06.21.2009

A Day without Wordpress

by Rahul Pisharody

Blank DocumentSometimes the most unfortunate of the events fall upon at the most ill deserved of the times. Frustrated with the waiting, I set out on a maiden voyage to brush up my skills as an Electronics Engineer and pick up quite a few new things along the way. Except for the fact that I had to wait at Kerala Electronics, Trichur for almost a full hour to buy the components during which time, I heard enough of the old Trichur slang, the purchase was fruitful. I even got to spend some quality time over a juice of fresh pineapple with an old, close friend of mine.

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06.05.2009

Making twitter useful

by Rahul Pisharody

Twitter, the microblogging service, has taken over its users like a rage. Apart from being the “sms of the internet”, one can find awesome and extremely useful applications for twitter once you let go the reins of creativity. I don’t want to ramble out on twitter, the service, but thought of some interesting uses for twitter. Here are they.

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06.04.2009

The Clash of the Titans

by Rahul Pisharody

No, I’m not going to review bing or write a bing vs. Google article.There are numerous articles and even sites doing it justice. Google is an established player in the search business, with a 64% share in the market. Google grew out of search and has always tried its best for the betterment of the search algorithms involved and the results produced. Microsoft, on the other hand had been bleeding market share over its products to Google for a long time. Ever since Google began releasing its free resources to the general public, starting with gmail, the war had begun. And it was almost always a one sided win, with Google generally taking advantage of its famed simplicity and efficiency combined with funny and humerous ways of introducing products.

Microsoft finally seems to have caught up on what it was lacking a long time. It had atlast begun to listen to its users. Eversince the much hyped Microsoft Windows Vista failed to make any noise, Microsoft have been careful of its products and the general market. Majority of the products that the evil from Redmond had been releasing ever since are quality products, reminiscent of the times that Micro-soft was formed. The new Internet Explorer, Office Suite and the unexpected free software, Windows Live Writer and above all, the latest Windows, Windows 7 have garnered hugely positive reviews and recommendations.


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06.01.2009

Bing Searches “Google”

by Rahul Pisharody

Bam! and Bing beta was launched. Bing is said to have the potential for net junkies to take a look at the search engine again. And moreover, it is one of the newer sensible offerings from Microsoft. So I headed over to Bing and did a search. Actually, two searches.

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