06.17.2009

How Rowling killed Harry

by Rahul Pisharody

I was a great fan of Harry Potter once it came out, way back in 1997. I was mesmerized by the style of writing, the depth of characters and subtle hints of back stories that J. K. Rowling provided in each of her books. It was like a jigsaw puzzle. I devoured each books on the day they came out.

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06.07.2009

Bash YouTube Downloader

by Rahul Pisharody

Here is a simple bash script to download YouTube Videos in mp4 via command line.

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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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06.01.2009

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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