ISBN 0349114463Tagline: How little things can make a big differenceI was looking forward to reading books by Malcolm Gladwell and finally got my hands on The Tipping Point. It is not a very big book and I managed to finish it in three days, reading only in my free time. Most of you might be aware that The Tipping Point is popular bestseller and a highly appreciated book. ...
Oct 30, 2006View Comments
The Tipping Point – Malcolm Gladwell (Book Review 008)
(For full text with comments please click on the title)Oct 29, 2006View Comments
The World is Flat – Thomas L. Friedman (Book Review 007)
(For full text with comments please click on the title)ISBN: 0141022728Tagline: The Globalized world in the Twenty-First centuryHanging around for almost a month with The World is Flat, I finally completed it despite all the time constraints I was under. I have never read such a thick book back-to-back in my life until this one and this book is very special not just in that sense. I could have completed it within a short span but the ...
Oct 13, 2006View Comments
Google Docs & Spreadsheets (updated)
(For full text with comments please click on the title)You might have come to know by now that Google has released a service called Google Docs & Spreadsheets . In this service, one can use an online text editor (similar to Microsoft Word and others) to create posts and publish it to their blog.With this service, you can:- Have your documents published online (as a webpage) to share it with others (dedicated URL to each document, ...
Oct 12, 2006View Comments
Google blog ping service in FeedBurner
(For full text with comments please click on the title)Hello Friends,While browsing though A consuming Experince, I came across this post regarding Google Blog ping service being added to FeedBurner's PingShot utility.You might want to add this option to your FeedBurner feeds to increase the chances of appearing prominently in Google search.
Oct 9, 2006View Comments
Now about phishing
(For full text with comments please click on the title)I wrote a post on spam, praised Gmail and now I get a phishing e-mail that even Gmail couldn’t block.Whosoever wrote that mail was such a dumbo. It had a glaring spelling mistake. They “tanked” me for my patience :)). Here is a picture of the e-mail with a link pointing to a bank’s website. The link appears to be legitimate and normal at first glance.And once I ...
Oct 8, 2006View Comments
Do spammers use crawlers like search engines do?
(For full text with comments please click on the title)Hello all,I have been receiving a huge number of spam E-mails in my inbox and I was wondering how these spammers work.I don't know much about how spammers work and the title of this post might sound crazy. Those who have been following my blog closely might have noticed that I have changed the default e-mail address associated with this blog. The reason was incredible amount of spam ...
Oct 7, 2006View Comments
Comment Feed for individual posts (updated)
(For full text with comments please click on the title)I am not sure if this is a new feature or an old one that I missed. I was moderating comments on one of my recent posts when I came across this feed link under the post. It is a feed to the comments that appear only on that individual post (not the entire blog).To view this feed link just click on your post’s title (for example ...
Oct 6, 2006View Comments
Blogger template anatomy (non-beta bloggers)
(For full text with comments please click on the title)Hello readers,I was browsing through instabloke and in it I came across a link which contains a very good explanation of a non beta blogger template. If one wishes to learn blog hacking, one must know thy template well. I recommend you go through this article to learn more.The writer(s) have actually use a picture of a sample blog and provided each section of the blog with its ...
Oct 1, 2006View Comments
Extension to a Social Bookmarking hack
(For full text with comments please click on the title)Hello all,This is an extension to Han’s hack on social bookmarking links. Please view the original hack here.Working on Hans’s original hack, I have added a few more Social bookmarking links to it and also made changes to its JavaScript code (that goes into the head section of the template).The links and the JavaScript (js) code are in one text file that can be downloaded from here. If ...
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