I have moved my pages (blog and photo album) to new address. This site was earlier available at http://amit.bapat.net:8080. I have now moved it to http://amitbapat.com.The bapat.net site is still hosted on home computers and Shraddha’s site is still hosted there. The new site amitbapat.com is hosted by HostMonster which offer to host unlimited number of domains with single account. They…
A new web browser based on Mozilla technology. Flock allows you to interact with many sites right from your desktop. It supports Flikr and also create blog posts.
I have upgraded my site to Drupal 4.7. This new version brings many new features. My original site theme was not working well with this new version so I had to spend some time adapting the default Drupal theme (bluemarine) to my site’s original look. Also new with this upgrade is my photo gallery is now…
I installed Zimbra as my mail server a couple of days ago. Zimbra is still in beta but I am impressed. They also provide ‘Outlook Connector’ in their ‘paid-for-support’ version for corporate environments. The amazing thing is they just popped out on the scene some 6 months ago. At the heart of Zimbra are all popular open…
I found a new tool called w.blogger. It’s a desktop blogging client. It lets you write your blog on your PC and then post it to your site. It supports several APIs. This blog is just a first test of this application. I am going to try and include a screenshot of this window at the…
AJAX stands for Asynchronus Javascript and XML.It’s a web application development technique. Traditional web applications had many limitations because of restrictions of the browser capabilities. Today however browsers like IE5 and FireFox can run Javascript natively and fetch arbitrary data through XMLRPC interface (which is not supported by all browers). This allows a web application to…
Google has created a new ‘News Reader’, while this is just another web based RSS News Reader, what is different about it is the user interface. Again google has created something really nice to use. Google seems to get the AJAX technology pretty well. Gmail is very good example of that, and now News Reader…
What is WebMailCompose? It’s a Firefox extension and it can be found here. What does it do? Tell me how may times you have faced the following situation: You are reading an interesting article and now you want to share it with your friends, so you need to open another browser window (or tab) or go…
Gmail is really wonderful. The interface is excellent! Gmail has completely changed the way webmail works. It relies heavily on javascript and loads extremely fast. The concept of labels takes a while to understand but once you get used to it, it really simplifies the whole webmail experience. However I don’t like everything about Gmail. The…
I have been using VOIP phone in my house for more than 2 months now. There have been no issues yet. I’m using the service from Lingo. This is very nice. I get all the great features of normal phone including Caller-ID, Call-Waiting, Simultaneous Ring, Call forwarding, Voice Mail and many more which can only be…