognition of the culprit. Now that's fast justice with help of technology :)

For the interested, the camera used was a Samsung SGH-777

6 month banning process taken out of usage in UAE!

codecanvas — Tue, 23 Aug 2005 19:09:00 GMT

Everybody was expecting this to happen sooner or later, the 6 month ban which are imposed on expats who cancel their work visa before their duration is completed has been lifted off from practise. As far as anybody knows this was used more as an unpleasent tool to keep talents slipping from company, finally we will be able to pool out talents from inside UAE a lot easier now.

Samsung DVD-RW and Moser Baer Incompatibility

codecanvas — Sat, 13 Aug 2005 12:06:00 GMT

We recently (two months back) bought a Samsung DVD-RW drive (TS-H552U), the drive worked properly with all CD-R and CD-RW models, but when trying to use it against moser baer products it just doesn’t recognize the disc. Since we also had another DVD-RW on a laptop (Fijutsu) we were able to test the disc and it happened to work just fine.

After some one month of running to and fro from the Samsung after sales support centre, they have agreed that they aren’t able to resolve the problem and are willing to reimburse the original amount (We even tried with a new replacement drive).

Just thought of putting it so it maybe helpful to any new deciding party.

GBs become passé

codecanvas — Tue, 02 Aug 2005 18:59:00 GMT

Seems GBs of free space is no longer a news, hriders.com provides 1 TB of free email space. hmmm, hopefully someone will make use of those space and will let us know if thats for sure a 1 TB. As of now I have ample free space and too many email accounts to manage. So I am happy with Gmail itself. Incase anybody is making use of this, do let us know about your experience.

Google Moon

codecanvas — Sat, 23 Jul 2005 11:22:00 GMT

While Microsoft is busy launching Windows Vista, google is venturing into areas where no mapping application has gone before ;) check out Google Moon

Windows following the Firefox versioning methodology

codecanvas — Mon, 16 May 2005 21:20:00 GMT

There are many post on the net by fellow geeks complaining about the “new patch” = “new version” format of FireFox. Coming to think about it, even Microsoft Windows is following is the same format, no? then how do justify Windows 2003 :)