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Dragons here, dragons there, dragons everywhere

Vaibhav G. posted an article on - Dec 29, 2011, 12:00 am
For the past 4-6 months, it seems that I have been surrounded by dragons (not in real life, thankfully). There is so much of it, that I had to put it together in a post. So, here goes, in no particular order, my experiences with Dragons this year: Minecraft – one of my favorite games this year (w...
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Facebook and account protection

Vaibhav G. posted an article on - Sep 15, 2011, 9:54 pm
Everyone is always making fun of Facebook about privacy and how it doesn’t do enough to protect the users. Well, it was in this context that I saw this box on my Facebook side bar today: Well, I thought – nice, so Facebook is letting people with poor privacy settings in place know that they can...
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Tiny things that irritate me

Vaibhav G. posted an article on - Sep 5, 2011, 2:46 am
Apple may be designing the best hardware on the planet currently, but when it comes to software, they still have a long way to go. My hate for iTunes has been documented before. So, it is no surprise that I am finding myself writing again against iTunes. I was installing iTunes recently on a comput...
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Selective animation of words in PowerPoint

Vaibhav G. posted an article on - Apr 23, 2011, 12:05 pm
Very recently, I saw a presentation where there were certain slides which were left for the audience to scan through, with little or no voice from the presenter. These slides had simple text which you would scan through, or most likely ignore as an audience. However, there was one small difference o...
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Google Chrome Extension – Tab Statistics

Vaibhav G. posted an article on - Dec 25, 2010, 1:48 am
Last weekend, I wasn’t feeling very well (and most of the last week too) – and I couldn’t concentrate on my work either. So I needed some mindless activity to distract myself – and because I had a bad headache to go with all this, I couldn’t resort to my normal escape of gaming on my XBox ...
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Selectively disabling spell and grammar check in Word

Vaibhav G. posted an article on - Dec 19, 2010, 2:08 am
While I have faced this problem many times, it was only recently that I got ticked off by it a bit too much. The problem? If you are writing a document, and you have non-English things such as Code snippets, or foreign language phrases, etc. in it, you will end up with a lot of red and green squiggl...
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Vacations, travel, fun, gambling, and entertainment

Vaibhav G. posted an article on - Dec 15, 2010, 2:42 am
I have been back for over a week after a long trip out of home; I got to visit a lot of interesting places this time around and had a lot of fun. Here’s a quick log of our recent trip to Vegas, Grand Canyon, and California Bay Area. This was a family outing – Divya, me, and Aanya – along with ...
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Chrome vs IE9

Vaibhav G. posted an article on - Sep 16, 2010, 3:20 pm
IE9 beta is available, and I finally decided to give it a spin. I wanted to actually title this post: Internet Explorer 9: the complete circle. Why? Because, it is a full circle for me, the moment I downloaded IE9. Let me explain: Years ago, after getting fed up with IE, I shifted to Firefox. At th...
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Installing PyDev on Eclipse on Windows 7

Vaibhav G. posted an article on - Sep 2, 2010, 12:12 pm
I recently got the bug to tinker around with Google App Engine (last night, actually) and then decided that I want to do this in Python (instead of Java which is also supported – maybe I like snakes better than coffee). So, I downloaded the App Engine SDK, and then realized that I need to install...
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Taking control of your inbox: Inbox Zero

Vaibhav G. posted an article on - Dec 31, 1969, 7:00 pm
I have always followed the concepts of David Allen’s GTD (Getting Things Done), and the various adaptations of it for years. I have even tried out a lot of these from time to time to take control of all the emails that I get every day at work (and I get a ton of them). No method has ever worked fo...
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Performance comparison of OpenDNS and Google DNS

Vaibhav G. posted an article on - Dec 31, 1969, 7:00 pm
Google recently launched it’s own Public DNS offering, allowing Internet users to make use of their DNS servers for resolving address queries on the Internet. I have been a fan and user of OpenDNS for quite some time now, which offers the same service with many more options (as compared to Google...
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When will people stop stealing content

Vaibhav G. posted an article on - Dec 31, 1969, 7:00 pm
This post is a rant. Yep, you may want to skip it. But just so you know it involves people who use extensions such as AdBlock (on FireFox) or AdThwart (on Chrome) to block out advertisements while browsing the web. I have never used one of these extensions (never even tried it). The whole idea repu...
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Is Google Wave getting desperate?

Vaibhav G. posted an article on - Dec 31, 1969, 7:00 pm
A lot of people around the world have wondered how they should use Google Wave. There has been a general trend of people first clamoring for wanting to get invited, and then not knowing what to do with the service once they get in. I am certainly part of this trend. The problem is that a number of p...
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FlyYouFools ratings – fallacy, confidence, or something else?

Vaibhav G. posted an article on - Dec 31, 1969, 7:00 pm
A lot of the readers of this blog are not from India, but if you are and/or if you follow the Indian comic scene, then you would have heard of Saad Akhtar, the artist behind the web comic Fly, You Fools!. Now, I check out his comics from time to time, and some of them are quite funny (although I pre...
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IMO, Google Feedburner just killed TwitterFeed

Vaibhav G. posted an article on - Dec 31, 1969, 7:00 pm
A couple of weeks ago, Google added a new feature to FeedBurner called Socialize. It is nothing more than a way to publish your feed items to a Twitter account. But in doing so, it has just threatened to take out TwitterFeed. Or at least, people who don’t do a lot of professional social media mark...
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Small productivity tip for Outlook

Vaibhav G. posted an article on - Dec 31, 1969, 7:00 pm
I often find myself sending attachments in email, and I very rarely choose the method in which you click on the “Add Attachment” button in Outlook simply because I find it too slow to find attachments through the browse dialog box that pops up – usually I already have the files that I plan to ...
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An open mobile device control standard

Vaibhav G. posted an article on - Dec 31, 1969, 7:00 pm
There are several times in our daily lives that I feel that we lack a standardized way to control mobile devices. Why should there even be a standard? Well, everyone (almost) has a cell phone today. These cell phones have a variety of capabilities – they have musical ringtones, cameras, music play...
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Deleting a dialup connection on Windows 7

Vaibhav G. posted an article on - Dec 31, 1969, 7:00 pm
Some time ago, I had the need to setup a dialup connection on my computer running Windows 7 to connect to the Internet. Well, the need was for a couple of days. However, ever since then, I have been bugged by a popup dialog from this connection asking me to connect whenever my computer was having tr...
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My 5 most interesting photos on Flickr

Vaibhav G. posted an article on - Dec 31, 1969, 7:00 pm
It has been some time since I started posting some of my better photos on Flickr (by mine, I mean photos that I took). And I have enjoyed every little bit of it. I have met some new people, and I really enjoy the photos that they take, and their comments on my photos helps improve my own photography...
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