I take great pleasure in introducing “Shunya“ – a brand new blog of mine. Shunya is my second blog and is primarily going to be a reflection of my experiences as a webmaster at the Stamford International University as well as some of the choicest picks on numerics & computing.
Though I’ve been away from blogging a good while due to extreme load at work and family front – I’ve been keeping a pretty close watch on the progress of the blogosphere. Thus, I couldn’t help but get my hands on WordPress 2.7 RC1 the moment it was released. Here...
Those guys at WordPress are really at it!! They’ve been churning out code like crazy 😀 As a result, the all new WordPress 2.6 has been officially released – a month ahead of schedule! Here’s a quick rundown of the latest features… Post revisions – WordPress 2.6 features Wiki-like tracking...
Ever wondered who reads your blog or how easy (or complicated) is it for your visitors to understand your blog’s content? The Blog Readability Test, is one of those odd-but-fun-and-cool tools that analyses your content and based on the topics & linguistics (types of words used, terminology etc.), names the...
WobZIP is a cool new (and free) solution to bypass any sort of installation restrictions that your sysadmin may have placed on your school computers thereby limiting your ability to unzip certain types of archives. WobZIP lets you upload and uncompress files on-the-fly. The service is very easy to use...
Following my review of Defensio, Michael Hampton (of Bad Behavior fame) left a comment on the same post assuring that Bad Behavior would run just fine along side Defensio without causing any sort of hiccups for the latter. My thoughts exactly – since Defensio operates more or less on the...
Here’s a cool video showing how inventor Johnny Chung Lee transforms the Nintendo Wii Remote – a $40 game accessory into a digital whiteboard, a multi-touch screen and a head mounted virtual reality gear. Johnny is a PhD Graduate student at the Human Computer Interaction Institute at the Carnegie Mellon...
Following my review of Chawt – the free SMS service – a couple of weeks back, I decided to swing by again and check out the improvements (if any). To my surprise I saw a new message below the message typing box which states that your are now limited to...
Once again the ISP’s in Thailand are at it – All BlogSpot based blogs are being actively blocked here. This came to my notice about 5 days back when I tried to access a friend’s blog and got a Network Timeout. I gave up thinking it was some temporary ISP...
Gmail (and many of the major free email service providers) normally don’t allow you to attach executable (.exe) files and send them over to someone, because of security reasons – i.e. by barring this file type, they restrict the spread of various Worms and Trojans to a large extent. Even...