Last night someone posted a profane comment and I was forced to replace that comment with a warning that the comment has been removed for so and so reasons.
A friend (Awais Karim) then commented asking whether I modified that original comment or was it a feature of the blog? With an empty stomach and a lot of time for Iftar, an idea of automating this process with the help of a WP plugin rushed through my mind. And believe me, without knowing much of PHP, I actually DID manage to …

How many times have you cursed Outlook for opening up when you click on an e-mail address linked on a website? In fact, I began to wonder if those mailto links were of any use if someone doesn’t use an e-mail client like Outlook or Thunderbird??
But the problem is solved now! Clicking on those mailto’s will open up your Gmail with the intended address in the To field in your Firefox 3.
Here is the step-by-step guide of how to do it:
1) Enter about:config in the address bar and hit the …

Gmail is known for many of its top features including labels, filters and search. But did you know that you have an unlimited number of aliases in addition to your primary address? Consider the following:
If your email address is username@gmail.com, then user.name@gmail.com, us.er.n.ame@gmail.com, u.s.e.r.n.a.m.e@gmail.com, etc. are all yours as well. The number of dots can be unlimited, the system just strips out the dots so the whole string of text (with any number of dots) belongs to you.  See the image below.

That’s not all, all those usernames are equally valid …

Google has surprised the world yet again with its very own super web browser’s beta scheduled to be released today. A comic has been released by Google (download PDF here) which showcases some of the features in this innovative browser. Some screenshots have also been leaked which can be found here. I must say that I’m more than impressed by the set of features packed with this browser and can’t wait to get my hands on its beta release. It may be a bit early to say, but I do …

“Nerds are the ones who don’t go to the party so they can stay home and do homework; geeks bring their homework to the …

Put on Abba Gold, get out the pistachio nuts and crack open the ginger beer – it’s time to celebrate! Nerds are back in fashion! Goodbye George Michael, goodbye P. Diddy, goodbye Liam Gallagher …. Hello Graham Norton, hello David Walliams, hello Bill Gates and hello Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber! Geek is the new sleek.
Nerd is the new world. Songs from the musicals, ballroom dancing and weird talents were once the domain of the nerds – now it’s prime time Saturday night compulsive viewing! The nations gone nerdy. Geeks used …

This is huge. Google has added speech recognition capability in some YouTube videos that enables you to search for text spoken in these videos.

To try speech recognition in YouTube yourself, add this gadget to your Google homepage. The search is currently limited to some political videos only but a good hint of what is yet to come in Google search.

If your search query match some YouTube video, the positions are indicated by yellow markers - hover the mouse to read the transcribed text as in the screenshot.
Like Blinkx search, Google …

While I’ve been reading lots of pre-release goodies about this great browser, and following the post-release enthusiasm as well, I kept my opinions somewhat reserved. I’ve been an avid IE fan for most of my 10-years in cyberspace. I reluctantly switched Firefox 2 on a friend’s recommendation and found the tabs very convenient together with slight increase in speed. But the release of Internet Explorer 7 got me back to IE mainly because they had the tabs as well, and a nice interface to go with it.
I downloaded FF 3 …

How do we as engineers, cope up with the ever increasing demands of consumption, cost-cutting measures, shorter life-cycle products and the numerous rapid changes taking place globally? As engineers, we’re at the forefront of change.

These were the opening words of Adrian Pais, an eminent IEEE member, while addressing the online IEEE GOLD seminar titled The 21st Century Engineer. He began by noting that the major use of technology means the future will be shaped by engineers, much more than others. "The picture of the world is to be painted by …

This turned out to be much easier than i thought. I tried the Nokia Lifeblog client earlier, which I managed to configure after some effort, but it’s limitations instantly turned me off. I’ll post a review on the available methods for mobile blogging in a couple of days. For now, I hope this post goes through to appear on my blog